Posted: 12/10/18 at 10:11am
technically, it was wicked for me but if we’re talking about cast albums i listened to out of my own volition, then it was thoroughly modern millie.
Posted: 12/10/18 at 11:26am
The Donna Murphy album from The King and I. It was a birthday gift from my grandmother who wanted to start exposing me to Broadway.
Posted: 12/10/18 at 12:07pm
I have distinct memories of dancing around to my parents' vinyl copy of West Side Story, which was a few years before I got my first CD player. Everything after that I think I listened to on CD.
Posted: 12/10/18 at 12:32pm
THE SOUND OF MUSIC (OBC) - My parents had the record and I think I heard it around the time the movie was opening.
Posted: 12/10/18 at 1:19pm
Posted: 12/10/18 at 3:41pm
The OBC Capitol recording of The Music Man. [Also, it was my first Broadway show, way back in the 1950s]
Posted: 12/10/18 at 3:50pm
Definitely Phantom, back in the 80's. We listened to those CDs over and over and over. Later in the 90's, A Chorus Line (after seeing a high school production) and My Fair Lady (after seeing the movie)
Posted: 12/10/18 at 3:51pm
It was the late 70's and I was in junior high school. The local department store would run LP's on sale for $4.99 about once a month. Each month I saved up $10 to purchase two albums. They had a very small selection of Broadway cast albums, but I picked up A Chorus Line, Annie, Pippin, The Wiz, etc. I played A Chorus Line constantly! Good memories....who would have thought I would turn out gay. :)
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Posted: 12/10/18 at 4:23pm
Mine was either Hello Dolly or Funny Girl, which opened within months of each other. I am guessing HD, because I can remember turning up the volume for the title number and Sunday Clothes, and having my mother shout that it was too loud. My parents had albums of at least MFL, South Pacific, Camelot, and TKAI, which I occasionally heard, but made no effort to actually play them myself.
Now I would be more likely to listen to TKAI than any of them. When my mind rambles, one of the things I have been known to do is evaluate which score I think is the best ever, and I always seem to conclude on TKAI.
Posted: 12/10/18 at 4:29pm
Not Broadway, but I wore out The Fantasticks. I just loved that show. Broadway, probably West Side Story.
Posted: 12/10/18 at 10:35pm
my parents had the OBC recording of Annie Get Your Gun with Ethel Merman on 78 RPM records, and that's the first one I remember.
in high school, my best friend and I acted out the songs from the Camelot OBC recording.
Posted: 12/11/18 at 1:26am
The first I heard was "My Fair Lady," because my parents owned it (as did most families), but I only ever put the needle down on "The Rain in Spain" because I found it funny.
The first I bought was "Oliver!" because my HS was doing it and I knew nothing about it. When I was cast as Sowerberry I was pissed because his song wasn't even on the record (I quit the show, being a sore loser then).
The first I was obsessed with was "They're Playing Our Song" as our HS swing choir did a medley from it; we saw the National Tour (Victor Garber/Marsha Skaggs) and later Broadway (Ted Wass/Diana Canova).
