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First Cast Recording
#25re: First Cast Recording
Posted: 8/8/05 at 12:00pmMy first cast recording was Les Miz. I had a friend who was playing it on piano at her house and we started listening to it and so I borrowed it from her, and then burned it. Then, a couple weeks later when I could afford to spend $35 on the 2-disc set, I bought it.
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#26re: First Cast Recording
Posted: 8/8/05 at 12:09pmthe first one's in my house were west side story(actually the movie soundtrack but we'll forgive my dad for that) and the phantom highlights cd. But the first one i actually got was jekyll and hyde's concept recording... just envision an i think 10 year old (maybe older its kinda a blur) singing confrontation... and rather well i might add.
#27re: First Cast Recording
Posted: 8/8/05 at 12:20pm
The first cast recordings that I ever heard were A Chorus Line, Barnum, and West Side Story. My mother also frequently played the Follies Concert often. These were all on vinyl.
The first one I bought would be Follies, because I wanted to listen to Follies all the time, so I bought it on compact disc.
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#28re: First Cast Recording
Posted: 8/8/05 at 12:23pmThe first cast reocrding that I owned was of "A Christmas Carol" at Madison Square Garden. My parents would take my brothers and I to that every year, along with the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. The first year we went I was given the cassette then a few years later, my dad bought me the cd. I love the music and the show. I listen to it every christmas season many times.
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#29re: First Cast Recording
Posted: 8/8/05 at 12:24pm
Chicago Revival
Funny story though. My experience with musicals was very limited when I first started attending high school a few years ago. During rehearsals for the play "Our Town" in my freshman year, they played Chicago Revival and Rent. I liked it but thought that some of the songs were really strange, esp in Rent. When the Chicago movie first opened I went but really didn't know anything about it. The only reason I decided to go was because I love Renee so much. When the movie started I rememeber thinking to myself..."When's that Boheme song gonna come on? Or that weird Tango one?" Well there was the Cell Block Tango but I was thinking it was gonna be Tango: Maureen. I bought the soundtrack the day after and then the revival a couple weeks after. Now I own over 250 cast recordings and growing! YAY for inexperienced tweens!
Updated On: 8/8/05 at 12:24 PM
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Broadway Star Joined: 5/9/05
#30re: First Cast Recording
Posted: 8/8/05 at 12:30pmMy first recording was a tape of the best of Cats. My neighbors and I used to act out the songs. Fortunatly that was right around the year I decided to go as Sylvester the cat for halloween, so I had a cat costume!
#31re: First Cast Recording
Posted: 8/8/05 at 12:31pmmy first was the cast recording to an off-broadway show called Violet. i still listen to it a lot. i love it. My first Broadway cast recording was Sweeney Todd.
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#32re: First Cast Recording
Posted: 8/8/05 at 12:37pmMy first cast recording was The Producers. I got the soundtrack because Matthew Broderick was in the show and then I saw the show for my birthday in Boston a few years ago.
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Broadway Star Joined: 10/20/04
#33re: First Cast Recording
Posted: 8/8/05 at 12:50pmles miserables
#34re: First Cast Recording
Posted: 8/8/05 at 1:01pm
The first Cast Recording that we had in the house was Phantom of the Opera. I was 6 at the time, so I didn't really understand it. The first recording I bought on my own was Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcout. I was in Grade 5, and my school choir was chosen the be the little kids in the Toronto production. I bought the cd, and fell in love with it. I still listen to it once and a while. It is a really fun recording.
jera
#36re: First Cast Recording
Posted: 8/8/05 at 1:05pm
Les Mis, I guess. London cast. I was about 12, and I stole my mother's copy. It was on tape, not CD. Does that make me old?
Actually, I just included that last part to make all the LP people feel really old. 
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#39re: First Cast Recording
Posted: 8/8/05 at 1:17pmI saw the national tour of "The Sound of Music" starring Marie Osmond with my mom when I was seven, and she bought me the original cast recording on cassette.
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#40re: First Cast Recording
Posted: 8/8/05 at 2:40pm
I think we have had this one before but no matter - it's a fun thread and after all it is "summer rerun" time.
My first OCR was THE SOUND OF MUSIC with Mary Martin. I was about 3 yrs old and this was about 2 years before the movie came out. My parents had seen the show in NY and bought the record and put it on one evening...and I was hooked. I would sit in a rocking chair next to the phonograph and listen to the whole LP (and it was a long one - about 55 minutes!) My parents didn't mind because it kept me quiet. Gradually I started flipping through their collection of records. Colourful covers caught my eye and I put the records on...IRMA LA DOUCE, DAMN YANKEES, MY FAIR LADY, FLOWER DRUM SONG, THE MUSIC MAN and GYPSY. Somehow these records became mine (and got played to death) and formed the nucleus of a collection that grew and grew until it now numbers more than 3500 items. Of course as some became scratched and worn out they needed to be replaced. That original mono Lp of SOUND OF MUSIC was replaced by a stereo copy (witha different cover)when my Dad got a new stereo phonograph in the mid-1960s. I bought the 1973 reissue (in the "Columbia Treasury of te American musical theatre" series) and all 3 CD editions - none of which use the original bell chimes that opened the Lp!
Oh there are better shows and Mary Martin was way too old for the role, but perhaps for sentimental reasons - and the extra songs not in the movie - I always prefer the OCR.
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
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#41re: First Cast Recording
Posted: 8/8/05 at 2:57pmThe first I remember listening to was Fiddler on the Roof when I was about 5, though my mother says I used to dance around to Hair when I was 2 or 3. The first I ever bought was Les Miserables.
#42re: First Cast Recording
Posted: 8/8/05 at 3:03pmMy first cast recording was Phantom of the Opera, although it was the 2nd musical I saw (Starlight Express was my first).
#43re: First Cast Recording
Posted: 8/8/05 at 3:05pmThe Phantom of the Opera (the highlights version). I didn't buy it, my mom did, but from before I was born til even now my mom plays it in the house, now though, we have the double disk. =D
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#44re: First Cast Recording
Posted: 8/8/05 at 3:06pmPhantom was the first that I got but the first one I actually bought myself? I think The Boy From Oz.
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