Good musicals to listen to?

[megganalvarez]

Posted: 12/21/19 at 12:56pm

I wanna start listening to more musicals and just expanding my knowledge in musical theatre! My personal favs are: Anastasia, Waitress, Bring It On, Mean Girls, Tuck Everlasting, etc. The list could go on. I would just like some recommendations! Please dont be mean or rude in your responses! Thank you and all is appreciated :)

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 12/21/19 at 1:00pm

Oof. If those are your favorites, you need some Sondheim, Kander & Ebb, Jerry Herman, Rogers & Hammerstein, etc. ASAP.

[hak5]

Posted: 12/21/19 at 1:34pm

HADESTOWN

Come From Away

Pippin [revival cast]

the new Little Shop of Horrors

SWEENEY TODD

ASSASSINS [revival cast]

[dmwnc1959]

Posted: 12/21/19 at 3:45pm

Wicked

Hamilton

The Band’s Visit

Hello, Dolly!

Kinky Boots

Dear Evan Hansen

My Fair Lady

Fun Home

Once

Moulin Rouge!

Jesus Christ Superstar

A Bronx Tale

[Enjolras5]

Posted: 12/21/19 at 7:41pm

LES MISÉRABLES, LES MISÉRABLES, LES MISÉRABLES***Listen to the original French concept album; it's genius!***

THE CLOCKMAKER'S DAUGHTER

HADESTOWN

NEXT TO NORMAL

DEAR EVAN HANSEN

RENT

ONCE ON THIS ISLAND

COME FROM AWAY

MOULIN ROUGE

[uncageg]

Posted: 12/21/19 at 10:33pm

Into the Woods   

Sunday in the Park With George

Sweeney Todd (OBC and Broadway revival)         

Annie

Chicago

A Chorus Line

Caroline or Change

Dreamgirls (OBC and concert recording)

Company

Nine

Songs for a New World

Pippin

Allegro

Floyd Collins

Blood Brothers

Jekyl & Hyde (Concept recording)

Legs Diamond

The Visit

Miss Saigon

Soho Cinders

Heathers

Nevermore (The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe)

Adding Machine

The Forbidden Broadway recordings

Evita

Purlie

Follies

 

Just some off the top of my head

 

[Jarethan]

Posted: 12/22/19 at 7:49pm

— Chess is my favorite cast recording ever, even though I have never seen a fully satisfactory production
— The original cast recording of Hello, Dolly
— The King and I, the version with Donna Murphy
— South Pacific, the most recent LCT version
— 1973 production of Candide
— Original production of A Little Night Music
— The current production of Oklahoma is the best version I have ever listened to
— Mame with Angela Lansbury
—.Original cast recordings of Les Mia and Miss Saigon
— Original cast recording of Sweeney Todd
— Hamilton
— The Great Comet (not remotely typical...work your way up to it)
— Either the original cast recording or the Papermill Playhouse version of Follies
— Anything Goes...the Patti Lupone version
— Purlie
— Nine
— Original Broadway recording of Cabaret
— (Minority Opinion, but I love it) The Producers
— Dreamgirls...I have to admit that I have deleted a few songs...but the highs are incredibly high
— The original cast recording of Bells are Ringing. Here too, I have deleted a few songs, e.g., The Midas Touch
— The original cast recording of The Pajama Song
— Ragtime (although there are too many power ballads)
— Original cast recording of Rags... a 4 performance flop with a great score

[David10086]

Posted: 12/22/19 at 10:16pm

'A Little Night Music' - Jean Simmons. By far and away, one of the best cast recordings of a musical.

'Sunset Boulevard' - Patti Lupone / World Cast Recording. Beautiful, and emotional - especially her rendering of  'New Ways to Dream'. 

'Gypsy' - Tyne Daly. She brings more punch and energy to the role than anyone else I've heard on a cast recording. There's a reason she won the Tony.

[suicidalmickeymouse]

Posted: 12/22/19 at 11:03pm

Along the line of the tastes you already have:

-Songs for a New World
-Legally Blonde
-Spring Awakening
-Next To Normal
-Jekyll and Hyde

[magictodo123]

Posted: 12/23/19 at 7:51am

Jordan Catalano said: "Oof. If those are your favorites, you need some Sondheim, Kander & Ebb, Jerry Herman, Rogers & Hammerstein, etc. ASAP."

100% agree. Get some classics in there! 

[theatreguy12]

Posted: 12/27/19 at 3:45pm

magictodo123 said: "Jordan Catalano said: "Oof. If those are your favorites, you need some Sondheim, Kander & Ebb, Jerry Herman, Rogers & Hammerstein, etc. ASAP."

100% agree. Get some classics in there!"

200% agree!

I would add She Loves Me to some of those lists. Among many others!

[theatreguy12]

Posted: 12/27/19 at 3:45pm

magictodo123 said: "Jordan Catalano said: "Oof. If those are your favorites, you need some Sondheim, Kander & Ebb, Jerry Herman, Rogers & Hammerstein, etc. ASAP."

100% agree. Get some classics in there!"

200% agree!

I would add “She Loves Me” to some of those lists. “On the Town”...I’d listen to Tony Yazbeck sing the phone booth.   “Grand Hotel.” To name a few.

Updated On: 12/27/19 at 03:45 PM

[joevitus]

Posted: 12/27/19 at 4:50pm

David10086 said: "'A Little Night Music' - Jean Simmons. By far and away, one of the best cast recordings of a musical.

If you like cast albums where no one can sing. The OBC is unquestionably the best recording of this score.

[stoptheworld38]

Posted: 12/28/19 at 7:56pm

I recommend Come From Away, Hadestown, Dear Evan Hansen, The Band’s Visit, Great Comet, Once On This Island (revival), Fun Home, The Prom, Mean Girls, Falsettos, The Secret Garden, Waitress, and I could go on...

[magictodo123]

Posted: 12/28/19 at 11:23pm

I'd like to add Once On This Island to your list :) 

[SouthernCakes]

Posted: 12/28/19 at 11:27pm

I’d say start with shows which were the “big thing” of their decade. Rent, Hair, A Chorus Line, etc.

But I’d listen to “A Sunday in the Park with George” from beginning to end.

[magictodo123]

Posted: 12/30/19 at 7:48am

SouthernCakes said: "I’d say start with shows which were the “big thing” of their decade. Rent, Hair, A Chorus Line, etc.

But I’d listen to “A Sunday in the Park with George” from beginning to end."

Hair--YES. Absolutely. 

[BalconyClub]

Posted: 12/30/19 at 8:20am

Annie
Annie Get Your Gun
Assassins
A Chorus Line
Avenue Q
Ain't Misbehavin
Ballroom
Boy From Oz
Barnum
City of Angels
Dear Evan Hansen
Dreamgirls
Guys and Dolls
The Goodbye Girl
The Life
Sunset Boulevard
Sweeney Todd
Urinetown
Violet
The Will Rogers Follies

Miscellaneous
The Broadway Kids Sing Broadway
Christiane Noll - A Bway Love Story
Forbidden Broadway - all editions
Bombshell
Naked Boys Singing

Updated On: 12/30/19 at 08:20 AM

[CheapTrickInColor]

Posted: 12/31/19 at 1:45am

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Carousel, and The Music Man are a few that have been omitted from other responses ITT that I think deserve a mention.

[magictodo123]

Posted: 12/31/19 at 7:26am

CheapTrickInColor said: "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Carousel,and The Music Man are a fewthat have been omitted from other responses ITT that I think deserve a mention."

The Carousel Waltz is one of my favorite opening numbers for a musical (...can I call I that? Or would you call it the overture?). I absolutely agree. And no one should go for long without hearing "You'll Never Walk Alone". 

[BWAY Baby2]

Posted: 12/31/19 at 7:42am

My all-time favorites- West Side Story- Original cast

                                  Funny Girl

                                  Sunday In The Park With George- Original cast

                                  My Fair Lady- Original cast

I still listen to these after all these years- after the other show recordings are put on my back burner

Updated On: 12/31/19 at 07:42 AM

[clever2]

Posted: 1/3/20 at 8:51am

A...My Name Will Always Be Alice

Annie (OBC)

Anyone Can Whistle (OBC)

Aspects of Love

Assassins (Original Cast ONLY)

Baby

Barnum (OBC)

Blood Brothers (Original London Revival Cast)

Bye Bye Birdie (OBC)

Carousel (1993 London Cast)

Chess (Concept Album, OBC, and Royal Albert Hall)

A Chorus Line (OBC)

Company (OBC)

Dear World

Do I Hear a Waltz (OBC)

Do Re Mi (OBC)

Floyd Collins

Follies (OBC & New OBC)

Grease (OBC)

How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (OBC)

Hello Again (Original Cast, not film)

High Spirits (OBC Only)

Is There Life After High School?

Jane Eyre (OBC)

John & Jen (Original Cast)

Kiss of the Spider Woman (OBC)

The Light in the Piazza

March of the Falsettos & Falsettoland (One-Act Musicals that would become Act I and Act II of Falsettos)

Merrily We Roll Along (OBC)

Metropolis

Nick & Nora

Oliver! (1994 London Revival Cast)

On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (OBC & Film)

Pacific Overtures (OBC)

Parade (OBC & 2007 Donmar Warehouse [Complete Recording of the Show])

Rags

Ruthless!

The Secret Garden (OBC)

Side Show (OBC)

Song & Dance (OBC)

The Tap Dance Kid

Weird Romance

Which Witch

You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Original Cast)

Your Own Thing



Enjoy!

Updated On: 1/3/20 at 08:51 AM

[josiahjosiah]

Posted: 1/3/20 at 2:20pm

can't go wrong giving any of these a listen:

SHE LOVES ME OBC

FOLLIES OBC and FOLLIES IN CONCERT (1985)

MUSIC MAN OBC

NINE OBC and 2003 Revival with Antonio Banderas

ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY OBC and 2015 Revival with Kristin Chenoweth