Posted: 12/21/19 at 12:56pm
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HADESTOWN
Come From Away
Pippin [revival cast]
the new Little Shop of Horrors
SWEENEY TODD
ASSASSINS [revival cast]
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
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
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
Posted: 12/22/19 at 7:49pm
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.
Posted: 12/22/19 at 11:03pm
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!
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!
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
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.
Posted: 12/28/19 at 7:56pm
Posted: 12/28/19 at 11:23pm
I'd like to add Once On This Island to your list :)
Posted: 12/28/19 at 11:27pm
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.
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
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.
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".
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
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
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
