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How many Cast albums do you own?
#25re: How many Cast albums do you own?
Posted: 6/25/05 at 9:47pm74. I'm proud of that!
jonartdesigns
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/04
#26re: How many Cast albums do you own?
Posted: 6/25/05 at 10:06pmcurrently somewhere between 41 and 60 counting some questionable ones and double discs as 2
#27re: How many Cast albums do you own?
Posted: 6/25/05 at 10:57pm
it may seem like a lot of money, but in three words...
"tax write-off"
hypertruffle
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/22/05
#29re: How many Cast albums do you own?
Posted: 6/25/05 at 11:58pm
"YIKES PEOPLE!!!! How do you have that many! Ok ,the question here should be how many NON BURNED cast albums do you have? Becuase if none were burned that would be sooooooooooo freaking much money!!!! Heres how much figuring each cd is $20!
50- 1000
100- 2000
150- 3000
200- 4000
300- 6000
400- 8000
500- 10000
600- 12000
700- 14000
800- 16000
900- 18000
1000- 20000!!
If people were actually spending this much money on cast albums, they are freaking crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Some of my purchased cds were from Columbia Broadway Masterworks Digitally Remastered, and (maybe the price tag is in my area) $11.99 + 6% NJ Tax ($12.71).
#30re: How many Cast albums do you own?
Posted: 6/26/05 at 12:08amOne of my summer projects is cataloguing my CDs - at rough estimate, I'd guess the number of CAST albums is somewhere in the 5 or 600s. To whoever said 20 dollars a CD - you're kidding right? I buy everything -- but in discount bins, off itunes, or where most of my less-popular cds came from EBAY!!! I'd say the estimate on how much I spend per CD is somewhere closer to 10 dollars on average -- and I've been collecting since I was in (not kidding) fifth grade when my grandparents bought me Kiss Me Kate (OBC) and Sound of Music (OBC) as a gift because they'd heard how much I liked A Chorus Line when I went to see it. That would mean I've been collecting for about 17 years now...
#31re: How many Cast albums do you own?
Posted: 6/26/05 at 12:09am
Less than half-a dozen of mine are burned, and those are mostly out-of-print titles that I am still looking for real copies. I like having teh booklet and all the packaging.
But if you are talking value add to that my complete set of Best Plays volumes (1894-2004)plus hundreds of published scripts and books about the theatre. And a huge library of Classical music, Jazz and big bands.
Problem is I live in a bachelor apt!!
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com
#32re: How many Cast albums do you own?
Posted: 6/26/05 at 1:22am
132...and the only ones that are burned are those which never had official cast recordings 
stage_door76
Broadway Star Joined: 1/18/05
#33re: How many Cast albums do you own?
Posted: 6/26/05 at 2:05am
i've got about 120.
BUT i refuse to spend all the money on a cd merely for one or two songs, so i only own those cast recordings that i believe are truly special in their own unique ways. i.e. i'm not about to go and buy the bloody 'brooklyn' recording just to hear once up a time am i? pity so many do
#34re: How many Cast albums do you own?
Posted: 6/26/05 at 2:31am*ahem*...well...I have about 4. *runs and hides in the corner*...This is bad.
QHDramaQueen
Stand-by Joined: 2/3/05
#36re: How many Cast albums do you own?
Posted: 6/26/05 at 9:44amGeez.. I haven't counted. My albums are all over the place like on different computers and in different cd cases. But I'd say about 50.
#37re: How many Cast albums do you own?
Posted: 6/26/05 at 9:44am80
To Kill A Mockingbird
jczelyph
Broadway Star Joined: 10/21/04
#38re: How many Cast albums do you own?
Posted: 6/26/05 at 10:11am250ish. I'm 22 and have only been properyl collecting for about 3 years. I buy a lot, luckily, I can afford to buy them. Only about10 are burned. This week I bought Spelling Bee, All Shook Up, Sweet Charity and Piazza.
riv
Leading Actor Joined: 3/6/05
#39re: How many Cast albums do you own?
Posted: 6/26/05 at 10:24am
Almost 800, I believe. Not a single one is "burned." I have replaced most of my LPs, so they basically don't count. Although there are some of those, such as the soundtrack for the TV production of Shangri-La, which hold an honored place alongside the CD collection.
Somebody mentioned they don't buy cast albums just to get a song or two. Well, I almost never listen to single songs from shows. Broadway scores are about just that--the SCORE, in TOTAL. I don't regard them as something like stand alone "pop tunes" or whatever. If I wish to listen to a show, it's the whole thing I want to hear.
#40re: How many Cast albums do you own?
Posted: 6/26/05 at 2:21pm
I agree with RIV!
It was more difficult to skip songs on Lp's (always a risk of scratching the record...better to let it play through the entire side.) CD's made it easier to program out songs you didn't care for or (better) to re-arrange the songs into show order.
Shows are like Operas, and demand you sit and listen to them. (Ever had an OCR on in the background when a friend stops by to talk to you? The style of singing keeps pulling their focus and they will ask you to turn it down. or off.) OCR's are foreground listening.
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com
BwayFan4
Stand-by Joined: 6/1/05
#41re: How many Cast albums do you own?
Posted: 6/26/05 at 10:56pm212...mostly purchased in the last year and a half....my name is chris and I am a cast recording addict
#42re: How many Cast albums do you own?
Posted: 6/26/05 at 11:26pmI just found three more. 77!
takehomeazak06
Chorus Member Joined: 6/21/05
#43re: How many Cast albums do you own?
Posted: 6/27/05 at 12:28amI have 34 but i am stingy with my money and am only 17.
#44re: How many Cast albums do you own?
Posted: 6/27/05 at 2:05am177 and still growing.
#45re: How many Cast albums do you own?
Posted: 6/27/05 at 8:52amAbout 290, with Spelling Bee still to come... I've bought many of them from the internet and Ebay, so that helps keep the prices down.
elphie30
Understudy Joined: 2/5/05
#46re: How many Cast albums do you own?
Posted: 6/27/05 at 9:08am20 only listen to like 5 of them now
#47re: How many Cast albums do you own?
Posted: 6/27/05 at 4:50pm35. But I make sure that when I get a recording that I like it. I also get them all at discount/used stores or iTunes.
#48re: How many Cast albums do you own?
Posted: 6/27/05 at 4:52pmAlmost 1400
#49re: How many Cast albums do you own?
Posted: 6/27/05 at 5:04pmWow - 1400! That would clearly seem to put you in the lead for the most! What one show do you have the MOST recordings of?
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