If you're looking to brush up on your CR collection...

[munkustrap178]

If you're looking to brush up on your CR collection...#0

Posted: 8/9/06 at 1:42pm

Go to J&R music downtown.

I was there yesterday, and they have some pretty insane sales. Of course, all the new releases are between $12.99 and $14.99, but there are some older shows on sale for $5.99.

Things like WEST SIDE STORY, COMPANY, ON THE TWENTIETY CENTURY, A TREEE GROWS IN BROOKLYN, IRMA LA DOUCE, etc. There are literally dozens of great shows for literally nothing.

Just a heads up - I don't know how long it lasts, as J&R's sales seem to be constantly changing.

"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson

[munkustrap178]

re: If you're looking to brush up on your CR collection...#1

Posted: 8/10/06 at 1:52am

Just to clarify, I was there again today (by chance) and took another look at the titles to report back.

$6.99 is a steal! Go spend money!

Just some of the $6.99 CDS:

Bajour
70, Girls, 70
Jenny
Pal Joey
Kismet
Candide
Showboat
Anyone Can Whistle
Anything Goes
Finian's Rainbow
Cabaret
Barnum
My Fair Lady
It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman
Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
Company
West Side Story
Raisin
Hallelujah, Baby!
Goldilocks
The Wiz ($5.99)
The Apple Tree
South Pacific
The Sound of Music
On the Twentieth Century

etc.

"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson

[frontrowcentre2]

re: If you're looking to brush up on your CR collection...#2

Posted: 8/10/06 at 4:20am

Are all of these the Sony issues? Or are they the Prism releases from the U.K.

The Prism series is a good cheap way to get classic CR's from before 1955 (Damn Yankees and Silk Stockings are out) but the sound on the SOny remasters of classics like SOUTH PACIFIC and KISS ME KATE is so much better.

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

[rosscoe(au)]

re: If you're looking to brush up on your CR collection...#3

Posted: 8/10/06 at 5:56am

Nearly everything on that list would cost over $30.00 in Australia, i need to go back to New York..

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[GuyfromGermany]

re: If you're looking to brush up on your CR collection...#4

Posted: 8/10/06 at 6:21am

They have those "sale" prices on their website, too!
Too bad they don't ship internationally... I'd have loved to get some CRs!


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