Must Have Cast Recordings
Must Have Cast Recordings
#1Must Have Cast Recordings
Posted: 3/14/08 at 11:19pmList your favorites old or new, or what you feel are essential to a great collection. I'm stocking up with gift certificates. Thanks in advance.
#2re: Must Have Cast Recordings
Posted: 3/14/08 at 11:27pm
bare: A Pop Opera
Caroline, or Change
Company (2007 Revival)
Follies (OBC)
Elaine Stritch at Liberty
Evita
Gypsy (take your pick BUT I like the Bernadette revival)
The Last 5 Years
Les Mis
Ragtime
Rent
Sweeney (2006 Revival)
[title of show]
Assassins (2004 Revival)
These are some of my favorites! Hope it helps!
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#2re: Must Have Cast Recordings
Posted: 3/14/08 at 11:31pm
Songs For a New World and Spring Awakening are also amazing.
Anything Jason Robert Brown. =]
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#3re: Must Have Cast Recordings
Posted: 3/14/08 at 11:36pmIt's nice to have some of the classics such as Oklahoma!, The King and I, Les Mis, Phantom of the Opera, and many, many more.
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LePetiteFromage
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
#5re: Must Have Cast Recordings
Posted: 3/14/08 at 11:42pm
Everything Sondheim, obviously.
For educational purposes:
Rent
One or Two R&H at least
My Fair Lady
Cabaret
Something ALW (preferably JCS)
Gypsy
Chorus Line
Wild Party (LaChiusa)
This is kinda a bare minimum list. You absolutely have to have these, in my opinion.
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#7re: Must Have Cast Recordings
Posted: 3/14/08 at 11:53pm
CABARET (any)
CHICAGO (any)
A CHORUS LINE (original cast)
COMPANY (original)
EVITA (original)
GYPSY (any)
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC (original)
MAME (original)
OKLAHOMA! (london revival)
RAGTIME (original)
PARADE (original)
SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE (any)
SWEENEY TODD (original)
URINETOWN (original)
WEST SIDE STORY (original)
GREY GARDENS (original)
MY FAIR LADY (original)
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#8re: Must Have Cast Recordings
Posted: 3/14/08 at 11:56pm
A Chorus Line - 1975
RENT
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - 1979
My Fair Lady - 1957
Company - 1970
The Last Five Years
Gypsy - 1959
Little Shop of Horrors - Off-Broadway
Les Miserables - Broadway
Cabaret - 1966
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jordangirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/1/06
#9re: Must Have Cast Recordings
Posted: 3/14/08 at 11:58pm
What's been mentioned...
Plus I'd add Side Show
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jaso937
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#10re: Must Have Cast Recordings
Posted: 3/15/08 at 12:06am
Grey Gardens is an absolute must
along with all of the others people have mentioned.
I want to add Funny Girl
#11re: Must Have Cast Recordings
Posted: 3/15/08 at 12:37amLight in the Piazza should be at the top of your list
#12re: Must Have Cast Recordings
Posted: 3/15/08 at 5:38am
https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?thread=863740#1345147
The link above should help you. It is a basic list of shows by decade I created a while ago and it has been revised from time to time. It does NOT include any of the currently running shows but I assume you have the cast albums of those that interest you.
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
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