PERFECT Cast Recordings

What does everyone think are the perfect cast recordings? And by perfect - I mean this - that everytime you listen to it, unless under strange circumstances, you listen to EVERY track, without skipping a single song - including overtures and entr'actes.

I feel that these can be called perfect:

Hello, Dolly! (OBC)
Cabaret (1998 Revival)
Crazy For You (OLC)
Gypsy (TV Recording w/ Bette Midler),(OBC), (2003 Revival)
Hair (Actor's Fund Benefit)
La Cage Aux Folles (OBC)
Sunday in the Park With George (OBC)
The Last Five Years (OOBC)
The Light in the Piazza (OBC)
The Most Happy Fella (OBC)
Tick, Tick, Boom! (OBC)
West Side Story (OBC)

those would be mine. i know this has a lot to do with personal taste, but i think we all can agree that a cast recording where you don't skip a single track is a rare thing.

Beauty and the Beast. Just because I played Clarinet in the pit for that show once and I like to listen for the part I played.
Les Miserables (OBC)
Jersey Boys
Man of La Mancha (revival)

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Chicago (OBC)
West Side Story (OBC)

Tick...Tick...BOOM! (honestly, there's not a SINGLE thing on that recording that I feel could have been done better. Every single song was written and doen flawlessly)

Kiss Me Kate revival recording :P

Hair Actors Fund Benifit (its like they got every single amazing singer/performer currently on broadway and had them do a song on this cd! I DO skip a bunch of tracks just cause the songs arent all my favs, but the PEOPLE singing them make it flawless)

Wedding Singer OBCR (honestly, there is not a SINGLE song I skip, because EVERY one is amazingly fun, catchy, and listenable.If I DONT listen to every song at lest once every day I feel deprived. PLUS its another dream cast situation)

RENT Movie soundtrack AND OBCR (soundtrack because EVERYONE is completely flawless and has amazinggly gorgeous voices and because the instrumentals are kick ass, the OBCR because of its incredible rawness and the fact that it perfectly captured the spirit of the OBC performances)

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Updated On: 7/27/06 at 10:45 PM

i always skip the 'letters" on The Wedding Singer, so it doesn't make my list.

The Producers OBC
A Year With Frog and Toad OBC
You'er A Good Man Charlie Brown Revival
The Wedding Singer OBC
Sherry! Studio Cast
The Frogs OBC
South Pacific In Concert
Assassins New Broadway Cast
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels OBC
Do-Re-Mi Encores! Revival
Bounce Original Cast
Into the Woods OBC
Sweeney Todd OBC
Spelling Bee OBC
Hairspray OBC
Chicago OBC
Reefer Madness OOBC
Bat Boy OOBC
A Class Act OBC
A Chorus Line OBC
Bye Bye Birdie OBC
Barnum OBC
Sweet Charity Revival
Once Upon A Mattress OBC
Fiddler on the Roof Revival
Guys and Dolls Movie and '90s Revival
Hello Dolly OBC and Movie
How to Succedd in Business OBC and Movie (the revival's ok)
Cabaret OBC and Revival
Beauty and the Beast OBC
Gypsy 2003 Revival and Bette Midler movie
Avenue Q OBC
Hairspray Demo with Nathan Lane as Edna Turnblad

many many more!!!

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Updated On: 7/27/06 at 11:00 PM

Urinetown OBC

I wouldn't say Tick, tick...BOOM is perfect in that the acting is not up to the par the LA version I just saw was- and the voices grate a litte. But...I never skip a song, and love it dearly.

Assassins (revival cast)
Ragtime
Gypsy (OBC)
Jersey Boys
Sunday in the Park With George

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Assassins OOBC
Into the Woods OBC
A Chorus Line

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HELLO, DOLLY! (Movie)
HIGH SPIRITS (OBC)
THE LAST FIVE YEARS (OOBC)
THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA (OBC)

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Evita-The white album.
Into the Woods (obc)
Grand Hotel (obc)
Starlight Express (olc)
Nine (Australia cast )
Chess-all recordings
Chicago 90's cast
Sweeney Todd (obc)

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Aida

Into the woods
Sweeney Todd
Spamalot
DRS
Avenue Q.

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