PERFECT Cast Recordings — Page 3

The original cast recording of "She Loves Me" with Barbara Cook, perfection.

The original cast recording of Frank Loesser's "Most Happy Fella" with those lush high calorie Don Walker orchestrations.

The cast recording of "The Golden Apple" which shows you what a sung-through musical can really be like. With a cast of such talents that they improved lesser musicals by merely appearing in them.
One small problem is that it is only half of the score, and it has narrative rhyming couplets liking the songs, but as they were written by lyricist John LaTouche, they are forgivable.

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Full Monty OBC
Urinetown OBC
Sweeney Revival Cast
Assassins (both casts)

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Jersey Boys
Wedding Singer
Wicked
Rent

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Well, there are only a couple of cast recordings I can play through.

Gyspy - OBC
A Chorus Line
Rent
The Last 5 Years
Sunday in the Park with George - OBC

See What I Wanna See would make this list, but I always have to skip Louie.

Updated On: 7/29/06 at 05:48 PM

I think that the cast recordings of The Light in The Piazza and Bright Lights, Big City are in my top 10. In fact, my top 10 cast recordings are:

1. Wicked
2. Rent
3. Brooklyn
4. Monty Python's Spamalot
5. The Light in the Piazza
6. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
7. The Color Purple
8. Jersey Boys
9. The Wedding Singer
10. Bright Lights, Big City

For me, these shows are gems.

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The Light in the Piazza OBCR is it for me. I listen to it straight through every time and feel as if I'm insulting the music if I skip a song.

Not only that, but it's the only recording that still has the same emotional impact on me that it did the first time I listened to it.

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Some that I can think of now:

Evita (OBC)
Sweeney Todd (OBC Double LP and Hilights CD)
Sweeney Todd (2005)
The Phantom Of the Opera (OLC Hilights--only because I don't have the 2 disc set)
Les Miserables (OBC--it would be hard to skip anything anyway since it's a cassette tape)

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Les Miserables (TAC, OLC, and CSR) - The show is just... unbelievably amazing! Each cast recordings are different and gives a totally fresh sounding.

Ragtime (Canadian Concept Cast) - Sadly, I didn't know it was the "highlights" version (I didn't see OBC when I bought it at Tower Records), but it's just simply amazing! Probably the one I listen to the most often. I just can't get enough of Mitchel singing "Wheels of a Dream" and Audra McDonald's emotional "Your Daddy's Son"

The Light in the Piazza - Sometimes, I fall asleep to the music since it's so soothing! Anyways, it's a great cast recording!

Miss Saigon - Alright, I skip some songs, so basically, I like the highlighs.

Sweeney Todd (OBC and Revival) - It's just amazing.

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Marie Christine OBC....absolutely gorgeous.

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The Sweeney Todd revival. It's a flawless recording.

The Last 5 Years- Absolute perfection and my ultimate favorite! I listen to this atleast 3 times all the way through within a week.
DRS
Avenue Q
The Wedding Singer
RENT (OBCR and movie soundtrack)
tick,tick..BOOM!

The Wedding Singer
Phantom of the Opera
Titanic