Poll: Best Broadway Cast Recording of 2023?

[NewYorkTheater]

Posted: 12/6/23 at 2:16pm

 

Choose your favorite Broadway cast recording released in 2023* from among the 12 in the poll 

Poll: Best Broadway Cast Recording of 2023

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 12/6/23 at 2:18pm

SO many great cast albums this year! I had to go with Funny Girl as my top choice, with Merrily being a very close second.

[The8re phan]

Posted: 12/6/23 at 3:34pm

3) Camelot

2) Sweeney Todd

1) Merrily We Roll Along

[jpbran]

Posted: 12/6/23 at 4:24pm

Only tweak I'd make is to remove Six: Live on Opening Night; was released in Spring '22. 

(That being said, I love so many of them: Sweeney, Merrily, Parade and Kimberly especially.)

Updated On: 12/6/23 at 04:24 PM

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 12/6/23 at 4:29pm

Camelot. The book revisions might not have worked for everyone but most of the book is absent from the album and we’re left with that gorgeous score.

[DoTheDood]

Posted: 12/6/23 at 5:04pm

Definitely odd to see Kimberly Akimbo in the graphic but not make the final poll (seemingly subbed out for Harmony)

[halfhourcheckwithmerman]

Posted: 12/6/23 at 5:30pm

I wouldn't call it the best of the year, but it's always so striking to me how glorious that Camelot album is, when the show itself was such a disaster (IMO). The music didn't even sound that full in the theater, but it's such a good album. 

[Robbie2]

Posted: 12/6/23 at 6:02pm

• Parade
• Funny Girl
• Merrily
• Sweeney Todd
• Kimberly

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 12/6/23 at 6:55pm

Funny Girl, no competition.

 

If I have to pick a 2nd choice it would be KPOP, and the fact that people voted for Merrily mostly, makes me think that none of them heard the 2012 Encores' version.

[baritonewithtenortendencies]

Posted: 12/6/23 at 7:02pm

Merrily We Roll Along gets my vote

I mean

My favorite shows on here are Sweeney Todd and Parade

But I'm the biggest fan of Ban Platt as Leo 

And, while Josh Groban is one of my favorite singers ever and I also love love love Annaleigh Ashford, the Sweeney Todd album can never top the original 

Mostly because nobody can ever be better than Angela Lansbury or Jack Eric Williams

Now that being said I'm still upset that there's George Hearn cast recording because he's easily the best Sweeney in my book 

And the Anthony in that cast is way better than the one in the Broadway cast

Only disadvantage is the Beadle Bamford not being Jack Eric Williams, because I think he's one singers ever to grace Broadway and it's so unfortunate that he didn't have more success

[BeingAlive44Ever]

Posted: 12/6/23 at 7:26pm

Kimberly Akimbo is the only one that made me cry like a baby so that one

[uncageg]

Posted: 12/6/23 at 7:26pm

Why was Kimberly Akimbo not on the list? I put it in "other". I listen to it more than the other recordings that came out this year.

[hak5]

Posted: 12/7/23 at 8:17pm

the correct answer is SHUCKED

 

[spicemonkey]

Posted: 12/7/23 at 8:23pm

1. Merrily

2. Funny Girl 

3. Sweeney Todd

 

Parade:  Even though I  LOVE the OBCR and the score, and have seen this production 3 times, sadly Charlie Webb's young soldier alone made it out of Top 3 for me. 

[NewYorkTheater]

Posted: 12/8/23 at 4:07pm

Kimberly Akimbo was left off the list by mistake, a mistake that's been corrected.