Posted: 8/2/15 at 5:15am
Jeffrey, which recording is the 50th anniversary of Guys and Dolls? I have several and I'd like to add it if you think it's terrific.
Posted: 8/2/15 at 7:56am
Posted: 8/2/15 at 9:16am
The one that stands out in my mind where I prefer a latter cast recording than the original cast recording is for the 2013 revival of pippin.
Posted: 8/2/15 at 12:15pm
I will always prefer the OLC of Matilda. For no other reason than, the OBC is missing the unlisted/uncredited track of the London cast.
Posted: 8/2/15 at 12:36pm
The ones that immediately come to mind are...
Evita (2012 revival)
On The Town (2014 revival)
Cinderella (2013 revival)
Gypsy (2008 revival)
South Pacifc (2008 revival)
Matilda (2013 Broadway)
Follies (2011 revival)
Updated On: 8/2/15 at 12:36 PM
Posted: 8/2/15 at 12:44pm
Does anybody know the answer to my question about the Joseph: The New Musical Cast album (wondering who the personnel on it are)?
Also, I'm going to treat the Newsies Film soundtrack as the original recording of that score and mention that I vastly prefer the Broadway Production recording.
Updated On: 8/2/15 at 12:44 PM
Posted: 8/2/15 at 1:36pm
Long time lurker, first time poster!
My answers:
Guys & Dolls (1992 revival)
Carousel (1994 revival)
Godspell (2000 off-Broadway revival)
42nd Street (2001 revival)
Anything Goes (1987 revival)
Cinderella (2013 Broadway)
Pippin (2013 revival)
Grease (movie cast)
Chicago (movie cast)
Updated On: 8/2/15 at 01:36 PM
Posted: 8/2/15 at 3:28pm
Cabaret ('98 Broadway), Bare (2007), Gypsy (2008 Broadway), La Cage (2010 Broadway), Godspell (2011 Broadway), Follies (2011 Broadway), Pippin (2013 Broadway), Hedwig (2014 Broadway)
Company is a mistery: I probably listen to the '96 and 2007 Company revivals more than I do the OBC, as well as to the 2011 concert. But it's just 'probably'. Each recording has many great qualities of its own (and some not so great...).
Updated On: 8/12/16 at 03:28 PM
Posted: 8/2/15 at 4:20pm
The Boyfriend Revival with Judy Carne and Sandy Duncan is much easier to listen to then the original cast with Julie Andrews. Mostly because of the technology from the seventies being so much better than the technology from the fifties.
Posted: 8/2/15 at 7:20pm
The London cast recording of "Sunset Boulevard" versus the Broadway cast, but I'm not sure if we're talking original casts or Broadway casts.
Also, the 25th anniversary "Phantom of the Opera" and the film soundtrack of "Hairspray" are mine!
Posted: 8/2/15 at 9:06pm
The London cast recording of Sunset Boulevard is the original. The L.A. recording with Glenn Close came second (it's not the Broadway cast recording; Alice Ripley took over the role of Betty when the show opened in NY after the US premiere in Los Angeles)
Posted: 8/2/15 at 11:20pm
Pippin (2013)
La Cage (2010)
Hedwig (2014)
On The Twentieth Century (2015)
Updated On: 8/2/15 at 11:20 PM
Posted: 8/3/15 at 5:34am
Anything Goes (2011 revival)
Chicago (2001 movie)
Drood (2012 revival)
Gypsy (2003 revival)
The King and I (2015 revival)
On the Town (2014 revival)
On the Twentieth Century (2015 revival)
The Sound of Music (1965 movie)
South Pacific (2008 revival)
Posted: 8/3/15 at 9:11am
Posted: 8/3/15 at 10:07am
Put me down for the 2011 Royal Albert Hall version of Phantom as well. I just have never really liked Sarah Brightman's voice. She's technically great, but it has just never done it for me.
Posted: 2/14/16 at 2:42am
I figured it was time to update my list and add some new stuff:
The Music Man - 2000 Broadway Revival (this is a better version than what I had previously listed)
Jesus Christ Superstar - 1996 London Revival
The Wiz - 2015 NBC LIVE! Production
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat - 2006 London Palladium Revival (this is a better version of the score than what I had previously listed, which seems to have been an 'off-brand' generic recording)
South Pacific - 2008 Broadway Revival
Dreamgirls - 2001 Concert Production
The Fantasticks - 2006 Off-Broadway Revival
Evita - 1996 Film Adaptation (although the 2006 London Revival score is a close second)
Chicago - 2002 Film Adaptation
How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying - 1995 Broadway Revival
The King and I - 2015 Broadway Revival
Oklahoma - 1979 Broadway Revival
Carousel - 1994 Broadway Revival
Also, if we can count "original recordings" as being the soundtrack albums of stuff that started out in film and was later adapted for the stage, the Broadway recordings of Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Tarzan, Newsies, The Little Mermaid all get votes from me, as does the Andrew Lloyd Webber adaptation of The Wizard of Oz.
Posted: 2/14/16 at 3:35am
It's not technically a recording, but the only recording of "Carousel" I can listen to without hating Julie is the Lyric Opera's radio broadcast. Unfortunately, I can't listen to Lyric Opera's version without hating Carrie.
Posted: 2/14/16 at 5:33am
CATSNYrevival said: "For Chicago I actually prefer the London revival cast album. It has more dialogue, Roxie's soliloquy, the act one finale and Ruthie Henshall, of course. 
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Not to mention Ute's phenomanal performance
For me:
* Anything Goes (Londron, NT, 2003)
* Assassins (Broadway, 2004)
* Cabaret (Broadway, 199
* Candide (London, 1999)
* Carousel (1995 BBC Broadcast with Mandy Patinkin and Janie Dee)
* Chicago (London revival)
* The King And I (Broadway, 1996; London, BBC Broadcast with Barbara Cook)
* Evita (World Tour, 1995, with an amazing Florence Lacey)
* Into the Woods (OLC)
* Nine (Broadway, 2003)
* Pippin (Broadway, 2913)
Updated On: 2/14/16 at 05:33 AM
Posted: 2/14/16 at 8:13am
Nine, Australian Cast
Posted: 2/14/16 at 8:27am
Pipe Dream
Posted: 8/12/16 at 2:02am
Having just listened to the 2012 Broadway Revival Cast Recording of Evita in its entirety, I have to update my comment from February where I said that the Film Recording version of the score was my favorite and give that spot to the 2012 BRCR, with my only real complaint being that I wish they'd followed the movie in making Another Suitcase in Another Hall a song for Eva.
Posted: 8/12/16 at 3:40am
really? despite Elena Roger's general vocal inconsistencies?
and you prefer th OBCR of Little Mermaid to the movie soundtrack? I agree re: Beauty and the Beast mostly for Susan Egan.
Posted: 8/12/16 at 7:03am
I really do prefer the 2008 recording of South Pacific. The original is wonderful, but I find the performances to be just as good on the 2008 recording and the sound quality is much sharper.
The 2016 recording of She Loves Me is absolutely definitive. The OBC is wonderful, but the new recording is far superior due to the new orchestrations and Jane Krakowski's definitive Ilona.
I also enjoy the 2004 recording of Assassins to the original off broadway recording. The performances are better and it has some essential dialogue ("Have it your way..."
. It also has "Something Just Broke" which is a wonderful addition to the score.
Posted: 8/12/16 at 8:15am
Does not feel cool to pick a movie over the Broadway recording, but I have to vote for Jeremy Jordan and Anna Kendrick on The Last Five Years. And I wish we could have an OBC version of American Psycho, which would undoubtedly be better than the London cast.
Posted: 8/12/16 at 9:11am
First thought in my mind was 'Kiss of the Spider Woman' with Vanessa Williams. Full embodiment of the role!
