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#1

Shows you missed - but you love the cast recording!

Posted: 7/27/04 at 9:42pm

Okay, what's a show that you missed seeing, but you love the cast recording? My vote: "My Fair Lady" with Rex and Julie. I would have had to been born about 20 years before my actual birthday, but...! One of my co-workers saw it in New Haven prior to its NY run and said that the audience gave a standing ovation after every song. It was a thrilling experience!
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re: Shows you missed - but you love the cast recording!

Posted: 7/27/04 at 9:43pm

Gypsy w/ Bernadette Peters
Cabaret
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#6

re: Shows you missed - but you love the cast recording!

Posted: 7/27/04 at 9:44pm

gypsy- current revival
urinetown
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#7

re: Shows you missed - but you love the cast recording!

Posted: 7/27/04 at 9:47pm

We'll go for more recent ones. I could list shows for days that I would have loved to have seen.

"You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown" - '99 Cast
"Annie Get Your Gun" - '99 Revival
"Thoroughly Modern Millie" OBC
#8

re: Shows you missed - but you love the cast recording!

Posted: 7/27/04 at 9:48pm

I saw Martin Guerre in London. I Love the music and thought it was a good show. But it did seem to be a lot like Les Mis (not the plot but the music) did anyone else feel the same way?
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#9

re: Shows you missed - but you love the cast recording!

Posted: 7/27/04 at 9:56pm

The score definitely had more in common with Les Miz than Miss Saigon (the other Boublil-Schonberg musical), obviously, but I think the orchestration had a lot to do with it. Martin Guerre's music is somewhat more intimate and subdued than Les Miz's sweeping score. A good recording to check is the 1999 one; the orchestrations are different (not as good, IMO), much more minimalist, but it exemplifies the musical difference between the two shows more.
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#10

re: Shows you missed - but you love the cast recording!

Posted: 7/27/04 at 10:01pm

quite alot...living in rural central nj doesn't make it too easy to get to ny all too often (luckily i'm moving out to nyc for college so i can see more than a show per year) but most notably damn yankees w/ victor garber.... i had never even heard of b'way when that came out
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re: Shows you missed - but you love the cast recording!

Posted: 7/27/04 at 10:02pm

oh i forgot YAGMCB!
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re: Shows you missed - but you love the cast recording!

Posted: 7/27/04 at 10:27pm

Gypsy (with bernadette), Flower Drum Song (Lea salonga), and Caroline, or change (because i wont be in the city for a LOOONG time and i can only see it if there's a tour)
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#15

re: Shows you missed - but you love the cast recording!

Posted: 7/27/04 at 10:28pm

Almost every cast recording I own falls under this category, but as of this moment I think City of Angels and A Chorus Line are the ones I'd love to see the most. Both with their original casts.
#16

re: Shows you missed - but you love the cast recording!

Posted: 7/27/04 at 10:28pm

All of my cast recordings are of shows that I haven't seen except for Rent, Assassins (the original, but I'm getting the new one soon), Wicked, and Little Shop of Horrors (the original, but I'm NOT getting the new one any time soon re: Shows you missed - but you love the cast recording!). I would have loved to see any of the others I have.
#17

re: Shows you missed - but you love the cast recording!

Posted: 7/27/04 at 10:29pm

Parade
Wild Party (Broadway)
Gypsy revival
Sweeny Todd
Into the Woods (original)...love the video...wish i could have seen it live
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#18

re: Shows you missed - but you love the cast recording!

Posted: 7/27/04 at 10:31pm

ack! forgot Ragtime....i absolutly love the OBC and even had tickets to the show but had to go on a band trip (blasted band...) oh well, water under the bridge now
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re: Shows you missed - but you love the cast recording!

Posted: 7/27/04 at 11:05pm

pretty much every recording I have......I've seen lots of tours and a handful of bway shows but I don't get to go to New York all the time so it's hard.
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