The very first original cast recording you bought?
#75re: The very first original cast recording you bought?
Posted: 4/19/05 at 10:14pmI've had an audio tape of My Fair Lady ever since I was pretty young. I think the first one I bought myself was The Producers.
#76re: The very first original cast recording you bought?
Posted: 4/19/05 at 10:59pm
"Godspell" is the first one I remember listening to over and over, followed quickly by "Cats." "Rum Tum Tugger" was always my favorite as a little kid. What a shocker that I am a huge Terrence Mann fan today!
Bought with my own money? I guess it was "Aspects of Love." I was obsessed with it. (Still am!)
#77re: The very first original cast recording you bought?
Posted: 4/20/05 at 11:09am
In 1967 I purchased "Sweet Charity" -- the original Broadway cast -- it was mis-priced at Thrifty Drug Store -- the Stereo version was $2.99.
Still one of my favorites, and I have hundreds of OBC recordings.
#78re: The very first original cast recording you bought?
Posted: 4/20/05 at 11:10amTommy
#79re: The very first original cast recording you bought?
Posted: 4/20/05 at 4:00pmMAME w/ Angela Lansbury
#80re: The very first original cast recording you bought?
Posted: 4/20/05 at 5:30pm
My first was the movie version of Little Shop of Horrors which opened the door to the OBCR of Phantom of the Opera. After that was a CD of ALW songs then EVITA, CATS and LESMISERABLES - in that order.
Oh...Phantom! - My first love of the stage!
#81re: The very first original cast recording you bought?
Posted: 4/20/05 at 5:37pmMy first OCR was RENT, which my friend Alex got me into.
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#82re: The very first original cast recording you bought?
Posted: 4/20/05 at 6:44pmNot sure the first one I bought was, the first one I ever heard was Damn Yankees. My dad use to sing You Gotta Have Heart to my brother because it was the only way he would calm down.
#83re: The very first original cast recording you bought?
Posted: 4/20/05 at 8:15pm
I believe the absolute first was Miss Saigon
Or maybe Oklahoma! with Hugh Jackman
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Stand-by Joined: 2/15/05
#84re: The very first original cast recording you bought?
Posted: 4/21/05 at 4:34pmThe first Broadway albums I listened to were the classic originals that I checked out from the library (OKLAHOMA, MY FAIR LADY, SOUND OF MUSIC). The first one I bought was either the soundtrack for the film version of THE KING AND I or the film version of KISS ME KATE (On LPs).
ChanceWayne
Chorus Member Joined: 4/18/05
#85re: The very first original cast recording you bought?
Posted: 4/22/05 at 7:02pmThe soundtrack to "DAMN YANKEES" followed by the Broadway cast of "CAMELOT".
CJR
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/03
#86re: The very first original cast recording you bought?
Posted: 4/22/05 at 7:19pm
A Chorus Line.... on vinyl.
I wore SUCH a hole through that record. lol
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#87re: The very first original cast recording you bought?
Posted: 4/23/05 at 1:00amThe first OBCR I remember having in my house was EVITA. The first one I bought myself, though, was probably......RENT!
Parks
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/5/04
#88re: The very first original cast recording you bought?
Posted: 4/23/05 at 2:27am
My first one to *legally buy*...I legally received the entire CD of Godspell 2001 Touring Cast through a free-trial thingy..and my first CD to buy was Funny Girl (July 2004).
I had always meant to buy Into The Woods on CD...seeing how I obsessed over the show for 10 months..
Johanna
Swing Joined: 4/24/05
#89re: The very first original cast recording you bought?
Posted: 4/25/05 at 12:39am
I think mine was the Man of la Mancha OBC or the Into the Woods Revival CR when I was 14. I got the Grease OBC on tape when I was 10 because I was in it at school.
Johanna
#90re: The very first original cast recording you bought?
Posted: 4/25/05 at 7:54amAnnie when I was 7
#91re: The very first original cast recording you bought?
Posted: 4/25/05 at 11:06amLes Miserables
#92re: The very first original cast recording you bought?
Posted: 4/25/05 at 11:12amOLCR of Les Miserables that my parents bought me. The first one I probably bought myself was...Cats. Although I could be mistaken I think that probably is the one I did buy myself.
lesserworm
Understudy Joined: 11/23/04
#93re: The very first original cast recording you bought?
Posted: 4/25/05 at 11:18amThat would probably be West Side Story.
#94re: The very first original cast recording you bought?
Posted: 4/25/05 at 11:45amBought myself? I don't know probobly Annie Get Your Gun revival cast. But I know that when I was little I had Annie, My Fair Lady, Bye Bye Birdie and a bunch more on tape. Oh and I think I stole Les Mis from my mother too, I remember not really understanding it but loving it all the same, lol!
#95re: The very first original cast recording you bought?
Posted: 4/25/05 at 11:58amAnother vote for A Chorus Line!
#96re: The very first original cast recording you bought?
Posted: 4/27/05 at 11:37amMy parents had the cassettes to Phantom and I loved it so much as an 8 year old that I made my friends perform it with me. I was the only one I allowed to be Christine. Hee hee. Ah, the late eighties. Les Miserables was the first one I actually owned. I think my grandmother gave it to me for my birthday. The first one I ever bought myself with my own allowance money was Aspects of Love. I think...
gavrochegirl
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/16/05
#97re: The very first original cast recording you bought?
Posted: 4/27/05 at 12:17pmI listened to RENT...if you consider that listening to your first...but I think mine was Assassins (04' Revival). If you count London, Les Mis.
#98re: The very first original cast recording you bought?
Posted: 5/2/05 at 12:05pmMy friends gave me Little Shop of Horrors, A chorus line,CSR Les Miz, Jane Enyre (sp), Urinetown,Zanna Don't,Assasins, Your a Good Man Charlie brown. I bought Wicked.
cserannie
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/1/05
#99re: The very first original cast recording you bought?
Posted: 5/2/05 at 3:41pmmy first was My Fair Lady 10 years ago.
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