Top 15 favorite recent cast recordings.

[bigbigbill]

Posted: 10/22/06 at 12:37pm

What are your top fifteen favorite cast recordings that have come out in the past couple of years? Just curious.

The Drowsy Chaperone
Bright Lights, Big City
The Full Monty
Jacques Brel 2006
A Chorus Line 2006
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Sweeney Todd 2006
Assassins 2004
Spelling Bee
The Last 5 Years
Little Shop of Horrors
The Wedding Singer
Songs For A New World
Thoroughly Modern Millie
You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown 1999
Updated On: 10/22/06 at 12:37 PM

[ahmelie]

Posted: 10/22/06 at 1:12pm

I really only listen to musicals from the 70s and earlier, but I do listen to a few from recent years, Sweeney Todd and The Last 5 Years.

[shesamarshmallow]

Posted: 10/22/06 at 1:17pm

Songs for a New World is ten years old! That's hardly "a couple".
But in that case, Ragtime is so on my list. And the 1998 Oklahoma.


... and I Love You Because. What can I say, I love it.

[snl89]

Posted: 10/22/06 at 2:26pm

-Wicked
-RENT OMPS
-Les Mis 10 year reunion recording
^(just had to get those cliche ones out of the way.. cause I really do adore them hehe)
-Last 5 Years
-Bright Lights, Big City
-Wedding Singer
-Hair Actors fund Benifit Recording
-A Chorus Line revival
-Aida
-Kiss Me, Kate
-Lippa's Wild Party
-See What I Wanna See
-Little Shop Revival

aaand thats all I can think of right now but I'm sure two more will come to me :P lol

[Ciaron McCarthy]

Posted: 10/22/06 at 2:53pm

Recent recordings?

1. Sunday in the Park With George (London Revival)
2. The Light in the Piazza
3. Caroline or Change
4. Bernarda Alba
5. See What I Wanna See
6. Grey Gardens (if only for "Around the World", "Will You" and "Another Winter in a Summer Town")
7. Sweeney Todd Revival
8. Marie Christine
9. The Wild Part (Lachiusa)
10.Evita London Revival
11.The Last Five Years
12.Parade
13.Chorus Line Revival
14.Avenue Q
15.Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

[ashbash1990]

Posted: 10/22/06 at 2:57pm

Les mis TAC
Aida
Sweeney Todd 2005
Assassins 2004
Cabaret 1999
La Bohéme
Drowsy Chaperone
The Producers
Rent OBC
Rocky Horror (the new one)
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Urinetown
your a Good Man Charlie Brown
Passion
Titanic

[justagirl2]

Posted: 10/22/06 at 3:01pm

It has to be recent?

Cabaret Revival
Ragtime
Les Miserables (10th Anniversary)
Lippa's Wild Party
Sweeney Todd Revival
Drowsy Chaperone
Urinetown
The Last 5 Years
Avenue Q
Parade
Little Shop of Horrors Revival
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Little Women
Kiss Me, Kate
The Light in the Piazza

[gcal]

Posted: 10/22/06 at 3:02pm

Ciaron- what about "Revolutionary Costume"- that song alone makes that cd worth it!

[bwaylvsong]

Posted: 10/22/06 at 3:26pm

Kiss Me, Kate
Piazza
Gypsy
Man of LaMancha
Ragtime
Aida
Wicked
42nd Street
The Producers
Drowsy
DRS
Spamalot
ACL
Mary Poppins
WiW

[ErinDillyFan]

Posted: 10/22/06 at 4:29pm

I'm not sure how far back "a couple years" is. I will go back to 1998. Since the OP went back to 1996.

Notre-Dame de Paris
Ragtime
Spelling Bee
The Producers
Avenue Q
Drowsy Chaperone
DRS
St. Louis Woman
Little Shop of Horrors
Hair Spray
Chicago - London Cast
The Color Purple
A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Wedding Singer
The Sweet Smell of Success
Updated On: 10/25/06 at 04:29 PM

[defyingravity11]

Posted: 10/22/06 at 6:44pm

In no particular order:

Ragtime
The Light in the Piazza
Wicked
Man of la Mancha (Revival)
See What I Wanna See
The Color Purple
The Drowsy Chaperone
Rent
Les Miserables (10th Ann.)
The Last 5 Years
A Chorus Line (Revival)
Sweeney Todd (Revival)
Dessa Rose
Once on this Island (OBCR and OLCR)

[Ciaron McCarthy]

Posted: 10/22/06 at 6:48pm

"Ciaron- what about "Revolutionary Costume"- that song alone makes that cd worth it!"

Well Gcal I was going to put that but I feel RCFT is much better when actually witnessed.

PS I hear you were insanely hot Gcal! AND STRAIGHT!!??? A hot straight guy who likes MT? Is it possible? =)

[ahmelie]

Posted: 10/22/06 at 7:38pm

The Light in the Piazza, Ragtime, and Grey Gardens should be on my list too.
I hated Bright Lights, Big City.

[gcal]

Posted: 10/22/06 at 9:37pm

Ciaron- what can I say

[Ciaron McCarthy]

Posted: 10/22/06 at 9:43pm

Ciaron- what can I say

I'm probably hotter but I'm not straight. You better run. There are like 400 female MT fans for every 1 good looking straight male MT fan.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 10/22/06 at 9:49pm

Some of these are like...9-10 years old. How are those recent?

[GYPSY1527]

Posted: 10/22/06 at 10:00pm

Sunday in the Park With George (London Revival)- Just as a side note, I bought it a while ago, listened to it and put it away. I discovered it again maybe 2 weeks ago and haven't stopped listening to it. It is really that amazing.
The Light in the Piazza
Caroline or Change
Sweeney Todd 2006 Revival
The Drowsy Chaperone
Ragtime
Dessa Rose
Mary Poppins
Gypsy 2003 Revival
Avenue Q
Assassins

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 10/22/06 at 10:03pm

Sunday in the Park with George
The Light in the Piazza
Caroline, or Change
Sweeney Todd
Nine
Gypsy
South Pacific (LCT revival)

[BrunetteBombshell]

Posted: 10/22/06 at 10:24pm

Jersey Boys, A Chorus Line (revival), The Light in the Piazza, The Last 5 Years, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Wicked, The Wedding Singer, Aida, and The Color Purple.

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 10/25/06 at 1:05am

I have yet to get the BREL revival, but I listen to the original constantly. When I get it, it will rarely leave my CD player, though.

I don't like TRAILER PARK. I didn't see the show, but I got the CD and listened to it once. It's funny once, but I just have no desire to revisit it.

[Janelle188]

Posted: 10/25/06 at 1:21am

I could only think of 13. . . I was tempted to add Jersey Boys, but I've barely listened to it since I got it, so I felt like that would be cheating. :)

Wicked
DRS
Wedding Singer
I Love You Because (I got this three days ago and have listened to nothing else since)
L5Y
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Rent (Movie Soundtrack. Yes, I know, it's technically not a cast recording but I'm counting it anyway, just casue it was fantastic)
Hedwig (movie. see above :) )
Light in the Piazza
Avenue Q
Drowsy Chaperone
Little Women
Spamalot

[CompletlyNakedStatue]

Posted: 10/25/06 at 8:38am

The ones that immediately come to mind for me are:

Cabaret revivial
Avenue Q
The Light in the Piazza
Floyd Collins
Assassins revival
The Last 5 Years
Parade
The Wild Party (Lippa)
Aida
Spelling Bee
Sweeney revival
A Class Act
Updated On: 10/25/06 at 08:38 AM

[beuk-et-moi]

Posted: 10/25/06 at 10:03am

I have bought a lot of cast recordings lately, and i only regret one of them, one of my best averages!

Bonifatius das musical
Rembrandt the musical
Dracula,Belgian cast
Carmen Cubana
Light in the Piazza
Jesus Christ Superstar,Dutch cast
Kristina fran Duvemala
Evita New London cast
Wat zien ik
Cabaret,Spanish cast
Song and dance
Mozart das musical
Dorian Gray,London cast
Turkish Delight
Grey Gardens

[fgreene1938]

Posted: 10/25/06 at 11:17am

I almost completely agree with you because I have almost every one of these recordings. You have good taste

[RentHead2]

Posted: 10/25/06 at 11:23am

Love when I get to list my favorites and my not so greats but here we go in order the way I listen to them - top 10

1. The Wedding Singer - I listen to this one at least a couple times a day; specifically "saturday night in the city" "all about the green" and "let me come home"

2. Bright Lights, Big City - One of the best recordings I own - look at the performers in it Wilson, Sherie, Bolger, Ebersole

3. Footloose - I just love this one; I love the combination of movie songs/original songs it it.

4. The Great American Trailor Park - Okay this one is a guilty pleasure.

5. The Last 5 Years - one of the best written; best performed; best everything. It seems everything these two do together are on my list.

6. See What I Wanna See
7. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
8. Reefer Madness - LA Recording
9. The Wild Party - Lippa
10. Rent