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#26

re: Top 25 Cast Recordings of All Time

Posted: 5/23/04 at 7:01pm

"Juliette Capulet, I have the movie of Les Demoiselles de Rochefort and I love it. I don't speak French though, and I still love it."

I want to see it the movie version. The musical is supposed to be somewhat different, but still...

Tendres Baisers,
Juliette Capulet

#27

re: Top 25 Cast Recordings of All Time

Posted: 5/23/04 at 7:25pm

Some nice and interesting choices here, but most of the lists are overwhelmingly contemporary. No wonder NM was ranting.

#28

re: Top 25 Cast Recordings of All Time

Posted: 5/23/04 at 7:37pm

Eh...I apologize for my overwhelmingly contemporary list. :) I recently bought out the musical CD's section of Tower Records but I haven't had a chance to listen to many of them yet.

#29

re: Top 25 Cast Recordings of All Time

Posted: 5/23/04 at 7:38pm

Titanic
Ragtime
Sweeney Todd (OBC)
Company
Passion
Oklahoma (OBC)
West Side Story (OBC)
The King and I (OBC)
Showboat (Revival)
March of the Falsettos/Falsettoland
A New Brain
Parade
The Secret Garden (OBC)
Les Miserables (OLC)
Hair (OBC)
Urinetown
Jesus Christ Superstar (Concept)
My Fair Lady (OBC)
Aspects of Love
City of Angels (OBC)
Chess (Concert)
Once on This Island (OBC)
On the Twentieth Century
Candide (NYCO)
The Most Happy Fella (OBC)

Runners Up:
Blood Brothers (Kiki Dee)
Tommy
Kiss of the Spider Woman (Chita Rivera)
Fiddler on the Roof (OBC)
Martin Guerre (1997)
The Wild Party (LaChiusa)

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

#30

re: Top 25 Cast Recordings of All Time

Posted: 5/23/04 at 7:57pm

In no particular order:
1- RENT
2- Godspell
3- Pippin
4- JCS
5- MoLM (new Broadway cast recording)
6- Zanna Don't
7- Tick Tick BOOM
8- Wicked
9- Hair
10- Cats
11- Starlight Express
12- Children of Eden
13- Aida
14- Evita
15- A Chorus Line
16- Les Mis
17- POTO
18- Hairspray
19- Chicago
20- Cabaret (revival)
21- Miss Saigon
22- Scarlet Pimpernel
23- Urinetown
24- Avenue Q
25- West Side Story

I have my books and my poetry to protect me...

#31

re: Top 25 Cast Recordings of All Time

Posted: 5/23/04 at 8:07pm

No need for apologies, NYCbabe- you're actually one of my favorite posters here. I was observing more than accusing. Sorry if my tone sounded pejorative.:)

#32

re: Top 25 Cast Recordings of All Time

Posted: 5/23/04 at 8:55pm

Awwwww that makes me feel warm and fuzzy. :) Don't worry, I didn't take your post offensively at all.

#33

re: Top 25 Cast Recordings of All Time

Posted: 5/24/04 at 1:16am

Assassins - The NEW Recording (comes out in July)
Bat Boy
The Last Five Years
Rent
Parade
Urinetown
Songs for a New World
Sweeney Todd

#34

re: Top 25 Cast Recordings of All Time

Posted: 5/24/04 at 1:42am

~West Side Story- YES... But, the Original Broadway Cast Recording is very underwhelming. I would buy a more recent recording by a symphony of some kind. The larger orchestrations are phenomenal!
~The Last 5 Years
~The Wild Party (Lippa)
~A Little Night Music
~Company (Revival)
~The Secret Garden
~Into The Woods (OBC- I disagree with KJisGroovy about the Revival. Vanessa William's Witch cannot hold a candle to Bernie)
~Aida
~Ragtime

#35

re: Top 25 Cast Recordings of All Time

Posted: 5/24/04 at 2:06am

I dunno 25, but here are some great ones:
Rent (OBC)
Movin' Out
Guys and Dolls (Nathan Lane recording)
Anything Goes (Patti LuPone)
Cabaret (revival)
Chicago (revival)
Hairspray

There are also some really good Broadway complilation CDs out there. Check out Ultimate Broadway 1 and 2 or Broadway Today for some samplings of other great cast recordings.

Hope this helps!

No Day But Today

#36

re: Top 25 Cast Recordings of All Time

Posted: 5/24/04 at 5:46am

In no order:

1 Ragtime OBC
2 Witches of Eastwick OLC
3 Into the Woods OLC
4 Little Night Music RNT cast (Judi Dench)
5 Parade OBC
6 Elisabeth (2001 Essen)
7 Tanz der Vampire
8 Les Miserables 10th Anniversary
9 Secret Garden (ideally a mix of all three)
10 Company (1996 London)
11 Phantom of the Opera (both OLC and Hamburg)
12 Songs for a New World
13 Wicked OBC
14 La Cava OLC
15 Last Five Years
16 By Jeeves OLC
17 The Fix OLC
18 Zombie Prom
19 Song and Dance OLC
20 Martin Guerre (both OLC and 1999 touring cast)
21 Urinetown
22 Bat Boy
23 Avenue Q
24 Wild Party (Lippa)
25 Moby Dick OLC

#37

re: Top 25 Cast Recordings of All Time

Posted: 5/24/04 at 9:52am

My choices:

Anyone Can Whistle - OBC
Bar Mitzvah Boy - OLC
Bye Bye Birdie - OBC
Camelot - OBC
A Chorus Line - OBC
Dear World - OBC
Do I Hear a Waltz - OBC
Evita - OBC
Flower Drum Song - OBC
Funny Girl - OBC
Gypsy - OBC
High Spirits - OBC
It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman - OBC
A Little Night Music - OBC
Mame - OBC
Merrily We Roll Along - OBC
Most Happy Fella - OBC
The Music Man - OBC
My Fair Lady - OBC
Oh, Captain - OBC
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever - OBC
South Pacific - OBC
Sweeney Todd - OBC
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - OBC
West Side Story - OBC

#38

re: Top 25 Cast Recordings of All Time

Posted: 5/24/04 at 10:53am

Oh, the delicious visions I've just had of Buck groovin' to "He Had Refinement" and "On the S.S. Bernard Cohn".

"Gif me the cobra jool!"

#39

re: Top 25 Cast Recordings of All Time

Posted: 5/24/04 at 1:20pm

Sorry about the contemporary recordings! But I guess we're all contemporary folk! After all we're online and seeing shows now!

If I asked my Father his favourite, none of the 'modern rubbish' would appear in his list!!!! But his list would no doubt be contemporary to the decades he regularly visited the theatre. So he'd enjoy 'The Flower Drum Song' - originally at the Palace Theatre, London. Plus Oklahoma! Oh and any of the film musicals featuring Doris Day!

"Well we can't all come and go by bubble"

#40

re: Top 25 Cast Recordings of All Time

Posted: 5/24/04 at 1:48pm

Oh yeah! I forgot Rent. That should be somewhere in there, too. Too many to choose from.

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

#41

re: Top 25 Cast Recordings of All Time

Posted: 3/11/25 at 10:56pm

My favorites are (in no particular order):

The Wiz (OBC or movie soundtrack)

Kiss Of The Spider Woman (Chita and Vanessa) I can’t wait for JLo!

The Secret Garden (OBC)

Big River (OBC)

Annie (OBC)

Peter Pan (OBC and Cathy Rigby) I wish Sandy Duncan’s version was recorded.

R&H Cinderella (O T.V. C, Lesley Ann Warren, OBC)

Rocky Horror (Picture) Show (OLC and movie soundtrack)

Grease (movie soundtrack)

#42

re: Top 25 Cast Recordings of All Time

Posted: 3/11/25 at 11:12pm

La Cage (OBC)

Sunset Boulevard highlights (Canada)

Chess (London concept pre-remastering)

Les Mis (Rotterdam 2008)

Nine (Australia)

Grey Gardens (off-Broadway, but I do love Erin Davie on the Broadway. The replacement songs for Bway are all lacking for me)

Joseph (Canada)

42nd Street (OBC)

And of course Ragtime (OBC)

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#43

re: Top 25 Cast Recordings of All Time

Posted: 3/13/25 at 12:18pm

I'm not going to list 25 - but I'm kind of shocked that these four aren't on there:

- Sophisticated Ladies - OBC - my favorite:) Phenomenal recording with stellar singers

- My Fair Lady - OBC - no explanation needed

- Hair - Revival - you have to have some Gavin Creel on here.

- City of Angels - OBC - probably the one I listen to the most after Sophisticated Ladies

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