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What Are the 10 Best Cast Recordings of 2000-2009?
Soliantu
Leading Actor Joined: 11/10/06
#25re: What Are the 10 Best Cast Recordings of 2000-2009?
Posted: 7/21/09 at 12:25pm
Top 10, not in order. I took quality of the recording, whether the cast was at their best on it, and if things were left out on it, into consideration.
1. The Boy From Oz,
2. Curtains,
3. Into the Woods Revival,
4. Jane Eyre,
5. Legally Blonde,
6. The Light in the Piazza,
7. Next to Normal,
8. Spamalot (although I wish it had "I am Arthur, King of.." on it,
9. Wedding Singer,
10. [Title of show]
Shows I love, but the recording shouldve been better:
1. Wicked: I don't like the abscence of the "It's Meee" in Defying Gravity, and the absense of the whole Wicked Witch of the East segment. Idina is also singing differently on it, she was sick I believe, her tone is darker/huskier, than when she was singing it live
2. Gypsy: I just think Patti sounded really messy on a lot of the tracks, she sounded MUCH better live. I love her, don't get me wrong, but I dont think the recording showed her at her best.
3. The Pirate Queen: It's missing A LOT of the score, probably half. The recorded tracks however are Great
#26re: What Are the 10 Best Cast Recordings of 2000-2009?
Posted: 7/21/09 at 12:26pm
1. CAROLINE, OR CHANGE
2. THE WILD PARTY (LaChiusa)
3. SOUTH PACIFIC (2008 Revival)
4. GREY GARDENS
5. HAIR (2009 Revival)
6. 110 IN THE SHADE (2007 Revival)
7. THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA
8. THE BUBBLY BLACK GIRL SHEDS HER CHAMELEON SKIN
9. URINETOWN
10. COMPANY (2006 Revival)
Tonya Pinkins: Then we had a "Lot's Wife" last June that was my personal favorite. I'm still trying to get them to let me sing it at some performance where we get to sing an excerpt that's gone.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
Tony Kushner: You can sing it at my funeral.
#27re: What Are the 10 Best Cast Recordings of 2000-2009?
Posted: 7/21/09 at 12:39pm
Broadway:
Urinetown
Caroline, or Change
Hairspray
The Wild Party (La Chiusa)
Marie Christine
Jane Eyre
The Full Monty
Wicked
25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
The Drowsy Chaperone
London:
Witches of Eastwick
Zorro
Lord of the Rings
Parade
Billy Elliott
Jerry Springer: The Opera
Bombay Dreams
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
My Fair Lady
Woman in White
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#28re: What Are the 10 Best Cast Recordings of 2000-2009?
Posted: 7/21/09 at 12:39pm
Nice to see someone else picking LaChiusa's WILD PARTY cast recording. It's wonderful, Toni Collette is simply fascinating to listen to, and really the rest of the cast is in top shape. "My Best Friend" is one of my favorites, wouldn't it be a thrill to see Pinkins and Collette tackle "Bosom Buddies" in concert one day?
I was going to include 110 IN THE SHADE as well, it's beautifully produced.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
#29re: What Are the 10 Best Cast Recordings of 2000-2009?
Posted: 7/21/09 at 12:39pm
In alphabetical order:
110 in the Shade
Aida
A Chorus Line (revival)
Caroline, or Change
Grey Gardens [either one]
The Light in the Piazza
The Pajama Game (revival) [If You Win You Lose is the best single track on any album this decade]
South Pacific (revival)
Sweeney Todd (revival) [didn't care for the show, but the album sounds quite good]
The Wedding Singer [while the show wasn't great, the cast album is really well done]
#30re: What Are the 10 Best Cast Recordings of 2000-2009?
Posted: 7/21/09 at 12:58pm
Gypsy (Patti, not Bernadette)
Hair (2009 Revival)
In the Heights
Mary Poppins
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
South Pacific (2008 Revival)
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Wicked
The Witches of Eastwick
110 in the Shade (with Audra)
#31re: What Are the 10 Best Cast Recordings of 2000-2009?
Posted: 7/21/09 at 1:05pm
In No Order:
1. Caroline or Change
2. Nine (Revival)
3. Assasins (Revival)
4. Sweeney Todd (Revival)
5. Company (Revival)
6. Hair (Revival & Actors Fund)
7. Patti Lupone Gypsy
8. Avenue Q
9. Wicked
10. Passing Strange
<------ Me and my friends with patti Lupone at my friends afterparty for her concert with audra mcdonald during the summer of 2007.
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
sally1112
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/13/04
#32re: What Are the 10 Best Cast Recordings of 2000-2009?
Posted: 7/21/09 at 1:40pm
I don't want to be the negative nelly in this thread, but I am very surprised by the amount of people placing 9 to 5's recording on this list. Two really great songs and the rest are mediocore at best.
I really enjoyed seeing the show but we are talking about the best of almost a decade of musicals, so I must respectfuly disagree.
Soliantu
Leading Actor Joined: 11/10/06
#33re: What Are the 10 Best Cast Recordings of 2000-2009?
Posted: 7/21/09 at 1:56pmI guess it's a matter of opinion. I was just actually thinking I wanted to add 9 to 5 to my list of favorites. I really like the score and the cast. The album itself is put together very well too.
americanboy99
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/06
#34re: What Are the 10 Best Cast Recordings of 2000-2009?
Posted: 7/21/09 at 2:15pm9 TO 5 is just plain fun for me. It sounds excellent as well. I happen to like most of the music from the show. Of course, there are a few duds. However, it's gotten quite a lot of play on my iPod since I purchased it last week.
#35re: What Are the 10 Best Cast Recordings of 2000-2009?
Posted: 7/21/09 at 9:20pm
In no particular order:
In The Heights
Caroline or Change
Assassins (Revival)
The Wild Party (Lippa Version)
Taboo (OBC)
Next to Normal
BARE
The Wedding Singer
See What I Wanna See
The Last Five Years
"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2
#36re: What Are the 10 Best Cast Recordings of 2000-2009?
Posted: 7/21/09 at 9:28pm
I can't think of ten, but I'll put down a couple.
Light in the Piazza
Grey Gardens
LuPone Gypsy
Allegro- Complete Recording
Road Show
#37re: What Are the 10 Best Cast Recordings of 2000-2009?
Posted: 7/21/09 at 10:14pmI am probably the lone ranger on this one, but I prefer the Peter's GYPSY over Lupones. So it goes...
"They're eating her and then they're going to eat me. OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!" -Troll 2
#38re: What Are the 10 Best Cast Recordings of 2000-2009?
Posted: 7/21/09 at 11:20pm
spiderdj82, you're not. Two people (including myself) have listed it as their favourite recording of the decade [so far].
It also won the GRAMMY so it's not entirely unrecognised :P.
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#39re: What Are the 10 Best Cast Recordings of 2000-2009?
Posted: 7/22/09 at 3:06amspider, I'm also with you. That's another recording I was close to including on my list. I do prefer Benanti and Larkin to Blanchard and Reinders but otherwise, I'm a big big supporter of the '03 revival recording.
"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
RyToast1
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/27/07
#40re: What Are the 10 Best Cast Recordings of 2000-2009?
Posted: 7/24/09 at 5:43pm
(in alphabetical order)
A Chorus Line (revival)
Bare
Gypsy (LuPone revival)
In The Heights
Jersey Boys
Legally Blonde
next to normal
9 to 5
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Wicked
#41re: What Are the 10 Best Cast Recordings of 2000-2009?
Posted: 7/24/09 at 5:46pm
1. Grey Gardens
2. The Light in the Piazza
3. 25Th....Spelling Bee
4 In the Heights
5. Thoroughly Modern Millie
6. Gypsy (Patti)
7. Assassins
8. See What I Wanna See
9. Sunday in the Park with George
10. Sweeney Todd Revival
Genius lasts longer than beauty.
HVicQ
Swing Joined: 8/19/07
#42re: What Are the 10 Best Cast Recordings of 2000-2009?
Posted: 7/24/09 at 6:10pm
1.) The Light in the Piazza
2.) Not POSITIVE if its 1999 or 2000 but Lippa's Wild Party. Its not really a great show, but the score is fantastic.
3.) Spamalot
4.) Sweeney Todd- John Doyle's
5.) Thoroughly Modern Millie
6.) Grey Gardens
7.) Urinetown (even if the sound quality is a little tinny)
8.) Hair Benefit Concert (not the current revival). Not sure if it counts, but that lineup of singers is a knockout. Jennifer Hudson's rendition of Easy to Be Hard is reason enough to buy it.
9.)Jersey Boys
10.) Wicked
EDIT: Soliantu, you don't like Idina on the Wicked recording? Oh I think its some of the best she's sounded.
Updated On: 7/24/09 at 06:10 PM
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