What is best cast cd from the last 5 years?
What is best cast cd from the last 5 years?
Ensemble1749833060
Joined: 6/13/25
#1What is best cast cd from the last 5 years?
Posted: 6/13/25 at 7:46pm
I haven't paid much attention the last 5 or so years and I really need to get back into the shows. What are the best cast cds from the last 5 years or so I should look into getting? I just ordered: Shucked, Funny Girl, Hadestown, Suffs, Redwood, Floyd Collins, and Maybe Happy Ending.
RUkiddingme
Broadway Star Joined: 12/9/11
#2What is best cast cd from the last 5 years?
Posted: 6/13/25 at 8:00pm
the Kimberly Akimbo recording always surprises me with the depth of it all.
TexanAddams18
Featured Actor Joined: 7/19/11
#3What is best cast cd from the last 5 years?
Posted: 6/13/25 at 9:21pm
Merrily We Roll Along, Stereophonic, Maybe Happy Ending, Illinoise, Sunset Boulevard are kind of my cornerstones right now
#4What is best cast cd from the last 5 years?
Posted: 6/13/25 at 9:29pm
I prefer Sherie and Norbert!
smidge2
Understudy Joined: 12/16/20
#5What is best cast cd from the last 5 years?
Posted: 6/13/25 at 9:40pm
TotallyEffed said: "I prefer Sherie and Norbert!"
This restores my faith in the board.
#6What is best cast cd from the last 5 years?
Posted: 6/13/25 at 10:07pm
It’s primarily the revivals for me. Beautiful new recordings of MERRILY, INTO THE WOODS, and PARADE.
"Oh look at the time, three more intelligent plays just closed and THE ADDAMS FAMILY made another million dollars" -Jackie Hoffman, Broadway.com Audience Awards
KarenValentine'sheadband
Stand-by Joined: 1/26/24
#8What is best cast cd from the last 5 years?
Posted: 6/14/25 at 1:00am
My top 5 will be:
1. Into The Woods - very crisp and clear recording. That cast! - Sara Bareilles, Gavin Creel, Joshua Henry, Bryan D’Arcy… magnificent!
2. Illinoise - the most haunting cast recording. Beautiful orchestration and vocals.
3. Merrily We Roll Along - Groff, Radcliffe, Mendez! nuff said
4. Gypsy - Queen Audra … still give me chills. Ofcourse if you are a purist you wont like her vocal interpretation. But I am not and am still completely in awe.
5. Operation Mincemeat - the most intelligently written score of the last five years, and one of the most beautiful song for the past decade - Dear Bill.
runner up would be Girl from the North Country but there are elements and songs that I adore more in the London Cast recording.
raddersons
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/14/13
#9What is best cast cd from the last 5 years?
Posted: 6/14/25 at 1:23am
Ones I go back to:
New Merrily
Kimberly Akimbo
Three Houses
Maybe Happy Ending
Suffs
#11What is best cast cd from the last 5 years?
Posted: 6/14/25 at 11:39am
Sweeney Todd
Sunset Boulevard
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#12What is best cast cd from the last 5 years?
Posted: 6/14/25 at 1:10pm
Camelot for me. The production itself and the new book wasn’t the best reviewed but the songs and orchestrations are largely untouched. Phillipa Soo, Jordan Donica and Taylor Trensch are perfectly cast.
spicemonkey
Broadway Star Joined: 6/3/18
#13What is best cast cd from the last 5 years?
Posted: 6/14/25 at 1:35pm
Sunset Blvd (Except Grace’s vocal)
Here We Are
Girl from the North Country (Bway)
Company (Original Spanish Cast Recording)
Merrily
#14What is best cast cd from the last 5 years?
Posted: 6/14/25 at 2:45pm
Flying Over Sunset
A Strange Loop
Kimberly Akimbo
Illinoise
Maybe Happy Ending (Korean Cast)
Shucked
Here We Are
Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York)
Standing at the Sky's Edge
Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder
Updated On: 6/14/25 at 02:45 PM
#15What is best cast cd from the last 5 years?
Posted: 6/14/25 at 4:18pm
TOP 6
- Here We Are
- Merrily We Roll Along
- SUFFS
- Parade
- MHE
- DBH
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Sunday in the Park with George
Updated On: 6/14/25 at 04:18 PM
inception
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/2/13
#16What is best cast cd from the last 5 years?
Posted: 6/14/25 at 6:53pm
Something no one has mentioned is the UK original cast recording of Standing at the Sky's Edge - not something likely to be produced on Broadway. I didn't see it, but it is an interesting listen.
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#17What is best cast cd from the last 5 years?
Posted: 6/14/25 at 9:11pm
inception said: "Something no one has mentioned is the UK original cast recording of Standing at the Sky's Edge - not something likely to be produced on Broadway. I didn't see it, but it is an interesting listen."
Thank you! I was blanking out on the name of the show and even waded through my album Library but couldn't find it. I will add it now!
Just give the world Love. - S. Wonder
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