What's in YOUR iPod?

[Tirso de Molina]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 5:03pm

okay, folks, it's poll time: what theater cast albums, concert recordings, etc., do you load onto your iPod or pop into your Walkman for working out at the gym or going running or whatever? what are the best shows/composers/performers to keep the adrenaline pumping while you're exercising?!

I was listening to the Sondheim "scrabble album" on the stairmaster today -- I kept replaying "America" to get me through the highest-level parts of the "rolling hills" program!

[TheQuibbler]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 5:05pm

The best thing to work out to, I think, is "Hairspray." Almost every song is fast and upbeat.

I plan on making a playlist of my favorite "belty" songs.

[whatyouown223]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 5:07pm

Definitely Hairspray. And Out Tonight.

[iso_pop]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 5:08pm

RENT.

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 5:08pm

I do enjoy exercizing to anything upbeat and happy. Hairspray is always good, as is parts of A Chorus Line and Chicago.

However, I can never work out while listening to Sondheim (except parts of Company). I just want to stop and listen to the song, and I forget about the fact I'm suppossed to be exrecizing.

[mateo]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 5:10pm

I workout/dance to usually big ensemble numbers or dance numbers. Company, side by side, tick tock, I hope I get it, montage, music and the mirror, tornado ballet, Aquarius, Fame, Pippin Finale, Day by day... things like that...oh! and my Sailor Moon Musical cd's.

Updated On: 5/7/06 at 05:10 PM

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 5:11pm

Reefer Madness and Bat Boy.

[dirty rotten guy]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 5:13pm

Hah, I love when my friends borrow my iPod expecting to find modern music but instead it is almost entirely cast albums. It is so funny when they open up the artists part and they are like "who the hell are these people?"

Broadway albums on my iPod:
-Aida
-Cabaret
-Chicago
-Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
-Grease
-Little Shop of Horrors
-Once Upon a Matress
-Spamalot
-Sweeney Todd
-Sweeney Todd (revival)
-Sweet Charity
-The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
-The Threepenny Opera

[JoeGillis]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 5:18pm

Broadway in my I-POD :

Rent - OBC
Aida
Bright Lights, Big City
Wicked

Random B'way songs:

Another Hundered People
Meadow Lark
Songs from the Last Five Years
Songs from Spelling Bee
and
Songs from Piazza

[picturetaker9211]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 5:18pm

almost the whole rent album
a few hairspray songs
almost of all you're a good man charlie brown

[emo_geek]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 5:20pm

As little as I work out (though I think ill start more because I got a really nice gym bag because I drink so many propel fitness water) brooklyn is fun to work out to.

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 5:21pm

If I'm running, I can be listening to almost anything...

[Shiksa Goddess2]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 5:24pm

I was actually looking for a good cast album to work out to last night, and I ended up listening to my pop songs on shuffle instead. I have everything I own on my iPod, but I think I need to make a playlist of faster songs from musicals if I'm gonna be able to work out to them.

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 5:25pm

listing all 3,000 songs would be pointless....

but i can honestly work out to ANYTHING.

i've worked out to Nine before. I've also worked out to Light in the Piazza

[ashley0139]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 5:28pm

It is so funny when they open up the artists part and they are like "who the hell are these people?

That happens to me ALL THE TIME. Norbert Leo Butz? Heather Headley? I tell them they have to look in "albums" to understand it.

[dirty rotten guy]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 5:31pm

Hah, that is exactly what I tell them too. But generally by that time they just hand it back to me and go find someone with "real music".

Updated On: 5/7/06 at 05:31 PM

[ProducersFan]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 5:34pm

I love taking my iPod into the studio when I'm working on my stained glass and can dance around to Broadway songs - it's best when no one is there and I can sing along. It's not a pretty picture.

[Maryjoannejean]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 5:43pm

pictures of my kitties!!

[Practically Perfect]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 5:48pm

Hairspray and Rent are great for working out to, and I also listen to some Dirty Rotten Scoundrels numbers, and Rich Man's Frug, Something Better Than This and I'm A Brass Band from Sweet Charity. Strangers Like Me from Tarzan is good too!

Mary P x

[i love idina]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 6:45pm

Hairspray, Rent and Wicked are all really fun to work out to, be carefull on the treadmill tho because sometimes if you lip-sync while you run you slip off

[respeck]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 6:53pm

Dreamgirls is good to workout to.

YOU CAN SWEAT YOUR WAY TO THE TOP!!

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 6:57pm

Nothing. I wish I had an IPOD.

[MissElphie]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 7:05pm

Right now:

Avenue Q
BARE Sampler
RENT movie and OBC
Wicked OBC
Bright Lights, Big City
Lippa's The Wild Party
Dirty Rotten Scoundrals
Spamalot
The Woman in White
See What I Wanna See

As well as a lot of non-musical stuff.

[JustABroadwaybaby2]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 7:30pm

I have all the songs from Avenue Q's "Mix tape!"
Cast Albums I have:
Some OBC Pajama Game stuff
Hair.
Oliver.
Fiddler.
The Producers.
Hello, Dolly!
How to Succeed in Buisness Without Really Trying.
New Pajama Game (of course)
Rent obc and Movie (Out Tonight and Glory from movie are so good to run to!)
Wicked.
Spelling Bee.
Oklahoma!
A few songs from Les Miserables.
I know, I know. I am not a well-rounded theatre person.
But I do have every song from the PBS special Broadway:The Golden age, which has classic songs from things like Showboat, 42nd street, South Pacific, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, that sort of stuff. But I don't HAVE an iPod. I have an MP3 player.

Updated On: 5/10/06 at 07:30 PM

[Weez]

Posted: 5/7/06 at 7:40pm

I don't work out to my iPod, but I have the following cast recordings on it:

Bare: A Pop Opera
Beauty And The Beast OBCR
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The Last Five Years
Les Miserables CSR
Les Miserables 10 Anniversary
The Light In The Piazza
RENT OBCR
RENT OST
Sunset Boulevard American Highlights
Wicked

I also have a selection of songs from High School Musical, because I love that movie. I bet you could work out really well to Get'cha Head In The Game and Stick To The Status Quo.

I tend to read a lot while listening to my iPod, and some books require me concentrating, which I can't do if I can hear and understand lyrics, so I also have a smattering of classical. Karl Jenkins's The Armed Man: A Mass For Peace, Carnival Of The Animals, some miscellaneous Saint-Saens and Tchaikovsky among others, aaand I have the Gladiator OST and the three Lord Of The Rings OSTs.

I <3 my iPod. His name is Javert. :3