What was the first cast recording you bought?
What was the first cast recording you bought?
#0What was the first cast recording you bought?
Posted: 3/2/05 at 1:34pm
When I was out on tour during the summer of 1988 with a drum and bugle corps, one of our competitors that season played selections from The Phantom of the Opera. I liked their show so much I borrowed the tapes from a friend of mine and fell in love with the show instantly. When I got home at the end of the summer, I bought the OLC. It was my first cast recording. A few months later I bought the OLC of Les Miserables (which I no longer have - it was on tape) and then Aspects of Love rounded out my first three. I still love those shows to death.
What was your first?
#1re: What was the first cast recording you bought?
Posted: 3/2/05 at 1:36pmBye Bye Birdie...it's how I fell in love with musicals.
#2re: What was the first cast recording you bought?
Posted: 3/2/05 at 1:38pm
When I was 11 years old, I went to see Joseph and I fell in love. I got my grandma to buy me a copy of the CD. UI still have that old CD, though it skips awfully.
My next cast recording was The Phantom Of The Opera, about two years later. I spent middle school being obsessed with ALW, and getting all the recordings of his shows that I could. My first non-ALW musicals were RENT and Les Mis.
Yonah
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#3re: What was the first cast recording you bought?
Posted: 3/2/05 at 1:38pmI'm ashamed to say it, but it was Annie. I was in love with Andrea McCardle (or rather her voice).
timote316
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/04
#4re: What was the first cast recording you bought?
Posted: 3/2/05 at 1:41pmIt was either the Guys and Dolls ('92 revival) or Joseph (the Michael Damian one). I think it was G&D
#5re: What was the first cast recording you bought?
Posted: 3/2/05 at 1:43pmthe OCR of BYE BYE BIRDIE
#6re: What was the first cast recording you bought?
Posted: 3/2/05 at 1:47pm
My first was the original London cast of Les Mis December of 1997.
Loge - That was Santa Clara wasn't it? They did that show two years in a row from what I remember (like Phantom regiment did with 1812 Overture) and then they had a Miss Saigon show that I didn't really care for as much. Which drum corps were you in? I was on the North Texas Drumline 88-89 (milestone year at PASIC) with various corps members, but was never in a drum corps. I was even featured in a drumline training video sold nation wide for a while. LOL! I'm so upset that PBS never shows the finals on Thanksgiving any more. Do you know if they show them at all?
#7re: What was the first cast recording you bought?
Posted: 3/2/05 at 1:49pmmy first was "kiss of the spider woman" new broadway cast with vanessa williams,bought it in Argentina.
#8re: What was the first cast recording you bought?
Posted: 3/2/05 at 1:50pmWow, it's been soooo long since I bought my first OCR but I think it'd be the 1994 Revival of Grease or Joseph the OBC. Can't remember though.
#9re: What was the first cast recording you bought?
Posted: 3/2/05 at 1:52pmLes Miserables OBC when I was 11 or 12.
#10re: What was the first cast recording you bought?
Posted: 3/2/05 at 1:58pmMe too...Les Miz, OBC. I think was 19.
#11re: What was the first cast recording you bought?
Posted: 3/2/05 at 2:12pm
Mister Matt - you are right, that was Santa Clara Vanguard. I grew up idolizing them and my heart was broken from 1985-1987 when they finished 2nd at Worlds each year, especially 1987, when they lost by one tenth. I was in Madison Jr. Scouts then. Ironically, I was with Madison Scouts in 1988 and we edged out Santa Clara by 2 tenths to win Worlds, giving them their 4th straight 2nd place finish. I was happy to be on the field in 1989 when they finally won - with their second year of the POTO show. I didn't care for Miss Saigon myself, but Garfield did a pretty great Les Miz show in 1989. It was brilliant. Carolina Crown did Jekyll & Hyde in 2000 (I think) and it was ok. They also played "Seasons of Love" from Rent this year.
Drum corps, especially Santa Clara, got me into musicals. Their Phantom shows, complete with a disappearing Phantom, were great! I still love them to death.
MissNY
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/10/05
#12re: What was the first cast recording you bought?
Posted: 3/2/05 at 2:14pmOBCR of Les Miserables
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JBSinger
Broadway Star Joined: 11/12/04
#14re: What was the first cast recording you bought?
Posted: 3/2/05 at 2:26pmMy parents had bought Annie (OBC) but I was so young I didn't even realize it was cast album. I guess CATS would have been the first tapes I bought in middle school after seeing the 1st national tour. Then a friend copied Chorus Line for me and after listening to the harmony "Stairway" section of "At the Ballet" - I knew I had to sing this music. My collection has grown considerably over 20 years of collecting.
#15re: What was the first cast recording you bought?
Posted: 3/2/05 at 2:27pmif we're counting G&S, it would have to be Mikado, if not, it was the original cast recording of Camelot with Julie, Richard, and Robert....and years later I saw a production of it in detroit, which Robert as Arthur......and he really was not good in that role.
#16re: What was the first cast recording you bought?
Posted: 3/2/05 at 2:28pm
Lord, who can remember? I was raised in a house of cast albums. As a matter o' fact, before I started school, my mother would play cast albums to keep me entertained. I knew the entire score of GYPSY and SOUTH PACIFIC by the time I was 4.
And I wonder how I turned out to be a big ol' mo.... :)
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Joined: 12/31/69
#17re: What was the first cast recording you bought?
Posted: 3/2/05 at 2:35pm
rlb - when I was 4, I used to stand in front of the Hi-fi and 'conduct' the OBC of My Fair Lady - so I'm right there withya 
#18re: What was the first cast recording you bought?
Posted: 3/2/05 at 2:37pma big ol mo???? could someone clarify?
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Joined: 12/31/69
#19re: What was the first cast recording you bought?
Posted: 3/2/05 at 2:40pmI believe that roughly translates to 'raging homosexual'.
#20re: What was the first cast recording you bought?
Posted: 3/2/05 at 2:42pmoh awesome..nothing wrong with that.
WindyCityActor
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/13/03
#21re: What was the first cast recording you bought?
Posted: 3/2/05 at 3:00pm"Pippin" after the national tour came to my hometown, Baton Rouge, in the 1970's.
#22re: What was the first cast recording you bought?
Posted: 3/2/05 at 3:06pmIt was CATS, after I saw it for the first time in 1990 (when I was 9!)
#23re: What was the first cast recording you bought?
Posted: 3/2/05 at 3:21pmThe first one I remember hearing was the highlights of POTO that my parents had, but the first one I actually bought was the OBC CATS, when I was 14.
FranklinShepard-Inc.
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/25/04
#24re: What was the first cast recording you bought?
Posted: 3/2/05 at 3:23pmCompany (NLC), Assasins(OC) and La Cage aux Folles (at Age 14)
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