What was the first cast recording you bought?

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What 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?

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Posted: 3/2/05 at 1:36pm

Bye Bye Birdie...it's how I fell in love with musicals.

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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.

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Posted: 3/2/05 at 1:38pm

I'm ashamed to say it, but it was Annie. I was in love with Andrea McCardle (or rather her voice).

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Posted: 3/2/05 at 1:41pm

It was either the Guys and Dolls ('92 revival) or Joseph (the Michael Damian one). I think it was G&D

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Posted: 3/2/05 at 1:43pm

the OCR of BYE BYE BIRDIE

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Posted: 3/2/05 at 1:47pm

My first was the original London cast of Les Mis December of 1997.

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Posted: 3/2/05 at 1:49pm

my first was "kiss of the spider woman" new broadway cast with vanessa williams,bought it in Argentina.

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Posted: 3/2/05 at 1:50pm

Wow, 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.

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Posted: 3/2/05 at 1:52pm

Les Miserables OBC when I was 11 or 12.

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Posted: 3/2/05 at 1:58pm

Me too...Les Miz, OBC. I think was 19.

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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.

Updated On: 3/2/05 at 02:12 PM

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Posted: 3/2/05 at 2:14pm

OBCR of Les Miserables

#14

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Posted: 3/2/05 at 2:17pm

A Chorus Line.

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Posted: 3/2/05 at 2:26pm

My 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.

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Posted: 3/2/05 at 2:27pm

if 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.

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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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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

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Posted: 3/2/05 at 2:37pm

a big ol mo???? could someone clarify?

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Posted: 3/2/05 at 2:40pm

I believe that roughly translates to 'raging homosexual'.

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Posted: 3/2/05 at 2:42pm

oh awesome..nothing wrong with that.

#22

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Posted: 3/2/05 at 3:00pm

"Pippin" after the national tour came to my hometown, Baton Rouge, in the 1970's.

#23

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Posted: 3/2/05 at 3:06pm

It was CATS, after I saw it for the first time in 1990 (when I was 9!)

#24

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Posted: 3/2/05 at 3:21pm

The 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.

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#25

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Posted: 3/2/05 at 3:23pm

Company (NLC), Assasins(OC) and La Cage aux Folles (at Age 14)

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