What was the first cast recording you bought or recieved?- Page 4
What was the first cast recording you bought or recieved?
Lenexajones
Stand-by Joined: 1/24/06
#75re: You're first broadway cast recording
Posted: 3/21/08 at 10:45pmPump Boys and Dinettes. Still a classic.
Silbee
Understudy Joined: 10/17/07
#76re: You're first broadway cast recording
Posted: 3/21/08 at 10:51pm
"Pump Boys and Dinettes. Still a classic."
I so agree. I saw the touring version with Paul Jones and Kiki Dee in Plymouth before it opened in London...
#77re: You're first broadway cast recording
Posted: 3/21/08 at 10:59pm
The concept recording of 'Jesus Christ Superstar.'
I was in 3rd grade and thought 'King Herod's Song' was really funny. This would have been 1981'ish.
Updated On: 3/21/08 at 10:59 PM
#78re: You're first broadway cast recording
Posted: 3/21/08 at 11:17pm
*thinks* Y'know, I can't recall THE VERY FIRST album I received, but I FONDLY recall memories of 10 yr. old me lipsynching to Alan Cummings' 'Emcee' for family and friends, and then, having my little sister mouth the lyrics to "So What?" -- Good times thanks to the good folks behind the '98 CABARET Revival! 
SweeneyPhanatic
Broadway Star Joined: 1/4/06
#79re: You're first broadway cast recording
Posted: 3/21/08 at 11:18pmI know the movie soundtrack to "Chicago" was what really got me into musical theatre, but I'm not sure if the first Broadway cast album I bought was "Titanic" or the OBC of "Chicago." I'm gonna guess it was the OBC of "Chicago," only because it was that movie/show that gave my love of musical theatre the spark it needed (as a side note, I hated that recording for the longest time. It was only after I started listening to more Broadway cast albums that my ear got used to the Broadway voices and I was able to appreciate that recording for how awesome it really is). I've got way to many recordings now (vinyl, cassette, CD, and digital) to remember which one really was first.
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luvcaroline
Broadway Star Joined: 10/19/05
#80re: You're first broadway cast recording
Posted: 3/21/08 at 11:24pm
The Wiz, on a good old fashioned record album, which I bought right after we got back from our NYC trip that year.
My parents already had the OBC's for West Side Story and Oklahoma! (hey, they really didn't buy a lot of albums)
scarlson
Swing Joined: 12/8/07
#81re: You're first broadway cast recording
Posted: 3/21/08 at 11:26pmJoseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (with Donny Osmond) was technically the first one that was ever just mine. My parents had Les Miz and Phantom that I listened to before.
singalongsong2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/11/08
#83re: You're first broadway cast recording
Posted: 3/21/08 at 11:52pm"My Fair Lady" Original London Cast
#84re: You're first broadway cast recording
Posted: 3/22/08 at 12:22am
The first cast album I ever purchased was Grease. I got it in 1978 and I was 10 years old.
A couple of years later, I came home and my father met me at the door. He immeadiately went into some damage control. Apparently, my brother had got the record out to play (FROM MY ROOM) and broke it! My father actually had to hold me back from beating the holy hell out of my brother!
Oddly enough, it was the only time that my brother ever apologized that I actually believed he was sorry. He's in the Army now, but I don't think that he has ever been more afraid for his life than what the family now refers to as the "Grease" incident.
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#85re: You're first broadway cast recording
Posted: 3/22/08 at 2:09amMy mom bought me "Highlights from The Phantom of the Opera" on cassette when I was a kid. I don't have that tape anymore, but I do have the complete cast recording remastered on CD.
broadwaybelter
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/26/04
#86re: You're first broadway cast recording
Posted: 3/22/08 at 3:32amI believe my first was the London Cast Recording of, Fiddler on The Roof. I thoroughly enjoyed it, though, I prefered the Broadway cast recording.
#87re: You're first broadway cast recording
Posted: 3/22/08 at 8:41am
My nana gave me The Lion King OBC when I was about 10, I listened to it a bit but didn't really get into it, and still haven't. It wasn't until my mum bought me Les Mis OLC a few years later that I fell in love with Musical Theatre,
The first cast recording I bought myself was the Complete Symphonic Recording of Les Mis, which at £30 was my pocket money for the month away.
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#88re: You're first broadway cast recording
Posted: 3/22/08 at 12:38pmLesmis OLC
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legally_brunette
Swing Joined: 2/27/08
#89re: You're first broadway cast recording
Posted: 3/22/08 at 2:04pm"Hairspray." it was my first Broadway show, and i've been obsessed with musical theater since.
DefyGravity777
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/28/08
#90re: You're first broadway cast recording
Posted: 3/22/08 at 2:53pmThat would be Miss Saigon. I remember seeing Lea Salonga on the Oscars(not knowing who she was) singing A Whole New World and that one performance got me into musical theatre. It's been a nonstop ride since then.
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Noel&Cole
Leading Actor Joined: 11/10/07
#91re: You're first broadway cast recording
Posted: 3/22/08 at 2:58pmLike so many people--- my first show albums were Phantom & Les Mis. I adored them both from the time I was 7 years old. And from there the obsession grew to musicals both old and new.
#92re: You're first broadway cast recording
Posted: 3/22/08 at 7:17pmBeauty and the Beast, loved it to death
#93re: You're first broadway cast recording
Posted: 3/22/08 at 7:53pm
The first one that was actually mine was Annie Get Your Gun with Bernadette.
The first I remember listening to with my family was Damn Yankees.
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#94re: You're first broadway cast recording
Posted: 3/22/08 at 10:20pm
My parents gave me the OBC of Annie for Christmas when I was like... 6 or 7. Not long after that, my parents gave me the recording of Kiss of the Spider Woman. My mother realized what it was about and took it away from me before I had a chance to listen to it 
#95re: You're first broadway cast recording
Posted: 3/22/08 at 11:03pm
First, I tape recorded the entire The Sound of Music video tapes so I could listen to it every day. I was given West Side Story and Jesus Christ Superstar on records when I was 10. I bought the movie soundtrack of Hello Dolly when I was 16, and the first cast albums I bought for myself were Annie Get Your Gun with Bernadette and OBC of Funny Girl. (By the way, for anyone that wonders, I'm 24 years old now, but I loved the "older" stuff)
#96re: You're first broadway cast recording
Posted: 3/22/08 at 11:17pmMy first OBC recording was the LP of My Fair Lady. Nearly wore it out. Still have it, though.
#97re: You're first broadway cast recording
Posted: 3/22/08 at 11:55pmIt was either The Secret Garden or the Phantom of the Opera on tape.
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Sinfonia2001
Stand-by Joined: 1/16/07
#99re: You're first broadway cast recording
Posted: 3/23/08 at 2:51amI can't remember what my very first album was, but I do remember lisening to the concept Jesus Christ Superstar a lot when I was younger and just starting to get into musicals, even though I got the American Evita right around the same time.
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