What was the first cast recording you bought or recieved?- Page 4

[Lenexajones]

Posted: 3/21/08 at 10:45pm

Pump Boys and Dinettes. Still a classic.

[Silbee]

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...

[JohnPopa]

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

[LimelightMike]

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]

Posted: 3/21/08 at 11:18pm

I 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.

[luvcaroline]

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]

Posted: 3/21/08 at 11:26pm

Joseph 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]

Posted: 3/21/08 at 11:46pm

Phantom of the Opera

[H.Higgins]

Posted: 3/21/08 at 11:52pm

"My Fair Lady" Original London Cast

[kyleorlando]

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.

[The White Half-Mask]

Posted: 3/22/08 at 2:09am

My 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]

Posted: 3/22/08 at 3:32am

I believe my first was the London Cast Recording of, Fiddler on The Roof. I thoroughly enjoyed it, though, I prefered the Broadway cast recording.

[Miss Elphaba]

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.

[musicalkid]

Posted: 3/22/08 at 12:38pm

Lesmis OLC

[legally_brunette]

Posted: 3/22/08 at 2:04pm

"Hairspray." it was my first Broadway show, and i've been obsessed with musical theater since.

[DefyGravity777]

Posted: 3/22/08 at 2:53pm

That 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.

[Noel&Cole]

Posted: 3/22/08 at 2:58pm

Like 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.

[delucad15]

Posted: 3/22/08 at 7:17pm

Beauty and the Beast, loved it to death

[babygiraffeboots]

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.

[TheatreFreak05]

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

[bwayrocks_ca]

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)

[coryografer]

Posted: 3/22/08 at 11:17pm

My first OBC recording was the LP of My Fair Lady. Nearly wore it out. Still have it, though.

[KChenowethfan]

Posted: 3/22/08 at 11:55pm

It was either The Secret Garden or the Phantom of the Opera on tape.

[Sinfonia2001]

Posted: 3/23/08 at 2:26am

BAT BOY

[choitoy]

Posted: 3/23/08 at 2:51am

I 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.