Stand-by Joined: 1/15/05
Man...I'm trying to remember things I had pre-CD (ack, I'm old)...I know I had The Music Man on tape, but that was the movie soundtrack...Chess, but that technically was a concept album...I think it might have been OBC Evita.
Godspell...7th grade
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
Jesus Christ Superstar
Gypsy with Ethel Merman. I believe I was 13.
Phantom of the Opera when I was in 7th grade.
Gothampc, what is there to be ashamed about? Annie was my first and to this day I still listen to it every now and then. Still love NYC and your'e never fully dressed without a smile.
Loge-Nice to see another Aspects fan out there. That is one of my all time favorite musicals and my favorite of Andrew Lloyd Webber.
"A Chorus Line", which was also my first Broadway show.
"Cats" when I was about 7 years old, and I fell head over heels in love with it.
The Lion King OBC. I think I was in 7th grade.
Some of you are SO YOUNG! I'm totally J!
I was 10 and it was OBC of THE WIZ
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat with Donnie Osmond back when I was in 4th grade.
Les Miserables in kindergarden. Obviously, my parents bought it for me.
"I think it was the Korean tour or something. They were all frickin' asian!" -Zoran912
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/22/05
Cats... and then I listened to it nonstop for months, and decided I was going to be in it when I was a big girl.
Les Miz when I was seven, it was my absolute favorite show and still is. After that was Ragtime.
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/14/04
A Chorus Line
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/30/03
my mom's vinyl included OBC Fantastiks, Soundtrack Music Man, and the 10,000 Strings instrumental music to Camelot, which she would sing along and just HAPPENED to know all the lyrics.
Back in those days, these albums were considered Pop music.
Not counting the JCS concept album (when I purchased no one considered the possiblity of mounting it onstage) I guess OBC Evita is the first 1 bought. Prior to that i had purchased Bells Are Ringing soundtrack, becuz OBC was not available in the 70s.
Featured Actor Joined: 12/25/04
The Secret Garden...I still love that CD!!!
Chorus Member Joined: 2/1/05
Cats I was probably 5 or 6
joseph and the technicolor dreamcoat. Wow the good ol days.
Broadway Star Joined: 8/11/04
Didn't really buy my own. I just generally "discovered" them in my parents CD collection.
Started with Joseph in first grade, and then for my birthday I got Cats for my birthday that year, then I discovered the 'rents CD of Phantom (Canadian recording) sometime that year. And then along came Les Miserables in second grade.
And it all escalated from there.
I'm a Webber freak.
Broadway Star Joined: 1/2/05
When I was 8 years old, I saved up my allowance to buy the movie soundtrack recording of "The Music Man," with Robert Preston and Shirley Jones. This was back when we had the big, flat, vinyl records with the grooves in them. I think it was about $7, but can't remember for certain. I'm sure I've still got it stashed away somewhere.
Thoroughly Modern Millie a year and a half ago. *sighs* The good old days befoer I became an obsessive BWW freak.
RENT I believe was my first purchase....ahh the start of my rise into an obsessive broadway fanatic. Good memories, good memories. :-P
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