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What was the first cast recording you bought?
Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#76re: What was the first cast recording you bought?
Posted: 3/4/05 at 9:30am
Cats OLC when I was 10. The school choir I was in were doing several songs from the show in a concert and I was interested to know what they sounded like in tune 
cathyhyatt
Broadway Star Joined: 10/20/04
#77re: What was the first cast recording you bought?
Posted: 3/4/05 at 11:45amles miserables OBC when I was 11 or 12 (thats funny cuz someone else wrote the same thing...but that's seriously when it was lol hahah)
"You won't fight without layers of armor
Suit on up and come brace my sword
You look back when the pieces are missing
Hollowed out hope that no time can restore."
#78re: What was the first cast recording you bought?
Posted: 3/4/05 at 11:59amThe first one I was obsessed with was a were the tapes from Les Mis but I stole those from my parents...umm the first that I actually bought would probobly have to be either Bye Bye Birdie or West Side Story or maybe Annie Get Your Gun, I really don't know!
BroadwayBallyBoo
Understudy Joined: 10/4/04
#79re: What was the first cast recording you bought?
Posted: 3/4/05 at 12:05pmI laugh at this, being that my late father was in the music business he met a lot of actors in NY. My first cast recording was an off broadway production of The Prince and the Pauper with a very young John Davidson before he was known. Than West side story.
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kate2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/6/05
#80re: What was the first cast recording you bought?
Posted: 8/24/05 at 4:53pm
actually the first one i bought was AIDA
funny, i actually found a phantom obcr in my house not too long ago, and it turns out my dad bought it years ago! i had no idea but i was young and really wouldnt have known much about phantom or musicals in general
i just thought that was weird mkaaaayy
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#81re: What was the first cast recording you bought?
Posted: 8/24/05 at 4:56pm
Mamma Mia
i'm so ashamed.
theatrebabe
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/22/05
#82re: What was the first cast recording you bought?
Posted: 8/24/05 at 5:20pmmy parents took me and my brother and sister to see all these musicals in our town from the time i was probably 5ish.After we saw each show,they would buy the album,the first one was probably Camelot
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#83re: What was the first cast recording you bought?
Posted: 8/24/05 at 5:21pm
First musical I ever saw was The Sound of Music. I bought the soundtrack and the movie the day after I rented it from Blockbuster. I think I was 12.
Then it was the Les Miserables 10th Anniversery one after seeing the concert on DVD at my grandfather's when I was 13.
Good times.
#84re: What was the first cast recording you bought?
Posted: 8/24/05 at 5:24pm
First cast album I ever bought was the Les Mis OLC in 7th grade.
I always had the potential to love theatre, but that's when I took the plunge (so to speak).
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#85re: What was the first cast recording you bought?
Posted: 8/24/05 at 5:25pmOklahoma OBC. Its all about Celeste Holm.
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YessicaB
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/05
#86re: What was the first cast recording you bought?
Posted: 8/24/05 at 6:01pm
When I was about 8, Evita not the OBC, I don't have it here so I can't check what version it was, but my dad loves it and always had me sing "Don't cry for me Argentina" which is kinda funny since I didn't know English back then and had no idea what I was singing. The next one was Rent.
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LaVieBoheme2
Stand-by Joined: 2/25/05
#87re: What was the first cast recording you bought?
Posted: 8/24/05 at 6:13pm1996 Chicago revival cast, and then Rent soon followed, and then it all became an obsession.
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#88re: What was the first cast recording you bought?
Posted: 8/24/05 at 6:24pm
Last December for my 16th birthday, my mom gave me one cast recording: Rent.
That was the start of my Broadway loving obsession. Now I have about 30...40 CRs and I love them all.
1. Ted Allen: Everyone has an interesting life if you ask the right questions.
2. Great buckets of Spoffnor, they're going to sing!
3. "I love shrubs that are historical." -Johnny and The Sprites
4. "We're not singing it to you, we're singing it for us." -Rosario Dawson, about La Vie Boheme
5. "The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours." -The History Boys
6. "Pass the parcel. That's sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it and pass it on. Not for me, not for you, but for someone, somewhere, one day. Pass it on, boys. That's the game I want you to learn. Pass it on." -The History Boys
2. Great buckets of Spoffnor, they're going to sing!
3. "I love shrubs that are historical." -Johnny and The Sprites
4. "We're not singing it to you, we're singing it for us." -Rosario Dawson, about La Vie Boheme
5. "The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours." -The History Boys
6. "Pass the parcel. That's sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it and pass it on. Not for me, not for you, but for someone, somewhere, one day. Pass it on, boys. That's the game I want you to learn. Pass it on." -The History Boys
VanHassle
Chorus Member Joined: 8/18/05
#89re: What was the first cast recording you bought?
Posted: 8/24/05 at 6:25pmI had a Annie tape that I would sing along to for as far back as a I can remember. and my Dad used to play his Jesus Christ Superstar record a lot (yes, I said record), so those are the first cast recordings that I was exposed to. But my first actual cast recording that was mine because I wanted it was Tommy. It was one of the first Broadway shows that I saw.
Marguerite Chauvelin
Broadway Star Joined: 7/19/05
#90re: What was the first cast recording you bought?
Posted: 8/24/05 at 8:23pmI got the OBC to Beauty and the Beast when I was twelve (I had just seen the show in New York. Then I watched the Tony's that year and thought Thoroughly Modern Millie looked cute. I later got Aida. Then I just kind of automatically started going to the showtunes section of stores.
If Percy Blakeney were in Les Mis....
Percy: Sink me! If it isn't Javvurt!
Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
Javert: (Looks for gun)
Percy: Sink me! If it isn't Javvurt!
Javert: Zsah-vair, it's pronounced Zsah-vair.
Pecry: But it's spelled J-A-V-E-R-T Javvurt.
Javert: Repeat after me Zsah...Zsah....
Percy: Oh! Zsa-Zsa! Like the Gabor sister! Well I personally have always prefered Eva.
Javert: (Looks for gun)
#91re: What was the first cast recording you bought?
Posted: 8/24/05 at 8:35pmMarry Me A Little. It has some fantastic music!
yipper
Stand-by Joined: 8/24/05
#92re: What was the first cast recording you bought?
Posted: 8/24/05 at 8:40pmI bought "Annie Get Your Gun" and "Oklahoma" on the same day when I was.. about 9 or 10. I wore them out.
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hypertruffle
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/22/05
#93re: What was the first cast recording you bought?
Posted: 8/24/05 at 9:09pmI remember being in 'Borders' during a Harry Potter (book 5) release party and wandered to the showtunes section and spotted the 'Man of La Mancha' revival cast recording. I listened to the samples, and it immediately brought me back to that stunning performance. I bought it on the spot and play it time to time now.
"The cynicism you refer to, I acquired the day I discovered I was different from little boys!~All About Eve
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#94re: What was the first cast recording you bought?
Posted: 8/24/05 at 9:20pmI have so many & have been doing it for so long I honestly do not have a clue
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Stand-by Joined: 2/3/05
#95re: What was the first cast recording you bought?
Posted: 8/24/05 at 10:36pm
Add me to the Les Mis OBC cassette wagon. Les Mis is a great first musical, a great way to introduce someone to musicals. I also had an ALW compilation tape after I saw a touring revue when I was in 6th grade and fell in love with Broadway.
"I'm gonna jump straight up, kick a hole in the moon. Don't know exactly where I'm going, but I'm know I'm gonna get there soon." - Jerry Lukowski (Patrick Wilson) in "The Full Monty"
Updated On: 8/24/05 at 10:36 PM
One Song Glory
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/12/05
#96re: What was the first cast recording you bought?
Posted: 8/24/05 at 10:55pmCats and Lion King. I was like...7 or 8.
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#97re: What was the first cast recording you bought?
Posted: 8/25/05 at 12:37amLes Miz for me too--except it was the Complete Symphonic. I knew every single word to all the songs in no time--and still do!!!
***It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
-- William Shakespeare***
#98re: What was the first cast recording you bought?
Posted: 8/25/05 at 12:46am
Gosh this thread has got me feeling really old (and I'm not!). Like RLBGBC I was raised in a house full of musicals and Judy Garland but unfortunately not cast albums. Mostly they were cheap copies of shows like SOUND OF MUSIC, SOUTH PACIFIC. (This was in Glasgow, Scotland).
The first REAL cast album I bought was GYPSY with MERMAN and I don't think there was a better place to start (in those days!). This was around 1976 and A CHORUS LINE was the "big thing" so I then bought that and fell in love with the score and the whole theatre thing. I saw ACL in London (1977) and am dying to see the revival next year.
I was born in 1958 in case you think I'm a pensioner!
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#99re: What was the first cast recording you bought?
Posted: 8/25/05 at 12:47amThe Phantom of the Opera ^__^
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