Which Cast Albums Would You Take To A Desert Island? — Page 2

#26

re: Which Cast Albums Would You Take To A Desert Island?

Posted: 1/19/05 at 6:44pm

Rent, if nothing else
Wicked
Last 5 Years
Les Miserables (Anniversary Concert Edition)
Taboo
Nine

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If you limit your choices to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise."- Robert Fritz

#27

re: Which Cast Albums Would You Take To A Desert Island?

Posted: 1/19/05 at 7:16pm

in no particular order:

AVENUE Q
WHEN PIGS FLY
RENT
JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR [the latest one]
CHICAGO [revival]
CABARET [revival]
WICKED
NOTRE DAME DE PARIS [London]
LA BOHEME
LA CAGE AUX FOLLES [revival -when they release it]
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS

okay i know that's eleven, shoot me! oh wait that reminds me
ASSASSINS [revival] so oaky a dozen.

#28

re: Which Cast Albums Would You Take To A Desert Island?

Posted: 1/19/05 at 8:59pm

RENT
Wicked
Little Shop of Horrors
Aida
Chicago

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#29

re: Which Cast Albums Would You Take To A Desert Island?

Posted: 1/19/05 at 9:09pm

La Cage
Sunset Blvd
Jekyll & Hyde
Mame
Hello Dolly
Funny Girl
Sweeny Todd
Rent
Les Mis
La Cage Revival (hint hint)

Updated On: 1/19/05 at 09:09 PM

#30

re: Which Cast Albums Would You Take To A Desert Island?

Posted: 1/19/05 at 10:07pm

First of all. . . who needs the soundtrack if you know them all by heart?? Give me an accompnist w/ a paino on that island and I'm all set.

Otherwise:

Les Miz
Miss Saigon
Cinderella (R&H of course)
Ragtime
Jesus Christ Superstar
Jekyll and Hyde
WestSideStory
Beauty and the Beast
Rent
Nine

I'd want a little bit of each composer.

#31

re: Which Cast Albums Would You Take To A Desert Island?

Posted: 1/19/05 at 10:10pm

where would you play the cd? In a coconut? Me:
Bklyn
Wicked
Hairspray
Avenue Q
Bat Boy

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#32

re: Which Cast Albums Would You Take To A Desert Island?

Posted: 1/19/05 at 10:11pm

BFO
J/H
Scarlet Pimpernel
Civil War
Superman
Hallelujah Baby
Mack & Mabel
Ragtime
Funny Girl
Most Kander & Ebb

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#33

re: Which Cast Albums Would You Take To A Desert Island?

Posted: 1/19/05 at 10:25pm

If I had to pick 10:
Tick Tick...Boom!
Wicked
Candie(london)
The Wild Party(Lippa)
Camp-movie soundtrack
Rent(obc)
Ragtime(obc)
Godspell(new off broadway)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang(london)
Scarlet Pimpernel(Eder)

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#34

re: Which Cast Albums Would You Take To A Desert Island?

Posted: 1/19/05 at 10:33pm

-Parade
-Side Show
-Into the Woods
-Taboo
-Sweeney Todd
-Violet
-Godspell
-Floyd Collins
-Ragtime
-AIDA

#35

re: Which Cast Albums Would You Take To A Desert Island?

Posted: 1/19/05 at 10:57pm

Avenue Q
Taboo
WICKED
Les Miserables
Hairspray
Chess

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#36

re: Which Cast Albums Would You Take To A Desert Island?

Posted: 1/20/05 at 3:43pm

my ten:

Amour
The Last Five Years
Avenue Q
Out of This World
Lippa's Wild Party
A New Brain
City of Angels
Bat Boy
By Jeeves
Wicked

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I should have eaten the saw and used the cake to bludgeon my way out - Alfred Hitchcock

#37

re: Which Cast Albums Would You Take To A Desert Island?

Posted: 1/20/05 at 3:50pm

In no particular order:

Ragtime - OCR
Les Miserables - RNT
Chess - concept
Chess - Danish cast
Aspects of Love - OCR
Carousel - Lincoln Center revival
Secret Garden - OCR
Songs for a New World
Passion - OCR
Rent

#38

re: Which Cast Albums Would You Take To A Desert Island?

Posted: 1/20/05 at 4:03pm

[10] Granted I have a CD player there with me.

Carousel (Lincoln Center)
Mame OBC
Gypsy OBC
Sunday in the Park With George
Merrily We Roll Along (NY Revival)
Bat Boy the Musical
Wicked
Hairspray
The Last Five Years
Avenue Q

Hopefully, I'll have my iPod Mini because Lippa's The Wild Party, RENT, Taboo, Bye Bye Birdie, and Into the Woods didn't make the final cut

#39

re: Which Cast Albums Would You Take To A Desert Island?

Posted: 1/20/05 at 4:07pm

This time last year i took all my cds to an island.
But both Q and Hairspray melted in the sun.
I bought another copy of Hairspray last night.

I also took:
Last Five Years
A Chorus Line
Bette Midler in Gypsy
Hair
4 editions of FB
Broadway Today
Listen To My Heart
Peter Pan
Sweeney Todd
West Side Story
Karen Akers Under Paris Skies

Updated On: 1/20/05 at 04:07 PM

#40

re: Which Cast Albums Would You Take To A Desert Island?

Posted: 1/21/05 at 9:40pm

Amour
Sunday in the Park with George
Passion
State Fair
Flora, the Red Menace (both Liza's version and the 1987 revival)
Elegies: A song Cycle
The Wild Party (Both Versions)
Pacific Overtures
Little Me
Side Show
The Cradle Will Rock (Patti LuPone version)
The Last 5 Years

BTW, Has anyone seen 25th Annual Putnam County... yet?
Send me a PM review if you have, please

#41

re: Which Cast Albums Would You Take To A Desert Island?

Posted: 1/21/05 at 10:05pm

Company
Follies (Complete 2 disc one)
Passion
Sweeney
Sunday in the Park
Hello Again
Marie Christine
Candide
West Side Story
Kiss of the Spider Woman or Ragtime :)

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#42

re: Which Cast Albums Would You Take To A Desert Island?

Posted: 1/21/05 at 10:24pm

Miss Saigon [with Lea]
Les Mis 10th
Wicked
Aida
Rent
The Boy From Oz
Oklahoma! [with Hugh]
Millie

hopefully I won't on this island before Little Women it comes out

~Kangaroo

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#43

re: Which Cast Albums Would You Take To A Desert Island?

Posted: 1/22/05 at 12:19am

Elegies: A Song Cycle (EVERYONE MUST OWN THIS)
Merrily We Roll Along
The Last 5 Years
Baby
Infinite Joy (William Finn is insanely amazing)
Bare
Ragtime
Falsettos
Urinetown
Hair
A Chorus Line
And something BAD to use as a weapon when I'm attacked by killer birds who don't enjoy listening to "Our Time" or "Fatherhood Blues" on repeat.

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#44

re: Which Cast Albums Would You Take To A Desert Island?

Posted: 1/22/05 at 12:24am

in order:

1. A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
2. WEST SIDE STORY
3. CITY OF ANGELS
4. CABARET
5. CHILDREN OF EDEN
6. PIPPIN
7. THE LIFE
8. THE PRODUCERS
9. CHICAGO
10. WICKED