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Which Cast Recording Makes You Happiest?
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#25Which Cast Recording Makes You Happiest?
Posted: 3/8/23 at 9:39am
Maybe Hairspray - which is odd, because it's not a show I love. But the music is so happy!
But there are so many that bring me joy....in all sorts of different ways!
#26Which Cast Recording Makes You Happiest?
Posted: 3/8/23 at 10:04am
As evidenced by my profile picture, I enjoy the cast recording from WILDCAT. It has a great overture and fun, spirited songs including the popular HEY, LOOK ME OVER!. I must give special mention to the song, TALL HOPE, which is beautifully done by the men's chorus. I think Lucille Ball and the cast did a fine job on the album.
Updated On: 5/4/23 at 10:04 AM
Sebastian
Swing Joined: 3/8/23
#27Which Cast Recording Makes You Happiest?
Posted: 3/8/23 at 11:00am
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seussical93
Understudy Joined: 8/12/10
#28Which Cast Recording Makes You Happiest?
Posted: 3/8/23 at 11:01am
drowsy chaperone and legally blonde (bring me back to belting them in the car with friends during high school lol)
#29Which Cast Recording Makes You Happiest?
Posted: 3/8/23 at 12:45pm
The 2021 Broadway Revival Cast Recording of Company would make me the happiest, but........ 
#30Which Cast Recording Makes You Happiest?
Posted: 3/8/23 at 1:08pm
It's a 4-way tie between:
She Loves Me (2016 revival / 1994 London / OBC are all phenomenal)
Mamma Mia (OLC)
Hello, Dolly! (2016 revival is my go to)
Wicked
I also just adore Kristin Chenoweth's Coming Home (Live) and Sutton Foster's An Evening With Sutton Foster - Live at The Cafe Carlyle recordings.
#31Which Cast Recording Makes You Happiest?
Posted: 3/8/23 at 5:15pm
There are so many candidates for me! I didn't really like the Midler cast recording of HELLO DOLLY as a whole, but the version of "Put On Your Sunday Clothes" from that recording is "instant-happy" for me. There are times when I'll just put that track on when I'm trying to shake a bad mood...
Additionally, the absolute most infectious "instant-happy" for me has got to be the 2011 Tony Award performance of "Brotherhood of Man" from the Radcliffe HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING. It is one of the most joyous Broadway "clips" I've ever seen. It almost knocks me out and, it's even given me tears of joy at times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNTeeHhpxBE
Rentaholic2
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/14/04
#32Which Cast Recording Makes You Happiest?
Posted: 3/8/23 at 5:22pm
MichelleCraig said: "There are so many candidates for me! I didn't really like the Midler cast recording of HELLO DOLLY as a whole, but the version of "Put On Your Sunday Clothes" from that recording is "instant-happy" for me. There are times when I'll just put that track on when I'm trying to shake a bad mood...
Additionally, the absolute most infectious "instant-happy" for me has got to be the 2011 Tony Award performance of "Brotherhood of Man" from the Radcliffe HOW TO SUCCEED IN BUSINESS WITHOUT REALLY TRYING. It is one of the most joyous Broadway "clips" I've ever seen. It almost knocks me out and, it's even given me tears of joy at times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNTeeHhpxBE"
I'm sorry, are you and I the same person? You literally said exactly what I was going to say, word-for-word. I listen to the Midler version of Sunday Clothes, and I am instantly on a cloud. I watch the 2011 Tony Award performance of How to Succeed, and I too cry tears of joy. I just watched it yesterday and thought about it this morning. When Daniel Radcliffe disappears for a long stretch, then reappears by being flipped over from behind the ensemble to land perfectly at the front of the triangle on the downbeat to take the number home, well I just die.
Thhn
Swing Joined: 11/15/17
#33Which Cast Recording Makes You Happiest?
Posted: 3/8/23 at 11:36pm
Two much older recordings that just make me HAPPY are the OBCs of No Strings and On A Clear Day You Can See Forever.
#34Which Cast Recording Makes You Happiest?
Posted: 3/9/23 at 12:16am
London cast recording of Sunset Boulevard.
CathyM3
Swing Joined: 3/14/23
#36Which Cast Recording Makes You Happiest?
Posted: 3/21/23 at 3:08pm
I had the great good fortune of seeing Judi Dench perform as Sally Bowles in the 1968 London production of "Cabaret". One of the best theatre evenings from my past, and one that I continue to enjoy 55 years later when I listen to the cast album.
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