Which cast recording could you listen to over and over again?

#1

Which cast recording could you listen to over and over again?

Posted: 10/2/11 at 11:57pm

If you had to choose just one.
For me, right now, it's probably the Gypsy 2008 revival recording.

#2

Which cast recording could you listen to over and over again?

Posted: 10/3/11 at 12:01am

It changes everyday.

#3

Which cast recording could you listen to over and over again?

Posted: 10/3/11 at 12:06am

I suppose going back to my childhood the OBCR's GYPSY and FLOWER DRUM SONG and the Reader's Digest studio cast of BABES IN TOYLAND are the recordings that I have played most frequently. Even today I would not want to eb without any of these.

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#4

Which cast recording could you listen to over and over again?

Posted: 10/3/11 at 12:06am

Jekyll and Hyde, although I like the concept album better. The amazing Anthony Warlow may have something to do with it. understatement

#5

Which cast recording could you listen to over and over again?

Posted: 10/3/11 at 12:28am

OBC Ragtime
OBC Rent
OBC Once On This Island
OBC A Little Night Music
OBC West Side Story
OBC My Fair Lady

Covers some favorites

#6

Which cast recording could you listen to over and over again?

Posted: 10/3/11 at 12:28am

OBC Ragtime
OBC Rent
OBC Once On This Island
OBC A Little Night Music
OBC West Side Story
OBC My Fair Lady

Covers some favorites

#7

Which cast recording could you listen to over and over again?

Posted: 10/3/11 at 1:13am

Umm... I have the potential to get totally berated for some of these, but in terms of cast albums I just love and can hear again and again:

THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS
THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA
AIDA
DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS
THE LAST FIVE YEARS
THE FULL MONTY

#8

Which cast recording could you listen to over and over again?

Posted: 10/3/11 at 1:16am

The original cast of "The Most Happy Fella" and "Sweeney Todd"

#9

Which cast recording could you listen to over and over again?

Posted: 10/3/11 at 3:54am

I don't know why, but the OBC of "9to5: the musical", and the original cast of "Irving Berlin's White Christmas".

#10

Which cast recording could you listen to over and over again?

Posted: 10/3/11 at 4:23am

Ragtime
Les Mis 25th Anniversary Re-do
Legally Blonde
Matilda (RSC)
Beauty and the Beast
Wicked
Witches of Eastwick

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#11

Which cast recording could you listen to over and over again?

Posted: 10/3/11 at 4:48am

City of Angels
The Wild Party (LaChiusa)
The Sweet Smell of Success
The Light in the Piazza
Company
Merrily We Roll Along

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#12

Which cast recording could you listen to over and over again?

Posted: 10/3/11 at 5:57am

I find myself on the same page as FRONTROWCENTRE2. Two albums that I never tire of are the OBCR of GYPSY and the OBCR of FLOWER DRUM SONG. The latter may come as a surprise to some since it has been labeled as politically incorrect, a charge that I don't agree with. How many people who make that charge have seen the original production of FLOWER DRUM SONG in 1959? The score is so likable, with the standouts being "Like a God", "Love Look Away", and the humorous nightclub scene with the MC scoring.

I would add the complete OBCR of THE MOST HAPPY FELLA whose music soars every time I play it. These 3 albums could sustain me on a desert island.

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"Madam Rose...and her daughter...Gypsy!"

#13

Which cast recording could you listen to over and over again?

Posted: 10/3/11 at 6:03am

Title of show- its addicting for the last 3 months!!! or 4 months

#14

Which cast recording could you listen to over and over again?

Posted: 10/3/11 at 6:55am

OBCR Sunday in the Park with George
OBCR RENT
OBCR Into the Woods
Assassins
Tick, Tick,...Boom!
OBCR Avenue Q

just to name a few......

#15

Which cast recording could you listen to over and over again?

Posted: 10/3/11 at 7:12am

My Fair Lady OBCR. I think it was the first cast recording I had.

#16

Which cast recording could you listen to over and over again?

Posted: 10/3/11 at 8:03am

OLC Chicago with Ute Lemper and Ruthie Henshall
OLC Billy Elliot
NBC A Chorus Line

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#17

Which cast recording could you listen to over and over again?

Posted: 10/3/11 at 8:13am

OBC/OEC AIDA (OEC=Orignal Essen (Germany) Cast)
OBC Avenue Q
OOBC The last 5 years
OBC Rent
OBC Xanadu
Les Misérables (25th anniversary tour/UK)
OLC Ghost
OEC Elisabeth
NBC Ragtime (Revival)

...and many others!

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#18

Which cast recording could you listen to over and over again?

Posted: 10/3/11 at 8:36am

Year in and year out..mmm Going back on the iPod and looking for the most played albums that are musicals:

OSC Tanz Der Vampire
OLC Lord of the Rings
OCR Assassins
OBC Annie
OCR The Likes of Us

#19

Which cast recording could you listen to over and over again?

Posted: 10/3/11 at 8:43am

Next to Normal
10th Anniversary Dream Cast of Les Mis
Into the Woods
Avenue Q
The Book of Mormon

#20

Which cast recording could you listen to over and over again?

Posted: 10/3/11 at 9:18am

caroline or change
floyd collins
house of flowers

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Namaste

#21

Which cast recording could you listen to over and over again?

Posted: 10/3/11 at 9:21am

OWC Rudolf. Anytime I drive anywhere, there it is, humming away in the car; it's been there for the last 2.5 yrs (since it came out) and I have yet to tire of it.

Other musicals I will cycle through times of interest and disinterest when I listen, then put that CD away and pull out a new one, but not this.

Honorable mention to the 10AC Tanz der Vampire. If I could only listen to one song for the rest of my life, it'd be Rote Stiefel / das Gebet...

#22

Which cast recording could you listen to over and over again?

Posted: 10/3/11 at 9:38am

I would choose the cast recording that most effectively transports me back to the experience of seeing the show live, and for me, that would be The Drowsy Chaperone.

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#23

Which cast recording could you listen to over and over again?

Posted: 10/3/11 at 9:38am

Taboo
Company
Merrily We Roll Along
Songs For A New World
Allegro
RENT

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#24

Which cast recording could you listen to over and over again?

Posted: 10/3/11 at 11:16am

TOP: NEXT TO NORMAL

Close behind is: Rent, WICKED, HAIR, and possibly Ghost (just started to get into it).

#25

Which cast recording could you listen to over and over again?

Posted: 10/3/11 at 11:20am

The 1993 studio cast recording of "Pardon My English"

Arnetia Walker, William Katt, John Cullum, Michelle Nicastro