Your Top 5 Cast Recordings
Your Top 5 Cast Recordings
GilmoreGirlO2
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/13/05
#0Your Top 5 Cast Recordings
Posted: 1/22/06 at 12:49pmI want to broaden my cast recording knowledge, but I'm not sure which shows to check out, so please post your top 5 cast recordings! Thanks!
#1re: Your Top 5 Cast Recordings
Posted: 1/22/06 at 12:54pm
If you are looking beyond the normal answers, here are some of my favorite cast recordings that are a little outside the realm of the typical response (Wicked, Rent, TL5Y etc) for this question:
Romance, Romance
Working
Lucky Stiff
Weird Romance
March of the Falsettos
Updated On: 1/22/06 at 12:54 PM
ikmbway
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/22/05
#3re: Your Top 5 Cast Recordings
Posted: 1/22/06 at 1:15pm
John and Jen
the Last 5 Years
Baby
Parade
The Secret Garden
"The only way we live beyond our lives is to connect and carve ourselves into the souls of those we love." -Little Fish
#4re: Your Top 5 Cast Recordings
Posted: 1/22/06 at 1:21pm
Are you looking to start a collection or add to one you already have?
I would say:
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
The Last Five Years
Hairspray
Wicked
RENT
also:
Aida
25th Annual Putnam Counting Speeling Bee
Avenue Q
Little Shop of Horrors (newest revival)
The Producers
Bare
Zanna Don't
Updated On: 1/22/06 at 01:21 PM
#5re: Your Top 5 Cast Recordings
Posted: 1/22/06 at 1:26pm
john and jen
Dreamgirls in Concert
City of Angels
The Full Monty
Mary Poppins
Cheers,
C.
www.christopherviolett.com
#6re: Your Top 5 Cast Recordings
Posted: 1/22/06 at 1:59pm
Evita
Rent
Phantom
Avenue Q
Little shop
I'm Mary ( :
I <33 Anthony rapp and Kristoffer Cusick!
#7re: Your Top 5 Cast Recordings
Posted: 1/22/06 at 2:00pm
Parade
Sunday in the Park With George
Ragtime
Urinetown
Caroline or Change
Honorable Mentions:
-The Wild Party (LaChiusa)
-Sweeney Todd
-The Secret Garden
-City of Angels
-Dreamgirls
-Into the Woods
-Falsettoland
-Kiss of the Spiderwoman
-Company
-Assassins (both recordings)
-Bat Boy
-Merrily We Roll Along
-Pippin
-The Last Five Years
-The Producers
-Hairspray
-Violet
-Urinetown
BSoBW2: I punched Sondheim in the face after I saw Wicked and said, "Why couldn't you write like that!?"
#8re: Your Top 5 Cast Recordings
Posted: 1/22/06 at 2:45pm
Caroline, or Change
RENT
Ragtime
Wicked
The Wild Party (Lippa)
"If I have something to say, the whole world (BroadwayWorld) should hear it." - Thenardier
IMissNYC
Stand-by Joined: 1/7/06
#9re: Your Top 5 Cast Recordings
Posted: 1/22/06 at 2:51pm
City Of Angels (my absolute favorite!!!)
Ok, I'm trying to add ones that no one has mentioned yet...
The Who's Tommy
Company
Chess
Nine (Revival Cast)
bjivie2
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/04
#10re: Your Top 5 Cast Recordings
Posted: 1/22/06 at 3:25pm
A New Brain
Last 5 Years
Songs for a New World
Company
Once on this Island
Eeeeeeyyyyyyyyaaaaaaaannnnnddddd aaaaaaaiiiiiiiiyyyyyyaaaaaammmmmmmm teeeeeeeelllllliiiiiinnngg yyyyooooooouuuuuuuwwwaaaahh...
#11re: Your Top 5 Cast Recordings
Posted: 1/22/06 at 3:29pm
5 All-Time Favorites of Mine:
LaChiusa's Wild Party
Evita: Original Broadway Cast
Henry, Sweet Henry
No Strings
Company: Original Broadway Cast
#12re: Your Top 5 Cast Recordings
Posted: 1/22/06 at 3:30pm
Gypsy 2003 Revival
Ragtime
Caroline or Change
Sweeney Todd
Into the Woods
Happy...Everything!
Kaye Thompson
Thesbijean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/9/04
#13re: Your Top 5 Cast Recordings
Posted: 1/22/06 at 3:32pm
City of Angels
A Little Night Music
Chicago (Revival Cast)
Ragtime
Children of Eden (Papermill Playhouse)
#14re: Your Top 5 Cast Recordings
Posted: 1/22/06 at 3:45pm
Rent
Last Five Years
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Revival)
Aida
The Wild Party
alongside...
Spamalot
Wicked
Avenue Q
Light in the Piazza
Les Miserables
and I'm not sure if this counts, but it's always a pleasure to listen to...
anything Forbidden Broadway
"I haven't got a pail."
"Find your grail, your GRAIL!"
"But it's not missing. It's right on the counter where it's supposed to- defying gravity, my giant cup's gone!"
"Five hundred, twenty-five thousand, six hundred minutes. How do you measure... measure a year?"
"How many times do I have to tell you, it's five hundred twenty-five thousand, five hundred and eighty-five point thirty-two minutes. You will never graduate if you keep basing your math on showtunes."
"You ruin Broadway for me."
"As well I should."
#15re: Your Top 5 Cast Recordings
Posted: 1/22/06 at 3:55pm
A New Brain
Taboo
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
The Last 5 Years
Chess
#16re: Your Top 5 Cast Recordings
Posted: 1/22/06 at 4:29pm
Wicked
Hairpray
Li'l Abner
Dames at Sea
Passion
Honorable Mentions:
A Chorus Line
Dreamgirls
Gypsy (Merm's recording)
The Secret Garden
Miss Saigon
Updated On: 1/22/06 at 04:29 PM
wicked1
Featured Actor Joined: 12/25/04
#17re: Your Top 5 Cast Recordings
Posted: 1/22/06 at 4:44pm
Wicked
The Secret Garden
Les Miserables
RENT
You're a Good Man Charlie Brown (revival)
above are some of my favorites...but also
Avenue Q
Miss Saigon
The Wild Party (Lippa)
Chicago
DRS
#18re: Your Top 5 Cast Recordings
Posted: 1/22/06 at 4:51pm
Sweeney Todd OBC
Chicago OLC
Last Five Years
Into The Woods OBC
Bat Boy
philcrosby
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/17/04
#19re: Your Top 5 Cast Recordings
Posted: 1/22/06 at 4:52pm
You need some clasics on that list:
Kern/Hammerstein: SHOW BOAT (the 3-disc McGlinn recording)
Rodgers/Hammerstein: THE KING AND I
Bernstein/Comden/Green: ON THE TOWN
Berlin: ANNIE GET YOUR GUN
Porter: KISS ME KATE
just as a beginning. I would then add:
Lerner/Loewe: MY FAIR LADY
Loesser: GUYS AND DOLLS
Styne/Sondheim: GYPSY
Bernstein/Sondheim: WEST SIDE STORY
Rodgers/Hammerstein: OKLAHOMA! (Try the 1979 revival recording)
Happy listening!
jonartdesigns
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/04
#20re: Your Top 5 Cast Recordings
Posted: 1/22/06 at 5:12pm
i'm all for classics, although theres some i really don't listen to much (gotta love sondheim but its not always the most easy of listening)
heres 5 or so i usually play more often than the others
The Great American Trailer Park Musical (its been playing since i bought it wednesday)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
H2$ revival
Avenue Q
Hairspray/Rent OBC/Producers Movie
"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel
StageWhore
Broadway Star Joined: 11/11/05
#21re: Your Top 5 Cast Recordings
Posted: 1/22/06 at 5:15pm
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Sunday in the Park with George
Cabaret
Anything Goes
Little Shop of Horrors
"`I grow old... I grow old... I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.` What does that mean, Mr. Marlowe?"
"Not a bloody thing. It just sounds good."
He smiled. "That is from the `Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.` Here's another one. `In the room women come and go/Talking of Michael Angelo.' Does that suggest anything to you, sir?"
"Yeah -- it suggests to me that the guy didn't know very much about women."
"My sentiments exactly, sir. Nonetheless I admire T. S. Eliot very much."
"Did you say, 'nonetheless'?"
- The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler
CBrianne
Swing Joined: 12/23/05
#22re: Your Top 5 Cast Recordings
Posted: 1/22/06 at 5:20pm
Children of Eden (the complete show, not the highlights CD)
Rent
Songs for a New World
The Last 5 Years
Bright Lights, Big City (just because I'm listening to it right now)
#23re: Your Top 5 Cast Recordings
Posted: 1/22/06 at 5:22pm
Just for fun...
Favorite Movie Musical Soundtracks:
Funny Girl
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Cabaret
Victor/Victoria (if not just for "Le Jazz Hot")
And even though it isn't a STAGE musical:
A Star is Born (Joot's Version, of course)
If you don't have those, you have to buy them now. They are all a must.
#24re: Your Top 5 Cast Recordings
Posted: 1/22/06 at 5:31pm
Assassins (revival)
Ragtime!!!! (the double CD version - I think there is another one out there; it has to be the one with Audra McDonald and Brian Stokes Mitchell)
Les Mis (especially the 10th Anniversary Concert)
I don't know what else, but those are basically my three favorite that generally seem to appeal to a lot of people.
"Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!"
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