Your Top 5 Cast Recordings- Page 2

[RYANWOODS]

Posted: 1/22/06 at 6:12pm

Hairspray
Wicked
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Gypsy (OBC)
Anything Goes (London Elaine Paige 1989)

Great ones also -
Company OBC
La Cage OBC
Mame OBC
Mamma Mia and We Will Rock You (cheers me up! and fab for sing-along)
Mack and Mabel
Evita
Cabaret
42nd Street OBC

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 1/22/06 at 6:15pm

Sweeney Todd
A Chrous Line
Assassins (Revival)
Chicago
Avenue Q

[bwayondabrain]

Posted: 1/22/06 at 6:29pm

1.) Sweet Charity (2005) (oh yeah!)
2.) Hairspray
3.) Jersey Boys
4.) Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
5.) Spamalot

I also recommend the RENT movie soundtrack!!

[sadiem100]

Posted: 1/22/06 at 6:37pm

Wicked
Rent (movie and obc)
Tick... Tick... Boom
Aida
Sweeney Todd (wait for the revival)

Honorable mentions:

Lion King
Mamma Mia
Phantom of the Opera
Avenue Q

Updated On: 1/22/06 at 06:37 PM

[Becky2]

Posted: 1/22/06 at 6:52pm

Phantom of the Opera (London or Canadian cast recordings)
Les Miserables

[lamentingenvelope]

Posted: 1/22/06 at 6:55pm

Assassins (revival)
Sweeney Todd (OBC)
Merrily We Roll Along (Leicester or OBC)
The Last 5 Years
Anything Goes (2003 London revival)

[Attendthetale331]

Posted: 1/22/06 at 7:29pm

Assassins (original and revival)
Sweeney Todd
Parade
A New Brain
The 25th annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

[Lome2]

Posted: 1/22/06 at 7:34pm

- Sweeney Todd (OBC)
- Les Miserables (OLC)
- Bat Boy (London Cast)
- The Beautiful Game
- Notre Dame de Paris (French Cast)

[SallyBrown]

Posted: 1/22/06 at 7:38pm

1. Sweeney Todd (OBC)
2. The 25th Annual Putname County Spelling Bee
3. La Boheme
4. Dessa Rose
5. The Last 5 Years/YAGMCB/Damn Yankees..it's hard

[jsand25]

Posted: 1/22/06 at 7:58pm

Rent
Last 5 Years
The Light in the Piazza
Into the Woods (OBC)
Assassins (Revival)

[actormcfamous]

Posted: 1/22/06 at 9:05pm

My top five (in no particular order)

Sweeney Todd (OBC)
The Light in the Piazza
Floyd Collins
Ragtime
Opposite You (I know it's not a cast recording, but Marin Mazzie and Jason Danieley are both brilliant.)

[Elphaba984]

Posted: 1/22/06 at 9:11pm

1. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
2. Jersey Boys
3. The Last 5 Years
4. Cerveris: Dogeared (not a cast recording but Michael Cerveris is amazing)
5. Wicked

[NYC_or_Bust]

Posted: 1/22/06 at 9:28pm

1 TIE! Ragtime/GYPSY (Bernadette Peters)
2 The Producers
3 1776 (Revival)
4 A Little Night Music
5 Thoroughly Modern Millie
(And probably the color purple TBA)

Honorable Mentions:
Kiss Me Kate
Peter Pan (Cathy Rigby)
Into The Woods (origional cast)
Beauty and the Beast

[stage_door76]

Posted: 1/23/06 at 12:48am

Dreamgirls
Les Miserables
Songs for a New World
The Wild Party (Lippa)

AND I CAN'T DECIDE BETWEEN THESE TWO RIGHT NOW...
Hello, Again
Into the Woods

P.S. the capital letters do not denote shouting in this case, I merely employed them for the literary aesthetics associated.

[Theatreboy49]

Posted: 1/23/06 at 2:26am

Sweeney Todd (Concert Recording but all are good)
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Rent (Beautiful Score and is IMO latly looked down upon due to the current obsession caused by the movie)
Sunday in the Park with George
Assassins (Revival)

Honorable Mention
Company (Yes, I confess I love just about everything Sondheim)
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Caberet (Revival)
Avenue Q
Wicked
Ragtime
City of Angels

[NYC4Life]

Posted: 1/23/06 at 2:50am

Ragtime
Wicked
Sweeney Todd
Kiss of the Spiderwoman (vanessa williams cast)
Miss Saigon

[kyguy78]

Posted: 1/23/06 at 9:52am

Rent (the 2-disc set)
Avenue Q
25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Little Shop of Horrors
Guys & Dolls (last revival)

[rickydrummer]

Posted: 1/23/06 at 12:38pm

My favorites always fluctuate, but I guess I'll list my top five based on how often I return to a recording:

1. Caroline, or Change
2. Sunday in the Park with George
3. Ragtime
4. Sweeney Todd
5. The Secret Garden

Other good ones:
Rent
Passion
The Wild Party (both versions)
Hair

Also, I haven't been able to remove Dessa Rose from my CD player. It's definitely worth getting though it is a pricey purchase.

[cathyhyatt]

Posted: 1/23/06 at 1:02pm

les miserables
songs for a new world
the last five years
dracula/dotv (they can count as one...b/c they arent legal recordings haha)
tick, tick...BOOM
phantom of the opera

well, I guess that isn't 5...but it's the best that I can do!

[peach]

Posted: 1/23/06 at 1:06pm

Pippin
Jesus Christ Superstar
Godspell
Hair
(yes, I like to get my 70's groove on)
RENT

[renthead112305]

Posted: 1/23/06 at 1:57pm

RENT
Wicked
Avenue Q
Brooklyn
Naked Boys Singing

[GetsFan]

Posted: 1/23/06 at 2:15pm

1. A New Brain
2. Finian's Rainbow (Irish Classical Theater Production)
3. Amour
4. Guys and Dolls (Revival Cast)
5. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

[Hank]

Posted: 1/23/06 at 2:20pm

Thoroughly Modern Millie
Taboo
Avenue Q
Chicago
Mamma Mia
and Jersey Boys is growing on me.

[uncageg]

Posted: 1/23/06 at 2:25pm

So far:

Company
Caroline or Change
Sweeney Todd (Original Cast)
Into the Woods
Rent

[colleen_lee]

Posted: 1/23/06 at 3:17pm

L5Y
Ragtime
Into the Woods (OBC)
Pippin
Les Mis (CSR)