Your first cast recording was...- Page 2

[tazber]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 12:36pm

Mine was A Chorus Line (OBCR) also.

[angelplays]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 12:50pm

Given to me: Annie

Bought with my own money: A Chorus Line

Both OBCRs.

And both on vinyl. Updated On: 7/23/10 at 12:50 PM

[philly03]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 12:51pm

Phantom of the Opera OCR!

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 1:01pm

Given to me: MY FAIR LADY....on 8-Track!!

Bought: Probably INTO THE WOODS.

[jacobsnchz14]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 1:05pm

Beauty and the Beast.

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[rmusic11322]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 1:07pm

Beauty And The Beast

[broadwayjim42]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 1:10pm

I was a late bloomer (in so many ways) and my parents probably had a few, but I think my first actual cast album was, believe it or not, "The Real Thing." I believe Nonesuch Records put it out.

As for musicals, I always took them out of the library. The first one I actually bought was "Leader of the Pack." I'd bought the "Chess" concept album earlier that but not sure if it counts.

[wicked1492]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 1:17pm

Hello Dolly! ...and so it began. :)

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 1:38pm

Beauty and the Beast...on cassette!!!!

[phantomcrazy14]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 2:32pm

The Phantom of the Opera which started my Broadway obssession. I actually was scared to death when I first heard it. I used to cover my ears as soon as that creepy organ started.

[alxscrz2]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 2:46pm

Mamma Mia (london cast recording)

[D2]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 2:50pm

OBC The Sound of Music. I was 7 and I bought it with birthday money from my Godmother.

[ColorTheHours048]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 2:53pm

Sweeney Todd OBC when I was about 11

[coryografer]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 3:33pm

My first OBC "record album" was My Fair Lady. I'm certain my parents wished that the album would wear out. I couldn't hear it enough.

[ClapYo'Hands]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 3:42pm

Probably Jesus Christ Superstar or Evita OLC.

[colleen_lee]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 3:45pm

The Phantom of the Opera was both the first cast recording I heard and the first cast recording I owned.

When I was 7 my family moved from California to Minnesota. Our new next door neighbor became my best friend. Her mom had a cassette of Phantom stashed away in their basement. He found it one day and became OBSESSED. We must have listened to the tapes and acted out all of the parts at least a hundred times.

For my 9th birthday I received a CD player. The Phantom OCR was the first CD I bought with my allowance money.

Updated On: 7/23/10 at 03:45 PM

[GatorNY]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 3:45pm

We had the Grease movie soundtrack on 8-track that we listened to on vacation when I was 12. Many years later, my straight roommate in college introduced ME to the Cats cast recording (got me through organic chemistry) and his cast recording of Les Mis got me through my first year in grad school. Ironic that the straight guy introduced the gay guy to Cats and Les Mis!

[twinbelters]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 3:48pm

My parents listened to many cast recordings when I was a kid, especially Oliver!, Carousel, The Music Man, and Fiddler On The Roof. There were others; all smash hits. But, my dad also listened to Pippin and Leonard Bernstein's Mass in the privacy of his basement office and I could hear it from the first floor sometimes. He also had Fiddler on 8-track.

The first ones that were really "mine" were cassettes shared with my mom and sister: Les Miz, Phantom of the Opera, and Miss Saigon. We listened to them in the car all the time.

My sister listened to Anything Goes, Show Boat, and several others that didn't grab me as a kid. What did grab me, oddly, was the movie of The Boy Friend that I saw (on laserdisc) when I babysat over one summer. My mother purchased the OBCR of The Boy Friend for me, and that was the first cast album that was entirely my own.

I saw Into The Woods on PBS. Waited forever to buy the cast recording, in fact I almost bought the London cast on cassette when my family was in Cleveland on a holiday. I realized what it was and waited, bought it on cassette later at a Coconuts.

But, I feel the cast recording that really put me on the path towards collecting cast recordings was the original CD reissue of Company my sophomore year of high school. I was completely fascinated by the first few seconds of the recording and the lack of an overture. "Another Hundred People" got put on repeat for days.

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[WOSQ]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 4:27pm

Even though my parents had several of the classic shows (including Oklahoma and Porgy and Bess on 78s!), the first album that was mine was Carnival given to me on my 11th birthday.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 4:43pm

I grew up with tons of cast recordings in the house (mostly LP). I think the first one I actually bought may have been a cassette of the Evita concept album, but I'm not sure.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 5:42pm

I grew up on my parents' LPs of Fiddler and Hair, but the first one I owned was Les Miserables Original London Cast.

[StageManager2]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 9:55pm

Deet, mine was THE SOUND OF MUSIC, too! This was waaay before I was into musical theater, which didn't occur until I was in my late teens. My first love was film so movie musicals (especially Rodgers & Hammerstein) were my thing, and TSOM was one of my fave movies as a kid. I'd asked for the soundtrack for my birthday one year, but someone mistakenly got me the OBCR. I ended up liking it all the same, but my two favorite tracks were "The Laendler" (which is not featured on the soundtrack) and the extended "Wedding Processional."

[Kad]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 10:34pm

I indefinitely borrowed my grandmother's copy of Phantom of the Opera when I was like 9 or 10, but I think the first cast recording I actually went out and bought myself was Little Shop of Horrors when I was 12.

[JRybka]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 10:50pm

A Chorus Line
and
They're Playing Our Song

[BellatrixxLestrangee]

Posted: 7/23/10 at 11:43pm

My dad used to always play the Pippin soundtrack during dinner. We have a bunch of home videos of my sisters and me dancing to "War is a Science". I just recently re-discovered the CD. It was such a blast from the past!