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i'm not denying that they are good shows.
infact i could sing all four of them by memory.


but what i'm saying is, i wanted people to introduce new stuff that not everyone has heard. .

but i really did not mean to personally offend anyone?

haha okay I can def understand that :) I apologize if I seemed snippy (which I think I did), its just kinda become one of my pet peeves when people start not liking shows just because its not the "in" thing to do, and the way it was worded just made me think that might be what you were getting at :) but no, thats totally cool, I agree its nice to hear some other, less well known stuff!

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"& you cant mention those shows, because anyone who knows anything about broadway has definitly heard all of them before."

"but what i'm saying is, i wanted people to introduce new stuff that not everyone has heard."

You didn't offend anyone, but those aren't the only four shows that "anyone who knows anything about Broadway" has heard before (there's tons of others like Cats and Beauty and the Beast). So asking to name a favorite CD and then specifically singling those 4 out is just unfair because those shows happen to be overrated. Personally I like listening to Wicked, Phantom, and Les Mis sometimes whether or not I enjoyed the show,

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The Sondheim scores all tell a pretty cut out story, except for perhaps Follies for obvious reasons.

Good ones to listen to without seeing it... at least my favorites

-The Last 5 Years
-A Chorus Line (OBCR ONLY!!!)
-Fiddler
-Gypsy (just because it needs to be on every single cast recording list... ever)

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Notre-Dame de Paris
Spelling Bee
Drowsy Chaperone
Ragtime

They just keep finding there way back into the CD Player. I love Noa's voice. I hope she finds her way to broadway. I have a couple of her albums and bought Notre-Dame de Paris without knowing she was in it.

I haven't seen the show yet, but I love The Jersey Boys OBC recording.

Aida, Little Shop of Horrors, Hair (Actors Fund version) The Wild Party (off-broadway), Hairspray, The Last Five Years, You're a Good Man Charlie Brown (revival), Jersey Boys, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Light in the Piazza, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, The Music Man (tv movie version with Kristin Chenoweth), Avenue Q, and The Drowsy Chaperone. I also enjoy the "cd's-that-must-not-be-named".

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