re: Top 5 Cast Recordings- Page 2

[InfiniteTheaterFrenzy]

Posted: 12/16/06 at 11:30pm

Omg A Class Act is on your list- you're amazing!!! I LOVE A Class Act!

So based on your list, I would say you would like (if you don't already):

See What I Wanna See
Floyd Collins
Sweet Smell of Success
They're Playing Our Song
Saturday Night
Wearing Someone Else's Clothes
Lauren Kennedy Sings Jason Robert Brown
Unsuspecting Hearts (the Emily and Alice CD)

[B3TA07]

Posted: 12/16/06 at 11:49pm

Infinite- RE: your sig:

The way Karen prounounced the word, I think it was spelled "Theatre."


Avoid Myths & Hymns unless you reallllllly like Guettel. Like A LOT of Guettel-liking is going on.


I ran across The Wedding Singer CD today at Borders.


Avoid that.

[brdwaybaby17]

Posted: 12/16/06 at 11:53pm

Class Act, woot. I'm actually working on "Next Best Thing to Love" in my voice lessons.
Adam Guettel came to our school about a month ago. Look for us on PBS!

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 12:08am

brdwaybaby17: Do you have Parade? If you're a JRB fan, it's a must.

[Liverpool]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 2:48am

The Fact that The Wedding Singer was suggested 4 times makes me weap for humanity. The score is terrible, the lyrics are a joke.

Now if you're talking about shows currently playing

then

Chicago
Hairspray
The Color Purple
Jersey Boys
and then i guess Rent

if it's just all time then
Sweeney Todd
Dreamgirls
Ragtime
Merrily We Roll Along (the 1994 off broadway recording)
Caroline, or Change

[rosekwbp]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 2:56am

Gypsy
Company
Into The Woods
Sweeney Todd
Grey Gardens
Avenue Q

[actormcfamous]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 4:18am

No particular order - these are all modern/contemporary - no "classic musical comedies"

Into the Woods (arguably the most accessible, "starter Sondheim" show)
The Light in the Piazza (same but with Guettel)
Lippa's Wild Party
Bernarda Alba
Ragtime

[*brina-doll*]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 8:45am

*RENT
*Avenue Q
*The Last 5 Years
*Little Shop of Horrors
*Hairspray

(just one more 'cuz I'm cool like that...:-P)

*Hedwig and the Angry Itch

[Lizzya9]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 8:51am

Wicked
Beauty and the Beast
Thoroughly Modern Millie
A Chorus Line Revival
Chicago Revival

[PeachesCat]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 10:35am

I am an old timer... Godspell... A classic...

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[spiderdj82]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 11:17am

Gypsy (OBCR)
My Fair Lady (OBCR)
Hair (OBCR or Concert)
Jesus Christ Superstar (2000 LCR or Australian Recording)
A New Brain
RENT
Hedwig and The Angry Inch (movie soundtrack)
Godspell (2000 off-off Broadway Cast Recording)
Parade
Last Five Years
Dreamgilrs (OBCR or Movie Soundtrack)

[NathanLaneStalker]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 11:40am

The Producers OBC
Avenue Q OBC
They're Playing Our Song OBC
Godspell 200 off-broadway cast
A Class Act OBC
Fiddler on the Roof Revival
Spelling Bee OBC
A Funny Thing Happened on the way to the Forum Revival
H2$ OBC
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels OBC
Assassins Broadway Revival

many others..I can't pick just 5.

Updated On: 12/17/06 at 11:40 AM

[BroadwayBound062]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 2:21pm

Monty Python's Spamolot
Color Purple
Wicked
Camelot
My Fair Lady
All OBC

[geekgirl06]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 2:30pm

Spring Awakening
The Last 5 Years
Ragtime
The new Company recording (I would hold out your shopping just a little longer...)
Assassins (The off-broadway version)

[jv92]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 3:21pm

Top 5 Cast Recordings EVER Made That You MUST HAVE!
1. Company (OBC, 1970, Columbia)
2. Follies (OBC, 1972, Capitol)
3. Gypsy (OBC, 1969, Columbia)
4. Chicago (OBC, 1975, Artista) or Cabaret (OBC, 1966, Colbuma)- Depends on what Kander and Ebb you like most
5. My Fair Lady (OBC, 1956, Columbia)- If you prefer in in stero, there is a 1958 London Cast Album made, but the Mono 1956 album is tops.
(A close 6th wound be Sweeney Todd, which could be put in the list bellow, but it's a classic and a must have!)

Now, if you're looking for more moddern work, here are the best cast albums of the past 25 years
1. The Light in the Piazza (OBC, 2006, Nonesuch)
2. Nine (OBC, 1982, Columbia)
3. Ragtime (OBC, 1998, RCA)
4. Sunday in the Park with George (OBC, 1984, RCA- OUT OF PRINT!)
5 Merrily We Roll Along (OBC, 1982, RCA- OUT OF PRINT!)

4. Sunday in the Park with George

[bigbigbill]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 4:29pm

Drowsy Chaperone
Spring Awakening
The Full Monty
Company
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

[brdwaybaby17]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 4:39pm

You'll all be happy to know that I went out and bought Follies today. I was buying stuff for my mom and decided to treat myself. But I'm still in the midst of compiling my "big list of Broadway musicals I must have" that I have to give to my mom. She told me to just give her a list so anytime she needs to get me a present, she knows what I need. lol

[educator06]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 5:49pm

1. West Side Story
2. Spring Awakening
3. Little Shop of Horrors
4. Fiddler on the Roof
5. Rent

[ClumsyDude15]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 7:16pm

In no order:

All Shook Up
Wicked
Hairspray
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Into The Woods

[brdwaybaby17]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 7:56pm

Tee-hee, quote from VM. Made me smile!

[Broadwayboy2631]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 8:59pm

Sweeney Todd
Evita(OBC)
Bat Boy
Drowsy Chaperone
Avenue Q

[musicaltheater1]

Posted: 12/17/06 at 9:12pm

My personal list:
1. Miss Saigon OLC
2. Les Miserables TAC
3. Flower Drum Song Revival
4. A Chorus Line Revival
5. Cabaret Revival

[JBSinger]

Posted: 12/18/06 at 11:25am

Top 5 Must-haves (in no particular order):

Sweeney Todd (OBC or Concert)
Evita (OBC)
West Side Story (OBC)
My Fair Lady (OBC)
Les Miserables (OLC or OBC)

next 5:
Dreamgirls (OBC or concert)
A Little Night Music (OBC)
Carousel (OBC)
Jesus Christ Superstar (OLC)
Anything Goes (OBRevC)

[EponineAmneris]

Posted: 12/18/06 at 11:47am

In no order whatsoever:

Any and all LES MIZ
THE PRODUCERS OBC
DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS
SPAMALOT
MISS SAIGON OLC and CSR
THE WEDDING SINGER
THE SOUND OF MUSIC
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
WICKED
INTO THE WOODS OBC
SWEENEY TOOD '05 REVIVAL
EVITA OBC
BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY
LAST FIVE YEARS
CHICAGO REVIVAL/OBC
ELTON JOHN AND TIM RICE'S AIDA
CHESS
CATS

[philcrosby]

Posted: 12/18/06 at 1:00pm

And you need to be grounded in some classics:

McGlinn's 3-Disc SHOW BOAT
McGlinn's BRIGADOON
The 1979 Revival of OKLAHOMA
The revival recording of KING AND I (with Brynner and Towers)
The OBC of KISS ME KATE