WICKED, BOOK OF MORMON, and More Lead Billboard's Top 5 Broadway Albums of 2014
By: Sally Henry Fuller Dec. 27, 2014
Billboard has named their Top 5 Broadway Cast Albums of 2014.
The list includes not only new shows, but any Broadway show, determined by album sales from December 7, 2013-November 29, 2014. Topping the list is the 2003 Broadway hit which won Disney sensation Idina Menzel a Tony Award and costarred Kristin Chenoweth and Norbert Leo Butz, Wicked.
In second place is the 2011 Tony Award-winner for Best Musical, THE BOOK OF MORMON, by FROZEN composer Robert Lopez, starring Andrew Rannells and Josh Gad. It was also No. 3 on the top 200 albums at one point in 2011.
Another Menzel musical made the list, with the new Tom Kitt/Brian Yorkey musical IF/THEN, starring Idina Menzel and James Snyder.
Best Musical Tony Award-winner, ONCE: A NEW MUSICAL comes in at No. 4. Starring Steve Kazee and Cristin Miliot, ONCE opened in 2012.
In fifth place is JERSEY BOYS, which won Best Musical at the 2006 Tony Awards, as well as an additional three Tonys. JERSEY BOYS inspired a film adaptation, which was released earlier this year.
Source: Billboard
Photo credit: Joan Marcus
