What are 5 Cast Recording you should Own?
What are 5 Cast Recording you should Own?
#1What are 5 Cast Recording you should Own?
Posted: 4/9/11 at 11:29pmHey Guys I wasnt sure if this was asked but I was curious what peoples top 5 favorite Cast Recordings are?
#2What are 5 Cast Recording you should Own?
Posted: 4/9/11 at 11:46pm
Ragtime (90s)
La Cage Aux Folles (80s)
Company (70s)
Cabaret (60s)
South Pacific (50s)
Genius lasts longer than beauty.
#2What are 5 Cast Recording you should Own?
Posted: 4/9/11 at 11:47pmI might exchange Hair for Cabaret.....
Genius lasts longer than beauty.
#3What are 5 Cast Recording you should Own?
Posted: 4/10/11 at 12:03am
I wouldn't claim that everyone should own these recordings, but I like these.
Sweeney Todd (OBC)
Gypsy (2003 - Peters Revival)
Next to Normal (OBC)
Sunday in the Park (OBC)
Kiss of the Spider Woman (Williams replacement)
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Updated On: 4/10/11 at 12:03 AM
#4What are 5 Cast Recording you should Own?
Posted: 4/10/11 at 12:04am
Next to Normal
In the Heights
Hair
Company (2006)
Guys and Dolls (1992)
#5What are 5 Cast Recording you should Own?
Posted: 4/10/11 at 12:13am
I'll tell you the 5 I am listening to the most right now:
The Scottsboro Boys
Bells Are Ringing (OBC)
Finian's Rainbow (2009 Revival)
Brigadoon (Studio Cast Recording with Rebecca Luker and Brent Barrett)
The Pajama Game (2006 Revival)
But that's just right now. I have a feeling The Scottsboro Boys will always be up there. I listen to it once a week, if not more.
#6What are 5 Cast Recording you should Own?
Posted: 4/10/11 at 12:20am
These are just some of my favorites:
The Last Five Years
Next To Normal
Guys and Dolls
West Side Story
Phantom of The Opera
I've also been listening to the remakes of Chess and Allegro. I wanted to include them.
If I didn't believe in you
We'd never have gotten this far
If I didn't believe in you
And all of the ten thousand women you are
If I didn't think you could do
Anything you ever wanted to
If I wasn't certain that you'd come through somehow
THe fact of the matter is, Cathy
I wouldn't be standing here now
-The Last Five Years
#7What are 5 Cast Recording you should Own?
Posted: 4/10/11 at 12:21am
Next To Normal
Caroline or Change
Grey Gardens (Broadway or Off-Broadway)
Nine (Antonio Banderas Revivial)
Hello Again
"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal
"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
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Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/09
#8What are 5 Cast Recording you should Own?
Posted: 4/10/11 at 12:23am
Such a difficult question! Keep in mind, these aren't my five favorite shows, necessarily, just the five albums I'd like to have if I could only have five. At the moment:
Ragtime, to cry (Or next to normal here. Would be so hard to choose.)
The Drowsy Chaperone, to laugh
Hairspray, to dance
Gypsy, to be awed (LuPone, 2008 )
Company, just because I need some Sondheim (Some recording; any of them.)
Edit: How could I forget Caroline, or Change?! Five is too few...
"Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos."-Stephen Sondheim
Updated On: 4/10/11 at 12:23 AM
#9What are 5 Cast Recording you should Own?
Posted: 4/10/11 at 12:26am
Merrily We Roll Along (OBC)
Sweeney Todd (OBC)
Company (Both original and revival)
Allegro (2008 Studio Recording)
Caroline or Chane (OBC)
Honorable mention:
The Wiz
Sunday in the park With George
Anyone Can Whistle
Passing Strange
Purlie
West Side Story
The Light in the Piazza
RENT
Just give the world Love.
chewy5000
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/09
#10What are 5 Cast Recording you should Own?
Posted: 4/10/11 at 12:40amThe Korean recording of Evita
#11What are 5 Cast Recording you should Own?
Posted: 4/10/11 at 3:16am
My 5 essential cast albums/film soundtracks...
1. SWEENEY TODD (OBCR - Masterwoks Braodway)
2. CAROUSEL (film soundtrack - Broadway Angel)
3. GYPSY (Ethel Merman and OBC - Masterworks Broadway)
4. SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE (OBCR - Masterworks Broadway)
5. CALL ME MADAM (film soundtrack - Decca 10" Lp)
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com
#12What are 5 Cast Recording you should Own?
Posted: 4/10/11 at 7:34am
These are the five that I listen to most often -
Company (2006 Revival)
Thoroughly Modern Milie (OBC)
The Drowsy Chaperone (OBC)
La Cage Aux Folles (OBC)
A Chorus Line (OBC)
I wouldn't say that everyone should own those, but they are certainly some of my favourites. Others that I love include The Will Rogers Follies, Sunday In The Park with George, Cabaret, Chicago and Hair (2009 Revival).
#13What are 5 Cast Recording you should Own?
Posted: 4/10/11 at 7:37am
La Cage Aux Folles (2010 Revival)
Little Women
The Pirate Queen
Les Mis - 25th Anniversary Tour
Next to Normal
They are the 5 that are on constant repeat in my car!
#14What are 5 Cast Recording you should Own?
Posted: 4/10/11 at 9:49am
Some of my favorites, narrowed down to five with an eye towards variety:
Carousel (1994 revival)
The Most Happy Fella (OBC)
Company (OBC)
Kiss of the Spider Woman (OCR)
The Light in the Piazza (OBC)
#15What are 5 Cast Recording you should Own?
Posted: 4/10/11 at 11:44am
NEXT TO NORMAL
RENT
IN THE HEIGHTS
WICKED
HAIR (2009 REVIVAL)
#16What are 5 Cast Recording you should Own?
Posted: 4/10/11 at 11:45am
next to normal
In The Heights
Hair - New Broadway Cast
West Side Story - 2009 Revival
Thoroughly Modern Millie (don't hate, it's addictive)
#17What are 5 Cast Recording you should Own?
Posted: 4/11/11 at 5:39pm
Sweet Charity
Cabaret
The Drowsy Chaperone
Zorba
Promises Promises
#18What are 5 Cast Recording you should Own?
Posted: 4/11/11 at 5:46pm
1. The Phantom of the Opera OLC
2. Les Misérables 25th Anniversary Production
3. EVITA American Premiere Recording
4. South Pacific Broadway Revival Recording
5. Leonard Bernstein Conducts West Side Story
#19What are 5 Cast Recording you should Own?
Posted: 4/11/11 at 5:55pm
Only five?
Les Miserables
Rent
Titanic
Ragtime
Falsettos (I count them as one)
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#20What are 5 Cast Recording you should Own?
Posted: 4/11/11 at 5:59pm
funny girl
oklahoma
south pacific
sound of music
west side story
#21What are 5 Cast Recording you should Own?
Posted: 4/11/11 at 6:00pm
I'll go by decade-
60s: She Loves Me
70s: Company
80s: Sunday in the Park with George
90s: Hmmm...Ragtime?
00s: Even tougher...right now I want to say Light in the Piazza, but I usually say Grey Gardens. I'm on a Guettel kick now though.
So in no order- She Loves Me, Company, Sunday in the Park, Ragtime and Piazza
#22What are 5 Cast Recording you should Own?
Posted: 4/11/11 at 6:42pm
West Side Story
Sweeney Todd
Ragtime
Into the Woods (London Cast)
Sunday in the Park with George
Slight bias towards Sondheim, but I'd never get bored with those five... 
Updated On: 4/12/11 at 06:42 PM
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Broadway Legend Joined: 12/2/05
#23What are 5 Cast Recording you should Own?
Posted: 4/11/11 at 7:47pm
So hard to narrow it down to only five.
Hair
Dreamgirls
Rent
Ragtime
In The Heights
#24What are 5 Cast Recording you should Own?
Posted: 4/11/11 at 8:27pm
The Korean recording of Evita
I have this. It's a true gem.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
