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Which cast recording could you listen to over and over again?

budfrump

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joined:5/9/11

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Which cast recording could you listen to over and over again?#1
Posted: 10/2/11 at 11:57pm

If you had to choose just one.
For me, right now, it's probably the Gypsy 2008 revival recording.

CATSNYrevival

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Which cast recording could you listen to over and over again? #2
Posted: 10/3/11 at 12:01am

It changes everyday. Which cast recording could you listen to over and over again?

frontrowcentre2

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Which cast recording could you listen to over and over again? #2
Posted: 10/3/11 at 12:06am

I suppose going back to my childhood the OBCR's GYPSY and FLOWER DRUM SONG and the Reader's Digest studio cast of BABES IN TOYLAND are the recordings that I have played most frequently. Even today I would not want to eb without any of these.

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

socarrat

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Which cast recording could you listen to over and over again? #3
Posted: 10/3/11 at 12:06am

Jekyll and Hyde, although I like the concept album better. The amazing Anthony Warlow may have something to do with it. understatement

charlesjguiteau

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joined:5/14/11

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Which cast recording could you listen to over and over again? #4
Posted: 10/3/11 at 12:28am

OBC Ragtime
OBC Rent
OBC Once On This Island
OBC A Little Night Music
OBC West Side Story
OBC My Fair Lady

Covers some favorites

charlesjguiteau

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Which cast recording could you listen to over and over again? #5
Posted: 10/3/11 at 12:28am

OBC Ragtime
OBC Rent
OBC Once On This Island
OBC A Little Night Music
OBC West Side Story
OBC My Fair Lady

Covers some favorites

jdrye222

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joined:5/28/11

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Which cast recording could you listen to over and over again? #6
Posted: 10/3/11 at 1:13am

Umm... I have the potential to get totally berated for some of these, but in terms of cast albums I just love and can hear again and again:

THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS
THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA
AIDA
DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS
THE LAST FIVE YEARS
THE FULL MONTY

South Fl Marc

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Which cast recording could you listen to over and over again? #7
Posted: 10/3/11 at 1:16am

The original cast of "The Most Happy Fella" and "Sweeney Todd"

Now living in DC. I really have to change my name on the board.

fashionguru_23

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Which cast recording could you listen to over and over again? #8
Posted: 10/3/11 at 3:54am

I don't know why, but the OBC of "9to5: the musical", and the original cast of "Irving Berlin's White Christmas".

"The 54th Street[theatre] had a rep as. . .where old musicals went to die." -Smaxie

Nickhutson

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Which cast recording could you listen to over and over again? #9
Posted: 10/3/11 at 4:23am

Ragtime
Les Mis 25th Anniversary Re-do
Legally Blonde
Matilda (RSC)
Beauty and the Beast
Wicked
Witches of Eastwick

Nick Hutson Co-Presenter/Producer MusicalTalk - The UK's Musical Theatre Podcast http://www.musicaltalk.co.uk

mallardo

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Which cast recording could you listen to over and over again? #10
Posted: 10/3/11 at 4:48am

City of Angels
The Wild Party (LaChiusa)
The Sweet Smell of Success
The Light in the Piazza
Company
Merrily We Roll Along

Faced with these Loreleis, what man can moralize!

Gypsy9

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Which cast recording could you listen to over and over again? #11
Posted: 10/3/11 at 5:57am

I find myself on the same page as FRONTROWCENTRE2. Two albums that I never tire of are the OBCR of GYPSY and the OBCR of FLOWER DRUM SONG. The latter may come as a surprise to some since it has been labeled as politically incorrect, a charge that I don't agree with. How many people who make that charge have seen the original production of FLOWER DRUM SONG in 1959? The score is so likable, with the standouts being "Like a God", "Love Look Away", and the humorous nightclub scene with the MC scoring.

I would add the complete OBCR of THE MOST HAPPY FELLA whose music soars every time I play it. These 3 albums could sustain me on a desert island.

"Madam Rose...and her daughter...Gypsy!"

woodyactor

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Which cast recording could you listen to over and over again? #12
Posted: 10/3/11 at 6:03am

Title of show- its addicting for the last 3 months!!! or 4 months

raulmark

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Which cast recording could you listen to over and over again? #13
Posted: 10/3/11 at 6:55am

OBCR Sunday in the Park with George
OBCR RENT
OBCR Into the Woods
Assassins
Tick, Tick,...Boom!
OBCR Avenue Q

just to name a few......

BroadwayFan12

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Which cast recording could you listen to over and over again? #14
Posted: 10/3/11 at 7:12am

My Fair Lady OBCR. I think it was the first cast recording I had.

mrcacou

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Which cast recording could you listen to over and over again? #15
Posted: 10/3/11 at 8:03am

OLC Chicago with Ute Lemper and Ruthie Henshall
OLC Billy Elliot
NBC A Chorus Line

In my heart, I found the answered dream, and in my soul I found the song, and in my friends I found the magic, the love, the moon up above- they were mine, all mine, all along..!

watchmesoar

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Which cast recording could you listen to over and over again? #16
Posted: 10/3/11 at 8:13am

OBC/OEC AIDA (OEC=Orignal Essen (Germany) Cast)
OBC Avenue Q
OOBC The last 5 years
OBC Rent
OBC Xanadu
Les Misérables (25th anniversary tour/UK)
OLC Ghost
OEC Elisabeth
NBC Ragtime (Revival)

...and many others!

I'm German. Get used to the weird wording, spelling and/or grammar.

metropolis10111

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Which cast recording could you listen to over and over again? #17
Posted: 10/3/11 at 8:36am

Year in and year out..mmm Going back on the iPod and looking for the most played albums that are musicals:

OSC Tanz Der Vampire
OLC Lord of the Rings
OCR Assassins
OBC Annie
OCR The Likes of Us

light_in_the_dark2

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Which cast recording could you listen to over and over again? #18
Posted: 10/3/11 at 8:43am

Next to Normal
10th Anniversary Dream Cast of Les Mis
Into the Woods
Avenue Q
The Book of Mormon

3bluenight

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Which cast recording could you listen to over and over again? #19
Posted: 10/3/11 at 9:18am

caroline or change
floyd collins
house of flowers

Namaste

Rabekriegerin

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Which cast recording could you listen to over and over again? #20
Posted: 10/3/11 at 9:21am

OWC Rudolf. Anytime I drive anywhere, there it is, humming away in the car; it's been there for the last 2.5 yrs (since it came out) and I have yet to tire of it.

Other musicals I will cycle through times of interest and disinterest when I listen, then put that CD away and pull out a new one, but not this.

Honorable mention to the 10AC Tanz der Vampire. If I could only listen to one song for the rest of my life, it'd be Rote Stiefel / das Gebet...

madbrian

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Which cast recording could you listen to over and over again? #21
Posted: 10/3/11 at 9:38am

I would choose the cast recording that most effectively transports me back to the experience of seeing the show live, and for me, that would be The Drowsy Chaperone.

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