Favorite CD by a broadway star/performer?

[ErinDillyFan]

Posted: 8/19/13 at 10:09am

It is interesting what kind of music they choose to perform and how they structure the CD...

[StageStruckLad]

Posted: 8/19/13 at 10:12am

One of my all-time favorites is Randy Graff's CD of Cy Coleman music. Great songs and perfect interpretations and arrangements. I saw her once in the audience at Manhattan Theater Club and told her how much I loved that CD, and she seemed almost surprised.

[suestorm]

Posted: 8/19/13 at 10:15am

I love Laura Osnes Dream a Little Dream: Live at the Carlyle, with guest appearances by Jeremey Jordan and Tom Wopat

[bwayphreak234]

Posted: 8/19/13 at 10:16am

Cheyenne Jackson's new CD is wonderful.

[Wynbish]

Posted: 8/19/13 at 10:34am

Audra's Build a Bridge

Gavin Creel's Quiet

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 8/19/13 at 10:38am

Alice Ripley's "Everything's Fine" has been a constant in my playlist for the past 13 years.

[bwayboy22]

Posted: 8/19/13 at 12:03pm

This is so hard! My favorites (yes there are multiple) are:

Alfie Boe-Bring Him Home
Betty Buckely-Betty Buckley's Broadway
Elaine Paige-Encore
Eden Espinosa-Look Around
Megan Hilty-It Happens All The Time
Patti Lupone-Live!

And I pretty much love all of Scott Alan's music.

[tazber]

Posted: 8/19/13 at 12:08pm

I love all of Lauren Kennedy's cds. Especially her JRB one.

Also seconding Graff's Coleman cd.

Paige O'hara sings Jerry Herman
Judy Kuhn - Just in Time
Debbie Shapiro Gravitte - sings Alan Menken
Laura Osnes - Maury Yeston cd

[dtzumbrunnen]

Posted: 8/19/13 at 12:09pm

Agree with Gavin's Quiet.

I've really enjoyed Norbert Leo Butz's Memory & Mayhem 54 Below recording too.

[BWF]

Posted: 8/19/13 at 1:44pm

Donna McKechnie: Inside the Music ...

[JBC2]

Posted: 8/19/13 at 2:46pm

Julia Murney's "I'm Not Waiting" is one of my favorites.

[icedtea]

Posted: 8/19/13 at 3:25pm

Stephanie Mills - Sweet Sensation

[06s091]

Posted: 8/19/13 at 3:33pm

Michael Ball - "This time... It's Personal", "Music" and "Both Sides Now"

[JBradshaw]

Posted: 8/19/13 at 3:53pm

The Ruthie Henshall Album

Susan Egan - So Far

Elaine Paige - Encore

[Jim3]

Posted: 8/19/13 at 4:14pm

I never tire of listening to The Maury Yeston Songbook. Beautiful songs sung by Betty Buckley, Laura Benanti, Sutton Foster, Brian d'Arcy James, Christopher Fitzgerald, Brent Barrett and many others. Just a perfectly romantic CD.

[Marianne2]

Posted: 8/19/13 at 4:18pm

It's only an EP, but Sara Ramirez's. And I also love Matthew Morrison's latest.

[JBradshaw]

Posted: 8/19/13 at 5:15pm

I forgot Unsuspecting Hearts - Alice Ripley and Emily Skinner

[dtzumbrunnen]

Posted: 8/19/13 at 5:37pm

And Stephanie J. Block - This Place I Know - can't believe I forgot that one.

[ErinDillyFan]

Posted: 8/20/13 at 5:24pm

I have not particularly cared for my early ventures in area (I will not name names), but after buying Laura Osnes' new CD and two of the (Ripley/Skinner) recordings. I am back in the market.

I have liked Buckley '67 and several of Linda Eder's (does she count?).

Just bought:
Stephanie J. Block - This Place I Know
The Maury Yeston Songbook
Megan Hilty-It Happens All The Time
Alice Ripley's "Everything's Fine"

Keep the recommendations coming...

[BudFrump23]

Posted: 8/20/13 at 5:40pm

My most recent favorite is Liz Callaway's The Story Goes On: On & Off Broadway.

Gosh, she has the voice of a trickling brook in springtime!

[NoName3]

Posted: 8/20/13 at 5:50pm

Accompanied by Rodgers at the piano with full orchestra.

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[Queen of the Night]

Posted: 8/20/13 at 6:11pm

Definitely Alfie Boe's Bring him home. Michael Crawford and Michael Ball have done some nice ones too. Of course, I still think it would be nice if Terrence Mann did a solo recording. I'd buy it. I love his voice!

Updated On: 8/20/13 at 06:11 PM

[darquegk]

Posted: 8/20/13 at 6:20pm

I really like Barbara Cook's "Songs of Perfect Propriety," a solo album not of show standards, but of material based on the poetry of Dorothy Parker.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 8/20/13 at 6:23pm

My faves:

Liz Callaway - The Story Goes On
Liz and Ann Hampton Callaway - Sibling Revelry
Sally Mayes - The Dorothy Fields Songbook
Brent Barrett - The Kander and Ebb Album
Debbie Gravitte - Part of Your World
Debbie Gravitte - Defying Gravity
Jason Graae - You're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile
Randy Graff - Doing Something Right
Judy Kuhn - Just in Time
Daniel Boys - So Close
John Barrowman - Music Music Music
Patti LuPone - Live!
Patti LuPone - Matters of the Heart
Barbra Streisand - The Broadway Album
Kristin Chenoweth - Let Yourself Go
Susan Egan - Coffee House
Alice Ripley and Emily Skinner - Duets
Alice Ripley and Emily Skinner - Unsupecting Hearts
The Maury Yeston Songbook
The Stephen Schwartz Album

Updated On: 8/20/13 at 06:23 PM

Posted: 8/20/13 at 7:09pm

Some of my perennial favorites are:

Eartha Kitt - Live in London
Presenting Karen Akers
Jane Krakowski - Laziest Gal in Town
Laura Osnes - Dream A Little Dream Of Me: Live at the Cafe Carlyle
Susan Watson - Earthly Paradise: The Songs of Jones & Schmidt
Both of Tammy Grimes' self titled albums