PERFECT Cast Recordings
PERFECT Cast Recordings
#0PERFECT Cast Recordings
Posted: 7/27/06 at 10:14pm
What does everyone think are the perfect cast recordings? And by perfect - I mean this - that everytime you listen to it, unless under strange circumstances, you listen to EVERY track, without skipping a single song - including overtures and entr'actes.
I feel that these can be called perfect:
Hello, Dolly! (OBC)
Cabaret (1998 Revival)
Crazy For You (OLC)
Gypsy (TV Recording w/ Bette Midler),(OBC), (2003 Revival)
Hair (Actor's Fund Benefit)
La Cage Aux Folles (OBC)
Sunday in the Park With George (OBC)
The Last Five Years (OOBC)
The Light in the Piazza (OBC)
The Most Happy Fella (OBC)
Tick, Tick, Boom! (OBC)
West Side Story (OBC)
those would be mine. i know this has a lot to do with personal taste, but i think we all can agree that a cast recording where you don't skip a single track is a rare thing.
#1re: PERFECT Cast Recordings
Posted: 7/27/06 at 10:28pm
Side Show
Avenue Q
Hair (OBC and Actor's Fund)
Into the Woods (OBC and Revival)
Kiss of the Spiderwoman
Little Shop of Horrors (Revival)
Man of La Mancha (Revival)
"I don't wanna see that!" -Aunt Sassy (as played by Valerie Cherish) on Room & Bored
#2re: PERFECT Cast Recordings
Posted: 7/27/06 at 10:29pm
Beauty and the Beast. Just because I played Clarinet in the pit for that show once and I like to listen for the part I played.
Les Miserables (OBC)
Jersey Boys
Man of La Mancha (revival)
"I'll show you a laughgasm. I'll gasm all over this stage!"
"Interesting choice"
"Interesting choice"
thevolleyballer
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#3re: PERFECT Cast Recordings
Posted: 7/27/06 at 10:30pmTHE WEDDING SINGER and HAIRSPRAY would actually qualify; the former especially. I don't think I've ever purposely skipped a track, unless I got in my car and wanted to just hear a specific song. When it plays from the beginning, it PLAYS.
Zyla
Broadway Star Joined: 1/28/06
Phantom487
Broadway Star Joined: 7/24/04
snl89
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/05
#6re: PERFECT Cast Recordings
Posted: 7/27/06 at 10:45pm
Tick...Tick...BOOM! (honestly, there's not a SINGLE thing on that recording that I feel could have been done better. Every single song was written and doen flawlessly)
Kiss Me Kate revival recording :P
Hair Actors Fund Benifit (its like they got every single amazing singer/performer currently on broadway and had them do a song on this cd! I DO skip a bunch of tracks just cause the songs arent all my favs, but the PEOPLE singing them make it flawless)
Wedding Singer OBCR (honestly, there is not a SINGLE song I skip, because EVERY one is amazingly fun, catchy, and listenable.If I DONT listen to every song at lest once every day I feel deprived. PLUS its another dream cast situation)
RENT Movie soundtrack AND OBCR (soundtrack because EVERYONE is completely flawless and has amazinggly gorgeous voices and because the instrumentals are kick ass, the OBCR because of its incredible rawness and the fact that it perfectly captured the spirit of the OBC performances)
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Updated On: 7/27/06 at 10:45 PM
#7re: PERFECT Cast Recordings
Posted: 7/27/06 at 10:45pm
Taboo (OBCR)
...and others that were already mentioned.
"It's not for sissies, contrary to popular belief." - Tommy Tune, on musical theatre.
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#8re: PERFECT Cast Recordings
Posted: 7/27/06 at 10:51pmi always skip the 'letters" on The Wedding Singer, so it doesn't make my list.
snl89
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/05
#9re: PERFECT Cast Recordings
Posted: 7/27/06 at 10:54pmwhen I DO have to skip something, I skip the letters, but on account of they are hysterical I still almost always listen to them unless I only have time to listen to a few songs or something :) haha
I don't need a life that's normal. That's way too far away. But something next to normal would be okay. Something next to normal is what I'd like to try. Close enough to normal to get by.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#10re: PERFECT Cast Recordings
Posted: 7/27/06 at 11:00pm
The Producers OBC
A Year With Frog and Toad OBC
You'er A Good Man Charlie Brown Revival
The Wedding Singer OBC
Sherry! Studio Cast
The Frogs OBC
South Pacific In Concert
Assassins New Broadway Cast
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels OBC
Do-Re-Mi Encores! Revival
Bounce Original Cast
Into the Woods OBC
Sweeney Todd OBC
Spelling Bee OBC
Hairspray OBC
Chicago OBC
Reefer Madness OOBC
Bat Boy OOBC
A Class Act OBC
A Chorus Line OBC
Bye Bye Birdie OBC
Barnum OBC
Sweet Charity Revival
Once Upon A Mattress OBC
Fiddler on the Roof Revival
Guys and Dolls Movie and '90s Revival
Hello Dolly OBC and Movie
How to Succedd in Business OBC and Movie (the revival's ok)
Cabaret OBC and Revival
Beauty and the Beast OBC
Gypsy 2003 Revival and Bette Midler movie
Avenue Q OBC
Hairspray Demo with Nathan Lane as Edna Turnblad
many many more!!!
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Updated On: 7/27/06 at 11:00 PM
Reverie
Understudy Joined: 6/3/06
#13re: PERFECT Cast Recordings
Posted: 7/27/06 at 11:07pm
Ragtime OBC
The Light in the Piazza OBC
The Phantom of the Opera OLC
:)
#14re: PERFECT Cast Recordings
Posted: 7/27/06 at 11:09pm
I wouldn't say Tick, tick...BOOM is perfect in that the acting is not up to the par the LA version I just saw was- and the voices grate a litte. But...I never skip a song, and love it dearly.
Assassins (revival cast)
Ragtime
Gypsy (OBC)
Jersey Boys
Sunday in the Park With George
"Are you sorry for civilization? I am sorry for it too." ~Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck
#15re: PERFECT Cast Recordings
Posted: 7/27/06 at 11:15pm
Jekyll & Hyde - Every time I listen to it, I just sing along to basically every part of every song...and have quite a blast. I love dark musicals, for some reason. Plus I LOVE Linda Eder's vocals.
Jesus Christ Superstar - These songs are so catchy. Some are hilarious. Some are poignant. It's just a great musical in my opinion!
Children of Eden - It's just so beautiful...and they did the show here a few years ago for a summerstage production. So I'm familiar with it.
As much as I would like to, I can't say RENT OBC because I don't like "We're Okay"...I can't stand that song. But I can say RENT, the motion picture.
That's all I can think of for now.
DramaDork925
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/4/05
#16re: PERFECT Cast Recordings
Posted: 7/27/06 at 11:16pm
Assassins OOBC
Into the Woods OBC
A Chorus Line
Am I cut out to spend my time this way?
COOOOLkid
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/15/05
#17re: PERFECT Cast Recordings
Posted: 7/27/06 at 11:23pmI love Canadian Cast of Ragtime. It's basically a highlight-version of the OBC.
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-Family Guy
#18re: PERFECT Cast Recordings
Posted: 7/27/06 at 11:44pm
HELLO, DOLLY! (Movie)
HIGH SPIRITS (OBC)
THE LAST FIVE YEARS (OOBC)
THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA (OBC)
"I believe that art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, to engage in a constant search for the truth."
- Barbra Streisand
mrs felciano
Broadway Star Joined: 6/14/06
#19re: PERFECT Cast Recordings
Posted: 7/28/06 at 12:02am
RAGTIME!
I love Ragtime. Absolutly beautiful.
#20re: PERFECT Cast Recordings
Posted: 7/28/06 at 12:12am
Evita-The white album.
Into the Woods (obc)
Grand Hotel (obc)
Starlight Express (olc)
Nine (Australia cast )
Chess-all recordings
Chicago 90's cast
Sweeney Todd (obc)
Well I didn't want to get into it, but he's a Satanist.
Every full moon he sacrifices 4 puppies to the Dark Lord and smears their blood on his paino.
This should help you understand the score for Wicked a little bit more.
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#21re: PERFECT Cast Recordings
Posted: 7/28/06 at 12:36am
GYPSY
COMPANY
A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
SWEENEY TODD
SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
INTO THE WOODS
ASSASSINS
A CHORUS LINE
CHICAGO
DREAMGIRLS
RAGTIME
CAROLINE, OR CHANGE
"I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear." ~ Freddie Mercury
americanboy99
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/06
#23re: PERFECT Cast Recordings
Posted: 7/28/06 at 12:49am
LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA.
LES MIS- obc
EVITA- obc
matt schneider
Broadway Star Joined: 7/3/06
#24re: PERFECT Cast Recordings
Posted: 7/28/06 at 12:52am
Into the woods
Sweeney Todd
Spamalot
DRS
Avenue Q.
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