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GREG MORRISON
Morrison: The Drowsy Chaperone Bob Martin, Sutton Foster, Georgia Engel / Original Broadway Cast Recording [ Ghostlight Records / CD - released 17/May/2000 ] The Drowsy Chaperone is a Canadian musical with music and lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison, and a book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar. |
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COLE PORTER / RICHARD RODGERS
Porter: Aladdin / Rodgers: Cinderella Bob Monkhouse, Doretta Morrow, Elizabeth Larner / Original 1959 London Casts [ Sepia / CD - released 17/May/1993 ] First time on CD and in stereo for this 1960 original London cast recording of Cole Porter's Aladdin. Starring Britain's much loved performer Bob Monkhouse in the title role supported by Broadway's Doretta Morrow as the Princess. |
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STEPHEN FLAHERTY
Flaherty: Ragtime - The Musical Brian Stokes Mitchell & Audra McDonald / Original Cast Recording [ RCA Victor / 2 CD - released 19/Apr/1998 ] Ragtime is a musical with music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and a book by Terrence McNally. It is based on the 1975 novel of the same name by E.L. Doctorow. |
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COLE PORTER
Porter: Kiss Me, Kate Brian Stokes Mitchell & Marin Mazzie / New Broadway Cast [ DRG Theater / CD - released 17/May/2000 ] The current production marked the musical's first Broadway revival since the early 1960s and was nominated for twelve 2000 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, making it the most nominated show of the season. |
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LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Bernstein: Wonderful Town Brooke Shields & Jennifer Hope Wills / 2004 New Broadway Cast Recording [ DRG Records / CD - released 17/May/2004 ] Wonderful Town is a 1953 musical with book written by Joseph A. Fields and Jerome Chodorov, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and music by Leonard Bernstein. The musical tells the story of two sisters who aspire to be a writer and actress... |
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VINCENT YOUMANS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ben Bagley's Vincent Youmans Revisited - show tunes -- many of them never before recorded. Cab Calloway, Blosson Dearie, Gloria De Haven, Maureen Stapleton, Charles Rydell, Dorothy Loudon, etc [ Painted Smiles Records / CD - released 5/May/1993 ] Ben Bagley was an American musical producer and record producer. In 1971, Ben embarked on a new and impressive career. He produced 47 highly distinctive albums of show tunes -- many of them never before recorded. |
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DAVID SHIRE
Shire: Baby - The New musical Catherine Cox & Liz Callaway / Original 1983 Broadway Cast Recording [ TER / CD - released 12/Jul/1984 ] Baby is a musical with a book by Sybille Pearson, based on a story developed with Susan Yankowitz, music by David Shire, and lyrics by Richard Maltby Jr. It concerns the reactions of three couples each expecting a child. |
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JOHN KANDER / FRED EBB
Kander/Ebb: The Rink Chita Rivera & Liza Minnelli / Original Broadway Cast Recording [ TER / CD - released 17/May/1984 ] The Rink is a musical with a book by Terrence McNally, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and music by John Kander, the tenth Kander and Ebb collaboration. |
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WALTER MARKS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Marks: Bajour Chita Rivera, Nancy Dussault & Herschel Bernardi / Original Broadway Cast [ Sony Broadway / CD - released 1/Jan/1992 ] Bajour is a musical with a book by Ernest Kinoy and music and lyrics by Walter Marks. The musical is based on the Joseph Mitchell short stories The Gypsy Women and The King of the Gypsies published in The New Yorker. The title is allegedly a Romani... |
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JOHN WILLIAMS / MIKLOS ROZSA / FRANZ WAXMAN / ERICH KORNGOLD / etc
Classic Film Music Cincinnati Pops Orchestra & Erich Kunzel [ Concord / Telarc / 5 CD - released 8/Mar/2019 ] Features music from some of the most popular movies of the past several decades: Star Wars, Jurassic Park, ET, Star Trek, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Minority Report, The Thorn Birds, Shakespeare in Love, On Golden Pond, Titanic, and Crouching Tiger... |
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MIKLOS ROZSA
The Essential Miklos Rozsa (suites from Ben-Hur, El Cid, The Thief of Bagdad, Quo Vadis, etc) City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra / Crouch End Festival Chorus / Kenneth Alwyn / Paul Bateman / etc [ Silva Screen Records / 2 CD - released 20/Nov/2005 ] LATEST RELEASE IN THE ESSENTIAL FILM COMPOSERS SERIES 2CD SET OVER 100 MINUTES OF MUSIC THE CITY OF PRAGUE PHILHARMOINIC CONDUCTED BY KENNETH ALWYN PAUL BATEMAN AND NIC RAINE |
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The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus
The Music Of James Horner [2 CDs] [ Silva Screen / 2 CD - released 31/May/2011 ] A comprehensive 2CD, 27 track collection, celebrating one of the most prolific and accomplished composers working in Hollywood today. James Horner's outstanding film music career has seen him work with the greatest directors of the last three... |
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LIONEL BART
Bart: Oliver! [Deluxe Collector's Edition] Clive Revil & Georgia Brown / Original Broadway Cast Recording [ RCA Victor Records / CD - released 16/May/2002 ] Oliver! is a coming-of-age stage musical, with book, music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. The musical is based upon the 1838 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. Oliver! ran on Broadway, after being brought to the U.S. by David Merrick in 1963. |
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JERRY BOCK / SHELDON HARNICK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bock: Tenderloin - A Musical Comedy David Ogden Stiers & Debbie Gravitte / 2000 Original Cast Recording [ DRG Theater / CD - released 1/Jan/2000 ] Tenderloin is a musical with a book by George Abbott and Jerome Weidman, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and music by Jerry Bock, their follow-up to the highly successful Pulitzer Prize-winning Fiorello! a year earlier. |
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CAROL HALL
Hall: The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public Dee Hoty, Scott Holmes & Ronn Carroll / Original Broadway Cast Recording [ Varese Sarabande Spotlight Series / CD - released 25/Aug/1994 ] The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public is a musical with a book by Larry L. King and Peter Masterson and music and lyrics by Carol Hall. It is a sequel to the 1978 musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. |
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CHARLES STROUSE
Strouse: Bring Back Birdie Donald O'Connor & Chita Rivera / Original 1881 Broadway Cast Recording [ Varese Sarabande Spotlight Series / CD - released 17/May/1993 ] Bring Back Birdie was a 1981 musical with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Lee Adams, and a book by Michael Stewart. It was a sequel to the 1960 musical Bye Bye Birdie, which was written by the same team. Taking place twenty years after Bye Bye... |
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RICHARD ROGERS
Rodgers: The King and I Donna Murphy, Lou Diamond Phillips, Taewon Kim / 1996 New Broadway Cast [ Varese Sarabande / CD - released 2/Feb/1996 ] This production was produced on Broadway, opening on April 11, 1996, at the Neil Simon Theatre, starring Donna Murphy as Anna, who won a Tony Award for her performance, and Lou Diamond Phillips as the King |
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STEPHEN SONDHEIM
Sondheim: Follies Dorothy Collins, Gene Nelson / Original 1971 Broadway Cast [ Angel / Broadway / CD - released 17/May/1992 ] The original Broadway production, directed by Harold Prince and Michael Bennett, with choreography by Bennett, opened April 4, 1971. The musical was nominated for 11 Tony Awards and won seven. |
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Electric Light Orchestra / Olivia Newton-John
O.S.T. - Xanadu [ Sony / CD - released 2/Feb/1998 ] |
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DUKE ELLINGTON
Ellington: Pousse-Cafe Ellis Larkin plays / Marshall Barer & Barbara Lea sing [ Audiophile Records / CD - released 17/May/1992 ] Never before recorded. Songs from the original Broadway production. |