RICHARD RODGERS / OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II
Rodgers: Carousel John Raitt & Jan Clayton / Original Broadway & London Cast recordings recorded in 1945 & 1950 [ Prism Leisure / CD - released 1/Jun/2000 ] Carousel is the second musical by the team of Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (book and lyrics). The 1945 work was adapted from Ferenc Molnár's 1909 play Liliom, transplanting its Budapest setting to the Maine coastline. The story... |
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER / ALAN AYCKBOURN
Webber: By Jeeves Malcolm Sinclair & Steven Pacey / Original London Cast [ Really Useful Records / CD - released 7/Jun/1996 ] By Jeeves is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, and lyrics and book by Alan Ayckbourn. It is based on the series of novels and short stories by P. G. Wodehouse that centre around the character of Bertie Wooster and his valet, Jeeves. |
Tim Rice / Benny Andersson / Bjorn Ulvaeus
Chess Elaine Paige, Tommy Korberg, Barbara Dickson, Denis Quilley, Bjorn Skifs, & Murray Head / Original 1979 London Cast Recording [ Universal Music / 2 CD - released 10/May/1996 ] Starring Elaine Paige, Tommy Korberg, Barbara Dickson, Denis Quilley, Bjorn Skifs, & Murray Head, this is the original, definitive version of the very successful musical / concept album 'Chess' |
BEE GEES & OTHERS
Bee Gees: Saturday Night Fever - The Musical Adam Garcia, Richard Colkin, Tara Wilkinson / Original London Cast [ Polydor / CD - released 28/Jan/1998 ] Saturday Night Fever is a 1998 jukebox musical based on the 1977 film Saturday Night Fever. Its book is by Nan Knighton (in collaboration with Arlene Phillips, Paul Nicholas, and Robert Stigwood). |
MONTY NORMAN
Norman: Songbook Anton Rodgers & Gemma Craven / Original 1979 London Cast Recording [ DRG Theater / CD - released 12/Jul/2001 ] Songbook (New York title The Moony Shapiro Songbook) is a musical with music by Monty Norman and book and lyrics by Monty Norman and Julian More. The musical tells the improbable life story of a fictional songwriter, born in Liverpool in 1908, who... |
MONTY NORMAN
Belle, or the Ballad of Dr. Crippen George Benson & Virginia Vernon / Original London Cast Recording [ Must Close Saturday Night Records / CD - released 12/Jul/2001 ] First, the mysterious disappearance of a mediocre music-hall artiste, Belle Elmore. Then the flight - questioned by the police, her husband, mild, charming little Doctor Crippen, sails off with his secretary (the other woman) Ethel le Neve. |
HUGH MARTIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Martin: Love From Judy [plus other selections by the stars] Jean Carson, Bill O'Connor & Adelaide Hall / Original London Cast [ Sepia Records / CD - released 1/Jan/2004 ] Love from Judy is a musical with music by Hugh Martin, lyrics by Martin and Jack Gray, and a book by Eric Maschwitz and Jean Webster. It is based on Webster's novel and play Daddy-Long-Legs. The original production opened in Coventry in 1951. |
MARTIN SILVESTRI
Silvestri: The Fields of Ambrosia Joel Higgins & Christine Andreas / Original London Cast [ First Night Records / CD - released 7/Jun/1996 ] The Fields of Ambrosia is a musical written by Joel Higgins and Martin Silvestri. It was performed in the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1993 and it was directed by Gregory Hurst, choreographed by Lynne Taylor-Corbett, staged... |
JULE STYNE
Styne: Bar Mitzvah Boy (1978) Joyce Blair & Harry Towb / Original London Cast Recording [ Sony West End / CD - released 12/Jul/2001 ] Bar Mitzvah Boy is a musical with a book by Jack Rosenthal, lyrics by Don Black, and music by Jule Styne. Based on Rosenthal's award-winning 1976 BBC1 teleplay of the same name, it focuses on young Eliot Green who, filled with apprehension,... |
RICHARD & ROBERT SHERMAN
Sherman: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Michael Ball, Emma Williams & Anton Rodgers / Original 2002 London Cast Recording [ Sony Classical / CD - released 2/Feb/2002 ] Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a musical with music and lyrics written by Richard and Robert Sherman and a book by Jeremy Sams. It is sometimes referred to as Chitty the Musical to distinguish it from the 1968 film of the same name on which it is based,... |
Original Broadway Cast [Fair Lady] / Original London Cast [Oliver!]
Hit Musical Double: My Fair Lady / Oliver! [ Alto Take:2 / CD - released 19/Jul/2019 ] Casts include Julie Andrews, Rex Harrison, Stanley Holloway, Robert Coote, Georgia Brown Ron Moody, Danny Sewell, and, Hope Jackman |
KURT WEILL
Weill: The Threepenny Opera Tom Hollander, Sharon Small, Tara Hugo / Original Cast Donmar [London] [ Jay / CD - released 24/Nov/2003 ] On December 8 1994, the new production of Weill's and Brecht's 'The Threepenny Opera' opened at the Donmar Warehouse in London to critical acclaim. Jeremy Sams' new translation sets the work in London in the near future. |
HAROLD ROME
Rome: Destry Rides Again Alfred Molina & Jill Gascoine / Original London Cast [ TER / CD - released 5/Jul/2010 ] Destry Rides Again is a 1959 musical comedy with music and lyrics by Harold Rome and a book by Leonard Gershe. The play is based on the 1939 film of the same name. |
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER
Song & Dance [Incls 'Variations'] Original London Cast [ Decca / 2 CD - released 20/Dec/2018 ] Recorded Live at the Palace Theatre 7th April 1982 |
STEPHEN SONDHEIM
Sondheim: Pacific Overtures Paul Strathearnj & Eric Roberts / English National Opera/Original London Cast, James Holmes [ TER / Thats Entertainment / 2 CD Box Set - released 3/Nov/1989 ] Pacific Overtures is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by John Weidman, with "additional material by" Hugh Wheeler. |
RICHARD & ROBERT SHERMAN
Sherman: Mary Poppins Laura Micheele & Gavin Lee / Original 2005 London Cast Recording [ Walt Disney / CD - released 2/Feb/2005 ] Mary Poppins is a musical with music and lyrics by Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman (the Sherman Brothers) and additional music and lyrics by George Stiles and Anthony Drewe, and a script by Julian Fellowes. |
CHARLES STROUSE
Strouse: Nightingale - A New Musical Sarah Brightman & Gordon Sandison / Original 1982 London Cast [ Jay Digital / CD - released 2/Feb/1999 ] Nightingale: A New Musical is a musical (described by the composer as a children's opera) in one act, with book, music and lyrics by Charles Strouse. It is based on Hans Christian Andersen's 1843 fairy tale, "The Nightingale". |
GEORGES BIZET / OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Carmen Jones Wilhelmenia Fernandez, Sharon Benson, Damon Evans, Michael Austin, Gregg Baker / Original London Cast [ EMI Classics / CD - released 18/Feb/1991 ] The first London production from April 1991. Original orchestrations by Robert Russell Bennett |
Andrew Lloyd Webber / Original London Cast Recording
Aspects of Love: Deluxe Edition [ Universal Music / 2 CD - released 20/Dec/2005 ] Available as a double CD set from Europe, this digitally re-mastered, deluxe edition of 'Aspects of Love' includes a full libretto and special packaging. |
Original 1976 London Studio Cast
Evita: An Opera Based on the Life Story of Eva Peron [20th Anniversary Edition] (2CD) [ MCA Records / 2 CD Box Set - released 5/Jul/2015 ] This is the 25th Anniversary Edition double disc set of 'Evita', and features Tony Christie, Paul Jones, Julie Covington, etc. |
ROGERS and HAMMERSTEIN
The King And I (recorded 1951 & 1954) Original Broadway Cast / Original London Cast (Yul Brynner, Valerie Hobson, Robert Merrill, Gertrude Lawrence, Herbert Lom & others [ Naxos Nostalgia Musicals / CD - released 11/May/2006 ] This disc also features selections from an RCA 'cover' recording made with popular vocalists of the period, released before the show opened on Broadway and features an Overture that was put together expressly for the purpose. |
CLAUDE-MICHEL SCHOENBERG / ALAIN BOUBLIL
Schonberg/Boublil: Miss Saigon Miss Saigon / Original London Cast [ Geffen / 2 CD Box Set - released 2/Feb/1990 ] Miss Saigon is a stage musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby Jr. It is based on Giacomo Puccini's 1904 opera Madame Butterfly, and similarly tells the tragic tale of a doomed romance. |