BERNSTEIN
West Side Story - Original 1957 Broadway Cast Recording (with 'On the Waterfront') Original Broadway Cast with Mickey Calin, Larry Kert, Chita Rivera, Marilyn Cooper & Carol Lawrence [ Naxos Musicals / CD - released 20/Oct/2009 ] "The 1957 sound came right at the beginning of the stereo era and obviously wanted to show off the possibilities the format offered, and is amazingly good for that time, both in terms of definition and impact." David's Review Corner, September 2009 |
Various Artists / Original Cast Recording
Miss Saigon [ Decca Records / 2 CD - released 14/Jul/2007 ] This double disc set is the original 1989 London cast featuring Claire Moore, Simon Bowman, Keith Burns, Peter Polycarpou, Claude-Michel Schonberg, Jonathan Pryce, Alain Boublil, etc. |
Original Cast Recording
Motown the Musical [ CD - released 14/Jun/2013 ] Co-produced by multi-GRAMMY Award winner Frank Filipetti and TONY Award nominee Ethan Popp, the original Broadway cast recording of "Motown The Musical" features a supremely talented cast performing exciting new versions of Motown classics. |
ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER
Webber: Starlight Express Original Cast Recording [ Polydor / 2 CD Box Set - released 2/Feb/1984 ] Starlight Express is a 1984 British musical, with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Richard Stilgoe. It tells the story of a young but obsolete steam engine, Rusty, who races in a championship against modern engines in the hope of impressing... |
Original Cast, with Brian Blessed, Elaine Paige, Sarah Brightman, Wayne Steep, Paul NIcolaus, etc
Cats (Original UK Cast Recording - remastered) [ Polydor Records / 2 CD - released 13/Nov/1998 ] The Original Cast recording of 'Cats' features Elaine Paige, Paul Nicholas, Sarah Brightman, Brian Blessed, Bonnie Langford, Myra Sands, Jeff Shankley, etc. This iedition was digitally remastered at Abbey Road Studios |
Richard Burton & Original BBC Cast
Reads Under Milk Wood (Plus Bonus Poetry) [ Alto / 2 CD - released 8/Apr/2013 ] The famous original BBC production of Under Milk Wood includes Richard Burton; Richard Bebb; Hugh Griffith; Rachel Thomas; Diana Maddox; Dafydd Havard; Sybil Williams; Dilys Davies; Rachel Roberts; John Huw Jones & many more: songs set by Daniel... |
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (unabridged) Sean Baker / Emma Fielding / Anton Lesser / Benjamin Soames / Edward de Souza and full cast [ Naxos Audio Books / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/Mar/2007 ] Hamlet, which dates from 1600-1601, is the first in Shakespeare's great series of four tragedies, the others being Othello (1603), King Lear (1605) and Macbeth (1606). In writing this extraordinary play, Shakespeare effectively re-invented tragedy... |
Soundtrack / Original Cast Recording
Baz Luhrmann's Production of Puccini's La Boheme on Broadway [ Mushroom Records / CD - released 3/Feb/2003 ] 'Suddenly there is colour in grey, grey world'. A beautiful re-inrepretation. |
Tony Hancock & BBC Radio cast
Hancock's Half Hour: The "Lost" Radio Episodes [ BBC Audio / CD - released 5/Nov/2009 ] Tony Hancock stars in two long-lost episodes from the classic BBC Radio series.'Sid James's Dad' (28 October 1956) & 'The Diet' (7 December 1955). |
LEWIS CARROLL
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (unabridged) Read by Jo Wyatt, David Horovitch and full cast [ Naxos Audiobooks / 3 CD - released 29/May/2006 ] Alice's adventures, funny, inventive and disturbing, have fascinated children and adults alike since their publication. This is a new unabridged recording using many voices to take the parts of The White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter, the Queen of Hearts... |
BBC television cast with Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Stephen Fry, Tim McInnerny, Miranda Richardson & Rik Mayall
Blackadder II [ BBC World of Comedy / CD - released 20/Nov/2009 ] Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Stephen Fry, Tim McInnerny, Miranda Richardson and Rik Mayall star in the first two hilarious episodes of Richard Curtis and Ben Elton's Elizabethan sitcom. |
Various Artists including original cast recordings
Broadway Hits And Show-stoppers [ Jasmine / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/Jan/2008 ] Most other Broadway collections feature just studio or orchestral recreations of the tunes, but Jasmine's superlative new 4CD set features the original performances by the original stars! 100 titles from 1927-1957 spanning three decades. |
RICHARD RODGERS / OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II
Rodgers: Flower Drum Song Juanita Hall, Pat Suzuki, Patrick Adiarte ./ Original Broadway Cast [ Sony / Columbia / CD - released 14/Mar/1999 ] Flower Drum Song was the eighth musical by the team of Rodgers and Hammerstein. It is based on the 1957 novel, The Flower Drum Song, by Chinese-American author C. Y. Lee. |
Rex Harrison, Julie Andrews, Stanley Holloway & Cast
My Fair Lady: 1956 Original Broadway Cast [ Columbia Records / CD - released 2/Feb/1988 ] The Broadway cast recording of the musical My Fair Lady was released as an album on April 2, 1956. The songs were composed by Frederick Loewe with lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and conducted by Franz Allers, while the cast included stars Julie Andrews... |
Original Broadway Cast
The Lion King (+DVD) [ EMI / CD - released 25/Oct/2010 ] |
Original Cast Recording (1970) / Various
Jesus Christ Superstar (2CD) [ Decca Broadway / 2 CD - released 16/Jul/2012 ] Featuring Ian Gillan, Murray Head, Mike D'Abo, Yvonne Elliman etc. |
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. |
BBC television cast with David Janson, Nicholas Lyndhurst & Leonard Pearce
Only Fools And Horses [ BBC World of Comedy / CD - released 20/Nov/2009 ] David Jason, Nicholas Lyndhurst and Lennard Pearce star in two episodes of Britain's best-loved sitcom ("The Long Legs Of The Law" and "The Yellow Peril"), written by John Sullivan. |
Original Cast Album, with Ellen Greene & Lee Wilkof
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Little Shop Of Horrors [ Geffen / CD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] Little Shop of Horrors is a horror comedy rock musical with music by Alan Menken and lyrics and a book by Howard Ashman. The story follows a hapless florist shop worker who raises a plant that feeds on human blood and flesh. The musical is loosely... |
BBC television cast with Dawn French, Gary Waldhorn, James Fleet & Emma Chambers
The Vicar Of Dibley [ BBC World of Comedy / CD - released 20/Nov/2009 ] Dawn French and all the cast star in very first two episodes ("Arrival" and "Songs Of Praise") of ever-popular sitcom, written by Richard Curtis. |