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CY COLEMAN / NEIL DIAMOND / KANDER & EBB / RICHARD ADLER
Coleman: Will Rogers Follies Keith Carradine & Dee Hoty / Original Broadway Cast Recording [ Columbia / CD - released 12/Jul/1991 ] The Will Rogers Follies is a musical with a book by Peter Stone, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and music by Cy Coleman. |
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BRENDA RUSSELL / ALICE WILLIS / STEPHEN BRAY
Russell: The Color Purple - A new musical LaChanze & Elisabeth Withers-Mendes / Original Broadway Cast Recording [ EMI Angel / CD - released 5/Dec/2005 ] The Color Purple is a musical with music and lyrics by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis, and Stephen Bray, and a book by Marsha Norman, based on the 1982 novel of the same name by Alice Walker and its 1985 film adaptation. The musical follows the journey... |
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CHARLES STROUSE
Strouse: Dance a Little Closer Len Cariou & Liz Robertson / Original 1983 Broadway Cast Recording [ TER / CD - released 12/Jul/1989 ] Dance a Little Closer is a musical with a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Charles Strouse. The story is an updated version of Robert E. Sherwood's 1936 antiwar comedy Idiot's Delight. |
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RICHARD RODGERS / LORENZ HART
Rodgers: On Your Toes Natalia Makarova / Original 1983 Broadway Cast Recording [ TER / CD - released 5/Oct/2010 ] The first Broadway revival, directed by Abbott and choreographed by Balanchine, opened on October 11, 1954 at the 46th Street Theatre, where it ran for 64 performances. The second revival started in 1982 with national previews. |
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MITCH LEIGH
Leigh: Man of La Mancha Richard Kiley & Irving Jacobson / Original 1965 Broadway Cast Recording [ Decca Broadway / CD - released 2/Feb/2001 ] Man of La Mancha is a 1965 musical with a book by Dale Wasserman, music by Mitch Leigh, and lyrics by Joe Darion. It is adapted from Wasserman's non-musical 1959 teleplay I, Don Quixote, which was in turn inspired by Miguel de Cervantes and his... |
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George Gershwin
Crazy For You Original Broadway Cast Recording [ Broadway Angel / CD - released 28/Aug/1992 ] |
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JOHN KANDER / FRED EBB
Kander/Ebb: Curtains David Hyde Pierce & Debra Monk / Original Broadway Cast Recording [ Angel Records / CD - released 12/Jul/2007 ] 'Curtains' is an entertaining play within a play, as well as a "whodunit" new musical comedy featuring one of the last scores by legendary, Tony Award-winning, songwriters John Kander and Fred Ebb ('Cabaret', 'Chicago', 'New York, New York'). |
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ALBERT HAGUE
Hague: Plain and Fancy Robert Derr & Barbara Cook / Original 1955 Broadway Cast Recording [ Angel / Broadway / CD - released 12/Jul/1993 ] Plain and Fancy is a musical comedy with a book by Joseph Stein and Will Glickman, lyrics by Arnold Horwitt, and music by Albert Hague. One of the first depictions of an Amish community in American pop culture. |
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NOEL GAY
Gay: Me and My Girl Robert Lindsay & Maryann Plunkett / Original Broadway Cast Recording (1986) [ MCA Classics / CD - released 17/May/1986 ] Me and My Girl is a musical with music by Noel Gay and its original book and lyrics by Douglas Furber and L. Arthur Rose. The story, set in the late 1930s, tells of an unapologetically unrefined cockney gentleman named Bill Snibson. |
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CHARLES STROUSE
Strouse: Golden Boy Sammy Davis Jr. & Paula Wayne / Original 1964 Broadway Cast Recording [ Angel Broadway Classics / CD - released 17/May/1993 ] Golden Boy is a 1964 musical with a book by Clifford Odets and William Gibson, lyrics by Lee Adams, and music by Charles Strouse. |
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MEREDITH WILLSON
Willson: The Unsinkable Molly Brown Tammy Grimes & Harve Presnell / Original 1960 Broadway Cast Recording [ Angel / Broadway Classics / CD - released 17/May/1993 ] The Unsinkable Molly Brown is a 1960 musical with music and lyrics by Meredith Willson and book by Richard Morris. The plot is a fictionalized account of the life of Margaret Brown, who survived the sinking of the RMS Titanic, and her wealthy... |
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SCOTT FRANKEL
Frankel: Grey Gardens - A New Musical Matt Cavenaugh & Christine Ebersole / Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording [ P.S. Classics / CD - released 22/Aug/2006 ] 'Grey Gardens' opened Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons on February 10, 2006, and ran through April 30, 2006. Directed by Michael Greif with choreography by Jeff Calhoun, it starred Christine Ebersole, Mary Louise Wilson, and John McMartin. |
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JOHN BUCCHINO
Bucchinio: A Catered Affair Faith Prince & Harvey Fierstein / Original Broadway Cast Recording [ PS Classics / CD - released 17/Jan/2011 ] A Catered Affair is a musical with a book by Harvey Fierstein and music and lyrics by John Bucchino. It is based on both the 1956 film The Catered Affair written by Gore Vidal and the original 1955 teleplay by Paddy Chayefsky, set in 1953. |
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JERRY BOCK / SHELDON HARNICK
Bock: Fiddler on the Roof [special edition with bonus tracks] Zero Mostel, Julia Migenes & Bert Convy / Original 1964 Broadway Cast Recording [ RCA Victor / CD - released 17/May/2003 ] Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia in or around 1905. It is based on Tevye and his Daughters (or Tevye the Dairyman) and... |
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Original Broadway Cast Recording
Book of Mormon [ Ghostlight Records / CD - released 1/Mar/2017 ] "Parker and Stone have created one of the freshest original musicals in recent memory. It has tuneful songs, clever lyrics, winning characters, explosive laughs and disarmingly intimate moments." Hollywood Reporter |
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Original Broadway Cast Recording
Wicked [ Decca CD / CD - released 28/Aug/2006 ] Original Broadway Cast recording of Wicked, Starring Kristin Chenowith, Idina Menzel and Joel Grey. Broadway's most talked about new musical. The box office is already over $10 Million! With a score by Stephen Schwartz (Broadway's Pippin,... |
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Original Broadway Cast Recording
Rocky [ Universal Music / CD - released 30/May/2014 ] The new Broadway musical ROCKY has an original score by the Tony Award-winning team Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens (Ragtime, Once On This Island), who are the album's producers; additionally the score incorporates the iconic songs "Eye Of The... |
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FRANK LOESSER / JULE STYNE
Loesser: Guys & Dolls / Styne: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Stubby Kaye, Robert Alda, Carol Channing & Vivian Blaine / Original 1949 & 1950 Broadway Cast Recording [ ASV Living Era / CD - released 17/May/2003 ] Guys and Dolls premiered on Broadway in 1950, where it ran for 1,200 performances and won the Tony Award for Best Musical. The musical has had several Broadway and London revivals, also as a 1955 film adaptation starring Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons. |