WILLIAM FINN
Finn: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Lisa Howard & Jay Reiss / Original 2005 Broadway Cast [ Ghostlight / CD - released 2/Feb/2005 ] The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a musical comedy with music and lyrics by William Finn, with a book written by Rachel Sheinkin, conceived by Rebecca Feldman with additional material by Jay Reiss. The show centers on a fictional spelling... |
STEPHEN SONDHEIM
Sondheim: A Little Night Music Hermoine Gingold & Len Cariou / Original 1973 Broadway Cast [ CBS Broadway Masterworks / CD - released 2/Feb/1998 ] "The original cast album has been a must-have from the day it was released in 1973 and this newly remastered CD gives it an extraordinary immediacy." Musical101 |
DAVID SHIRE
Shire: Starting Here Starting Now Loni Ackerman, Margaret Cohen / Original Cast Recording [ RCA Victor Original Cast Recording / CD - released 1/Jun/1977 ] Starting Here, Starting Now is a musical revue with lyrics by Richard Maltby Jr. and music by David Shire. With a cast of three and three musicians, the revue explores a variety of romantic relationships. |
EDWARD KLEBAN
Kleban: A Class Act Marty Bell & Chase Mishkin / Original Cast Recording [ RCA Victor / CD - released 2/Feb/2001 ] A Class Act is a quasi-autobiographical musical loosely based on the life of composer-lyricist Edward Kleban, who died at the age of 48 in 1987.[1] Featuring a book by Linda Kline and Lonny Price along with music and lyrics by Kleban himself, the... |
GEORGE GERSHWIN
Gershwin: Girl Crazy Mary Martin & Jan Clayton / Members of the Original Broadway Cast [ Prism Leisure / CD - released 1/Jun/1998 ] Girl Crazy is a 1930 musical by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin and book by Guy Bolton and John McGowan. Ethel Merman made her stage debut in the first production and co-lead Ginger Rogers became an overnight star. |
FRANK LOESSER
Loesser: How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying Matthew Broaderick & Jeff Blumenkrantz / 1995 Broadway Cast [ RCA Victor / CD - released 17/May/1995 ] How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying is a 1961 musical by Frank Loesser and book by Abe Burrows, Jack Weinstock, and Willie Gilbert, based on Shepherd Mead's 1952 book of the same name. The story concerns young, ambitious J. Pierrepont... |
CYRIL ORNADEL
Ornadel: Treasure Island - The Musical Mermaid Theatre with Jonathan Scott Taylor / Original Cast Recording [ Prestige Records / CD - released 17/May/1994 ] Direct from London's Mermaid Theatre, where it won the coveted 'Ivor Novello Award' for the best English musical of the year. Based very closely on the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, its story of Jim Hawkins, Long John Silver and pirate's treasure |
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,... |
HARRY WARREN & AL DUBIN
Warren: 42nd Street (First Complete Recording) Michael Gruber, Cathy Wydner, Kim Criswell & cast [ Jay Productions Masterworks Edition / CD - released 27/Sep/2022 ] JAY commenced the first complete recording of the original version of the musical with the original orchestrations by Philip J. Lang at Abbey Road Studios, London on October 5 1996 and completed in New York in October 1996. |
RICHARD RODGERS / OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II
Rodgers: Carousel Michael Hayden & Sally Murphy / 1994 Lincoln Center Theatre / Broadway Cast [ EMI Angel / CD - released 1/Jun/1994 ] 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. |
STEPHEN SONDHEIM
Sondheim: Pacific Overtures Michael K. Lee & Scott Watanabe / 2005 New Broadway Cast Recording [ PS Classics / CD - released 17/May/2005 ] Pacific Overtures is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by John Weidman, with "additional material by" Hugh Wheeler. Set in 19th-century Japan, it tells the story of the country's westernization starting in 1853, when... |
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. |
MEL BROOKS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Brooks: The Producers Nathan Lane & Matthew Broderick / Original Broadway Cast Recording [ Sony Classical / CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] The Producers is a musical with music and lyrics by Mel Brooks, and a book by Brooks and Thomas Meehan. It is adapted from Brooks's 1967 film of the same name. |
RICHARD RODGERS / OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II
Rodgers: Flower Drum Song Lea Salonga & Randall Duk Kim / 2002 New Broadway Cast Recording [ DRG / CD - released 27/Jan/2003 ] 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. It premiered on Broadway in 1958 and was then performed in the West End and on... |
COLE PORTER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Anything Goes New Broadway Cast Recording, with Patti LuPone & Howard McGlinn [ RCA Victor / CD - released 1/Jan/1988 ] One of the leaders in the trend of big splashy revivals in the late 1980s and early '90s, Lincoln Center's 1987 production of Anything Goes was the perfect evocation of the 1930s, from the period pit band to James McMullan's striking poster art to... |
Original Broadway Cast
Head Over Heels [ Sony Masterworks Broadway / CD - released 20/Nov/2018 ] "Head Over Heels" is the new album which features music from the hit Broadway musical. The album features x18 hit songs from The Go-Go's-The most successful female rock band of all time. The album includes the hit songs 'We Got the Beat', 'Get Up and... |
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... |
JEANINE TESORI
Tesori: Thoroughly Modern Millie Sheryl Lee Ralph, Harriet Harris / Original Broadway Cast [ RCA Records / CD - released 1/Jun/2002 ] Official import. Featuring Sutton Foster, Harriet Harris, Gavin Creel, Marc Kudisch, Angela Christian |
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 |
George Gershwin
Crazy For You Original Broadway Cast Recording [ Broadway Angel / CD - released 28/Aug/1992 ] |