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 |
CHARLES STROUSE
Strouse: Nick & Nora Barry Bostick & Joanna Gleason / Original Broadway Cast [ TER / CD - released 2/Feb/1992 ] Nick & Nora is a musical with a book by Arthur Laurents, lyrics by Richard Maltby, Jr., music by Charles Strouse. The plot involves witty and urbane high society couple Nick and Nora Charles, characters created by Dashiell Hammett in 'The Thin Man'. |
GARY WILLIAM FRIEDMAN
Friedman: Sunset Tammy Grimes & Ronee Blakley / Original Off Broadway Cast [ Thats Entertainment / CD - released 23/Jun/2008 ] The release of TER's cast recording of Gary William Friedman and Will Holt's 'Sunset', is a welcome return to the market of a small scale, independent musical, that has steadily grown in reputation and popularity since its initial stage run in... |
DAVID KIRSHENBAUM
Kirshenbaum: Summer of '42 Rachel York, Bill Buell, Danielle Ferland / Original Cast Recording [ Jay / 2 CD ] This cast recording, dating from five years after the show's one-month off-Broadway run, is about a match for the David Kirshenbaum score and the Hunter Foster book, all based on the Herman Raucher novel and screenplay. |
RICHARD RODGERS / LORENZ HART
Rodgers: Pal Joey Patti Lupone & Peter Gallagher / 1995 Original New York Cast [ DRG Theatre / CD - released 17/May/1995 ] Pal Joey is a 1940 musical with a book by John O'Hara and music and lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. The musical is based on a character and situations O'Hara created in a series of short stories published in The New Yorker, which he later... |
JERRY BOCK / SHELDON HARNICK
Bock: The Rothschilds Paul Hecht, Leila Martin / Original Broadway Cast [ Sony Broadway / CD - released 1/Jun/2002 ] The Rothschilds is a musical with a book by Sherman Yellen, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick and music by Jerry Bock. |
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. |
JOHNNY MERCER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mercer: Top Banana Phil Silvers & Rose Marie / 1951 Original Broadway Cast [ DRG Theater / CD - released 1/Aug/1999 ] Top Banana is a musical with music and lyrics by Johnny Mercer and book by Hy Kraft which premiered on Broadway in 1951. The show was written as a star vehicle for comedian Phil Silvers. |
MAURY YESTON
Yeston: "Nine" Raul Julia & Karen Akers / Original Cast Recording [ Sony Columbia Broadway Masterworks / 2 CD - released 17/May/1982 ] Nine is a musical whose original conception and music and lyrics are by Maury Yeston, with a book by Arthur Kopit. It is based on Federico Fellini's semi-autobiographical 1963 film 8½. |
RICHARD RODGERS / OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II
Rodgers: South Pacific Reba McEntire & Brian Stokes Mitchell / 2005 Carnegie Hall Concert Original Broadway Cast [ Decca Broadway / CD - released 17/May/2006 ] The New York Times critic Ben Brantley wrote, "Open-voiced and open-faced, Reba McEntire was born to play Nellie"; the production was received "in a state of nearly unconditional rapture. |
RICHARD RODGERS
Rodgers: No Strings Richard Kiley & Diahann Carroll / Original Broadway Cast [ Angel / Broadway / CD - released 17/May/1993 ] No Strings is a musical drama with book by Samuel A. Taylor and words and music by Richard Rodgers. No Strings is the only Broadway score for which Rodgers wrote both lyrics and music. |
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. |
FRANK LOESSER
Loesser: How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying Robert Morse, Rudy Vallee / Original Broadway Cast [ RCA Victor / CD - released 17/May/1993 ] After a 3½-week pre-Broadway tryout at the Shubert Theatre in Philadelphia starting December 2, 1948, the original Broadway production opened on December 30, 1948, at the New Century Theatre, where it ran for nineteen months. |
MEREDITH WILLSON
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Willson: The Music Man Robert Preston & Barbara Cook / Original Broadway Cast [ Capital / CD - released 17/May/1992 ] The Music Man is a musical with book, music, and lyrics by Meredith Willson, based on a story by Willson and Franklin Lacey. The plot concerns con man Harold Hill, who poses as a boys' band organizer and leader and sells band instruments and uniforms... |
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bernstein: Wonderful Town Rosalind Russell & George Gaynes / 1953 Original Broadway Cast / plus 1945 cast [ Decca Broadway / CD - released 26/Feb/2001 ] Touched by tragedy, conceived in confusion and delivered with dissent, there's no possible reason that Wonderful Town should have lasted past opening night, yet alone become one of the classics of the musical theatre. Yet somehow it did and... |
CHRIS ANDREWS
Andrews: Tom Brown's Schooldays Roy Dotrice & Judith Bruce / Original Cast Recording [ Must Close Saturday Records / CD - released 17/May/1991 ] A musical in 2 acts by Jack and Joan Maitland; based on the novel by Thomas Hughes: Music by Chris Andrews. Originally produced as an amateur musical at the Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon 6 November, 1971 as Young Tom. |
RICHARD ADLER
Adler: Kwamina [Original Broadway Cast] Sally Ann Howes, Terry Carter / Original Broadway Cast [ Angel / Broadway / CD - released 17/May/1993 ] The musical opened in out of town tryouts in Toronto, where, as noted by Ken Mandelbaum "The reviews were promising" and then ran in Boston. Kwamina premiered on Broadway at the 54th Street Theatre on October 23, 1961 and closed after 32 performances |
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. |
KEITH HERRMANN
Herrmann: Romance Romance Scott Bakula & Alison Fraser / Original Broadway Cast [ MCA Records / CD - released 12/Jul/1988 ] Romance/Romance is a musical with a book and lyrics by Barry Harman and music by Keith Herrmann. |
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. |