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'). |
WRIGHT / FORREST
Kismet [plus excerpts from various other Kismet recordings] Original Broadway cast with Alfred Drake & Doretta Morrow [ Naxos Nostalgia Musicals / CD - released 1/Jul/2008 ] Baubles, bangles and B-movies...That's the best way to describe the crazy cast of characters - onstage and off - which led to the ultimate creation of the 1953 Broadway musical known as Kismet. |
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Candide (Original Broadway Cast) Original Broadway Cast, with Max Adrian & Barbara Cook [ Sony Music / CD - released 4/Oct/2004 ] This original 1956 production, with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Richard Wilbur, and libretto by Lillian Hellman, based on Voltaire's novel of the same name, was not a hit, except as a recording. Presenting the remarkable Broadway debut of... |
Original Cast
Meet Me In St Louis [ Drg / CD - released 1/Mar/2001 ] |
LESLIE BRICUSSE
Bricusse: Sherlock Holmes - The Musical Robert Powell & Roy Barraclough / Original Cast Recording [ Thats Entertainment / CD - released 19/Sep/1993 ] Sherlock Holmes - The Musical is a musical based on characters created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, with music, lyrics and book by Leslie Bricusse. |
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. |
JERRY ROSS / RICHARD ADLER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Damn Yankees Original cast recording with Gwen Verdon, Stephen Douglas, Ray Walston & Robert Shafer [ RCA Victor / CD - released 1/Jan/1988 ] Gwen Verdon headlining the original cast of "Damn Yankees." Re-issue of original 1955 release. |
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 |
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. |
STEPHEN SONDHEIM
Sondheim: Gypsy Patti LuPone & Boyd Gaines / 2008 Broadway Cast Recording [ Time Life / CD - released 17/May/2008 ] Gypsy: A Musical Fable is a musical with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents. It is loosely based on the 1957 memoirs of striptease artist Gypsy Rose Lee, and focuses on her mother, Rose, whose name has... |
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. |
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Bernstein: Wonderful Town {first complete recording) Rebecca Luker & Ron Raines / Studio Cast conducted by John Owen Edwards [ Jay Digital / 2 CD Box Set - released 17/May/1996 ] Wonderful Town is a 1953 musical with book written by Joseph A. Fields and Jerome Chodorov, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and music by Leonard Bernstein. |