Friday, April 17, 2015
Film Soundtrack, 1984 (Columbia/Legacy) Directed by Herbert Ross, with a screenplay by Dean Pitchford, Footloose is about some small-town teenagers who attack a municipal ordinance and do ba…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 04:17PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 7, 2015
The Musicals Tonight! production of the delicious 1933 musical Pardon My English, with a score by George and Ira Gershwin and a book by Herbert Fields and Morrie Ryskind, opens tonight. Dire…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 08:44AM[SHARE]Saturday, April 4, 2015
Original Broadway Cast, 1971 (Capitol/Angel/Kritzerland) To many, Follies is one of the greatest of all shows, possibly the ultimate musical theater piece. Others find it cultishly "interest…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 04:03PM[SHARE]Columbia University Cast, 1980 (Original Cast Records) It's like dredging up riches from the Titanic: An unknown Rodgers and Hart score, their Columbia University varsity show from 1920, del…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 03:49PM[SHARE]Original Off-Broadway Cast, 1962 (Mercury/no CD) The cast album of this virtually forgotten musical is especially notable for two of its principal cast members: Avon Long, whose lengthy and …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 03:01PM[SHARE]Original Off-Broadway Cast, 1996 (Nonesuch) In telling this bleak, based-in-truth story of a Kentucky man trapped in a cave and the media circus that surrounds him and his family during the …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 02:45PM[SHARE]Original London Cast, 1980 (Original Cast Records) The musical Flowers for Algernon " or, as it was actually titled onstage, Charlie and Algernon " is based on the Daniel Keyes novel about a…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 02:38PM[SHARE]Original Broadway Cast, 1958 (Columbia/Sony) Although Flower Drum Song doesn't have the substance of most of Rodgers and Hammerstein's other shows, it features one of the team's most enjoyab…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 01:20PM[SHARE]Friday, March 27, 2015
Original London Cast, 1900-15 (various labels/Opal) The blurb on the CD cover calls this "the world's first-ever original cast album!" Well, the cast of the 1899 success did enter the Gramop…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 03:51PM[SHARE]Original Broadway Cast, 1965 (RCA) John Kander and Fred Ebb's first show together tells the story of Flora Meszaros (Liza Minnelli), who is thrilled to get a garment-district job during the …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 03:01PM[SHARE]Original Broadway Cast, 1951 (Capitol/DRG) With a title such as this, could you possibly expect something ordinary? Flahooley was the brainchild of E. Y. Harburg, who wanted to satirize big …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 02:48PM[SHARE]Original London Cast, 1997 (First Night/Relativity) An American political satire starring a Scotsman and an Australian, The Fix was a succes d'estime in a Sam Mendes-directed production at t…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 02:39PM[SHARE]Original London Cast, 1991 (First Night) Super-producer Cameron Mackintosh found this little revue of Louis Jordan songs at the Theatre Royal Stratford in London's East End and liked it so m…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 02:24PM[SHARE]Original Los Angeles Cast, 2002 (PS Classics) Although Michael John LaChiusa's First Lady Suite premiered Off-Broadway in 1993, the piece wasn't recorded until it was staged in Los Angeles n…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 02:01PM[SHARE]Original London Cast, 1996 (First Night) A curious musical with a curious history: It opened in New Jersey to respectable reviews, traveled to London for a sort of protracted New York tryout…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 12:08PM[SHARE]Studio Cast, 2004 (PS Classics) PS Classics' recording of this 1930 musical presents a fairly conventional score by Kay Swift and Paul James (a nom de plume for Swift's husband, James Warbur…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 12:01PM[SHARE]Original Broadway Cast, 1959 (Columbia! DRG) There may be a beguiling musical to be coaxed out of Pride and Prejudice, but Abe Burrows' attempt isn't it. Like several shows of the era, this …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:53AM[SHARE]BBC Radio Concert Cast, 2003 (Capriccio, 2CDs) Capriccio and the BBC left no manuscript unturned in reconstructing Kurt Weill's biggest Broadway flop, a 1945 operetta about Benvenuto Cellini…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:21AM[SHARE]Original Broadway Cast, 1959 (Capitol/Angel) In an earlier era of musical theater, it was not uncommon for an overture to start with a sound effect. Here, we have the sound of a fire-engine …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Original Broadway Cast, 1947 (Columbia/Sony) The mélange of singing styles heard on the first recording of Finian's Rainbow is intriguing, but may strike some listeners as confusing. Ella L…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 03:40PM[SHARE]New York Concert Cast, 1991 (New World Records) Â Anything Goes may be rated the most fun Cole Porter score, but consider this 1929 hit, a whoop of joy from the late Jazz Age that makes r…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 03:15PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Original Broadway Cast, 1964 (RCA) One of the glories of the RCA cast album catalogue, this is a treasured memento of the original production of the Jerry Bock-Sheldon Harnick-Joseph Stein m…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:43AM[SHARE]Monday, March 23, 2015
Original Off-Broadway Cast, 1960 (MGM/Decca ) There's a reason why the original Off-Broadway production of this show ran for more than forty years. The prototype for every little Off Broadwa…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 05:11PM[SHARE]Original Broadway Cast, 1954 (RCA) Based on Marcel Pagnol's Marseilles trilogy about love and abandonment on the French Riviera, this nearly forgotten show has a beautiful score by Harold Ro…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 04:41PM[SHARE]Original Broadway Cast, 1961 (United Artists/DRG) This recording begins with the strains of "Here Comes the Bride," then the first words we hear are "Will you marry me?" The story goes on to…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 04:20PM[SHARE]Original London Cast, 1995 (Polydor) No stars; not recommended. After achieving great success as a movie and a TV series, Fame landed with a thud when it hit the stage. All about students at…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 03:57PM[SHARE]Original Off-Broadway Casts, 1981/1990 (DRG, 2CDs) Â Although the second and third installments of William Finn's "Marvin Trilogy" were originally produced nine years apart (the first ins…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 03:33PM[SHARE]Original Broadway Cast, 1964 (ABC-Paramount/Decca) This musical spoof of Hollywood in the 1930s is best known for its star's attempts to bail out of it. Betty Comden and Adolph Green tailore…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 03:13PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 14, 2015
Original Off-Broadway Cast, 2001 (RCA) Â A Class Act represents an important bit of modern musical theater history, and this recording of the Manhattan Theatre Club production is an intri…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 03:30PM[SHARE]The lusty Lerner and Loewe musical Paint Your Wagon has a wonderful score, but it's not a show you see revived every day, which makes it a perfect choice for the City Center Encores! series.…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 12:05PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Studio Cast, 1976 (MCA, 2CDs) This final collaboration (to date) of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Tim Rice is also the last really good musical theater piece to come from ALW's p…
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