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. |
FRANK LOESSER
Loesser: Guys & Dolls Peter Gallagher, Nathan Lane & Faith Prince / New Broadway Cast Recording [ RCA Victor / CD - released 17/May/1992 ] Guys and Dolls is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. It is based on "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" (1933) and "Blood Pressure", which are two short stories by Damon Runyon, and also borrows... |
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. |
DYLAN THOMAS
Under Milk Wood Richard Burton and full cast [ Regis Records / 2 CD - released 16/Feb/2005 ] The famous original production for the BBC. Cast includes Richard Burton, Richard Bebb, Hugh Griffith, Rachel Thomas, Diana Maddox & more. |
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. |
ERVIN DRAKE
Drake: Her First Roman Richard Kiley & Leslie Uggams / 25th Anniversary Cast Recording [ Lockett Palmer Recordings / CD - released 17/May/1993 ] Her First Roman is a musical with music, lyrics, and book by Ervin Drake, based on the 1898 George Bernard Shaw play Caesar and Cleopatra. |
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. |
HARVEY SCHMIDT
Schmidt: 110 in the Shade [First complete recording] Ron Haines & Karen Ziemba / 1999 Studio Cast [ Jay Productions Masterworks Edition / 2 CD - released 17/May/1999 ] 110 in the Shade is a musical with a book by N. Richard Nash, lyrics by Tom Jones, and music by Harvey Schmidt. A 1992 New York City Opera production, directed by Scott Ellis and choreographed by Susan Stroman, starred Karen Ziemba as Lizzie. |
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... |
VERNON DUKE
Duke: Cabin in the Sky Rosetta le Noire, Ketty Lester / 1963 New York Revival Cast Recording [ Angel / Broadway Classics / CD - released 17/May/1993 ] Cabin in the Sky is a musical with music by Vernon Duke, book by Lynn Root, and lyrics by John Latouche. The musical opened on Broadway in 1940. The show is described as a "parable of Southern Negro Life. |
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. |