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GEORGE STILES
Stiles: Honk! - a musical comedy Michael McClean & Nicolas Colicos / 1997 Stephen Joseph Theatre Production [ Dress Circle / CD - released 17/May/1998 ] Honk! is a musical adaptation of the 1843 Hans Christian Andersen story The Ugly Duckling, incorporating a message of tolerance. The book and lyrics are by Anthony Drewe and music is by George Stiles. |
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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. |
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HOAGY CARMICHAEL / FATS WALLER / JAY GORNEY / RALPH BLANE / DUKE ELLINGTON / BURTON LANE / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Ben Bagley's Everyone Else Revisited - show tunes -- many of them never before recorded. Nell Carter, Arthur Siegel, Diane Carnevale, Dorothy Loudon, etc [ Painted Smiles Records / CD - released 5/May/1993 ] Just looking at the stellar list of composers and lyricists, Ben Bagley really did spread the wealth on Everyone Else Revisited. Filled with rarities and gems by not only some of the finest songwriters ever but many who are simply not known today. |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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 |
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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'). |
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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. |
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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. |
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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'. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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NOEL GAY
Gay: Me and My Girl Robert Lindsay & Maryann Plunkett / Original Broadway Cast Recording (1986) [ MCA Classics / CD - released 17/May/1986 ] Me and My Girl is a musical with music by Noel Gay and its original book and lyrics by Douglas Furber and L. Arthur Rose. The story, set in the late 1930s, tells of an unapologetically unrefined cockney gentleman named Bill Snibson. |
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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... |
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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. |