RICHARD RODGERS / OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II
Rodgers: Carousel John Raitt & Jan Clayton / Original Broadway & London Cast recordings recorded in 1945 & 1950 [ Prism Leisure / CD - released 1/Jun/2000 ] Carousel is the second musical by the team of Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (book and lyrics). The 1945 work was adapted from Ferenc Molnár's 1909 play Liliom, transplanting its Budapest setting to the Maine coastline. The story... |
MARC SHAIMAN
Shaiman: Hairspray Marissa Jaret Winokur & Harvey Fierstein / Original Broadway Cast Recording [ MCA Classics / CD - released 17/May/2002 ] Hairspray is an American musical with music by Marc Shaiman and lyrics by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, with a book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan, based on John Waters's 1988 film of the same name. |
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. |
SCOTT FRANKEL
Frankel: Grey Gardens - A New Musical Matt Cavenaugh & Christine Ebersole / Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording [ P.S. Classics / CD - released 22/Aug/2006 ] 'Grey Gardens' opened Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons on February 10, 2006, and ran through April 30, 2006. Directed by Michael Greif with choreography by Jeff Calhoun, it starred Christine Ebersole, Mary Louise Wilson, and John McMartin. |
CY COLEMAN & DOROTHY FIELDS
Coleman: Sweet Charity Gwen Verdon & John McMartin / Original 1966 Broadway Cast [ Columbia / CD - released 31/May/1999 ] Sweet Charity is a musical with music by Cy Coleman, lyrics by Dorothy Fields and book by Neil Simon. It was directed and choreographed for Broadway by Bob Fosse starring his wife and muse Gwen Verdon alongside John McMartin. |
SONGS OF ELVIS PRESLEY
All Shook Up - a new musical comedy Cheyenne Jackson, Jonathan Hadary & Sharon Wilkins / Original Broadway Cast [ Sony / BMG / CD - released 25/Aug/2005 ] All Shook Up is a 2004 American jukebox musical with music from the Elvis Presley songbook and with a book by Joe DiPietro. The musical premiered on Broadway in 2005. |
STEPHEN SONDHEIM
Sondheim: Follies Alexis Smith, Dorothy Collins & Yvonne de Carlo / 1971 Original Broadway Cast [ Varese Sarabande Spotlight Series / CD - released 25/Aug/2012 ] Follies is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Goldman. |
ALEXANDER BORODIN / ROBERT WRIGHT & GEORGE FORREST
Borodin: Kismet Alfred Drake & Doretta Morrow / 1953 Original Broadway Cast Recording [ Sony Columbia Broadway Masterworks / CD - released 17/May/2000 ] Kismet is a musical adapted by Charles Lederer and Luther Davis from the 1911 play of the same name by Edward Knoblock, with lyrics and musical adaptation (as well as some original music) by Robert Wright and George Forrest. |
HENRY KRIEGER
Krieger: Side Show Alice Ripley & Emily Skinner / Original 1997 Broadway Cast [ Sony Classical / CD - released 2/Feb/1997 ] Side Show is a musical by Bill Russell (book and lyrics) and Henry Krieger (music) based on the lives of Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins who became famous stage performers in the 1930s. |