|
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 |
|
LIONEL BART
Bart: Oliver! [Deluxe Collector's Edition] Clive Revil & Georgia Brown / Original Broadway Cast Recording [ RCA Victor Records / CD - released 16/May/2002 ] Oliver! is a coming-of-age stage musical, with book, music and lyrics by Lionel Bart. The musical is based upon the 1838 novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. Oliver! ran on Broadway, after being brought to the U.S. by David Merrick in 1963. |
|
RALPH BLANE
Blane: Three Wishes for Jamie Anne Jeffreys, John Raitt / Original Broadway Cast [ Angel / Broadway / CD - released 17/May/1993 ] Three Wishes for Jamie is a musical with a book by Charles O'Neal and Abe Burrows and music and lyrics by Ralph Blane. |
|
JERRY BOCK / SHELDON HARNICK
Bock: Fiddler on the Roof [special edition with bonus tracks] Zero Mostel, Julia Migenes & Bert Convy / Original 1964 Broadway Cast Recording [ RCA Victor / CD - released 17/May/2003 ] Fiddler on the Roof is a musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by Joseph Stein, set in the Pale of Settlement of Imperial Russia in or around 1905. It is based on Tevye and his Daughters (or Tevye the Dairyman) and... |
|
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. |
|
Original Broadway Cast Recording
Book of Mormon [ Ghostlight Records / CD - released 1/Mar/2017 ] "Parker and Stone have created one of the freshest original musicals in recent memory. It has tuneful songs, clever lyrics, winning characters, explosive laughs and disarmingly intimate moments." Hollywood Reporter |
|
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 Broadway Cast
A Chorus Line [ Masterworks Broadway / CD - released 2/Dec/2008 ] |
|
GEORGE M COHAN
Cohan: George M! Joel Grey & Bernadette Peters / Original 1968 Broadway Cast [ Columbia Records / CD - released 17/May/1993 ] Fresh from his enormous personal success as the lecherous Emcee in Kander and Ebb's Cabaret, Joel Grey found his first starring job and a marvelous showcase for his talents in George M!, a celebration of the life and times (and songs) of maverick... |
|
CY COLEMAN / NEIL DIAMOND / KANDER & EBB / RICHARD ADLER
Coleman: Will Rogers Follies Keith Carradine & Dee Hoty / Original Broadway Cast Recording [ Columbia / CD - released 12/Jul/1991 ] The Will Rogers Follies is a musical with a book by Peter Stone, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and music by Cy Coleman. |
|
George Gershwin
Crazy For You Original Broadway Cast Recording [ Broadway Angel / CD - released 28/Aug/1992 ] |
|
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'). |
|
VERNON DUKE / OGDEN NASH
Duke: Two's Company Bette Davis, Bill Callahan / Original Broadway Cast [ Sepia / CD - released 17/May/1993 ] Two's Company is a musical revue with principal sketches by Charles Sherman and Peter DeVries, principal lyrics by Ogden Nash and Sammy Cahn, and principal music by Vernon Duke. |
|
WILLIAM FINN
Finn: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Lisa Howard & Jay Reiss / Original 2005 Broadway Cast [ Ghostlight / CD - released 2/Feb/2005 ] The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a musical comedy with music and lyrics by William Finn, with a book written by Rachel Sheinkin, conceived by Rebecca Feldman with additional material by Jay Reiss. The show centers on a fictional spelling... |
|
GEORGE GERSHWIN
Gershwin: Girl Crazy Mary Martin & Jan Clayton / Members of the Original Broadway Cast [ Prism Leisure / CD - released 1/Jun/1998 ] Girl Crazy is a 1930 musical by George Gershwin with lyrics by Ira Gershwin and book by Guy Bolton and John McGowan. Ethel Merman made her stage debut in the first production and co-lead Ginger Rogers became an overnight star. |
|
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. |
|
LARRY GROSSMAN
Grossman: Grind - A New Musical Ben Vereen & Stubbt Kaye / Original Broadway Cast Recording [ TER / CD - released 17/May/1989 ] Grind is a 1985 musical with music by Larry Grossman, lyrics by Ellen Fitzhugh, and a book by Fay Kanin. Grind is a portrait of a largely African-American burlesque house in Chicago in the Thirties. |
|
FRANK LOUSSER
Loesser: Guys and Dolls (Original Broadway Cast) (Rec 1950) / Where's Charley? (Excerpts) Original Broadway Cast, Robert Alda, Vivian Blaine & Ray Bolger [ Naxos Musicals / CD - released 26/Aug/2005 ] Every time you breeze through Frank Loesser's terrific score, the first thought that comes to your mind is how good it is.The tunes bounce, the lyrics snap, the performances have just the right edge. |
|
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. |
|
CAROL HALL
Hall: The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public Dee Hoty, Scott Holmes & Ronn Carroll / Original Broadway Cast Recording [ Varese Sarabande Spotlight Series / CD - released 25/Aug/1994 ] The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public is a musical with a book by Larry L. King and Peter Masterson and music and lyrics by Carol Hall. It is a sequel to the 1978 musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. |