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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. |
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JOHN KANDER / FRED EBB
Kander/Ebb: Kiss of the Spider Woman - The Musical Chita Rivera, Brent Carver & Anthony Crivello / Original Cast Recording [ RCA Victor / CD - released 25/Aug/1992 ] Kiss of the Spider Woman is a musical with music by John Kander and Fred Ebb, with the book by Terrence McNally. It is based on the Manuel Puig novel El Beso de la Mujer Araña. |
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CLAY WARNICK & MEL PAHL
Warnick/Pahl : The Adventures of Marco Polo Alfred Drake & Doretta Morrow / Original Televeision Cast Recording [ DRG Theater / CD - released 17/May/1991 ] Evidently tailored to cash in on the success of Kismet, created two years before, The Adventures of Marco Polo again teamed Alfred Drake and Doretta Morrow, who had beguiled crowds on Broadway and the West End in the earlier musical. |
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COLE PORTER
Porter: Out Of This World Andrea Martin & Marin Mazzie / Original 1995 New York Cast Recording [ DRG Theater / CD - released 9/Apr/1995 ] Out of This World is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, and the book by Dwight Taylor and Reginald Lawrence. The show, an adaptation of Plautus' comedy Amphitryon, first opened on Broadway in 1950. |
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BOB MERRILL
Merrill: Carnival Anna Maria Alberghetti & James Mitchell / Original 1961 Broadway Cast Recording [ Polydor / CD - released 12/Jul/1989 ] Carnival is a musical, originally produced by David Merrick on Broadway in 1961, with the book by Michael Stewart and music and lyrics by Bob Merrill. The musical is based on the 1953 film Lili. |
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JOHN KANDER / FRED EBB
Kander/Edd: Steel Pier Anthony Roberts & Marilyn Mason / Original Broadway Cast Recording [ RCA Victor / CD - released 17/May/1997 ] Steel Pier is a musical written by the songwriting team of Kander and Ebb from the original book by David Thompson. Directed by Scott Ellis with choreography by Susan Stroman, the musical opened on Broadway on April 24, 1997. |
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MONTY NORMAN
Norman: Songbook Anton Rodgers & Gemma Craven / Original 1979 London Cast Recording [ DRG Theater / CD - released 12/Jul/2001 ] Songbook (New York title The Moony Shapiro Songbook) is a musical with music by Monty Norman and book and lyrics by Monty Norman and Julian More. The musical tells the improbable life story of a fictional songwriter, born in Liverpool in 1908, who... |
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BURTON LANE
Lane: On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (1965) Barbara Harris & John Cullum / Original Broadway Cast Recording [ RCA Victor / CD - released 12/Jul/1993 ] On a Clear Day You Can See Forever is a musical with music by Burton Lane and a book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner based loosely on Berkeley Square, written in 1926 by John L. Balderston. It concerns a woman who has ESP and has been reincarnated. |
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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. |
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MARVIN HAMLISCH
Hamlisch: The Goodbye Girl - The Musical Bernadette Peters & Martin Short / Original Broadway Cast recording [ Columbia / CD - released 9/Apr/1993 ] Do Re Mi is a musical with music by Jule Styne, lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, and a book by Garson Kanin, who also directed the original 1960 Broadway production. The plot centers on a minor-league con man who decides to go (somewhat)... |