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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)... |
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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. |
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GREG MORRISON
Morrison: The Drowsy Chaperone Bob Martin, Sutton Foster, Georgia Engel / Original Broadway Cast Recording [ Ghostlight Records / CD - released 17/May/2000 ] The Drowsy Chaperone is a Canadian musical with music and lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison, and a book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar. |
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STEPHEN FLAHERTY
Flaherty: Ragtime - The Musical Brian Stokes Mitchell & Audra McDonald / Original Cast Recording [ RCA Victor / 2 CD - released 19/Apr/1998 ] Ragtime is a musical with music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and a book by Terrence McNally. It is based on the 1975 novel of the same name by E.L. Doctorow. |
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MICHAEL VALENTI
Valenti: Oh, Brother! Bruce Adler, David-James Carroll / Original 1881 Broadway Cast [ OC Recordings / CD - released 17/May/1991 ] A Musical Comedy in One Act. Book and lyrics by Donald Driver. (Suggested by William Shakespeare's "The Comedy of Errors" and the comedies of Plautus.) Music by Michael Valenti. |
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DAVID SHIRE
Shire: Baby - The New musical Catherine Cox & Liz Callaway / Original 1983 Broadway Cast Recording [ TER / CD - released 12/Jul/1984 ] Baby is a musical with a book by Sybille Pearson, based on a story developed with Susan Yankowitz, music by David Shire, and lyrics by Richard Maltby Jr. It concerns the reactions of three couples each expecting a child. |
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JOHN KANDER / FRED EBB
Kander/Ebb: The Rink Chita Rivera & Liza Minnelli / Original Broadway Cast Recording [ TER / CD - released 17/May/1984 ] The Rink is a musical with a book by Terrence McNally, lyrics by Fred Ebb, and music by John Kander, the tenth Kander and Ebb collaboration. |
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WALTER MARKS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Marks: Bajour Chita Rivera, Nancy Dussault & Herschel Bernardi / Original Broadway Cast [ Sony Broadway / CD - released 1/Jan/1992 ] Bajour is a musical with a book by Ernest Kinoy and music and lyrics by Walter Marks. The musical is based on the Joseph Mitchell short stories The Gypsy Women and The King of the Gypsies published in The New Yorker. The title is allegedly a Romani... |
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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. |
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JERRY BOCK / SHELDON HARNICK
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bock: Tenderloin - A Musical Comedy David Ogden Stiers & Debbie Gravitte / 2000 Original Cast Recording [ DRG Theater / CD - released 1/Jan/2000 ] Tenderloin is a musical with a book by George Abbott and Jerome Weidman, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and music by Jerry Bock, their follow-up to the highly successful Pulitzer Prize-winning Fiorello! a year earlier. |
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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. |
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CHARLES STROUSE
Strouse: Bring Back Birdie Donald O'Connor & Chita Rivera / Original 1881 Broadway Cast Recording [ Varese Sarabande Spotlight Series / CD - released 17/May/1993 ] Bring Back Birdie was a 1981 musical with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Lee Adams, and a book by Michael Stewart. It was a sequel to the 1960 musical Bye Bye Birdie, which was written by the same team. Taking place twenty years after Bye Bye... |
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STEPHEN SONDHEIM
Sondheim: Follies Dorothy Collins, Gene Nelson / Original 1971 Broadway Cast [ Angel / Broadway / CD - released 17/May/1992 ] The original Broadway production, directed by Harold Prince and Michael Bennett, with choreography by Bennett, opened April 4, 1971. The musical was nominated for 11 Tony Awards and won seven. |
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JULE STYNE
Styne: Sugar Robert Morse, Tony Roberts & Elaine Joyce / Original 1972 Broadway Cast Recording [ Kritzerland / CD - released 17/May/1990 ] Sugar is a 1972 musical with a book by Peter Stone, music by Jule Styne, and lyrics by Bob Merrill. The musical is based on the 1959 film Some Like It Hot, which was adapted by Billy Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond from a story by Robert Thoeren and... |
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STEPHEN FLAHERTY
Flaherty: My Favorite Year Evan Pappas & Tim Curry / Original Cast Recording [ RCA Victor / CD - released 19/Apr/1993 ] Lincoln Center Theatre's first original musical had a score by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens, who were fresh from their success with Once On This Island. There are some fine moments - especially the epic opening "Twenty Million People." |
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MONTY NORMAN
Belle, or the Ballad of Dr. Crippen George Benson & Virginia Vernon / Original London Cast Recording [ Must Close Saturday Night Records / CD - released 12/Jul/2001 ] First, the mysterious disappearance of a mediocre music-hall artiste, Belle Elmore. Then the flight - questioned by the police, her husband, mild, charming little Doctor Crippen, sails off with his secretary (the other woman) Ethel le Neve. |
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JULE STYNE
Styne: Gentlemen Prefer Blondes George Dvorsky & KT Sullivan / Original 1995 Broadway Revival Cast Recording [ DRG Theatre / CD - released 17/May/1995 ] Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a musical with a book by Joseph Fields and Anita Loos, lyrics by Leo Robin, and music by Jule Styne, based on the best-selling 1925 novel of the same name by Loos. |
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ROGER MILLER
Miller: Big River - The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Gordon Connell & Daniel Jenkins / Original Broadway Cast Recording [ MCA Records / CD - released 12/Jul/1985 ] Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a musical with music and lyrics by Roger Miller, and a book by William Hauptman. |
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COLE PORTER
Porter: Can-Can Gwen Vedon & Lilio / Original 1953 Broadway Cast [ Angel Broadway Classics / CD - released 17/May/1993 ] Can-Can is a musical with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, and a book by Abe Burrows. The story concerns the showgirls of the Montmartre dance halls during the 1890s. |