LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Bernstein: Candide Max Adrian & Barbara Cook / 1956 Original Broadway Cast Recording [ Sony Columbia Broadway Masterworks / CD - released 17/May/2003 ] Candide is an operetta with music composed by Leonard Bernstein, based on the 1759 novella of the same name by Voltaire. The operetta was first performed in 1956 with a libretto by Lillian Hellman; but since 1974 it has been generally performed with... |
GEORGES BIZET / OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II
Bizet/Hammerstein: Carmen Jones [recorded 1944] Muriel Smith & Luther Saxon / Original Broadway Cast Recording [ Angel Records / CD - released 12/Jul/2007 ] Carmen Jones is a 1943 Broadway musical with music by Georges Bizet (orchestrated for Broadway by Robert Russell Bennett) and lyrics and book by Oscar Hammerstein II which was performed at The Broadway Theatre. |
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. |
MEL BROOKS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Brooks: The Producers Nathan Lane & Matthew Broderick / Original Broadway Cast Recording [ Sony Classical / CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] The Producers is a musical with music and lyrics by Mel Brooks, and a book by Brooks and Thomas Meehan. It is adapted from Brooks's 1967 film of the same name. |
Original Broadway Cast Of Hamilton
Hamilton (Original Broadway Cast Recording) [ Atlantic / Warner / 2 CD - released 3/Jul/2020 ] "Hamilton" - which transferred to Broadway following a sold-out run at The Public Theater in NYC - is the acclaimed new musical about the scrappy young immigrant Alexander Hamilton, the $10 Founding Father who forever changed America with his... |
Original Broadway Cast
Head Over Heels [ Sony Masterworks Broadway / CD - released 20/Nov/2018 ] "Head Over Heels" is the new album which features music from the hit Broadway musical. The album features x18 hit songs from The Go-Go's-The most successful female rock band of all time. The album includes the hit songs 'We Got the Beat', 'Get Up and... |
Jerry Herman
Herman: La Cage Aux Folles George Hearn & Gene Barry / Original Broadway Cast [ RCA Red Seal / CD - released 13/Jun/1986 ] La Cage aux Folles is a musical with music and lyrics by Jerry Herman and a book by Harvey Fierstein. Based on the 1973 French play of the same name, the show tells the story of a gay couple, Georges, the manager of a Saint-Tropez nightclub... |
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... |
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 |
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'). |
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... |
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'. |
GARY WILLIAM FRIEDMAN
Friedman: Sunset Tammy Grimes & Ronee Blakley / Original Off Broadway Cast [ Thats Entertainment / CD - released 23/Jun/2008 ] The release of TER's cast recording of Gary William Friedman and Will Holt's 'Sunset', is a welcome return to the market of a small scale, independent musical, that has steadily grown in reputation and popularity since its initial stage run in... |
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. |
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. |
RICHARD RODGERS / OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II
Rodgers: South Pacific Reba McEntire & Brian Stokes Mitchell / 2005 Carnegie Hall Concert Original Broadway Cast [ Decca Broadway / CD - released 17/May/2006 ] The New York Times critic Ben Brantley wrote, "Open-voiced and open-faced, Reba McEntire was born to play Nellie"; the production was received "in a state of nearly unconditional rapture. |
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. |
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. |
FRANK LOESSER
Loesser: How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying Robert Morse, Rudy Vallee / Original Broadway Cast [ RCA Victor / CD - released 17/May/1993 ] After a 3½-week pre-Broadway tryout at the Shubert Theatre in Philadelphia starting December 2, 1948, the original Broadway production opened on December 30, 1948, at the New Century Theatre, where it ran for nineteen months. |