Monday, March 17, 2025
Original Broadway Cast, 2024 (Ghostlight) While Maybe Happy Ending’s story revolves around two humanoids known as Helperbots, the score is anything but robotic. In fact, the music by Will …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 05:02PMSaturday, March 8, 2025
Studio Cast/Concept Album, 2010 (Nonesuch) No stars, not recommended. The controversial life of politician and former First Lady of the Philippines Imelda Marcos hardly seemed ripe for music…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 09:44AMSaturday, February 8, 2025
Original Broadway Cast, 2013 (Ghostlight) Here is a unique example of American musical theater in the 21st century. With a score by Trey Anastasio and Amanda Green, and a book by Doug Wright…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 02:27PMThursday, February 6, 2025
Original Broadway Cast, 2014 (Universal Music Enterprises) The overture of Jason Robert Brown’s Honeymoon in Vegas tells us everything we need to know about the score: It’s full of showb…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 02:56PMFriday, January 31, 2025
Original Off-Broadway Cast, 2024 (Center Stage Records) Written by Neil Berg and Cary Gitter, this musical tells the story of an unlikely love match between Angie (Marilyn Caserta), an Itali…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 03:33PMThursday, January 30, 2025
Original Off-Broadway Cast, 2013 (PS Classics) Parts of Scott Frankel’s score for this musical, based on the 2002 film of the same title, are uncommonly intricate. The beginning of the alb…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:44AMSaturday, January 25, 2025
Original Broadway Cast, 2024 (Center Stage Records) It’s difficult to criticize the cast recording of a show that is so representative in its diversity and so bold in its subject matter…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 02:17PMOriginal Broadway Cast, 2011 (Broadway Records) The cast recording of Doctor Zhivago reveals an uneven score for a musical with a rather complicated plot. The source material, Boris Pasterna…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 01:52PMThursday, January 9, 2025
Original Broadway Cast, 2024 (Alicia Keys Records/Interscope) Hell’s Kitchen is one jukebox musical — in this case, celebrating the artistry of R&B singer-songwriter Alicia Keys thro…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 09:30AMMonday, December 23, 2024
McKinley Belcher III made his New York City stage debut in 2013 as Benvolio in a totally gonzo Classic Stage Company production of Romeo and Juliet. With that experience under his belt, he w…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:34AMWednesday, December 11, 2024
Original Broadway Cast, 2012 (Broadway Records) This musical based on the real-life story of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, those infamous outlaws of the 1930s, has a book by Ivan Menchell,…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:46AMMonday, August 19, 2024
Original Broadway Cast, 2024 (Ghostlight) Under the direction of Jessica Stone, Water for Elephants boasted an inventive set and a variety of entertaining circus acts on stage at the Imperia…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:36AMSunday, August 18, 2024
Original Broadway Cast, 2024 (Masterworks Broadway) In the 2023-24 season, which saw the opening of 15 original musicals, Will Butler’s songs for the play Stereophonic earned one of the fi…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 12:13PMWednesday, August 14, 2024
Original Off-Broadway Cast, 2024 (Yellow Sound Label) Michael R. Jackson has quickly become the prince of telling unlikely stories on stage, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that his unlikeli…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 04:23PMMonday, August 12, 2024
Original Broadway Cast Members and Radio Cast, 1985 (AEI Records) I Married an Angel is a gem from the collection of Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. Admittedly, it’s a slight musical; the…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 06:35PMTuesday, July 23, 2024
Original Broadway Cast, 2024 (Sony Masterworks Broadway) As F. Scott Fitzgerald’s famous and revered novel The Great Gatsby lapsed into the public domain, it was perhaps inevitable that st…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 01:15PMThursday, July 11, 2024
Original Off-Broadway Cast, 2024 (Concord Theatricals) Teaming with interesting ideas about ethics, journalism, the generation gap, and sexism, The Connector presents its listeners with one …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 01:53PMFriday, June 28, 2024
Original Broadway Cast, 2024 (Sony Masterworks Broadway) Fans hailed Eden Espinosa’s return to Broadway in Lempicka and fawned over pre-released songs, such as “Woman Is,”’ that s…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 01:14PMMonday, June 24, 2024
Original Broadway Cast, 2016 (Broadway Records) As originally presented on the tiny stage of an intimate nightclub on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, Disaster! was a hilariously funny, spo…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 02:26PMTuesday, June 11, 2024
Original Broadway Cast, 2024 (Atlantic) Shaina Taub has previously shown skill in composing scores for The Public Theater’s musical adaptations of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and As You …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:09AMSaturday, June 1, 2024
Off-Broadway Cast, 2024 (Concord Theatricals) As staged Off-Broadway at The Shed in late 2023, Sondheim’s final musical — which combines two experimental José Luis Buñuel films to crea…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:43AMTuesday, May 28, 2024
Original Broadway Cast, 2024 (Masterworks Broadway) The Outsiders followed the popular book-to-movie-to-musical path to Broadway in 2024. It started out as a novel written by teenage autho…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 04:56PMSunday, May 5, 2024
Original Off-Broadway Cast, 2009 (PS Classics) Scott Brown and Anthony King developed this two-person comic gem about two composers writing a musical. The fictional writers have created a …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 01:53PMMonday, April 22, 2024
Original Broadway Cast, 2024 (Atlantic) The Notebook wears its heart on its sleeve. And why wouldn’t it? From Nicholas Sparks’ novel to Nick Cassavetes’ film to Ingrid Michaelson’s B…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:59AMSaturday, April 20, 2024
Original Cast, 2010 (Ghostlight) Before Hamilton took the world by storm in 2016 with a musical style previously underrepresented on Broadway and a story featuring American historical figure…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 04:40PMOriginal Off-Broadway Cast, 2016 (Ghostlight, 2CDs) One of the great joys of studying and reviewing musical theater cast recordings is tracking the growth and maturity of an artist. Composer…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 04:18PMMonday, April 15, 2024
Studio Cast, 2020 (JAY Records) Nearly 50 years after the show’s opening and short-lived stint on Broadway in 1976, this long-awaited studio recording captures the highs and lows of Someth…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:32AMOff-Broadway Cast, 2006 (Ghostlight) This recording begins with a thrilling and percussive “Prologue” that lays out the haunting story of Bernarda Alba, the recently-widowed mother of fi…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:16AMThursday, April 11, 2024
Original Broadway Cast, 2014 (Broadway Records) Big Fish arrived on Broadway in 2013 with a score by Andrew Lippa and was imaginatively directed by Susan Stroman, but it did not last more th…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:35AMTuesday, April 9, 2024
Original Cast, 2017 (Masterworks Broadway) The Spongebob Squarepants album — recorded following the Chicago tryout, before most of the cast transferred to Broadway — succeeds largely thr…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:27AMMonday, April 1, 2024
Original Off-Broadway Cast, 2024 (Sh-K-Boom) From the shimmery first notes of The Gardens of Anuncia, listeners will get the feeling they’re entering a magical land. What follows is a gem …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 01:21PM 
