Monday, October 17, 2016
Original Off-Broadway Cast, 2010 (JAY) In several of their shows, John Kander and Fred Ebb have used various types of entertainment as the contextual setting for exploring historical and soc…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:33AMWednesday, October 5, 2016
Original Broadway Cast, 2010 (Verve) Not to be outdone by Disney, the Dreamworks company decided to come to Broadway with a musical adaptation of its Oscar winning animated film Shrek, about…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 01:47PMOriginal Broadway Cast, 2007 (Manhattan Records) Part backstage satire and part whodunit, Curtains was a long-gestating property. At the time of its opening, the show was touted as having th…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:22AMOriginal Off-Broadway Cast, 2014 (PS Classics) Musical theater fans look back with affection at the Off-Broadway shows of the early- to mid-sixties — small, unique productions whose distin…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 09:49AMFriday, September 30, 2016
Original Off-Broadway Cast, 2011 (PS Classics) On paper, Death Takes a Holiday probably looked like a wonderful idea for a musical. Composer-lyricist Maury Yeston has done some very admirabl…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 09:56AMThursday, September 29, 2016
Original Broadway Cast 2005 (Ghostlight) David Yazbek’s Broadway scores are just plain fun, whether it’s the frenetic farce of Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown or the blue-colla…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:53AMFriday, September 23, 2016
Original Off-Broadway Cast, 2015 (Ghostlight) In Jean Webster’s 1912 novel Daddy-Long-Legs, Jerusha Abbott is an orphan whose intelligence prompts orphanage trustee Jervis Pendleton to pay…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 07:26PMTuesday, September 20, 2016
Original Off-Broadway Cast, 2008 (P.S. Classics) You might think The Adding Machine, Elmer Rice’s 1923 expressionist drama, an unlikely candidate for musical adaptation. It’s a bleak tal…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:44AMSunday, September 18, 2016
Film Soundtrack, 1951 (MGM/Rhino-Turner/Watertower Music) In the 1990s, Turner Entertainment restored one of MGM’s greatest musicals, An American In Paris. The restoration turned up the st…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 09:53AMMonday, August 29, 2016
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, 1992 (Walt Disney) Listening to the soundtrack recording of this 1992 movie that starred a young Christian Bale (well before his days headlining much da…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 05:33PMThursday, August 25, 2016
The program for the Mint Theater Company's production of N.C. Hunter's A Day by the Sea tells us that the author “took his place among the leading British dramatists of the 1950s,” but i…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:34PMWednesday, August 3, 2016
Original Broadway Cast, 2006 (Masterworks Broadway) Antipathy towards screen-to-stage adaptations influenced a great many reactions to this tuner that musicalized the 1998 Adam Sandler movie…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 08:56AMTuesday, August 2, 2016
Original London Cast, 2016 (Concord Records) Duncan Sheik’s score for this musical adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ savage (in all senses of the word), satiric novel marvelously captures…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:41AMMonday, July 11, 2016
Original Broadway Cast, 2005 (Rhino) Jersey Boys tells the true story of the rise of the phenomenally successful 1960s pop singing group The Four Seasons — or, at least, true to whoever is…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 12:10PMOriginal Broadway Cast, 2014 (Ghostlight) Based on a novel by Roy Horniman that also inspired the film Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder is pure wit…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:04AMOriginal Broadway Cast, 2006 (Verve) Even with the success of such shows as Hair and Rent, the original pop/rock musical theater score has had a spotty history on Broadway, but it saw a majo…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:44AMMonday, July 4, 2016
Film Soundtrack, 1989 (Disney) After a decades-long dry spell, Disney film animation finally sprang to life again with The Little Mermaid, a musical adaptation of the children’s story by H…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 07:45PMOriginal London Cast, 2006 (Decca Broadway) Based on the film written by Lee Hall, who did double duty for the stage musical as librettist and lyricist, Billy Elliot tells of a Northern Engl…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 06:55PMOriginal Broadway Cast, 2009 (Sh-K-Boom) If Spring Awakening marked the successful comeback of the original pop/rock musical theater score, then Next to Normal helped insure its future. Part…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 06:28PMSunday, July 3, 2016
“The Sound of Musicals,” is a monthly podcast devoted to musical theatre recordings of all types, including Broadway cast albums, London cast albums, studio cast albums, and soun…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 03:44PMTuesday, May 24, 2016
The 72nd annual Theatre World Awards, honoring "outstanding Broadway or Off-Broadway significant, reviewable debut performances," were presented last evening in a ceremony at Circle in the S…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:39PMSunday, May 8, 2016
Original Broadway Cast, 2006 (Ghostlight) This might be the first Broadway musical with commentary written into the script. Alone in his apartment, a musical theater devotee anonymously name…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 02:07PMOriginal Broadway Cast, 2005 (Nonesuch) The Light in the Piazza seemed to re-open the door for lush scores and musicals of honest sentiment of the type not seen since Rodgers and Hammerste…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 01:33PMTuesday, May 3, 2016
Original Broadway Cast, 2009 (Rhino) Winner of 2010 Tony Awards for Best Musical, Book, Original Score, and Orchestrations, Memphis charts an enjoyable journey through the pioneering days of…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 02:59PMMonday, May 2, 2016
Guards at the Taj (Outstanding Play), FUTURITY (Outstanding Musical), and The Robber Bridegroom (Outstanding Revival) were among the big winners at the 2016 Lucille Lortel Awards honoring ex…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:25AMFriday, April 29, 2016
Original Off-Broadway Cast, 2013 (Ghostlight) Some musical theater writers have had great difficulty adapting epic, classic novels for the stage: Doctor Zhivago, Jane Eyre, East of Eden, etc…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 05:03PMSaturday, April 23, 2016
“The Sound of Musicals,” is a monthly podcast devoted to musical theatre recordings of all types, including Broadway cast albums, London cast albums, studio cast albums, and soun…
SOURCE: BroadwayRadio at 05:59PMWednesday, April 20, 2016
Original Broadway Cast, 2011 (Ghostlight) When it was announced that the creators of South Park were writing a Broadway musical, with one of the songwriters of Avenue Q, no less, everyone ex…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 04:28PMOriginal Broadway Cast, 2013 (Sony Masterworks Broadway) Kinky Boots marked 80’s pop icon Cyndi Lauper’s debut as a Broadway songwriter. Based on the film of the same title, the musical …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 04:06PMWednesday, April 13, 2016
Original London Cast, 2013 (RSC) This recording reflects the Royal Shakespeare Company’s world premiere production of the musical Matilda, based on Roald Dahl’s book about a precocious, …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 03:56PMOriginal Broadway Cast, 2014 (Ghostlight) Robert James Waller’s novel about an Italian war bride’s brief affair with a photographer who passes through her Iowa town became a cultural phe…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 03:01PM 
