Friday, 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 05:03PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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…
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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 04:28PM[SHARE]Original 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 is a…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 04:06PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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, five…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 03:56PM[SHARE]Original 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 phenome…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 03:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Original Broadway Cast, 2008 (Ghostlight, 2CDs) Winner of 2008 Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Original Score, and Best Orchestrations, In the Heights was the first Broadway musical hit t…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:51PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 24, 2016
Original Off-Broadway Cast, 2006 (PS Classics) Based on Albert and David Maysles' fascinating 1975 documentary film of the same name, the musical Grey Gardens depicts the dysfunctional relat…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:15AM[SHARE]Friday, March 18, 2016
Studio Cast, 2013 (Cherrytree/A&M) Â Rock icon Sting introduced most of the songs that would fuel his Broadway musical The Last Ship in this eponymous, 12-track concept album, release…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 09:46AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 13, 2016
Original Off-Broadway Cast, 2005 (Ghostlight/Sh-K-Boom) A boisterous, satirical show in the form of a concert by a Christian pop-rock boy band espousing wholesome morality through their musi…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 05:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, March 10, 2016
Original Broadway Cast, 2005 (Masterworks Broadway) A lightweight jukebox musical showcasing 25 songs made famous by Elvis Presley, All Shook Up concerns a motorcycle-riding roustabout who b…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 04:10PM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Studio Cast, 1981 (Beginners Records/Bayview) A minor milestone in the history of American musical theater, Dearest Enemy (1925) was the first book show with a score entirely by Richard Rodg…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:17AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 5, 2016
Original West Coast Cast, 1965 (Capitol/no CD) Edwin Lester of the Civic Light Opera Company of Los Angeles and San Francisco was known for bringing Broadway's first national tours to the We…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 25, 2016
Women Without Men sounds like it could be the title of a girl-on-girl porno flick, or maybe one of those trashy, lesbian-themed pulp novels of the 1950s.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:52PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Original Broadway Cast, 2005 (Angel) Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Alice Walker, The Color Purple is a work with a lot of heart that was sadly compromised in its original Broa…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 04:00PM[SHARE]World Premiere Cast, 2014 (Yellow Sound Label) Based on the '80s cult film of the same title, Heathers is a musical that's sometimes fun and frothy, though not particularly strong. Writers L…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 03:25PM[SHARE]Original Broadway Cast, 2005 (Decca Broadway) This show, based on the classic film comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail, attempts to spoof the formula of musical theatre while still adheri…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 02:41PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 14, 2016
Original Broadway Cast, 2015 (Ghostlight) The more one knows about Broadway musicals, the more convulsed with laughter one becomes upon experiencing Something Rotten!, a smart stew of shrewd…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 05:08PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 9, 2016
Original Broadway Cast, 2011 (Ghostlight) With its all-star cast and creative team, and a hilarious movie by Pedro Almodóvar as its source material, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakd…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 06:16PM[SHARE]Original Broadway Cast, 2005 (Ghostlight) This show, about a regional spelling bee with prepubescent contestants, marked the Tony Award winning composer/lyricist William Finn's return to Bro…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 06:13PM[SHARE]Original Broadway Cast, 2015 (PS Classics) Alison Bechdel's Fun Home may seem like strange fodder for a Broadway musical. A memoir in the form of a graphic novel, it chronicles Bechdel's…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 06:09PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 31, 2016
Los Angeles Cast, 1995 (DRG) Here, Gerard Alessandrini has as much fun with Hollywood excess as with Broadway idiocy. But this recording differs from the Forbidden Broadway albums in one cru…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 12:28PM[SHARE]Original Cast, 1982 (DRG) Gerard Alessandrini's revues lampooning Broadway hits and personalities have been a reliable source of merriment in cabaret rooms, Off-Broadway theaters, and other …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 12:27PM[SHARE]Monday, January 18, 2016
Original Broadway Cast, 1984 (RCA) Few Broadway composers could successfully make a painting into a musical, but Stephen Sondheim turned Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 06:21PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 14, 2016
As the 20th anniversary of Rent's Off-Broadway debut approaches, we look back to our 1996 interview with musical director Tim Weil, who talked about putting the finishing touches on …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 13, 2016
Original Broadway Cast, 2015 (Atlantic, 2CDs) From start to finish, this recording marvelously captures the vibrancy of composer-lyricist-star Lin-Manuel Miranda's groundbreaking and record-…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 07:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 31, 2015
Original Off-Broadway Cast, 2009 (Nonesuch/PS Classics) What started off as a coruscating musical-comedy cavalcade ended dour and dumpy with the 2008 premiere of Road Show, the final (?) inc…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 02:33PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 13, 2015
George and Ira Gershwin's utterly delightful 1926 musical Oh, Kay! is the current production of Mel Miller's essential Musicals Tonight! company.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:57PM[SHARE]Friday, October 9, 2015
Original Broadway Cast, 1974 (Columbia /Sony) Designed to do for the 1940s what Grease did for the 1950s, Over Here! is a supremely silly tale of romance and espionage on a cross-country tra…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:21AM[SHARE]Original Broadway Cast, 1950 (Columbia/Sony) For Out of This World, a modern-day retelling of the Amphitryon legend, Cole Porter produced a gorgeous score. Unfortunately, it was tied to an u…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:16AM[SHARE]Studio Cast, 1996 (Original Cast Records) A Richard Rodgers Award-winner and a minor Off-Broadway hit, this chamber musical by Robert Lindsey-Nassif (or Robert Nassif Lindsey, depending on h…
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