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 10:34AM[SHARE]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 10:46AM[SHARE]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 11:36AM[SHARE]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 five…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 12:13PM[SHARE]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 unlikelies…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 04:23PM[SHARE]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 p…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 06:35PM[SHARE]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 stag…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 01:15PM[SHARE]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 01:53PM[SHARE]Original Broadway Cast, 2024 (Sony Masterworks Broadway) Â Fans hailed Eden Espinosa's return to Broadway in Lempicka and fawned over pre-released songs, such as "Woman Is,"' that showed …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 01:14PM[SHARE]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 02:26PM[SHARE]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 Like…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:09AM[SHARE]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 create…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:43AM[SHARE]Original Broadway Cast, 2024 (Masterworks Broadway)Â The Outsiders followed the popular book-to-movie-to-musical path to Broadway in 2024. It started out as a novel written by teenage aut…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 04:56PM[SHARE]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 …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 01:53PM[SHARE]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 Broadway …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:59AM[SHARE]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 04:40PM[SHARE]Original 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 04:18PM[SHARE]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 Somethin…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:32AM[SHARE]Off-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 five d…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:16AM[SHARE]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 10:35AM[SHARE]Original Cast, 2017 (Masterworks Broadway) The Spongebob Squarepants album " recorded following the Chicago tryout, before most of the cast transferred to Broadway " succeeds largely through…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:27AM[SHARE]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 of…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 01:21PM[SHARE]Original Broadway Cast, 2005 (Ghostlight) No stars; not recommended. Among the most unsatisfying of modern musicals are those poorly done adaptations of classic literature that achieve succe…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 03:02PM[SHARE]Original Off-Broadway Cast, 1981 (Painted Smiles) This musical about a six-week women's assertiveness training workshop came across as little more than an audition piece for Barbara Schotten…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 03:41PM[SHARE]Original Broadway Cast, 1963 (Golden Records/no CD) The puppets of Bil and Cora Baird were all over early television, as well as being featured in the Broadway musical Flahooley and the film…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 03:30PM[SHARE]Original Off-Broadway Cast, 1962 (Columbia/no CD) No stars, not recommended. The success of Once Upon a Mattress inspired several other fairy tale musicals, including this one " but the auth…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:58AM[SHARE]Original Off-Broadway Cast, 2002 (Original Cast Records) A musical about a math problem? It's a crazy notion, but composer-lyricist Joshua Rosenblum and librettist-lyricist Joanne Sydney Les…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:44AM[SHARE]Original Off-Broadway Cast, 1996 (Varèse Sarabande)Â This cute little show, with music and lyrics by Mary Murfitt and a book by Betsy Howie, had a decent run Off-Broadway in 1996. The so…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:26AM[SHARE]Original Off-Broadway Cast, 1960 (20th Century Fox/no CD) No stars, not recommended. Some people have a blind affection for 1950s and '60s revues, but being blind doesn't mean that you ha…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:18AM[SHARE]Off-Broadway Cast, 1998 (DRG) There are plenty of small delights " simple little things, one might say " to be found in this live recording of the York Theatre Company's revue, in which lyri…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 12:38PM[SHARE]Broadway Cast, 2016 (DMI Soundtracks) Not much seems worth immortalizing when it comes to the Broadway adaptation of Natalie Babbitt's beloved 1975 children's novel Tuck Everlasting, in whic…
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