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…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 12:14PM[SHARE]World Premiere Recording, 2012 (Masterworks Broadway) In this stage adaptation of the film of the same title about a boy who really wants a BB gun for Christmas, songwriters Benj Pasek and J…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 09:45AM[SHARE]Original Broadway Cast, 2023 (Nonesuch) Days of Wine and Roses marks the first musical with a score by composer/lyricist Adam Guettel that has been produced since Guettel's triumph with The …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 09:46PM[SHARE]Douglas Sills will always be remembered and beloved by theatre lovers for his bravura performance as the star of the first incarnation of the Frank Wildhorn-Nan Knighton musical The Scarlet …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:03AM[SHARE]Television Cast, 1966 (Kritzerland) Stephen Sondheim provided a brief but compelling score for this TV musical with a teleplay by James Goldman, based on a short story by John Collier. It te…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 12:12PM[SHARE]Jonathan Tunick receives his Sardi's portrait. Photos by Michael Portantiere.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:51AM[SHARE]Original London Cast, 2022 (Masterworks Broadway) No stars; not recommended. These days, when you hear that a beloved movie is getting turned into a musical, it sounds less like an an…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 12:02PM[SHARE]Original Broadway Cast, 2008 (Ghostlight) Musical theater writers from Strouse and Adams to Pasek and Paul have tried to write musicals capturing the spirit of what it means to be a teenager…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 06:23PM[SHARE]Original Broadway Cast, 2023 (Sh-K-Boom) It took Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman's musical Harmony 26 years to get to Broadway, over four times as long a period as the Comedian Harmonists th…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 03:16PM[SHARE]Original Off-Broadway Cast, 1996 (Original Cast Records) The heyday of the intimate revue may have been decades ago, but some good ones have surfaced more recently. Consider Barry Kleinbort'…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 12:00PM[SHARE]Original Off-Broadway Cast, 1976 (Varese Sarabande) A stylized, three-character "silent movie opera" by composer Polly Pen and playwright Lawrence Klavan, Bed & Sofa premiered just over …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:35AM[SHARE]Original London Cast, 2000 (Telstar) Those who would type Andrew Lloyd Webber as a purveyor of lightweight poperettas may not know what to make of this tragic love story set against a backgr…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:12AM[SHARE]Original Off-Broadway Cast, 1963 (London/no CD) This Off-Broadway oddity probably got produced because of the reputation of its composer, Irving Burgie " also known as Lord Burgess. Having w…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:55AM[SHARE]Original Broadway Cast, 1976 (Amherst) No stars, not recommended. This is arguably the least necessary Broadway album ever. Yes, the show was a hit (766 performances), and it served as th…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:43AM[SHARE]Original Broadway Cast, 1990 (DRG) This show was a good time, but the cast recording " only 37 minutes in length " is of little help in bringing back the experience for those who saw it, or …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 12:18PM[SHARE]Original Broadway Cast, 1951 (RCA/Sepia) A spiffy overture, a swell opening chorus ("The Tour Must Go On"), then out comes our heroine with an even better character-establishing number, "I W…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:44AM[SHARE]World Premiere Recording, 1997 (RCA) Avenue X shows how some folks in the racially divided America of the early 1960s tried to achieve peace and harmony through rock and roll. The theme is s…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 04:20PM[SHARE]Original Cast (London and Broadway), 1959 (Angel) Producer Alexander Cohen had the good sense to bring a host of newcomers to Broadway from England, among them Michael Flanders and Donald Sw…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 03:33PM[SHARE]Studio Recordings by the Original Broadway Cast, 1935 (Smithsonian/no CD) Always welcome on Broadway during the Depression was a star-packed musical revue. At Home Abroad, billed as "A Music…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 03:31PM[SHARE]Original Off-Broadway Cast, 1964 (Broadway East/AEI) 0 stars, not recommended. One day, sometime in the 1980s, several boxes of the long-out-of-print LP of The Athenian Touch turned up in a …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:48AM[SHARE]Original Broadway Cast, 1948 (Decca) The Theatre Guild was riding the success of the still-running Oklahoma! when Armina Marshall Langner suggested that The Pursuit of Happiness, a play she …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:07AM[SHARE]Original Off-Broadway Cast, 1968 (RCA/no CD) A young black man (Clifton Davis) and a young white woman (Carole Demas), both veterans of the disastrous 1968 Democratic National Convention in …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 03:37PM[SHARE]Concept Album, 1954 (Columbia/Masterworks Broadway) Based on the 1920s newspaper columns of Don Marquis, archy and mehitabel stars a cockroach. Ostensibly, the columns were the work of said …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 01:53PM[SHARE]Original Broadway Cast, 2022 (Masterworks Broadway) Meet the semi-jukebox musical: Almost Famous, based on the film about a 1970s rock band and the teen journalist William (Casey Likes) who …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 02:22PM[SHARE]Original Broadway Cast, 2012 (Backlot Music) If you love Lin-Manuel Miranda's score for In the Heights, you'll find lots of pleasures in Bring It On. This musical adaptation of a 2000 film a…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 01:39PM[SHARE]Original Off-Broadway Cast, 1970 (MIO International/no CD) This version of Colette is a charming play with music. The play itself was written by Elinor Jones, then married to lyricist Tom Jo…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 12:58PM[SHARE]Original Broadway Cast, 1965 (United Artists/Kritzerland) What Robert Wright and George Forrest had previously done successfully with Grieg and Borodin, they did with Rachmaninoff in creatin…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:26AM[SHARE]Original London Cast, 1971 (RCA/Stage Door) The original London cast album of this Henry James adaptation is also the de facto original Broadway cast album, since the West End's two leads, H…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:43AM[SHARE]Original Television Cast, 1958 (Columbia/Sony) The later-in-life work of most great musical theater writers isn't up to the quality of their more youthful forays; but with the exception of h…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 09:34AM[SHARE]Original Broadway Cast, 1971 (A&R, 2LPs; no CD) Onstage, this piece by Melvin van Peebles was intensely theatrical; I was actually frightened when cast member Minnie Gentry looked straig…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 07:06PM[SHARE]Original Off-Broadway Cast, 1999 (Varèse Sarabande) It's the very model of a modern chamber musical: a four-character, four-musician adaptation of a Thomas Hardy short story, here brought t…
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