Monday, May 25, 2015
Original Broadway Cast, 1979 (Columbia/Fynsworth Alley) This is the cheeriest musical ever written about escaping from the Nazis. Jerry Herman has dismissed the show as a mistake ("It just d…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 02:57PM[SHARE]Members of the Broadway Cast, 1994 (Varèse Sarabande) This revue of songs from Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals was directed by Walter Bobbie, with musical direction by Fred Wells. It opene…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 02:40PM[SHARE]Broadway Cast, 1992 (RCA) Based on the Vicki Baum novel that inspired the classic MGM film, Grand Hotel traveled a crooked road to Broadway. The first pass at the material, by librettist Lut…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 02:34PM[SHARE]Original Broadway Cast, 1976 (RCA) As he did with Ben Franklin in Paris, librettist Sidney Michaels " this time leaving the lyrics to other, more expert hands " tried to give old European hi…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 02:10PM[SHARE]Film Soundtrack, 1947 (MGM/Rhino) The first movie written by Betty Comden and Adolph Green for MGM, Good News has a smart and funny script. Only six songs were retained from the original 192…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 01:29PM[SHARE]Original Broadway Cast, 1993 (Columbia/Sony) The Goodbye Girl is a fine movie that was probably not a sound choice for adaptation as a stage musical, even if crafted by gifted, intelligent p…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 12:33PM[SHARE]Original Broadway Cast, 1958 (Columbia/Sony) Here, Elaine Stritch plays a pre-World War I stage star entangled with a fly-by-night silent movie director (Don Ameche) who yearns to make an ep…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 12:15PM[SHARE]Original Broadway Cast, 1968 (Calendar/GL Music/Essential Media Group) The ultimate in "guilty pleasure" musicals, Golden Rainbow took Arnold Schulman's charming little play A Hole in the He…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 12:09PM[SHARE]Original Broadway Cast, 1965 (Capitol/Bay Cities/Angel/Razor and Tie) This is a tale of two LPs and three CDs. With music by Charles Strouse and lyrics by Lee Adams, Golden Boy has a book ba…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:44AM[SHARE]Original Broadway Cast, 1954 (RCA) One of the greatest of all cult musicals, this Jerome Moross-John Latouche collaboration has never really commanded the attention it deserves, and the orig…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:33AM[SHARE]Friday, May 22, 2015
Original Off-Broadway Cast, 1971 (Bell-Arista) Conceived and originally directed by John-Michael Tebelak, based on the Gospel according to St. Matthew, with music and new lyrics by Stephen S…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:33AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Original Off-Broadway Cast, 1996 (JAY) Goblin Market was a snob hit of the 1985-86 Off-Broadway season. Based on a fairy tale in verse by the pre-Raphaelite Christina G. Rossetti, this two-c…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:42AM[SHARE]Original Broadway Cast, 1963 (Columbia/Sony) This Cinderella story is set during the coronation of George V, adapted by Harry Kurnitz (book) and Noël Coward (music and lyrics) from Terenc…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 09:46AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Original Broadway Cast, 1954 (ColumbialDRG) Sigmund Romberg worked as a staff writer for the Shuberts, churning out 22 scores from 1914 through 1918 alone! Following his indentured servitude…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 12:06PM[SHARE]Original U.K. Cast, 1987 (TER/no CD) One of five Rodgers and Hart shows to open in 1926, The Girl Friend had a healthy run. In 1937, the show hit London, where two British writers, R. P. Wes…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:38AM[SHARE]Film Soundtrack, 1943 (Rhino-Turner) It's widely known that George and Ira Gershwin's Girl Crazy has a terrific score, and that Ethel Merman made her legendary Broadway debut in the show sin…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:59AM[SHARE]Film Soundtrack, 1958 (MGM/Rhino) This beloved Alan Jay Lerner-Frederick Loewe score is tremendously appealing, and the soundtrack album is one of the all-time great recordings of any screen…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:15AM[SHARE]Original Broadway Cast, 1968 (Columbia/Sony) This is a brassy, heart-pounding, and ear-pounding show based on the life and songs of the great showman George M. Cohan. The title role is playe…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 09:54AM[SHARE]Monday, May 4, 2015
Zorba! may be the greatest Kander and Ebb musical you've never seen. A story of life and death in the Greek isles, originally produced and directed by Harold Prince, the show was well regard…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 03:29PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 3, 2015
Zorba! may be the greatest Kander and Ebb musical you've never seen. A story of life and death in the Greek isles, originally produced and directed by Harold Prince, the show was well regard…
SOURCE: BroadwayStars at 12:34PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 18, 2015
Original Broadway Cast, 1949 (Columbia/Sony) This is a buoyant performance of a delightful score by Jule Styne (music) and Leo Robin (lyrics), based on the popular 1920s novel and play of th…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 12:20PM[SHARE]Original Broadway Cast, 1961 (Capitol/Angel) After the film Gigi, nobody was interested in another musical tale of a virgin and a rake in beIle epoque Europe, but Fay and Michael Kanin went …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 12:09PM[SHARE]Original Broadway Cast, 1962 (Capitol/Angel) Â Except for the "House of Marcus Lycus" sequence and the courtesans' dances, every important piece of music in this playful, skillful Stephen…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:43AM[SHARE]New York and London Casts, 1927 and 1928 (Columbia, etc./Hallmark) Purists who require the Gershwins' Funny Face untainted by songs written by others have no choice but to brave these primit…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:22AM[SHARE]Original Broadway Cast, 2000 (BMG) A great pleasure of experiencing this show live was seeing how well Terrence McNally's script melded with show-tune novice David Yazbek's music and lyrics.…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:15AM[SHARE]Studio Cast, 2001 (Nonesuch) Based on a play by Aristophanes, The Frogs was written by Stephen Sondheim and Burt Shevelove to be performed by the Yale Repertory Theatre in the university's s…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:55AM[SHARE]Off-Broadway Cast, 2002 (Original Cast Records) Here was a wonderful idea for a musical: Bert Lahr in an adaptation of Volpone, with the action of that Ben Jonson classic moved to gold-rush …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:46AM[SHARE]Original Broadway Cast, 1999 (RCA) Bob Fosse captured the revolutionary sexual politics of the 1960s and 1970s in a voluptuous mix of dance forms based on jazz, tap, and ballet. The show tha…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:30AM[SHARE]Friday, April 17, 2015
Original Broadway Cast, 1980 (RCA) This wasn't the first Hollywood musical to be adapted to the stage, but its success established a trend that has reached well into the 21st century. Whethe…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 05:02PM[SHARE]Original Off-Broadway Cast, 1990 (RCA) In its New York incarnation, Steve Ross's "Heavenly Musical Hit" Forever Plaid was, if you'll pardon the expression, a divine tribute to the close-…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 04:31PM[SHARE]Film Soundtrack, 1984 (Columbia/Legacy) Directed by Herbert Ross, with a screenplay by Dean Pitchford, Footloose is about some small-town teenagers who attack a municipal ordinance and do ba…
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