Thursday, February 23, 2023
Original Broadway Cast, 2022 (Craft Recordings) The highlight of many a Golden Age musicals is the “11 o’clock number.” Mr. Saturday Night, a Golden Age pastiche, has at least four of …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 06:32PMStudio Cast, 2007 (JAY) Busker Alley never made it to Broadway, but it sure came close, first with a Tommy Tune-led national tour in 1995 (felled by Tune’s broken foot) and then with the Y…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 05:44PMOriginal Off-Broadway Cast, 2022 (Craft Recordings) “A few djembe lessons and like that I am enlightened,” sings Walter (David Hyde Pierce), a grumpy economics professor who learns to pl…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 05:26PMWednesday, February 22, 2023
Original Broadway Cast, 2022 (Masterworks Broadway) One thing that can be said for Flying Over Sunset is that it’s certainly ambitious. Conceived and directed by James Lapine, the musical …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:13AMSaturday, February 18, 2023
Original Off-Broadway Cast, 1961 (Mercury; no CD) With its lithe but insubstantial score, preserved nearly complete on the cast album, All In Love turned Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s classi…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 07:31PMWednesday, February 15, 2023
Original Broadway Cast, 2022 (Sh-K-Boom) A 1993 film comedy in which Robin Williams as divorced dad Daniel cons his way back into his children’s lives by disguising himself as a Scottis…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 12:05PMWednesday, February 1, 2023
Original Broadway Cast, 2023 (UMe) This recording differs from the cast albums of many other jukebox musicals, including biomusicals such as Jersey Boys and Beautiful, in that the arrangemen…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 03:39PMMonday, January 16, 2023
Original London Cast, 2019 & Juliet is, yes, another musical twist on Shakespeare, but one that’s worthy of joining the large canon that already includes such shows as Kiss Me, Kate…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:22AMWednesday, September 14, 2022
Original Off-Broadway Cast, 2019 (Yellow Sound) How to describe A Strange Loop, the Pulitzer-Prize winning musical that gets its title from both a cognitive science term and a Liz Phair song…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 03:12PMMonday, August 1, 2022
Studio Cast, 2019 (Absolute) Part history lesson, part Coachella, SIX gives cheeky insight into the lives of the six wives of Henry VIII in the form of a concert, with the women performing a…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 09:02AMWednesday, February 23, 2022
Almost miraculously, the Mint has given us new-old winners time and again for 30 years now, with only a few re-dos. Its current offering is a revival of a true rarity that the company first …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:26AMWednesday, October 6, 2021
Film Soundtrack, 1998 (Dreamworks) Like several other animated musical classics of the screen, from Snow White to the clutch of far more recent Disney films (The Little Mermaid, Aladdin, Bea…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 01:25PMSunday, December 13, 2020
Original Broadway Cast, 1964 (Columbia/Sony) The show was a flop, but virtually every number is a winner, and so is this recording. Broadway audiences were bored by Arthur Laurents’ bizarr…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 07:53PMThursday, November 5, 2020
Premiere Cast Recording, 2012 (Ghostlight) Based on the supernatural horror novel by Stephen King, which had previously been adapted as a highly successful film in 1976, Carrie is/was one of…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 01:33PMMonday, October 12, 2020
Music From Baz Luhrmann’s Film, 2001 (Interscope) Here is the soundtrack recording (partly; see below) of what might be described as a movie musical that’s perfect for the ADD generation…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 04:39PMMonday, August 10, 2020
Original Off-Broadway Cast, 2017 (DRG) Of course, you knew Gerard Alessandrini wasn’t going to leave Hamilton alone, but who would have predicted this? It’s a whole evening of Revolution…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 08:53PMTuesday, July 7, 2020
Original Broadway Cast, 2015 (Broadway Records) The Visit is an extraordinary late-career work by composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb, who enriched the American musical theater with m…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:07AMWednesday, June 24, 2020
Original Broadway Cast, 2016 (Cirque du Soleil) With its spectacular entertainments showcasing nouveau-circus acts of all types, accessorized with top-drawer production values and very li…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 01:03PMSaturday, June 6, 2020
Original Broadway Cast, 2008 (Ghostlight) Passing Strange is the semi-autobiographical work of singer/songwriter Stew, co-written with his longtime collaborator Heidi Rodewald. The story fol…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 09:14PMOriginal Off-Broadway Cast, 2020 (Broadway Records) This recording represents the Off-Broadway production of Emojiland, a knowingly campy musical that proudly planted its digital freak flag …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 07:56PMSaturday, April 25, 2020
Original Off-Broadway Cast, 2020 (Ghostlight) Here’s a highly enjoyable cast album of a fun show with a fanciful, meta-theatrical concept, built around the dynamic singer-actress Annie Gol…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 05:31PMOriginal Cast, Two River Theater, 2015 (Ghostlight) Based on a novel by Ned Vizzini, Be More Chill is a cautionary tale about a loner teenager named Jeremy Heere who attempts to become �…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 05:11PMTuesday, April 21, 2020
Original Broadway Cast, 2019 (Sony Masterworks Broadway) First, a few words of explanation: The show that yielded this cast album opened Off-Broadway at the New York Theatre Workshop in Dece…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 03:03PMMonday, April 6, 2020
Original Off-Broadway Cast, 2019 (PS Classics) Maury Yeston is one of the finest and most versatile musical theater composer-lyricists of his era, so it’s good to have this cast album of a…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 06:47PMTuesday, February 11, 2020
Film Soundtrack, 1964 (Buena Vista/Walt Disney Records) Disney’s Mary Poppins has been beloved from the moment audiences first saw the film in 1964, permeating our culture and becoming a h…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 02:18PMWednesday, February 5, 2020
Film Soundtrack, 2013 (Walt Disney Records) One of the most popular titles in Disney’s history, Frozen revolves around two royal sisters: Elsa, who has the power to conjure snow and ice bu…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 04:59PMTuesday, February 4, 2020
Film Soundtrack, 1992 (Walt Disney Records) Following the immense success of The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast, Disney Animation firmly solidified what is now known as “The Disne…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 03:06PMWednesday, January 8, 2020
Original Broadway Cast, 1971 (RCA/Masterworks Broadway) Perhaps the source material was too obscure for audiences to really understand this show, which only ran on Broadway for 97 performanc…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:29AMFriday, November 8, 2019
Original Broadway Cast, 2018 (Atlantic) 0 stars; not recommended. Movies that were popular in the latter part of the 20th century have become the go-to source material for Broadway musicals …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 01:30PMTuesday, October 29, 2019
Studio Cast, 2010 (Wilderland Records) Though indie singer/songwriter Anaïs Mitchell always meant for Hadestown to be a stage musical, its first incarnation was in the form of this concept …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 05:45PMSunday, October 27, 2019
Original London Cast, 2019 (Ghostlight) When experienced live in the theater, a “bio-musical” — like any other show — may be judged on several levels, including the production values…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 04:32PM 
