Bursting with Song--Aviva's Broadway Collection

Aviva's Broadway Collection

So you know where I'm coming from. And so I can show off.

American Cast Albums:

NBC = New Broadway cast
OBC = Original Broadway cast
OMC = Original movie cast
OOBC = Original Off-Broadway cast
OTC = Original TV cast
SC = Studio cast

International Cast Albums:

NLC = New London cast
OAC = Original Australian cast OCC = Original Canadian cast
ODC = Original Dutch cast
OFC = Original French cast
OGC = Original German cast
OIC = Original Israeli cast
OJC = Original Japanese cast
OLC = Original London cast
ONZC = Original New Zealand cast
OPC = Original Philippine cast
ORC = Original Russian cast
OSC = Original Scottish cast OSAC = Original South African cast
OSpC = Original Spanish cast

** = 2 versions
*** = 3 versions
**** = 4 versions etc.

I include movie soundtracks if they were from movies based on stage productions, or, more recently, they were movie musicals that have since been turned into stage musicals (e.g., Mary Poppins). Film soundtracks that didn't consist of theatrical songs (e.g., collections of disparate rock songs, a la Footloose) are in their own section. Also, I include albums of disparate songs if the songs are mostly or all from Broadway composers. Thus, Simply Sondheim and You're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile qualify, but Happy Songs does not.

Note: All titles are assumed to be the first version of that show unless otherwise noted.

A... My Name Will Always Be Alice
Ace of Clubs
The Act
The Adventures of Marco Polo (OTC)
African Footprint
After the Ball/Highlights from Vaudeville
After the Fair
***Ain’t Misbehavin’ (OBC, OLC, NBC)
Aladdin [Cole Porter] (OTC)
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (songs from)
All American
The All Night Strut!
All That He Was
**Allegro (OBC, first complete recording)
Altar Boyz
Always... Patsy Cline
America the Beautiful: A Rock Opera
American Musical Theater v.1 (Smithsonian collection)
American Songbook Series: Cy Coleman
Amour
The Anastasia Affaire
Anastasia: The Musical plus Premiere Recordings of Wright & Forrest Songs
And the World Goes Round
**Andrew Michael (OCR, studio version)
**Annie (OBC, OIC)
*******Annie Get Your Gun (OBC, OLC, NBC, OTC, Criswell/Hampson version, Suzie Quatro version, Merman Lincoln Center version)
**Anyone Can Whistle (OBC, concert cast)
****Anything Goes (Hal Linden version, Patti LuPone version, Criswell/Groenendaal London version, Paige/McGillin London version)
Anything Goes/The Bandwagon (Mary Martin versions)
Applause
The Apple Tree
The Arcadians
archy and mehitabel/Carnival of the Animals
Are You Lonesome Tonight?
Arms and the Girl
Aspects of Love
**Assassins (OOBC, NBC)
At Home Abroad
Athena Under Attack
Avenue Q
Avenue X
***Babes in Arms (Encores! cast, Birch Foundation cast, Martin-Cassidy studio version)
Baby
A Bag of Popcorn and a Dream
Bajour
Baker Street
**The Baker’s Wife (OBC, OLC)
Balancing Act
Ballroom
Barbara Cook: The Champion Season
Bashville
Bat Boy
Bea Arthur on Broadway: Just Between Friends
Beauty and the Beast
Bed & Sofa
Bed, Boys, and Beyond
Believe! The Songs of the Sherman Brothers
Belle, or the Ballad of Dr. Crippin
**Bells Are Ringing (OBC, NBC)
Ben Bagley's Alan Jay Lerner Revisited
Ben Bagley's Arthur Schwartz Revisited
Ben Bagley's Cole Porter Revisted
Ben Bagley's Cole Porter Revisited Vol. V
Ben Bagley's Contemporary Broadway Revisited
Ben Bagley's De Sylva, Brown & Henderson Revisited
Ben Bagley's Harold Arlen and Vernon Duke Revisited Vol. II
Ben Bagley's Hold Onto Your Hats
Ben Bagley's Jerome Kern Revisited
Ben Bagley's Jerome Kern Revisited Vol. II
Ben Bagley's Kurt Weill Revisited, Vol. II
Ben Bagley's Leonard Bernstein Revisited
Ben Bagley's Noel Coward Revisited
Ben Bagley's Rodgers and Hart Revisited Vol. I
Ben Bagley's Rodgers and Hart Revisited Vol. III
Ben Bagley's Shoestring '57
Ben Bagley's The Littlest Revue
Ben Bagley's Vernon Duke Revisited Vol. III
Ben Franklin in Paris (the old one, not the reissue)
Bergville Stories
Berlin Is Mine
Bernadette Peters in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Song and Dance: The Songs
Bernadette Peters Loves Rodgers & Hammerstein
Bernadette Peters: Sondheim, Etc.
Bernarda Alba
Best Foot Forward (1961 cast)
**The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (OBC, NBC)
The Best of Broadway: The Revues
Betty Rules
Big City Rhythm: The Songs of Barry Kleinbort
Big: The Musical
Big River
Billion Dollar Baby
Billy Elliot
Billy Noname
The Bing Boys Are Here
The Biograph Girl
Birds of Paradise
Bitter Sweet
Black and Blue
Blast
Bless the Bride
Blondel
****Blood Brothers (OLC, London revival cast, International cast, ONZC)
Bloomer Girl
Blue Jeans (OGC)
Bombay Dreams
Bonnie's Broadway Moon Song Shoppe
Born to Rhumba
Bounce
***The Boy Friend (OLC, OBC, Judy Carne version)
The Boy from Oz
Boy Meets Boy
****The Boys from Syracuse (1953 studio cast, Encores! cast, OLC, 1963 cast)
Bran Nue Dae
Bravo Giovanni
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (SC)
******Brigadoon (OBC, two different British casts, Jack Cassidy-Shirley Jones version on LP, OMC, OTC)
Bright Lights, Big City
Bring In ‘Da Noise, Bring In ‘Da Funk
Broadway Bound
A Broadway Christmas
Broadway Divas
Broadway Dreams: Songs from Enter Juliet, Billion Dollar Baby, Something to Do, Underworld, and Parade (Jerome Moross version)
Broadway First Take, v.1
Broadway First Take, v.2
Broadway Musical, The (The History of American Musicals)
Broadway Musicals of 1951, The
Broadway Musicals of 1964, The
Broadway on Broadway 2001
Broadway Showstoppers
Brownstone: The Musical
**Bubbling Brown Sugar (OBC, OLC)
***Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story (OBC?, OGC, OLC)
Bugsy Malone
A Bunch of Ratbags (Australian cast, OGC)
Busby Berkeley Album, The
By Jeeves
By Jupiter (1960s cast)
By the Beautiful Sea
****Bye Bye Birdie (OBC, OLC, OMC, OTC)
***Cabaret (OBC, NBC, OMC)
**Cabin in the Sky (OOBC, OMC)
Cabin in the Sky/Porgy and Bess/Carib Song (selections from OBCs)
**La Cage aux Folles (OBC, OGC)
Calamity Jane (NLC)
Call Me Madam/Panama Hattie (Merman orchestra version)
Call Me Madam (Encores cast)
**Camelot (OBC, 1982 London cast)
Can-Can
****Candide (OBC, 1989 London SC, NBC, 1974 BC)
Can't Help Singing: A New Look at Jerome Kern Classics
The Card
Carmelina
**Carmen Jones (OBC, OLC)
Carnival
Caroline, or Change
*******Carousel (OBC, Cook-Ramey version, Raitt-Christy version, NLC, OMC, OTC, 1962 studio version w/Alfred Drake & Roberta Peters)
Casino Paradise
Casper the Musical
Catch Me If I Fall
***Cats (OBC, OLC, OGC)
The Catherine Wheel
Celebrate Broadway v.1
Celebrate Broadway v.5
Celebrating Gypsy, Funny Girl, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: A Tribute to Jule Styne
Celebrating New York New York! Chicago! Cabaret! A Tribute to Kander and Ebb
Charlie Girl
Charlotte Sweet
**Chess (OLC, Danish touring cast)
****Chicago (OBC, NBC, LC, OMC)
Children of Eden
Children's Letters to God
**Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (OMC, OBC)
***A Chorus Line (OBC, OGC, NBC)
Christine
A Christmas Survival Guide
Chu Chin Chow (1959 London recording with other versions from earlier productions)
***Cinderella (OTC, Second TV cast, Various Artists version)
**City of Angels (OBC, OLC)
A Class Act
Coco
Cole Porter Centennial Gala Concert
Cole Porter's You Never Know
Cole Sings Porter: Rare and Unreleased Songs from Can-Can and Jubilee
Collette Collage
The Color Purple
Come Back Little Sheba
****Company (OBC, NLC, NBC, even newer BC)
The Confidence Man
A Connecticut Yankee
Contact
Conversation Piece
Copacabana (OLC)
Corkscrews
Cowgirls
**The Cradle Will Rock (the one with the John Houseman intro, OMC)
**Crazy for You (OBC, OLC)
The Crooked Mile
The Crystal Heart
Curtains
Cyrano
Cyrano de Bergerac
Dames at Sea
***Damn Yankees (OBC, OMC, NBC)
Dance a Little Closer
Darling of the Day
Das Barbecu
A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine
A Day in the Life: A Children's Musical
Days of Hope (OLC)
Dear World
Debbie Does Dallas
Destry Rides Again
Digital Broadway
Divorce Me, Darling!
Les Dix Commandements (OFC)
Do Black Patent Leather Shoes Really Reflect Up?
Do I Hear a Waltz
**Do Re Mi (OBC, NBC)
Doctor Dolittle
A Doll’s Life
Doonesbury (LP)
Drat! The Cat! (studio cast)
Dreamgirls
Dude
Eating Raoul
Edward Scissorhands
EFX (Michael Crawford)
Elaine Stritch At Liberty
Elegies for Angels, Punks, and Raging Queens
Emily Skinner and Alice Ripley: Duets
Enchanted Journey
Ernest in Love
An Evening with Alan Jay Lerner (London concert)
An Evening with Dorothy Fields
Everybody's Gettin' Into The Act
Evil Dead: The Musical
***Evita (OBC, OLC, original concept cast, OSpC)
Experiencing God: The Musical
Expresso Bongo
Fade Out-Fade In
Falling in Love is Wonderful: Broadway's Greatest Love Duets
Falsettos
Fame
A Family Affair
Fanny
***The Fantasticks (OOBC, Japan Tour, NOOBC)
Fascinating Aida: A Load of Old Sequins (I guess this counts)
Fashion
Festival
***Fiddler on the Roof (OBC, OLC, crappy studio cast version)
Fields of Ambrosia
Fifty Million Frenchmen
Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be
***Finian’s Rainbow (OBC, 1960 Bway production, OMC)
Fiorello!
First Impressions
First Night Records: The Singles Collection
Five After Eight
**Five Guys Named Moe (OBC, OLC)
Five Pound and Twa Bairns (OSC)
The Fix
Flahooley
Flora the Red Menace
Florodora
**Flower Drum Song (OBC, NBC)
Flowers for Algernon (OLC)
Floyd Collins
The Flute Player's Song
****Follies (OBC, OLC, concert cast, Paper Mill cast)
**Footloose (OMC, OBC)
Forbidden Broadway v.1
Forbidden Broadway v.3
Forbidden Broadway v.4: F.B. Strikes Back!
Forbidden Broadway v.5: F.B. Cleans Up Its Act!
Forbidden Broadway 2001: A Spoof Odyssey
Forbidden Broadway: Special Victims Unit
Forever Plaid
Forever Tango
Formidable: La Revue du Centenaire (OFC)
**42^nd Street (OBC, NBC)
Forty Years at the Crystal Palace (it's a revue in Aspen)
Fosse
4 Guys Named Jose
Foxy
Frankenstein the Musical
Freeway Dreams
The Frog Prince
**The Frogs/Evening Primrose (studio cast, concert cast)
From Generation to Generation
Front Row Center
The Full Monty
**Funny Girl (OBC, OMC)
***A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (OBC, OLC, NBC)
A Gala Concert for Hal Prince
The Gay Life
The Gay 90s
The Geisha
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
George M.
George M. Cohan Tonight!
Gershwin Overtures
The Gift
The Gifts of the Magi
***Gigi (OLC, British studio cast, OMC)
**Girl Crazy (Mary Martin version, concert cast)
The Girl in Pink Tights
Goblin Market
**Godspell (OOBC, 2001 Natl Touring Cast)
The Golden Apple
Golden Boy
Goldilocks
Golf, the Musical
Gone Missing
Good News
Good Rockin' Tonite!
**The Goodbye Girl (OBC, OLC)
Goodnight, Moon
Goodtime Charley
The Gospel at Colonus
Goys and Dolls: A Parable for Our Times
Grail: The Rock Musical of the Future
Grand Hotel
The Grand Tour
The Grass Harp
Great Songs of the Yiddish Stage, v.2
The Great American Backstage Musical
The Great American Trailer Park Musical
Great Expectations
The Green Bird
Green Eggs and Ham By Dr. Seuss
Greenwillow
Grey Gardens
Grind
Gumboots
Gunmetal Blues
****Guys and Dolls (OBC, NBC, all-Black version, Original National Theatre Cast w/Bob Hoskins)
Guys on Ice
*****Gypsy (OBC, Angela Lansbury revival, Tyne Daly revival, Bernadette Peters revival, OTC)
****Hair (OBC, OMC, Actor's Fund benefit version, "Hair Today" version)
**Hairspray (OBC, OMC)
Half a Sixpence (OBC)
Hallelujah, Baby!
Hallelujah Mr. Angel! A Broadway Country Musical
Hannah... 1939
The Happiest Girl in the World
Happy Hunting
The Happy Time
A Hard Time to Be Single
Harlem Song
Hazel Flagg
Heading East
Heartbeats
Heat Lightning
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Hello Again
***Hello, Dolly! (OBC, OMC, NBC, all-Black version)
Her First Roman
Here's Love
Hero: The Rock Opera
Hey, Love: The Songs of Mary Rodgers
Hey, Mr. Producer!
**High Spirits (OBC, OLC)
History Remembers
Holiday in Plaid
Honk!
Honky-Tonk Highway
Hot Mikado (OLC)
Hot Shoe Shuffle (OAC)
House of Flowers (the reissue as well as the one in the original long box, nyah nyah nyah!)
The Housewives’ Cantata
**How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (OBC, NBC)
Howard Crabtree's When Pigs Fly
The Human Comedy
I and Albert
I Can Get It For You Wholesale
I Can't Keep Running In Place
**I Do! I Do! (OBC, NBC)
I Had a Ball
I Love a Piano
**I Love My Wife (OBC, OSAC)
I Love You Because
I Love You, Madam President
I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
I Married An Angel
I Remember Mama
I Sing!
I Wants to Be a Actor Lady
If Love Were All
Ignomoney (songs from the musical)
The Immigrant
Imperfect Chemistry
In Gay Company
In My Life (promo)
In the Heights
In Trousers
Infinite Joy: The Songs of William Finn
Inside Out
Inside USA
***Into the Woods (OBC, OLC, NBC)
Invade My Privacy: A Musical Celebration of the Works of Fran Landesman
Ipi-Tombi
Irene
The Irish and How They Got That Way
Irma La Douce
The Iron Man
It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues
The It Girl
It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s Superman
It's Only Life
Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris
Jamaica/Porgy and Bess
Jane Eyre, the Musical
The Jazz Train (selections from)
Jeckyll & Hyde
The Jello is Always Red: The Cabaret Songs of Clark Gesner
Jelly Roll
Jelly’s Last Jam
Jennie
Jerome Kern Goes to Hollywood
Jerome Kern Overtures & Music from the film "Swing Time"
Jerome Robbins' Broadway
Jerry Herman's Broadway
Jersey Boys
**Jesus Christ Superstar (studio LP, some weird-ass British version with Rik Mayall)
Joan of Kent
John & Jen
John Murray Anderson's Almanac (w/Hermione Gingold and Cyril Ritchard)
Jolson: The Musical
****Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (1982 OBC, 1991 OBC, 1992 OCC w/Donny Osmond, studio version w/Quentin Blake art)
Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall (on CD--look ye and despair, peasants!)
Jung at Heart
Juno
Kalevala: Dream of the Salmon Maiden
Kapt'n Bay Bay (OGC)
Karaoke Broadway (includes one karaoke CD & one vocal versions CD)
Kat and the Kings
Kean
Key West!
King: A Musical Testimony
*******The King and I (OBC, OMC, NBC, Cook/Bikel version, Julie Andrews/Ben Kingsley version, Christopher Lee/Valerie Masterson London version, Rise Stevens/Darren McGavin version, Lois Hunt/Samuel Jones studio cast)
King Island Christmas
King Mackerel & The Blues Are Running
*****Kismet (OBC, London Masterworks edition, Ramey-Migenes version, OMC, Curtain Call highlights studio cast)
*****Kiss Me, Kate (OBC, stereo recording, NBC, some London cast on Excelsior, OTC)
**Kiss of the Spider Woman (OLC, Broadway replacement cast)
Knickerbocker Holiday
Kooky Tunes
Kuni-Leml
Kurt Weill: From Berlin to Broadway
Kurt Weill on Broadway
Kurt Weill: The Centennial
Kwamina
Lady, Be Good! (1992 studio cast)
***Lady in the Dark (OBC on cassette, Rise Stevens/Adolph Green version, OLC)
The Last Starfighter
Late Nite Comic ("songs from")
Leading Men Don’t Dance
Legs Diamond
Leonard Bernstein's New York
Leonard Stillman's New Faces of '68
Leonardo: The Absolute Man
**Les Miserables (original Paris cast, complete symphonic recording)
Let ‘Em Eat Cake (concert cast)
Let's Go On with the Show!: Hit Songs from the Broadway and the London Stage
**The Life (OBC, studio version)
The Light in the Piazza
The Likes of Us
**Li'l Abner (OBC, OMC)
Lilac Time/Rio Rita/A Southern Man (OLCs)
Lingoland
Linie 1 (OGC)
The Lion King
Listen to the Wind
Little By Little
Little Ham
Little Mary Sunshine (both on CD and LP)
***Little Me (OBC, NBC, OLC)
***A Little Night Music (OBC, OLC, studio cast?)
**Little Shop of Horrors (OOBC, OMC)
Little Women
Lizzie Borden
Lock Up Your Daughters
The Log of the Skipper's Wife
Lola
Lola Montez (OAC)
London Pride: Songs from the London Stage (Twiggy)
Lone Star Love
Look Ma, I'm Dancin'!
Lord of the Dance
Lost in Boston I
Lost in Boston II
Lost in Boston IV
Lost in the Stars
Lotusland
Love Online
Lovesong
**Lucky Stiff (Fynsworth Alley studio cast, York Theatre Company Production)
Ludwig II (OGC)
Lunch
***Mack & Mabel (OBC, OLC?, London concert cast)
Mack the Knife (OMC)
The Mad Show
Madhattan
Magdalena
Maggie May
The Magic Show
Make a Wish
Mame
Mamma Mia! (OLC)
****Man of La Mancha (OBC, Domingo/Migenes cast, OFC, OLC)
A Man of No Importance
Manilow Scores: Songs from Copacabana and Harmony
Marie Christine
Mark Twain: The Musical
Marlene: The New Musical Play
Marry Me a Little
Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me
**Mary Poppins (OMC, OLC)
Mask and Gown
Mata Hari (revival?)
The Match Girls
Mayor: The Musical
**Me and My Girl (OBC, Kernan/Scott version)
Meet Me In St. Louis
Menopause the Musical
***Merrily We Roll Along (OBC, NBC, NLC)
Metro
Metropolis
Milk and Honey
Les mille et une vies d'Ali Baba (OFC?)
Miong (OPC)
Miss Liberty
**Miss Saigon (OLC, Christopher/Emery Company highlights [this is apparently a Canadian company])
Miss Spectacular
Moby Dick
Moll Flanders
Momsense
Monty Python's Spamalot
***The Most Happy Fella (OBC, NBC, SC)
Most Men Are (highlights)
Mother of All the Peoples (OSC)
Mountain Days: The John Muir Musical
Movie Star
Movin' Out
Mr. Cinders (NLC)
Mr. President
Music Box Broadway No. 2
Music from the New York Stage 1890-1920. Volume One: 1890-1908
Music from the New York Stage 1890-1920. Volume Two: 1908-1913
Music from the New York Stage 1890-1920. Volume Three: 1913-1917
Music from the New York Stage 1890-1920. Volume Four: 1917-1920
Music in the Air
*****The Music Man (OBC, OMC, OLC, NBC, Cincinnati concert cast)
The Musical of Musicals
The Musicality of Lerner & Loewe
The Musicality of Sondheim
Musicals!
Musicals from the Land of Oz
******My Fair Lady (OBC, OLC, NSO version, Kiri Te Kanawa/Jeremy Irons version, Lola Fisher/Richard Torigi studio version, 1976 Bway cast)
My Favorite Year
My Life with Albertine
My One and Only
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Myths and Hymns
Naked Boys Singing
The Nervous Set
Never Gonna Dance (promo)
A New Brain
New Faces of 1968
New Girl in Town
The New Moon
New York New York: A Broadway Extravaganza with the New York City Gay Men's Chorus
New York Rock
Newsical
Nick & Nora
The Night of the Hunter
Nightingale
***Nine (OBC, London concert cast, NBC)
No, No, Nanette
No Sex (OGC)
No Strings
No Way to Treat a Lady
Noel and Gertie
Noel Coward sing Sail Away and Other Coward Rarities
Nord-Ost (ORC--highlights)
Notre Dame de Paris (OFC)
Now Is the Time for All Good Men
Nuncrackers
**Nunsense (OOBC, OLC)
Nunsense II: The Second Coming
Nunsense: The Jamboree
The Odd Potato
**Of Thee I Sing (OBC on cassette, concert cast)
Off The Wall: A Revuesical
Oh, Brother!
Oh! Calcutta!
Oh Captain!
**Oh, Kay! (studio cast, other studio cast)
Oh My Godmother!
Oil City Symphony
******Oklahoma! (OBC, OLC, Laurence Guittard/Christine Andreas version, John Raitt/Florence Henderson version, Nelson Eddy/Virginia Haskins version, OMC)
Old Timer
****Oliver! (OBC, OLC, SC with Stanley Holloway, SC with Victor Spinetti)
Olympus on My Mind
**On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (OBC, OMC)
On the Boards: Songs from the Victorian Music Halls
On the Boulevard: Liliane Montevecchi (well, it calls itself a cast album)
On the Town
On the Twentieth Century
On the Waterfront on Broadway
On Your Toes (first revival)
Once Around the Sun (promo)
Once On This Island
**Once Upon a Mattress (OBC, NBC)
One Foot Out the Door
***110 in the Shade (OBC, SC, NBC)
One Man Band
One Night Stand
One Touch of Venus/Lute Song
Only a Kingdom
Onward Victoria
Opal/Honky Tonk Highway, and Other Theater Songs by Robert Nassif Lindsey
Original Cast! 100 Years of the American Musical Theater: Completing the Century: 1980-94
Original Cast! 100 Years of the American Musical Theater: Visitors Abroad
**Out of This World (OBC, Encores cast)
Over Here!
Over My Shoulder
Overture American Musical Theatre: Volume One, 1924-1935
Pacific 1860
**Pacific Overtures (OBC, English National Opera highlights)
Paint Your Wagon
*****The Pajama Game (OBC, OLC, NBC, London studio cast, Harry Connick Jr. version)
**Pal Joey (two studio casts)
Pan: A Fantastical Journey
Paquito's Christmas
Parade (Jason Roberts Brown)
Parade (Jerry Herman)
**Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (OMC, French stage version)
Pardon My English
Paris '90
A Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green
Passion
Peg
Peter & Wendy
**Peter Pan (OBC, Various Artists version)
Peter Pan (Bernstein Version)
Peter Pan (Some nonstandard Israeli version)
The Phantom
The Phantom of the Opera
Phantom of the Opera (Stage Door players)
The Phantom of the Opera, Highlights from (OCC)
Phantom of the Opera, Songs From (Munich Symphony Orchestra + singers)
Philadelphia Chickens: Book and CD of the Imaginary Musical Revue
Picasso's Women
Pieces of Eight
Pilgrim Souls
Pinkalicious
Pinocchio's Marionette Theatre Presents Greatest Hits v.1
Pins and Needles
Pipe Dream
Pippin
The Pirates of Penzance (Kline/Ronstadt version)
Plain and Fancy
Play On!
Poppie Nongena (OSAC)
Popular Musicals
********Porgy and Bess (OBC, OMC, Houston cast, London cast, jazz greats version, Miles Davis version, Leontyne Price/William Warfield highlights version, Simon Estes/Roberta Alexander highlights version)
Postcards on Parade
Prime Time Musicals
The Prince and the Pauper
Prodigal (OAC)
***The Producers (OBC, old movie score, OMC)
Promenade
Promises, Promises
Pump Boys and Dinettes
Punk Side Story
Purlie
Putting It Together
Queen Lucia: A Musical Romp!
Quien Mato a Hector Lavoe?
R. Crumb--The Musical!
Radical Radio
Rage of the Heart
Rags
Ragtime
Rainbow Bridge: The Intergenerational Musical
Raisin
Ratcatcher: A Musical
Redhead
Rent
Reunion: A Musical Epic in Miniature
Rex
The Ridiculous Theatrical Company, Musical Selections From
**The Rink (OBC, OLC)
The Rise and Follies of Cape Breton Island
Riverdance
Road Show
The Roar of the Greasepaint, The Smell of the Crowd
The Robber Bridegroom
Robert & Elizabeth
**Roberta (SC, Alfred Drake version)
The Rock and the Rabbi
****The Rocky Horror Show (OLC, OBC, NBC, NSO studio album)
Le Roi Soleil
Romance Romance
Romeo & Juliet: The Musical from William Shakespeare
Romeo et Juliette de la Haine a l'Amour (by Gerard Presgurvic)
The Rothschilds
Runaways
Ruthless! The Musical
**Sail Away (OBC, OLC)
**St. Louis Woman (OBC, Encores cast)
Sarafina! The Music of Liberation
Sarah Plain and Tall
Saratoga
Satins and Spurs (OTC)
**Saturday Night (US cast, London cast)
**Saturday Night Fever (OMC, OLC)
Saturday's Warrior
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Scarlett (OJC)
Scrooge
**The Secret Garden (OBC, highlights from the OAC)
The Secret Garden (British version)
Secrets Every Smart Traveler Should Know
See What I Wanna See
Seesaw
September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill
Seussical
**Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (OMC, OLC)
**1776 (OBC, NBC)
Seventh Heaven
**70, Girls, 70 (OBC, OLC)
Shakespeare on Broadway
****She Loves Me (OBC, OLC, NBC, NLC)
Shelter (studio cast)
Shenandoah
Shepherd: A New Musical of King David
Sherlock Holmes: The Musical
Sherry!
Shinbone Alley
A Shoggoth on the Roof
Shout! The Mod Musical
******Show Boat (most recent revival, OLC, Cook-Douglass version, Von Stade-Hadley version, OMC, Chicago Musical Revue highlights)
Show Boat/Sunny/Lido Lady (songs from original 1920s London productions)
The Show Goes On
Showtunes (Stephen Merritt)
Side by Side by Sondheim
Side Show
Silk Stockings
Simply Heavenly (OLC)
**Singin' in the Rain (OLC, OMC)
Singin' My Song
Sisterella
Sitting Pretty
Slice of Saturday Night, A
Smokey Joe's Cafe: The Songs of Lieber and Stoller
**Snoopy! The Musical (San Francisco cast, OLC)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Radio City Music Hall musical)
So Long 174^th Street
Some Like It Hot (OLC)
Something for the Boys (San Francisco cast)
Sondheim: A Celebration
Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
Sondheim: A Musical Tribute
Sondheim at the Movies
Sondheim Sings v.2
Sondheim: The Stephen Sondheim Album
Sondheim Tonight
A Song Floating
Song of Norway (1990 London recording)
Song of Singapore
Songbook
Songs for a New World
Songs from an Unmade Bed
Songs from "WC" and Other Theatre Songs of Al Carmines
The Songs of Lionel Bart
The Songs of Noel Coward
The Songs of West Side Story
Sophie
Sophisticated Ladies (in the longbox, nyah!)
*****The Sound of Music (OBC, NBC, live Australian version, Cincinnati Pops Orchestra version, London Palladium Cast version)
*******South Pacific (OBC, NBC, Te Kanawa/Carreras version, Craven/Belcourt version, McEntire/Stokes Mitchell version, OMC, Henderson/Tozzi version)
Spamalot
Spirits of St. Paul
The Spitfire Grill
Spoon River Anthology
Spring Awakening
Stage Struck!
Stan Rogers: A Matter of Heart: The Musical Revue
Stairway to the Stars: A Tribute to the Golden Years of the Hollywood Musical (OLC)
**Starlight Express (OLC, "Music & Songs From")
Starmania
Starmites
Starting Here, Starting Now (OLC)
State Fair (OBC)
Steel Pier
A Stephen Sondheim Evening
Stepping Out (OLC)
Stop the World, I Want to Get Off (OBC)
La Strada
Strangers
Street Scene
The Streets of New York
Strike Up the Band
Striking 12: The New GrooveLily Musical
Studio
Subways Are for Sleeping
Such a Pretty Face
Sugar
Sugar Babies
The Sullivan Years: An Evening with Rodgers & Hammerstein
The Sullivan Years: The Best of Broadway v.1
The Sullivan Years: The Best of Broadway v.2
Summer of My German Soldier
**Sunday in the Park with George (OBC, NLC)
**Sunset Boulevard (OLC, short tour CD)
***Sweeney Todd (OBC, concert cast, NBC)
****Sweet Charity (OBC, Debbie Allen cast, Christina Applegate cast, NLC?)
Swingtime Canteen
Taboo (OLC)
Take Me Along
Taking a Chance on Love
A Tale of Cinderella
A Tale of Two Cities (selections from)
Tango Argentino
The Tap Dance Kid
Teen Witch: The Musical
**Tenderloin (OBC, Encores! cast)
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (selections from the London production)
Their Scarves Were Red
There's No Place Like Hollywood
**They’re Playing Our Song (OBC, OLC)
The Thing About Men
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Thou Shalt Not
3hree
3 Guys Naked from the Waist Down
3 Musketiers: De Musical (ODC)
Three Wishes for Jamie
**The Threepenny Opera (OOBC, German version w/Ute Lemper)
Through the Years (aka Vincent Youmans' Through the Years)
Tim: A Carol for a Later Christmas
A Time for Singing (LP)
Tintypes
Titanic
[title of show]
**Tommy (original rock album, OBC)
Top Banana
Tovah: Out of Her Mind!
Tovarich
The Town That Outlawed Christmas
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Treemonisha
Triumph of Love
The True Story of the Bridgewater Astral League (songs from)
Twenty Minutes South
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Two by Two
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Two on the Aisle
Two's Company
The Ultimate Rodgers & Hart v.1
Umoja, the Spirit of Togetherness
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Unsung Musicals v.1
Unsung Musicals v.2
Unsung Musicals v.3
Unsung Sondheim
Up in Central Park
Urinetown the Musical
Ute Lemper Sings Kurt Weill v.2
The Vagabond King (Alfred Drake version)
Valentino the Musical
Valmouth (Chichester Festival Theatre version)
Vanities
The Very Best of the Musicals
Very Good Eddie
**Victor/Victoria (OMC, OBC)
Violet
Virtue in Danger
Walking Happy (reel-to-reel)
The Water Gipsies
We Believe
We Will Rock You
The Wedding Singer
Weird Romance
We'll Gather Roses: The Songs of Ivor Novello
****West Side Story (OBC, 1993 godawful British version, 2006 Musical Stage Company version, 2007 London studio cast)
What a Day for a Daydream
What About Love (aka What About Luv/Luv/Love)
Where, Oh Where: Rare Songs of the American Theater
White House Cantata
Wicked
Widow's Waltz
The Wild Party (LaChiusa version)
The Wild Party (Lippa version)
Wildcat
The Will Rogers Follies
Wings
The Witches of Eastwick
The Wiz
***The Wizard of Oz (OMC, highlights from a London recording, 1998 cast recording)
Woman of the Year
****Wonderful Town (OBC?, OTC, OLC, London studio cast)
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (OCC)
Woody Guthrie's American Song
Working
Wuthering Heights: The Musical
A Year with Frog and Toad
You Oughta Be on Broadway: They Sing/You Sing: A Richard Rodgers Collection for Ladies of All Ages
Young Man, Older Woman
Your Own Thing
**You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown (OOBC, NBC)
You’re Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile
Yours, Anne
Z! The Masked Musical
Zanna, Don't!
Ziegfeld Follies of 1934
Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 (recent studio cast)
Zip Goes a Million
Zombie Prom
**Zorba (OBC, NBC)
Zumbi

= 925 + 261= 1186

Movie/TV/Animation/Performance/Cirque du Soleil Soundtracks:

Alex North's 2001
The Beatles: Love
The Big Country
Billy Smart's Circus
Black Orpheus
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Once More, with Feeling
The Carl Stalling Project
Charlie Brown's Holiday Hits
Concert for George
DuBarry Was a Lady
The Essential Hollywood
Everest
George and Ira Gershwin in Hollywood
Gershwin Centennial Edition: The Complete Orchestral Collection (Cincinnati Pops Orchestra)
Ghostbusters
The Happiest Millionaire
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
The Hunted
The Jungle Book
KA
Lost Horizon
Mack the Knife
The Marijuana-Logues
Memoirs of a Geisha
A Mighty Wind
The Music of Disney: A Legacy in Song
Mystere Live in Las Vegas
Mysteries of Egypt
New York, New York
O
The Pink Panther
Pulse: A Stomp Odyssey
Return of the Pink Panther
The Roaring Twenties (Dorothy Provine)
The Rose
Saltimbanco
Star!
Stay Awake
Stepping Out
Stormy Weather
Three Mo' Tenors
UHF
Victory at Sea

Other:

Adoration: Songs Inspired by the Hit Musical Which Way Do I Turn?
Alix Korey: Songs You Might Have Missed
Ambrose and His Orchestra
Andre Previn and His Pals: My Fair Lady
Andre Previn and His Pals: West Side Story
Andrew Lloyd Webber Pan Pipes Album (oh, the weird stuff I pick up....)
Ann Hampton Callaway/Liz Callaway: Sibling Rivalry
Selections from the original London cast of Annie Get Your Gun
Audra McDonald: Happy Songs
Barbara Cook at Carnegie Hall
Barbara Cook: Close as Pages in a Book
Barrage
Berlin Cabaret Songs (Ute Lemper, both German and English versions)
Bernstein's America
Blue Monday (Gershwin's jazz opera)
Blue Suede Shoes (the ballet)
Brian Stokes Mitchell
Cabaret Noel: A Broadway Cares Christmas
Cabaret's Golden Age V.1
Carols for a Cure 1999
Carols for a Cure 2001
Carols for a Cure 5
Carols for a Cure 6 (Broadway's Greatest Gifts)
Carols for a Cure 7 (Broadway's Greatest Gifts)
Carols for a Cure 9
Selections from the original London cast of Carousel
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Classical Broadway
Cole Porter and Dick Hyman: All Through the Night
The Critic (Noel Coward play)
Destination New York: It's Showtime!
Don Juan in Hell (First Drama Quartette)
Eartha Kitt: Purr-Fect (Greatest Hits)
The Essential Dylan Thomas
Ethel Merman: 24 Classic Songs
Fascinating Rhythm, v.II: Happy Birthday, Mr. Gershwin
Ferrante & Teicher: The Sound of Music
Frank Sings Loesser
George Wright Goes South Pacific on the Mighty Wurlitzer Pipe Organ (I swear to god, this is real, and yes, it is every bit as cheesy as it sounds)
Gershwin Performs Gershwin
Gershwin Plays Gershwin: The Piano Rolls
Gershwin: Porgy and Bess, etc. (I'm not including this as a musical because it's a "symphonic picture")
Gertrude Lawrence (includes material from The King & I, Lady in the Dark, and Nymph Errant)
The Girl on the Magazine Cover: Songs of Irving Berlin
The Grand Tour: The Ballet Music of Noel Coward
Grandma Moses Suite/Blues Opera
Grateful: The Songs of John Buccino
Gypsy in Jazz
Selections from the original London cast of Kiss Me, Kate
Harold Sings Arlen (with Friend [Streisand])
Highlights from My Fair Lady (London Theatre Orchestra and Singers)
Holiday in Plaid
I Got Rhythm (4-disc Gershwin set)
I Love a Parade
I Won't Dance (Piccadilly Dance Orchestra)
Jason Graae Live at the Cinegrill
Jerome Kern: Classic Movie & Broadway Show Tunes from Rare Piano Rolls (Biograph Records Presents the Great American Composer Series)
Jerry Orbach: Off Broadway
Joe McCarthy is Alive and Well and Living in Dade County
Judy Garland in Concert
Judy Garland: The Complete Decca Original Cast Recordings
Judy Kaye: Diva by Diva
Judy Kaye: Songs from the Silver Screen
Kristin Chenoweth: Let Yourself Go
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Mandy Patinkin: Oscar & Steve
A Marvelous Party with Beatrice Lillie
Michael Crawford: Songs from the Stage and Screen
Misbehavin'! with Nell Carter
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir: Curtain Up! (Not quite as cheesy as the Mighty Wurlitzer Organ....)
Noel Coward On the Air: Rare and Unknown Broadcasts 1944-1948
Selections from the original London cast of Oklahoma!
Paige O'Hara: Dream With Me
Panama Hattie (a few songs included with Call Me Madam)
The Paul Simon Album: Broadway Sings the Best of Paul Simon
Paul Simon: Songs from The Capeman
Peter Allen: At His Best
Pops by George
Pops on Parade
Portia Nelson: Sunday in New York
Puttin' on the Ritz: The Great Hollywood Musicals
Rampal Plays Gershwin
Ruddygore (Gilbert & Sullivan
Sally Mayes: The Dorothy Fields Songbook
Santa Fe Singers (this may be an actual revue, but I can't really tell)
The Seven Deadly Sins (Kurt Weill, starring Marianne Faithfull)
Shirley MacLaine Live at the Palace
A Simple Man (ballet)
Stritch
Timbuktu (a few songs included with Kismet)
Trouble in Tahiti
The Vagina Monologues
The Vamp of the Roaring 20's (Dorothy Provine)
Via Dolorosa (it's a one-man show)
Wild Women Blues
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (Children's Museum of Los Angeles Play)

Not Sure Yet (haven't listened and the booklets are no help):

Millie Jackson and Cast: The Sequel: It Ain't Over!
Music in Search of a Musical
The New York Rock and Soul Revue (I think this is just a concert)
A Night in Venice (I think this is an opera)
Oh Perilous World (I think this is a concept album that calls itself an "original cast recording")
Revelation in the Courthouse Park
You Don't Have to Be Jewish/When You're in Love the Whole World is Jewish (not a musical, but a live comedy performance)

I also have a shitload of rock, world music, jazz, classical, and other CDs. I'd quantify "shitload," but who the hell feels like it?

Collection FAQ

How long have you been collecting?

I’ve been seriously collecting for around 20 years. I had a few shows before that (all standards--Fiddler, Music Man, etc.), but it’s safe to say my collection has exploded within the last two decades. Damn this obsession… but if you’re reading this FAQ, you can sympathize, I’m sure.

The irony of it all is that I collect to listen, not to make money, but my source (see below) has had so much rare stuff that I’m afraid to open several of the discs because they’ve become collectible for their own sakes. At least House of Flowers got reissued so I could have my CD and listen to it too.

Have you actually listened to everything you own?

I’m working on it. Lately I've picked up a ton and haven't had a chance to listen to most of them.

Where did you get all these rare discs?

Well, there was this little independent record store in Denver that I’d been going to literally since we moved here in 1973. (She opened in 1972.) Karen, the owner, recently closed her storefront and had a huge sale to get rid of existing inventory—25% off everything—so I spent over $500 in three separate trips, in the process discovering that she had some REALLY RARE DISCS. (She specializes in showtunes and soundtracks.) Some of this stuff has apparently been sitting around in their original longboxes for decades.

She used to have a little warehouse location where I would go to paw through her stuff, but I stopped going in 2002 after I was laid off and my mother's Alzheimer's was becoming a huge problem. I don't know if she still has her warehouse or even if she's still alive.

I also have gotten a bunch from Colony Records in Times Square. I've been there three times in four years and spent more than $1000. Watch me find some of the discs I bought in a used store, though....

I also get lucky at used CD stores occasionally. I was in the Wherehouse in Boulder in 2001-2002. My aim was to get a 220 CD spinner. I ended up with no CD spinner but about $200 in used discs—many of which were actually not used at all but were being sold as used, and many of which were things I’d never heard of or thought weren’t even on CD, like the OLC of Calamity Jane, a tribute to Harold Prince recorded in Germany, and the Japanese production of Scarlett. (Not to mention the OBCs of Peter Pan, Ain’t Misbehavin’, and Oklahoma [the latter for my parents].) I picked up a bunch of the Ben Bagley titles, still in shrinkwrap, for $5, which should make you collectors just die, hee hee! I’d also gotten Superman and a few other oddities from them in the past. In general they are a good source of musicals both used and new. [ARGH! They CLOSED! CRAP!] I scammed Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall for $8 at Cheapo Discs in Denver; I think they'd die if they found out it runs for at least $180. Heh! [ARGH! They CLOSED! CRAP CRAP!]

I occasionally find stuff at thrift stores. That's where I got Ipi-Tombi and the Ute Lemper discs. I once discovered a large set of those old Time-Life cassettes, but since I had everything on disc I didn't buy them. I've done OK with LPs, having picked up Saturday's Warrior, a UN musical, a 1971 musical done in a Colorado high school (I actually know the location of another copy of this thing, which must have had maybe 100 discs pressed), and a copy of Funny Girl with what I thought was a Playbill inside but what turned out to be a couple of programs for the 1960-something touring cast when it came to Denver. I hate pawing through thrift shop albums, since they tend to be ragged, dirty, and lacking sleeves, but sometimes providence puts them right up front. The trouble with thrift shop albums is that you always have to check them for health. Unless something is extremely rare, I never buy anything that lacks a sleeve. (How anyone could store an LP in its jacket without the sleeve is beyond me, but a ton of people did.) I once carelessly got an obscure live recording of Hair at an ARC without checking it, only to discover when I got home that someone had hated the "Sodomy" song so much that not only did they black out the name on the jacket (wish I'd noticed that), they actually blacked out and X'ed out the song on the LP. At least it was only a buck.

I've had a little luck at garage sales, but generally if I find anything it's recent stuff. Lately I've taken to buying albums with jackets in good shape; I have an idea for a wall mural.

A tip for you CD hunters: It can be useful to go to independent or used CD stores in odd neighborhoods where show music is not likely to be popular. In general, support independent retailers; chains are mostly loathsome! Not to mention all but useless when it comes to show tunes… though I did find Carnival in the bargain bin at Sam Goody's for $2. (Of course, they're gone too, though that's no great loss.) Barnes & Noble has probably the best selection of show music among all the chains, if that's all you can travel to.

Then, of course, there's eBay. I've picked up probably 200 discs that way--geez!

Can I buy Disc X from you?

Nope. I keep everything, even the junk. I’m just posting this list to make you jealous. Nyah!

Do you trade?

Only if I know you. I find myself reluctant to make copies of CDs for anyone but friends.

Do you have any bootlegs?

I wish, but no.

Do you have any videos?

I have a bunch on both video and DVD, but I haven't had a chance to list them yet. I don't have anything that isn't commercially available, either--no recordings of TV shows or anything fun like that.

Are there any show CDs you don’t want?

Well, I don't have many of the CRs for the composers or shows I dislike—ALW, B&S, etc.—though now that I've broken 1,000, I'm starting to get everything I can. I have only a small number of cabaret discs; ditto for plain old singer discs and "special" versions of shows (e.g., My Fair Lady in jazz). I try to avoid discs made up of original songs from different musicals, since I often have most or all of the musicals from which those songs were taken, but if they’re cheap and interesting I might get them. Operetta bores me to death, but I'll probably get the Romberg etc. disks for completeness. I am NOT fond of "1001 Strings" versions of songs; I avoid those like the plague unless they have something unusually interesting about them, or I make a mistake! And, I'm avoiding generic "composer" discs (Gershwin, Berlin, Porter, etc.), as they tend to contain only the hits, and sung by non-musical-theatre people at that.

Are you looking for anything in particular?

If it’s not up there, I want it. My personal Holy Grails of desperately wanted musicals are the London cast recordings of Sweeney Todd and On the Twentieth Century, which were <sigh> never recorded. I’d also like Elliot Ness in Cleveland and Busker Alley/Stage Door Charley, if such things ever show up. (The compilation Believe! has one or two songs from the latter. I have been assured, though, that Elliot Ness in Cleveland is 100% thoroughly gone. However! Because I volunteer at the National Theatre Conservatory library/Denver Center, I have access to their archives, which includes the script and some recorded material from the show. So I can't own or copy it but I can look at it.) I REALLY wish they'd rerelease, or create new studio recordings of, stuff like Where's Charley, DuBarry Was a Lady, and other older shows, especially those of Kern, Rodgers and Hart, and Porter. And I glom onto foreign recordings whenever possible. I know, for example, that there are a bunch of Israeli and Australian musicals out there. I have a couple but nowhere near as many as there are.

Trouble is, lately I've been pretty broke--I haven't had a real job in a couple of years--and it's very hard for me to justify buying a lot of stuff. My father supports the notion of my collection, but he draws the line at frequent large purchases of CDs. Still, slowly I manage to add things here and there.

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