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A Chorus Line (1975 Original Broadway Cast)
Album Description: Michael Bennett's 1975 tale of Broadway's gypsies--the chorus dancers--resonated with audiences as few shows ever have, examining with both hilarity and heartbreak the grueling life of ordinary performers always auditioning for an opportunity to be...
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Rating: 45 reviews
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Dreamgirls (1982 Original Broadway Cast)
Artist: Tom Eyen, Henry Krieger
Album Description: Release Date: 1990-10-25, Audio CD, Decca U.S.
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Rating: 78 reviews
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Follies (Highlights from the 1971 Original Broadway Cast)
Artist: Stephen Sondheim, Dorothy Collins, Alexis Smith
Album Description: The scene: an abandoned theater, where a group of performers--alumni from the fictional musical revue The Weismann Follies--is holding a reunion shortly before the building is to be turned to rubble. The long-retired players relive their careers...
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Rating: 36 reviews
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Pippin (1972 Original Broadway Cast)
Artist: Stephen Schwartz
Album Description: Release Date: 2000-09-26, Audio CD, Decca Broadway
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Rating: 71 reviews
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Songs That Got Us Through WWII
Artist: Various Artists
Album Description: They may have rationed meat, milk, canned goods, and gasoline, but there was no limit to the musical talent during World War II. Morale-boosting sounds on the home front and "over there" were one of the Allies' most potent weapons. WWII gave birth to...
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Rating: 23 reviews
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Disney's Beauty and the Beast: The Broadway Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
Artist: Tim Rice, Howard Ashman, Alan Menken
Album Description: Way back in 1991, many of us saw the single-handed salvation and revival of the old-fashioned American-style Broadway musical comedy. True, it was in the form of a feature-length Disney cartoon, but Beauty and the Beast had it all: a...
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Rating: 92 reviews
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Ultra-Lounge, Vol. 4: Bachelor Pad Royale
Artist: Various Artists
Album Description: Release Date: 1996-02-20, Audio CD, Capitol
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Rating: 21 reviews
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Songs for a New World (1996 Original New York Cast)
Artist: Jessica Molaskey, Jason Robert Brown, Andrea Burns
Album Description: Jason Robert Brown, one of musical theater's brightest young composers, made his first New York splash in 1995 with Songs for a New World at the WPA Theatre. It's a revue of 16 of his cabaret and theater songs, directed by Daisy Prince (Hal's...
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Rating: 102 reviews
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The Lion King (1997 Original Broadway Cast)
Artist: Tim Rice, Mark Mancina, Heather Headley, Elton John
Album Description: An Oscar win might suggest a score that would need a miracle to be bettered--but this colorful stage adaptation of Disney's The Lion King does so with flair. Composers Mark Mancina and Lebo M worked closely together to fuse the movie's many...
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Rating: 160 reviews
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The Wild Party (Lippa) (2000 Off-Broadway Cast)
Artist: Andrew Lippa
Album Description: Some 70 years after being written, Joseph Moncure March's 1928 Jazz-Age poem, The Wild Party, proved it still knew how to inspire: a pair of musicals dedicated to the sultry tale of excess were produced virtually concurrently. Too bad good...
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Rating: 78 reviews
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Seussical: The Musical (Original Cast Recording)
Artist: Stephen Flaherty, Original Broadway Cast, Lynn Ahrens, Eric Idle
Album Description: Seussical: the Musical, which is based on Dr. Seuss's beloved characters, made the news even before its Broadway opening, as tales of disastrous out-of-town tryouts multiplied and creative turmoil abounded. But the show has its fans--Rosie...
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Rating: 128 reviews
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Time to Say Goodbye
Artist: Sarah Brightman, London Symphony Orchestra
Album Description: Fans of small, pretty-voiced soprano Sarah Brightman will not be disappointed by this CD. In addition to some pop songs, Brightman sings high-flying excerpts from Orff's Carmina Burana, Puccini's "O mio babbino caro" (performed better by...
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Rating: 234 reviews
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Hairspray (2002 Original Broadway Cast)
Artist: Scott Wittman, Marissa Jaret Winokur, Marc Shaiman, Kerry Butler, Harvey Fierstein
Album Description: The cast recording for the Broadway musical of John Waters's 1988 paean to dance, music, big beautiful women, and integration is a sheer delight. It's wonderfully upbeat all the way through, with a classic feel that's in keeping with the story's...
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Rating: 193 reviews
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Avenue Q (2003 Original Broadway Cast)
Artist: Stephanie D'Abruzzo, Robert Lopez, John Tartaglia, Jeff Marx, Avenue Q
Album Description: Avenue Q will only fuel the frustration of those who think that Broadway has given up on sophisticated entertainment geared to adults. "Whatever happened to Cole Porter's witty rhymes and mature subject matter?" they'll say. Well, it's hard to...
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Rating: 239 reviews
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Altar Boyz (2005 Original Off-Broadway Cast)
Artist: Scott Porter, Michael Patrick Walker, Gary Adler
Album Description: Altar Boyz may ride on a single idea, but that idea is brilliantly carried through: What if there was an openly Christian boy band? Because the show's success depends on that one concept, every detail has to be perfec--and it is. Each member of...
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Rating: 29 reviews
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The Last 5 Years (2002 Off-Broadway Cast)
Artist: Sherie Rene Scott, Norbert Leo Butz, Jason Robert Brown
Album Description: Jason Robert Brown burst on the musical-theater scene with a bang when his first Broadway show, Parade, won the Tony for original score in 1999. This new offering is more modest in scale than Parade, but it allows Brown to refine his...
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Rating: 113 reviews
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Barbara Cook at the Met with Special Guests
Artist: Barbara Cook
Album Description: What's left for singers who already have Carnegie Hall under their belts? The Metropolitan Opera. Except it's not that easy for non-classical performers. On January 20, 2006, Barbara Cook--a Carnegie habitué, where she performed, for instance, her...
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Rating: 23 reviews
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Diva: The Singles Collection
Artist: Sarah Brightman
Album Description: Sarah Brightman Photos
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