Thursday, November 2, 2023
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 11:03AMSunday, October 29, 2023
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 12:12PMFriday, October 27, 2023
Jonathan Tunick receives his Sardi's portrait. Photos by Michael Portantiere.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:51AMMonday, October 23, 2023
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 announ…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 12:02PMSaturday, October 21, 2023
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 06:23PMSunday, October 8, 2023
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 …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 03:16PMTuesday, September 26, 2023
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 12:00PMOriginal 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 o…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:35AMOriginal 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 11:12AMOriginal 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…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:55AMOriginal 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 the …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:43AMSaturday, September 23, 2023
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,…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 12:18PMOriginal 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, …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:44AMThursday, September 21, 2023
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 04:20PMOriginal 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 03:33PMThursday, September 7, 2023
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 Mus…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 03:31PMFriday, August 25, 2023
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 10:48AMOriginal 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 10:07AMThursday, August 24, 2023
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 03:37PMConcept 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 01:53PMSaturday, August 12, 2023
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 02:22PMOriginal 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 fi…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 01:39PMOriginal 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 12:58PMTuesday, August 8, 2023
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 10:26AMTuesday, July 25, 2023
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,…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 11:43AMSunday, July 23, 2023
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…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 09:34AMSaturday, July 22, 2023
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 07:06PMOriginal 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…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 06:49PMTuesday, July 4, 2023
Original Broadway Cast, 2023 (Wine & Peaches LLC) New York, New York is destined to go down in musical theater history books for its creative team, which includes the legendary composer …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 02:33PMMonday, June 19, 2023
Original Broadway Cast, 2023 (Masterworks Broadway) In 2021, the South Korean music industry earned around $773 million in revenue, a figure that has been increasing since K-pop as a genre…
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 10:29AMThursday, June 15, 2023
Original Broadway Cast, 2023 (Concord Theatricals) Broadway musicals based on movies are nothing new, but Billy Wilder’s masterpiece Some Like it Hot may hold the distinction of being the …
SOURCE: castalbumreviews.com at 03:06PM 
