Aviva's Broadway Collection

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

OBC = Original Broadway cast

OOBC = Original Off-Broadway cast

NBC = New Broadway cast

OLC = Original London cast

NLC = New London cast

SC = Studio cast

OJC = Original Japanese cast

OTC = Original TV cast

OMC = Original movie cast

OGC = Original German cast
OAC = Original Australian cast
OIC = Original Israeli cast
OSC = Original Scottish cast
OFC = Original French cast
ORC = Original Russian cast

OCC = Original Canadian cast

ODC = Original Dutch cat


** = 2 versions

*** = 3 versions

**** = 4 versions etc.

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

• 3 Guys Naked from the Waist Down
• 3 Musketiers: De Musical (ODC)
• 3hree
• A... My Name Will Always Be Alice
• Ace of Clubs
• The Act
• The Adventures of Marco Polo (OTC)
• 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
• 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)
• **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
• 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
• 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
• **Bells Are Ringing (OBC, NBC)
• Ben Bagley's Alan Jay Lerner Revisited
• Ben Bagley's Cole Porter Revisted
• Ben Bagley's Cole Porter Revisited Vol. V
• Ben Bagley's Contemporary Broadway 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.
• Best Foot Forward (1961 cast)
• The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
• Big City Rhythm: The Songs of Barry Kleinbort
• Big: The Musical
• Big River
• Billion Dollar Baby
• Billy Elliot
• Billy Noname
• The Biograph Girl
• Birds of Paradise
• Bitter Sweet
• Black and Blue
• Bless the Bride
• Blondel
• **Blood Brothers (London revival cast, International cast)
• Bloomer Girl
• Bombay Dreams
• Bonnie's Broadway Moon Song Shoppe
• Born to Rhumba
• Bounce
• The Boy Friend (OBC)
• The Boy from Oz
• Boy Meets Boy
• ***The Boys from Syracuse (1953 studio cast, Encores! cast, OLC)
• Bravo Giovanni
• Breakfast at Tiffany’s (SC)
• ****Brigadoon (OBC, two different British casts, Jack Cassidy-Shirley Jones version on LP)
• Bright Lights, Big City
• Bring In ‘Da Noise, Bring In ‘Da Funk
• Broadway Bound
• A Broadway Christmas
• Broadway Divas
• Broadway First Take, v.1
• Broadway First Take, v.2
• The Broadway Musical (The History of American Musicals)
• Broadway on Broadway 2001
• Broadway Showstoppers
• Broadway's Greatest Gifts: Carols for a Cure 2001
• Brownstone: The Musical
• **Bubbling Brown Sugar (OBC, OLC)
• Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story
• By Jeeves
• By the Beautiful Sea
• ***Bye Bye Birdie (OBC, OLC, OMC)
• ***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)
• 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)
• Casino Paradise
• Casper the Musical
• Catch Me If I Fall
• **Cats (OBC, 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)
• ****Chicago (OBC, NBC, LC, OMC)
• Children's Letters to God
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
• **A Chorus Line (OBC, OGC)
• Christine
• Chu Chin Chow (1959 London recording with other versions from earlier productions)
• ***Cinderella (OTC, Second TV cast, Various Artists version)
• City of Angels
• A Class Act
• 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)
• 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
• Cyrano
• 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
• Divorce Me, Darling!
• 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
• Elaine Stritch At Liberty
• Elegies for Angels, Punks, and Raging Queens
• Emily Skinner and Alice Ripley: Duets
• Ernest in Love
• An Evening with Alan Jay Lerner (London concert)
• An Evening with Dorothy Fields
• Everybody's Gettin' Into The Act
• Evita
• Expresso Bongo
• Fade Out-Fade In
• Falling in Love is Wonderful: Broadway's Greatest Love Duets
• Falsettos
• Fame
• Fanny
• The Fantasticks
• 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
• **Finian’s Rainbow (OBC, 1960 Bway production)
• 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
• Flora the Red Menace
• Floradora
• **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
• 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
• Forty Years at the Crystal Palace (it's a revue in Aspen)
• Fosse
• Frankenstein the Musical
• The Frog Prince
• Front Row Center
• **42^nd Street (OBC, NBC)
• 4 Guys Named Jose
• Foxy
• Freeway Dreams
• The Frogs/Evening Primrose
• The Full Monty
• Funny Girl
• **A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (OBC, NBC)
• A Gala Concert for Hal Prince
• The Gay Life
• The Gay 90s
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
• George M.
• The Gift
• The Gifts of the Magi
• Gigi (OLC)
• **Girl Crazy (Mary Martin version, concert cast)
• The Girl in Pink Tights
• Goblin Market
• **Godspell (OBC, 2001 Natl Touring Cast)
• The Golden Apple
• Golden Boy
• Goldilocks
• Golf, the Musical
• Good News
• **The Goodbye Girl (OBC, OLC)
• Goodtime Charley
• The Gospel at Colonus
• Goys and Dolls: A Parable for Our Times
• Grand Hotel
• The Grand Tour
• The Grass Harp
• Great Songs of the Yiddish Stage, v.2
• The Green Bird
• Greenwillow
• The Great American Backstage Musical
• The Great American Trailer Park Musical
• Great Expectations
• Grind
• Gumboots
• Gunmetal Blues
• ***Guys and Dolls (OBC, NBC, all-Black version)
• Guys on Ice
• ****Gypsy (OBC, Angela Lansbury revival, Tyne Daly revival, Bernadette Peters revival)
• **Hair (OBC, Actor's Fund benefit version)
• Hairspray
• 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, all-Black version
• Here's Love
• Hey, Love: The Songs of Mary Rodgers
• Hey, Mr. Producer!
• High Spirits
• Holiday in Plaid
• Honk!
• 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 Love a Piano
• I Love My Wife
• I Love You, Madam President
• I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change
• I Married An Angel
• I Remember Mama
• I Sing!
• If Love Were All
• Ignomoney (songs from the musical)
• The Immigrant
• Imperfect Chemistry
• In Gay Company
• In My Life (promo)
• In Trousers
• Infinite Joy: The Songs of William Finn
• Inside Out
• Inside USA
• **Into the Woods (OBC, OLC)
• 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
• 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’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
• **Jesus Christ Superstar (studio LP, some weird-ass British version with Rik Mayall)
• Jersey Boys
• Joan of Kent
• John & Jen
• John Murray Anderson's Almanac (w/Hermione Gingold and Cyril Ritchard)
• Jolson: The Musical
• Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall (on CD--look ye and despair, peasants!)
• Juno
• Kalevala: Dream of the Salmon Maiden
• Kat and the Kings
• Kean
• Key West!
• King: A Musical Testimony
• *****The King and I (OBC, NBC, Cook/Bikel version, Julie Andrews/Ben Kingsley version, Christopher Lee/Valerie Masterson London version)
• King Island Christmas
• King Mackerel & The Blues Are Running
• **Kismet (OBC, London Masterworks edition)
• ****Kiss Me, Kate (OBC, stereo recording, NBC, some London cast)
• Kiss of the Spider Woman
• Knickerbocker Holiday
• Kooky Tunes
• Kuni-Leml
• Kurt Weill: From Berlin to Broadway
• Kurt Weill: The Centennial
• ***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
• 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
• Lilac Time/Rio Rita/A Southern Man (OLCs)
• Listen to the Wind
• Little By Little
• Little Ham
• ***Little Me (OBC, NBC, OLC)
• ***A Little Night Music (OBC, OLC, studio cast?)
• **Little Shop of Horrors (OOBC, OMC)
• Lola
• Lola Montez (OAC)
• London Pride: Songs from the London Stage (Twiggy)
• 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)
• 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)
• Marie Christine
• Mark Twain: The Musical
• Marlene: The New Musical Play
• Marry Me a Little
• Mary Poppins (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
• Miss Liberty
• Miss Spectacular
• Moll Flanders
• 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)
• The Musical of Musicals
• The Musicality of Lerner & Loewe
• The Musicality of Sondheim
• Musicals from the Land of Oz
• ***My Fair Lady (OBC, OLC, NSO version)
• 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 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
• Nick & Nora
• The Night of the Hunter
• Nightingale
• ***Nine (OBC, London concert cast, NBC)
• No, No, Nanette
• No Strings
• No Way to Treat a Lady
• 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
• **Nunsense (OOBC, OLC)
• Nunsense II: The Second Coming
• Nunsense: The Jamboree
• **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)
• Oil City Symphony
• *****Oklahoma! (OBC, OLC, Laurence Guittard/Christine Andreas version, John Raitt/Florence Henderson version, Nelson Eddy/Virginia Haskins version)
• The Odd Potato
• ***Oliver! (OBC, OLC, SC with Stanley Holloway)
• Olympus on My Mind
• On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
• 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 on cassette, SC)
• One Man Band
• 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 My Shoulder
• Over Here!
• 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)
• **Pal Joey (two studio casts)
• Paquito's Christmas
• Parade (Jason Roberts Brown)
• Parade (Jerry Herman)
• Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (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 (Some nonstandard Israeli version)
• The Phantom
• Phantom of the Opera, Songs From (Munich Symphony Orchestra + singers)
• Philadelphia Chickens: Book and CD of the Imaginary Musical Revue
• Pieces of Eight
• 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!
• Popular Musicals
• *******Porgy and Bess (OBC, OMC, Houston cast, London cast, jazz greats version, Miles Davis version, Leontyne Price/William Warfield highlights version)
• Prime Time Musicals
• The Prince and the Pauper
• Prodigal (OAC)
• The Producers
• 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
• Redhead
• Rent
• Rex
• The Ridiculous Theatrical Company, Musical Selections From
• **The Rink (OBC, OLC)
• The Roar of the Greasepaint, The Smell of the Crowd
• The Robber Bridegroom
• Robert & Elizabeth
• **Roberta (SC, Alfred Drake version)
• ***The Rocky Horror Show (OLC, OBC, NBC)
• 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
• **Saturday Night (US cast, London cast)
• Saturday Night Fever (OLC)
• 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 (OLC)
• **1776 (OBC, NBC)
• Seventh Heaven
• **70, Girls, 70 (OBC, OLC)
• Shakespeare on Broadway
• ***She Loves Me (OBC, OLC, NBC)
• Shelter
• Shenandoah
• Shepherd: A New Musical of King David
• Sherlock Holmes: The Musical
• Sherry!
• Shinbone Alley
• A Shoggoth on the Roof
• *****Show Boat (most recent revival, OLC, Cook-Douglass version, Von Stade-Hadley version, OMC)
• Show Boat/Sunny/Lido Lady (songs from original 1920s London productions)
• The Show Goes On
• Side by Side by Sondheim
• Side Show
• Silk Stockings
• Singin' My Song
• Sisterella
• Sitting Pretty
• Smokey Joe's Cafe: The Songs of Lieber and Stoller
• **Snoopy! The Musical (OOBC, OLC)
• 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
• Song of Norway (1990 London recording)
• A Song Floating
• Songs for a New World
• Songs from "WC" and Other Theatre Songs of Al Carmines
• The Songs of Lionel Bart
• The Songs of Noel Coward
• Sophie
• Sophisticated Ladies (in the longbox, nyah!)
• ****The Sound of Music (OBC, NBC, live Australian version, Cincinnati Pops Orchestra version)
• ****South Pacific (OBC, Te Kanawa/Carreras version, Craven/Belcourt version, McEntire/Stokes Mitchell version)
• The Spitfire Grill
• 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)
• Starmites
• Starting Here, Starting Now (OLC)
• State Fair
• Steel Pier
• A Stephen Sondheim Evening
• Stepping Out (OLC)
• Stop the World, I Want to Get Off
• Street Scene
• Strike Up the Band
• The Streets of New York
• Studio
• Subways Are for Sleeping
• Such a Pretty Face
• Sugar
• Sugar Babies
• 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
• ***Sweeney Todd (OBC, concert cast, NBC)
• **Sweet Charity (OBC, 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
• **Tenderloin (OBC, Encores! cast)
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles (selections from the London production)
• There's No Place Like Hollywood
• They’re Playing Our Song
• Thoroughly Modern Millie
• The Threepenny Opera
• Three Wishes for Jamie
• Through the Years (aka Vincent Youmans' Through the Years)
• Tim: A Carol for a Later Christmas
• A Time for Singing (LP)
• Tintypes
• Titanic
• Top Banana
• Tovah: Out of Her Mind!
• Tovarich
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
• Treemonisha
• Triumph of Love
• The True Story of the Bridgewater Astral League (songs from)
• The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
• Two by Two
• Two Gentlemen of Verona
• Two on the Aisle
• The Ultimate Rodgers & Hart v.1
• 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
• The Vagabond King (Alfred Drake version)
• Valentino the Musical
• Valmouth (Chichester Festival Theatre version)
• The Very Best of the Musicals
• Very Good Eddie
• Victor/Victoria
• Violet
• Virtue in Danger
• Walking Tall (in reel-to-reel--will I ever hear it?)
• The Water Gipsies
• We Will Rock You
• Weird Romance
• **West Side Story (OBC, 1993 british version)
• 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 (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

= 779 + 167 = 946

Movie/TV/Animation/Circque du Soleil Soundtracks:

• The Big Country
• Black Orpheus
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Once More, with Feeling
• The Carl Stalling Project
• Charlie Brown's Holiday Hits
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
• Concert for George
• The Essential Hollywood
• Everest
• Funny Girl
• George and Ira Gershwin in Hollywood
• Gigi
• Ghostbusters
• The Hunted
• The Jungle Book
• KA
• Lost Horizon
• Mack the Knife
• Mary Poppins
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• A Mighty Wind
• The Music of Disney: A Legacy in Song
• Mystere Live in Las Vegas
• New York, New York
• O
• On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
• Les Parapluies de Cherbourg
• The Pink Panther
• The Producers (movie score, new movie score)
• Pulse: A Stomp Odyssey
• Return of the Pink Panther
• Saltimbanco
• Singin' in the Rain
• Star!
• Stay Awake
• Stepping Out
• Stormy Weather
• UHF
• Victor/Victoria
• Victory at Sea
• The Wizard of Oz

Other:

• Adoration: Songs Inspired by the Hit Musical Which Way Do I Turn?
• Alix Korey: Songs You Might Have Missed
• Andre Previn and His Pals: My Fair Lady
• Andre Previn and His Pals: West Side Story
• Selections from the original London cast of Annie Get Your Gun
• Audra McDonald: Happy Songs
• Barbara Cook at Carnegie Hall
• Barrage
• Blast
• Blue Monday (Gershwin's jazz opera)
• Blue Suede Shoes (the ballet)
• Cabaret's Golden Age V.1
• Carols for a Cure 1999
• Carols for a Cure 5
• Selections from the original London cast of Carousel
• A Charlie Brown Christmas
• Classical Broadway
• Cole Porter and Dick Hyman: All Through the Night
• Eartha Kitt: Purr-Fect (Greatest Hits)
• 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)
• 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
• Jason Graae Live at the Cinegrill
• Jerry Orbach: Off Broadway
• Joe McCarthy is Alive and Well and Living in Dade County
• Judy Garland in Concert
• Judy Kaye: Diva by Diva
• Judy Kaye: Songs from the Silver Screen
• Kristin Chenoweth: Let Yourself Go
• Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
• A Marvelous Party with Beatrice Lillie
• Mishbehavin'! 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)
• Paul Simon: Songs from The Capeman
• Peter Allen: At His Best
• Portia Nelson: Sunday in New York
• Postcards on Parade
• Puttin' on the Ritz: The Great Hollywood Musicals
• Rampal Plays Gershwin
• Santa Fe Singers (this may be an actual revue, but I can't really tell)
• A Simple Man (ballet)
• Stritch
• Timbuktu (a few songs included with Kismet)
• Trouble in Tahiti
• The Vagina Monologues
• Via Dolorosa (it's a one-man show)
• Wild Women Blues

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)
• 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 only been seriously collecting for around twelve 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 ten years. (Twelve years ago, I couldn't have collected so intensely because I was still in grad school and was unemployed and living off my parents [and I'm currently living with my father again, though I do have a contract tech writing job at the moment] with little room for hobbies.) 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 still maintains a little warehouse in the warehouse district, and every so often I send her a wish list, and she fills it either from her existing inventory or orders it for me. Then I go and pick up the stuff, and she lets me paw through her inventory. I think I’ve spent almost $900 there in the last few months—she loves me. I’m not telling you where this is because I haven’t finished pawing through her inventory yet, and I know she still has some hard-to-find stuff that I want in MY collection, not YOURS. But once I’ve picked her existing inventory clean, I’ll provide a link to her website, because she has a genius for finding rare discs. And you should really check her out if you collect soundtracks—she has a shitload. She does mail order, so you don’t have to be local.

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 just bought in a used store, though....

I also get lucky at used CD stores occasionally. I was in the Wherehouse in Boulder not too long ago. 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 just 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!]

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.

Then, of course, there's eBay. I've picked up well over 100 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?

Maybe. I have qualms about trading material that's still in print. I prefer trading CDs that have gone out of print or that are so horribly unavailable that they might as well have gone out of print.

Do you have any bootlegs?

I wish, but no.

Do you have any videos?

I have a bunch on both video and DVD, but they're all scattered around, and 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 hardly have any of the CRs for any of the composers or shows I dislike—ALW, B&S, etc.—though now that I'm approaching 1,000, I'm starting to get everything I can. I tend not to be fond of pre-1940 shows, but I find myself buying them occasionally—I have a number of Rodgers and Hart and Kern discs, I'm starting to like Vivian Ellis, and I may get into Noel Coward more. I am not passionate about revues, but I’ll get them if they sound interesting. 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 was avoiding London cast recordings of American musicals, but lately I’ve been more willing to get them. I do NOT like the "disguised rock concert" shows that have been dominating the London musical stage lately, and I will probably not get many of those discs. 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 recently released Romberg etc. disks for completeness.

Are you looking for anything in particular?

If it’s not up there, chances are I’ll want it. Like most collectors, I’d love to get Roberta (the studio version with Jack Cassidy etc.). (Yay! Got the reissue.) 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.) Other hopefuls: The Grand Tour (yay! got it!), Wish You Were Here, the London cast of Mack & Mabel (yay! got it!), Boy Meets Boy (yay! got it!), The Tap Dance Kid (yay! got it!), any of the Ben Bagley titles I don't already have. 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. (Where the heck is any kind of recording of Jumbo?)

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