<p>I’m looking to add some music to the collection for the college road trip season. Recent favorite additions are *Next to Normal *and In the Heights. I have the oldies like *West Side Story, Oliver *and Music Man. Have *Wicked, Chorus Line, Phantom *and Les Miserables.</p>
<p>What are your favorites, old or new?</p>
<p>*Hair. Jesus Christ Superstar.<a href=“Was%20it%20on%20Broadway?”>/I</a> I don’t actually like Broadway musicals though. :)</p>
<p>Beauty and the Beast. You’ll never get “Be Our Guest” out of your head!</p>
<p>Hmm…don’t have Hair. Which cast? Original, or current revival?</p>
<p>Son and I practically wore out *JC Superstar *on his college visit road trips.</p>
<p>My favorite is Sophisticated Ladies, original Broadway cast with Gregory Hines and Phyliss Hyman. My kids also loved Godspell.</p>
<p>Hmm…never heard of Sophisticated Ladies - I’ll have to check it out. We’ve about worn out Godspell, too.</p>
<p>Bye Bye Birdie
The Sound of Music
Cabaret
My Fair Lady</p>
<p>I adore both Cabaret and *Funny Girl *but when I think about it, I guess I know them from my mom’s old LPs…I don’t think I have them on CD. Trying to remember in what form we have Pippin…I think it’s an LP. I know that *Chorus Line *is a cassette tape!</p>
<p>Besides the ones alread mentioned:<br>
Starlight Express,
Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat<br>
Cats.</p>
<p>Love Joseph. The kids grew up with the Donny Osmond version for the VCR. Which also brings to mind *Mulan<a href=“also%20featurinng%20Donny”>/I</a>.</p>
<p>Missy, if you want a great Hair recording, look for the one from the Actors’ Fund benefit in 2005. It’s wonderful and much better than any of the cast recordings.</p>
<p>Some other favorites - Jersey Boys, Spring Awakening, Ragtime, Miss Saigon, Cabaret, AIDA (the concept album, not the CR), Highlights from Jekyll and Hyde (another concept cast), The Last 5 Years, Joseph,The Broadway Boys - Lullaby of Broadway (not sure if this has been officially released yet but we know a couple of the actors in it and have a preview which is excellent), Man of LaMancha, Footloose (not a great show but the music is fun), Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (am not sure how easy this will be to find here but we’ve been listening to it for a while now, as a friend is going to be in the Toronto/Broadway cast next year), Scarlet Pimpernel, Elegies: A Song Cycle, Songs for a New World, Rent, Hedwig and the Angry Inch.</p>
<p>There are also lots of good compilation CDs which will give you a bit of variety. The Best of Broadway series is a good one. Mandy Patinkin also has a few that are fun, with lots of recognizable songs for theatre lovers.</p>
<p>That’s a start anyway! We have hundreds so I could go on and on. :)</p>
<p>I was going to say Pippin! Love that one. We just saw Billy Elliot and that is a great sound track. Fiddler, JC Superstar, Chorusline and Godspell you mentioned and I agree, wonderful! I love Broadway music…ah, if only I could sing. That would be my fantasy job!</p>
<p>Nine on casette tape. The DVD has had songs cut from it.</p>
<p>Raul Julia had an absolutely amazing voice.</p>
<p>LOL, the D for whom the trips are planned was in Footloose this year. She’d probably strangle me if I pulled that one out!</p>
<p>My Fair Lady (my mother was pregnant with me when she saw the original production!)
Guys and Dolls
A Chorus Line
Sweeney Todd</p>
<p>I actually do like Pippen too. Saw it at our high school recently. I remember hearing raves about that benefit album. I like Cabaret too. I also liked lots of the songs from Pacific Overtures. How about Gilbert and Sullivan?</p>
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<p>ROFL. For Christmas, my parents got H a boxed set of the COMPLETE Gilbert and Sullivan…including quite a few shows that I had never heard of. We listened to them on a 3 hour drive…I must admit that an hour or so of G&S at a time is about my limit!</p>
<p>I listen to Les Miserables and Jekyll and Hyde on long car trips.</p>
<p>Not Broadway, technically, but pretty indispensable: The Fantasticks.</p>
<p>Others that I love and haven’t been mentioned yet (I think):</p>
<p>Gypsy
How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying
The Music Man
Kiss Me, Kate
Annie Get Your Gun
Kismet
Showboat
Follies
Camelot
Die Dreigroschenoper
Mahagonny
My One And Only (Funny Face)</p>
<p>and of course almost everything by Rogers & Hammerstein (not State Fair or Cinderella)
(and my collection would have NOTHING by Andrew Lloyd Webber)</p>
<p>Interesting factoid about Pippin -
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<p>Per Stephen Schwartz:
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<p>From:
[Stephen</a> Schwartz > ASCAP Film & Television Music](<a href=“http://www.ascap.com/filmtv/Schwartz.html]Stephen”>http://www.ascap.com/filmtv/Schwartz.html)</p>
<p>I like to pick and choose from different musicals rather than listen to entire albums since I’ve heard them so many times. Personal favorites for sing-along include several selections from Chorus Line and Joseph; most everything else would be one or two songs. I would include one Andrew Lloyd Webber since they all sound the same so one song would cover his entire body of work for me.</p>