<p>Must have been a great time to be at CMU!</p>
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<p>A few years ago, my kids were obsessed with Godspell, so I know way more about it than I should.</p>
<p>I love original cast recordings of Sondheim musicals - my favorites are probably the 1970s versions of A Little Night Music, Company, and Side by Side by Sondheim. Also, any of the Broadway cast recordings of Gypsy - what a great score.</p>
<p>Recently saw some promos for the revival of Promises, Promises, starring Kristen Chenoweth and Sean Hayes. I loved that recording as a kid - it was the first Broadway show I ever saw and I wound up with a lifelong crush on Jerry Orbach.</p>
<p>I recently listened to *A Little Night Music *again. We were obsessed with it in college but 30+ years later I found it a bit tedious.</p>
<p>Couple more that I really like: Hairspray (2002 original cast), Mama Mia, Chicago (the one with Bebe Neuwirth), Movin Out (based on Billy Joel songs-2002 original cast), Aida (Broadway musical 2001–music Elton John).</p>
<p>I just looked up the 2005 Actor’s Fund Benefit recording of Hair and saw that a high school friend sings on it.</p>
<p>Am I the only one that loves Rent? I was a Chorus Line fiend, so when I drive on long trips and my husband sleeps, in goes Chorus Line!</p>
<p>“The Last Five Years”</p>
<p>“Tick,Tick, Boom” (written by Jonathon Larson)</p>
<p>I think both of the above were actually off-Broadway.</p>
<p>“I Love You Because”</p>
<p>“The Wedding Singer”</p>
<p>“The Wiz”</p>
<p>“Dreamgirls”</p>
<p>Everything else already mentioned on this thread!</p>
<p>P.S. - Snoball, I LOVE Rent!</p>
<p>Yeah, Rent was on the to-buy list before I started this thread. We saw the farewell tour last year both in Phoenix and in Dallas. I wish I could find a recording with Michael McElroy singing Tom Collins. He was in a later Broadway cast and did last year’s tour and has the Best Voice Ever.</p>
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tick…tick…BOOM!
Hair
Spring Awakening
Avenue Q
Kiss Me, Kate</p>
<p>Snowball–not the only one–Rent is my favorite from this list (but I’m not a big Broadway show type, so most of the others aren’t familiar to me.)</p>
<p>I love “In the Heights!” Very underrated.</p>
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<p>No, definitely not, snowball! It was on my list and is actually one of my favorite shows of all time. I would be embarrassed to tell you how many times I’ve seen it but I’ve known so many of the actors who’ve been in the show over the years, so I have an excuse. :)</p>
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<p>Michael is a darling man and I agree about his voice. He founded and musically directs, and sings with, the Broadway Inspirational Voices choir. If you can find one of their CDs, you’ll treasure it forever. Starting in the fall, he’ll be teaching voice at Tisch. The students there are in for a treat. If you’re a Rent fan, you’ll realize why it’s appropriate that he’s ending up as a professor at NYU. :)</p>
<p>missy, who is your friend on the Hair benefit album?</p>
<p>I’m crazy about the cast album of On the Twentieth Century, but I don’t know if it’s even findable now.</p>
<p>Other favorites on my iTunes: Little Shop of Horrors, Annie Get Your Gun (Berlin managed to write a show where almost every single song was a hit, amazing), Anything Goes, Shenandoah, Brigadoon, Grease, Kiss Me Kate, Music Man, Kismet, The Pajama Game. Obviously I need to get some more recent works on there.</p>
<p>I’m Getting My Act Together and Taking It On The Road.</p>
<p>When I was a kid, I listened to these over and over:</p>
<p>Guys and Dolls 1950 with Robert Alda, Stubby Kaye and Vivian Blaine</p>
<p>Camelot 1960. No idea why I latched on to this one (with Richard Burton, Julie Andrews, Robert Goulet, and Roddy McDowell).</p>
<p>My Fair Lady 1956 with Julie Andrews and Rex Harrison</p>
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<p>OMG pizzagirl, I haven’t listened to that in eons! :)</p>
<p>Has “City of Angels” been mentioned yet? “The Producers”? Does “An Evening With Tom Lehrer” count?</p>
<p>mathmom beat me to the Gilbert and Sullivan suggestion. missypie, is an hour of even “HMS Pinafore” really enough?</p>
<p>More I love, and forgot:</p>
<p>The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade</p>
<p>The Roar of the Greasepaint, The Smell of the Crowd</p>
<p>Man of La Mancha
West Side Story
The Fantasticks (OK, off-Broadway 
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Cats</p>
<p>Legally Blonde
Spring Awakening
Little Shop of Horrors
Into The Woods
Sweet Charity</p>
<p>“no Strings” and “porgy and bess”, and most of JHS’s choices.</p>