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- Indicates nott master copy of recording
(u/s Person
X) - Indicates understudy in role(s) normally
played by Person X
[#]
- Number in midddle indicates number of 90
minute tapes if other than 2
S
- Indicates souundboard or studio recording
CD
- Indicates thaat my copy is on CD, so the
recording is available on that medium
U
- Indicates show has not been professionallyy recorded or has not been issued
on CD (Applicable also if only a few songs have been recorded/released)
UM
- Indicates tape contains otherwise unrecordded material
<#G> -
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* -
Indicates new addition (Tapes remain listed as new as long as I feel like
it)
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All dates
are American style - MM/DD/YY
Names listed
are composer(s), lyricist(s), and bookwriter(s), in that order - A "+"
indicates revisions or "additional" music/lyrics/dialogue by that person/people,
or a translation
If there
are only two entries, that means that the same person/people wrote either
both music and lyrics or both book and lyrics - if the first person/people
is/are starred, it's music and lyrics - if the second person/people is/are
starred, it's book and lyrics
If there's
only one entry, then the same person/people wrote book, music, and lyrics
All recordings are audios.
All masters before 10/15/00 (the Musicals In Mufti production of Rex
) were recorded on 120 minute audio cassettes; that date and afterwards,
on minidisc (in mono unless noted otherwise).
All trades will be sent
on 90 or 120 minute tapes unless you specify otherwise.
If requested, almost
any recording is available on unindexed CDs.
I am currenly in the
process of listing all the character names as well as performer names.
princedarric@hotmail.com
Broadway
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Aida (Elton
John/Tim Rice/Linda Woolverton + David Henry Hwang & Robert Falls)
- 4/23/00 - OBC, Palace Theatre: Heather Heaadley (Aida), Adam Pascal (Radames),
Sherie Renee Scott (Amneris), John Hickok (Zoser), Damien Perkins (Mereb)
UM
2CD
(Includes
all of the material cut from the cast album, which consists of the overture
and entr'acte, a LOT of dance/incidental music, and a brief reprise of
"Fortune Favors The Brave" for Radames; Includes BC/EFA speech by Headley
at curtain call)
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Ain't Broadway
Grand (Mitch Leigh/Lee Adams/Thomas Meehan & Lee Adams) - 1993
- Unreleased Cast Album: Mike Burstyn (Mike Todd), Maureen McNamara (Joan
Blondell), Debbie Shapiro Gravitte (Gypsy Rose Lee), Gerry Vichi (Bobby
Clark) S U CDNM
[1]
(About 35 minutes; Perfect sound; Pretty lousy material, although there's
one or two good songs)
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Blood Brothers
(Willy Russell) - 8/93 - Music Box Theatre: Brian D'Arcy James (u/s - Mickey)
NM
(James is the only known performer; Possibly Petula Clark as Mrs. Johnstone;
Missing a bit near the end of "Kids' Game" and some dialogue in Act II)
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A Broadway
Musical (Charles Strouse/Lee Adams/William F. Brown) - 12/21/78 (Only
performance) - OBC, Lunt-Fontanne Theatre S
U
NM
[1]
(INCOMPLETE: Songs only with some dialogue; A little over an hour; Rather
silly; One song uses music later recycled as the title tune from Dance
A Little Closer; Cast unknown)
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The Capeman
(Paul Simon/Paul Simon & Derek Walcott*) - 1998 - Unreleased Cast Album
- OBC: Marc Anthony (Young Sal), Ruben Bladees (Older Sal), Ednita Nazario
(Esmeralda) R U
NM
S
2CD
(Studio recording, so perfect sound except for a few tiny skips; Four songs
cut from the show (The first "Puerto Rican Day Parade," "Carmen," "Christmas
In The Mountains," and "Trailways Bus") were reinstated for the recording;
Makes a much better case for the score (and the show) than the stage version
did; There is a momentary break between "Sal's Last Song" and "Esmeralda's
Dream")
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Carrie: The
Musical (Michael Gore/Dean Pitchford/Lawrence Cohen) - 1988 - OBC,
Virginia Theatre - Linzi Hately (Carrie White), Betty Buckley (Margaret
White) U NM [1]
S
(INCOMPLETE:
Only Act II)
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Carrie: The
Musical (Michael Gore/Dean Pitchford/Lawrence Cohen) - 1988 - OBC,
Virginia Theatre - Linzi Hately (Carrie White), Betty Buckley (Margaret
White), Darlene Love (Ms. Gardner) U NM
S
(Possibly
final performance; Great quality; Includes bonus studio recordings of "When
There's No One," "Unsuspecting Hearts," and the title song)
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Chicago
(John Kander/Fred Ebb/Fred Ebb & Bob Fosse) - 6/15/99 - Shubert Theatre:
Ruthie Henshall (Velma Kelly), Charlotte D'Amboise (Roxie Hart), Brent
Barret (Billy Flynn), Roz Ryan (Mama Morton), P.J. Benjamin (Amos Hart)
UM
(Sound is slightly distant and vocals are sometimes overpowered by orchestra;
Includes the material which hasn't been recorded, including the "Exit Music"
sequences, "The Trial," and "Tap Dance")
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Chicago (John
Kander/Fred Ebb/Fred Ebb & Bob Fosse) - 10/24/99 - Shubert Theatre:
Ruthie Henshall (Last - Velma Kelly), Sandy Duncan (Roxie Hart), Brent
Barret (Billy Flynn), Marcia Lewis (Mama Morton), P.J. Benjamin (Amos Hart),
R. Bean (Mary Sunshine) UM NM
<2G>
(Includes speeches by Duncan and Henshall after curtain call, along with
the same unrecorded material listed above)
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City Of Angels
(Cy Coleman/David Zippel/Larry Gelbart) - 1990? - Virginia Theatre: Michael
Rupert (Stine), Joel Higgins (Stone), Donna Bullock (Bobbi/Gabby), Alison
Bevan (Alaura Kingsley/Carla Haywood) UM NM
(Full cast unknown; Missing (grr) the end of "Funny" and some dialogue
afterwards at the Act II flip and a whole chunk of Act I (cuts off the
end of "The Tennis Song," picks up again a few lines into "Lost And Found,"
and missing everythng between, which includes some dialogue and "Everybody's
Gotta Be Somewhere"); Rupert and Higgins are both excellent)
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The Civil
War (Frank Wildhorn/Jack Feldman/Gregory Boyd) - 4/24/99 Matinee -
OBC, St. James Theatre - Keith Byron Kirk (Frederick Douglass/Various),
Michel Bell (Clayton Toler/Various), Cheryl Freeman (Bessie Toler/Various),
Gene Miller (Corporal Billy Pierce/Various), Matt Bogart (Private Sam Taylor/Various),
Gilles Chiasson (Corporal William McEwan/Various), Irene Molloy (Sarah
McEwan/Various), Beth Leavel (Mrs. Bixby, Etc., Lawrence Clayton (Benjamin
Reynolds/Various), Leo Burmester (Autolycus Fell/Various), Capathia Jenkins
(Harriet Jackson/Various) UM (Includes
the songs "A House Divided" and "The Hospital," and the revised version
of "A Candle In The Window," none of which have been recorded; A truck
can be heard beeping outside during part of Act II)
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Cyrano
(Ad Van Dijk/Koen Van Dijk + Peter Reeves + Sheldon Harnick*) - 11/93 -
OBC, Neil Simon Theatre: Bill Van Dijk (Cyrano De Bergerac), Anne Runolfsson
(Roxane), Paul Anthony Stewart (Christian), Ed Dixon (Ragueneau), Paul
Schoeffler (Le Bret), Timothy Nolen (De Guiche) U
NM
S
(Very
good sound, but a slight warble at the beginning of Act II; Never recorded
in English; Apparently missing the song "He Makes Us Laugh," but it might
have been cut from the show; Includes a BC/EFA speech at the curtain call,
but I don't know who's saying it)
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Dance
A Little Closer (Charles Strouse/Alan Jay Lerner*) - 4/15/83 (Rehearsal)
- OBC, Minskoff Theatre: Len Cariou (Harry AAikens), Liz Robertson (Cynthia
Brookfield-Bailey), George Rose (Dr. Josef Winkler), Diane Pennington (Shirley),
Cheryl Howard (Bebe), Alyson Reed (Elaine), Brent Barrett (Charles Castleton),
Jeff Keller (Edward Dunlop), Joseph Kolinski (Heinrich Halloway) UM
NM
(INCOMPLETE:
contains all songs (missing the end of the title song) and some dialogue
with incidental music; Some different things from recording (including
very different versions of "On Top Of The World," which seems to be a dance
number bringing in themes from the rest of the score, and the finale, which
reprises "A New Girl" instead of the title song); A person, presumably
Alan Jay Lerner, can be heard prompting Cariou during "I Never Want To
See You Again"; Does not include the Overture or Entr'acte, because they
were added for the cast album)
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The Dead
(Shaun Davey/Richard Nelson & Shaun Davey/Richard Nelson) - 4/15/00
(Second to last performance) - Belasco Theatre: Faith Prince (Gretta Conroy),
Stephen Bogardus (Gabriel Conroy), Sally Ann Howes (Aunt Julia Morkan),
Marni Nixon (Aunt Kate Morkan), Stephen Spinella (Freddy Malins), Alice
Ripley (Molly Ivors), Daisy Eagan (Rita/Young Julia) U
NM
(Hiss
is loud and sound sometimes soft, but usually clear; Includes a very funny
(and very cruel to Christopher Walken) BC/EFA speech by Ripley at the curtain
call; Will be sent on one 120 minute tape)
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Dreamgirls
(Henry Krieger/Tom Eyen*)- 1981 (Preview) - OBC R
UM
NM
S
2CD
(Really
incredible sounding recording - a few dropouts which have been replaced
with other (not quite as good) recordings - first ten seconds of show,
scene before "Family," scene before "It's All Over," first 11:30 of Act
II; Includes the original opening of Act II, which was cut during the run,
and the tons and tons of material that didn't make it onto the cast album)
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The First
(Bob Brush/Martin Charnin/Joel Siegel & Martin Charnin) - 1981 - OBC,
Martin Beck Theatre: David Alan Grier (Jackie Robinson), Lonette McKee
(Rachel Isum Robinson), David Huddleston (Branch Rickey) U
NM
S
[1]
(INCOMPLETE: Songs only; Less than an hour; For a soundboard tape, sound
isn't that great; Cute score)
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The Full Monty
(David Yazbek*/Terrence McNally) - 11/3/00 - OBC, Eugene O'Neill Theatre:
Patrick Wilson (Jerry Lukowski), John Ellison Conlee (Dave Bukatinsky),
Kathleen Freeman (Jeanette Burmeister), Andre DeShields (Noah T. "Horse"
Simmons), Jason Daniely (Malcolm MacGregor), Emily Skinner (Vicki Nichols),
Annie Golden (Georgie Bukatinsky), Romain Frugé (Ethan Girard),
Marcus Neville (Harold Nichols) UM
(Includes the Entr'Acte, a lot of incidental music and brief reprises that
didn't make the cast album, plus some dance music from "Big Black Man"
and "Michael Jordan's Ball" (as well as probably some other numbers); Includes
a BC/EFA speech by Wilson at the curtain call)
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Grind
(Larry Grossman/Ellen Fitzhugh/Fay Kanin) - 5/14/85 - Marc Hellinger Theatre:
Ben Vereen (Leroy), Leilani Jones (Satin), Timothy Nolen (Doyle), Stubby
Kaye (Gus), Sharon Murray (Romaine), Carol Woods (Maybelle) R
UM
NM
S
(Includes the Entr'Acte and the songs "Cadava," "Yes, Ma'am," "From The
Ankles Down," and "A Century Of Progress," along with many reprises, none
of which were on the cast album; Includes longer versions of "New Man"
and "This Crazy Place"; Some distortion at louder parts)
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It Ain't Nothin'
But The Blues (Various) - 6/6/99 - OBC, Vivian Beaumont Theatre:
Ron Taylor, Gretha Boston, Carter Calvert, Eloise Laws, Mississippi Charles
Bevel, Gregory Porter, Scott Wakefield (u/s Dan Wheetman)
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Jane Eyre
(Paul Gordon/Paul Gordon + John Caird/John Caird) - 12/15/00 - Brooks Atkinson
Thatre: Marla Schaffel (Jane Eyre), James Barbour (Edward Fairfax Rochester),
Mary Stout (Mrs. Fairfax), Bonnie Gleicher (u/s Lisa Musser - Young Jane
Eyre), Jayne Patterson (Helen Burns/Various), Elizabeth DeGrazia (Blanche
Ingram), Bill Nolte (Richard Mason) UM
(Includes quite a bit of material that has never made it onto any recording
of the show (such as "Enchanté" and "Wild Boy") as well as some
different lyrics than the Broadway album in some places; Excellent sound,
except a few moments (never during music) where there's a bit of unintrusive
noise because I moved)
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Jesus Christ
Superstar (Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice*) - 7/5/00 - Ford Center: Glenn
Carter (Jesus Christ), Tony Vincent (Judas Iscariot), Maya Days (Mary Magdalene)
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King David
(Alan Menken/Tim Rice*) - 5/17/97 (Preview?) - New Amsterdam Theatre: Marcus
Lovett (David), Stephen Bogardus (Joab), Judy Kuhn (Michal), Martin Vidnovic
(Saul), Alice Ripley (Bathsheba), Peter Samuel (Samuel), Roger Bart (Jonathan),
Bill Nolte (Goliath), Anthony Galde (Absalom) UM
NM
(Exceptional sound - recorded from front row; Includes over an hour of
material that didn't make the CD, almost entirely recitative and reprises
(among them, a very strong duet version of "Never Again" for Michal and
David earlier than the regular song); Missing a bit of "Atonement"
at the Act II flip, as well as a tiny bit of music after "Goliath Of Gath"
at the Act I flip; Has some lyrics that were slightly adjusted before the
recording, and the "Death Of Absalom" segment listed in the playbill I
have doesn't seem to be in the show yet (the end of "The Caravan Moves
On" goes directly into "Absalom, My Absalom"))
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Kiss Me, Kate
(Cole Porter*/Sam Spewack & Bella Spewack + John Guare)- 11/23/99 -
Revival OBC, Martin Beck Theatre: Brian Stokes Mitchell (Fred Graham/Petruchio),
Marin Mazzie (Lilli Vanessi/Kate), Amy Spanger (Lois Lane/Bianca), Michael
Berresse (Bill Calhoun/Lucentio) UM
(Includes BC/EFA speech by Mitchell and Mazzie after curtain call and the
unrecorded "From This Moment On," along with much cut "Too Darn Hot" dance
music; Volume fluctuates a little during dialogue)
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La Strada
(Lionel Bart + Elliot Lawrence/Lionel Bart + Martin Charnin/Charles K.
Peck) - 1969 - OBC: Bernadette Peters (Gelsomina), Larry Kert (Mario),
Stephen Pearlman (Zampano) U NM
S
[1]
(INCOMPLETE:
Songs only; Some distortion; Bart's score was gradually replaced with one
by Lawrence and Charnin during previews)
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Les Miserables
(Claude-Michel Schönberg/Alain Boublil & Herbert Kretzmer*) -
Date Unknown (1987?) - OBC, Imperial Theatre: Colm Wilkinson (Jean Valjean),
Terrence Mann (Javert), Randy Graff (Fantine), Judy Kuhn (Cosette), David
Bryant (Marius Pontmercy), Frances Ruffelle (Eponine Thenardier) NM
(Sound is good for an old tape, but small parts are missing here and there
in Act I; Includes an extended curtain call with performances of "Oh Holy
Night" and "Do You Hear The People Sing")
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Les Miserables
(Claude-Michel
Schönberg/Alain Boublil & Herbert Kretzmer*) - 1994 - Imperial
Theatre: Craig Schulman (Jean Valjean), Robert Cuccioli (Javert), Debbie
(Shapiro) Gravitte (Fantine), Jennifer Lee Andrews (Cosette), Tom Donoghue
(Marius Pontmercy), Sarah Uriarte Berry (Eponine Thenardier
NM
(Missing most of "Castle On A Cloud" and another bit or two; Gravitte and
Schulman are fantastic, but Cuccioli is comically over-the-top)
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Les Miserables
(Claude-Michel Schönberg/Alain Boublil & Herbert Kretzmer*) -
9/19/98 Matinee - Imperial Theatre: Alice Ripley (Fantine) [1]
(INCOMPLETE: Contains only highlights of Act I: Everything from "At The
End Of The Day" through "Confrontation," "Master Of The House," "Do You
Hear The People Sing," and "One Day More")
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Marie Christine
(Michael John LaChiusa) - 11/20/99 (Preview) - Vivian Beaumont Theatre:
Sherry Boone (u/s Audra McDonald - Marie Christine L'Adrese), Anthony Crivello
(Dante Keyes), Mary Testa (Magdalena), Jennifer Leigh Warren (Prisoner
#1), Andrea Frierson-Toney (Prisoner #2), Mary Bond Davis (Prisoner #3),
Vivian Reed (Marie's Mother), Darius de Haas (Paris L'Adrese), Keith Lee
Grant (Jean L'Adrese), Shawn Elliott (Gates), Kimberly JaJuan (Lisette),
Michael McCormick (Leary/Various), Mark Lotito (McMahon/Various) UM
NM
2CD
(Includes
the unrecorded songs "All Eyes Look Upon You" and "A Lovely Wedding," along
with many small bits that were cut from the cast album, as well as some
material which was cut before the opening; Some clipping and lots of hiss,
but understandable - turn the volume up; Missing the end of "A Month Ago"
and some dialogue at the flip in Act I and some dialogue in Act II; Boone
is an interesting Marie - for one thing, her voice is much "lighter" than
McDonald's)
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Marie Christine
(Michael John LaChiusa) - 12/4/99 Evening - OBC, Vivian Beaumont Theatre:
Audra McDonald (Marie Christine L'Adrese), Brent Black (u/s Anthony Crivello
- Dante Keyes), Mary Testa (Magdalena), Jennnifer Leigh Warren (Prisoner
#1), Andrea Frierson-Toney (Prisoner #2), Mary Bond Davis (Prisoner #3),
Vivian Reed (Marie's Mother), Darius de Haas (Paris L'Adrese), Keith Lee
Grant (Jean L'Adrese), Shawn Elliott (Gates), Kimberly JaJuan (Lisette),
Michael McCormick (Leary/Various), Mark Lotito (McMahon/Various) UM
(Includes
the unrecorded songs "All Eyes Look Upon You" and "A Lovely Wedding," along
with many small bits that were cut from the cast album; Missing a very
small bit of (unrecorded) recitative for the Prisoners at the flip in Act
I (right after "We're Gonna Go To Chicago"))
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Metro
(Janusz Stoklosa/Agata Miklaszeska & Maryna Miklaszeska + Mary Bracken
Phillips/Agata Miklaszeska & Maryna Miklaszeska + Mary Bracken Phillips
& Janusz Józefowicz) - 4/92 - OBC, Minskoff Theatre: Robert
Janowski (Jan), Katarzyna Groniec (Anka), Edyta Gorniak U
NM
(If there's someone out there who can give me some sort of clue about what
the hell was going on at any given point in this (or, for that matter,
who's who, mostly), be my guest; Generally good sound, although some fuzziness,
and it's very difficult to understand most dialogue and lyrics thanks to
the thick Polish accents; Some nice music and singing, I guess, but the
discernable English lyrics mostly stink; The show has been recorded, but
not in English)
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Miss Saigon
(Claude-Michel
Schönberg/Alain Boublil & Richard Maltby, Jr.) - 1991 - OBC, Broadway
Theatre: Lea Salonga (Kim), Jonathan Pryce (The Engineer), Willy Falk (Chris),
Hinton Battle (John), Liz Callaway (Ellen), Barry K. Bernal (Thuy) NM
S
(Excellent sound)
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Music Is
(Richard Adler/Will Holt/George Abbott) - 12/76 - OBC, St. James Theatre:
Catherine Cox (Viola/Cesario), Sherry Mathis (Olivia), Chistopher Hewett
(Malvolio), David Holliday (Orsino), Daniel Ben-Zali (William Shakespeare/Clown),
Joel Higgins (Sebastian) U NM
S
(Very nice score; Hard to hear some lyrics of opening number over loud
music)
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The Music
Man (Meredith Willson) - 5/19/00 - Revival OBC, Neil Simon Theatre:
Craig Bierko (Harold Hill), Rebecca Luker (Marian Paroo), Max Casella (Marcellus
Washburn), Ruth Williamson (Eulalie Mackechnie Shinn), Paul Benedict (Mayor
Shinn), Michael Phelan (Winthrop Paroo), Katherine McGrath (Mrs. Paroo),
Ralph Byers (Charlie Cowell/Various) UM
(Missing part of the dialogue after "Till There Was You," but I'm planning
on patching that in from another recording; Includes some as yet unrecorded
scene change and dance music, along with a strange bit (possibly titled
"The Red, White, And Blue") for Mrs. Shinn and Harold's reprise of "Till
There Was You")
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The Music
Man (Meredith Willson) - 8/19/00 - Neil Simon Theatre: Jim Walton (u/s
Craig Bierko - Harold Hill), Rebecca Luker (Marian Paroo), Max Casella
(Marcellus Washburn), Ruth Gotschall (Eulalie Mackechnie Shinn), Paul Benedict
(Mayor Shinn), Michael Phelan (Winthrop Paroo), Katherine McGrath (Mrs.
Paroo), Ralph Byers (Charlie Cowell/Various) UM
NM
2CD
(Walton is a marvelous Harold Hill, as good as (if not better than) Bierko;
Includes some as yet unrecorded scene change and dance music, along with
a strange bit (possibly titled "The Red, White, And Blue") for Mrs. Shinn
and Harold's reprise of "Till There Was You"; Sound is generally good (the
original recording was digital), but there's some static around Luker's
high notes, some clipping at the end of "Shipoopi," and major clipping
during the curtain call; May fit on 2 74-minute CDs)
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Parade (Jason
Robert Brown*/Alfred Uhry) - 2/16/99 - OBC, Vivian Beaumont Theatre:
Don Stephenson (u/s Brent Carver - Leo Frank), Carolee Carmello (Lucille
Frank), Evan Pappas (Britt Craig), Rufus Bonds, Jr. (Jim Conley), John
Hickock (Governor John Slaton), Don Chastain (Old Soldier/Judge Roan),
Jeff Edgerton (Young Soldier/Fiddlin' John/Various), Kirk McDonald (Frankie
Epps), Herndon Lackey (Hugh Dorsey), John Leslie Wolfe (Tom Watson), Jessica
Molaskey (Mrs. Phagan), Christy Carlson Romano (Mary Phagan), Ray Aranha
(Newt Lee) R UM
(Includes
all the material cut for the cast album: "Watson's Lullabye," "Somethin'
Ain't Right," "Newt Lee's Testimony," "It Goes On And On," and various
reprises and transitions; Stephenson is an exceptional Leo)
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Putting It
Together (Stephen Sondheim*/No Book)- 11/24/99 Matinee - OBC, Barrymore
Theatre: Carol Burnett (The Wife), Ruthie Henshall (The Younger Woman),
George Hearn (The Husband), Bronson Pinchot (The Observer), John Barrowman
(The Younger Man) UM (Includes
the unrecorded original version of "Do I Hear A Waltz?")
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Putting It
Together (Stephen Sondheim*/No Book) - 12/7/99 - Barrymore Theatre:
Kathie Lee Gifford (Alt. Carol Burnett - First Performance - The Wife),
Ruthie Henshall (The Younger Woman), George Hearn (The Husband), David
Engel (u/s Bronson Pinchot - The Observer), John Barrowman (The Younger
Man) UM NM <2G>
(Rude,
loud audience; Some loud talking during Act II; Worth it, though, to hear
Kathie Lee's versions of the songs - IMO she's better than Carol; Includes
the unrecorded original version of "Do I Hear A Waltz?")
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Rags (Charles
Strouse/Stephen Schwartz/Joseph Stein) - 8/86 - OBC, Marc Hellinger Theatre:
Teresa Stratas (Rebecca Hershkowitz), Terrence Mann (Saul), Larry Kert
(Nat Harris), David Blake (David Hershkowitz), Judy Kuhn (Bella), Dick
Latessa (Avram), Lonny Price (Ben), Marcia Lewis (Rachel) UM
NM
(Sound is pretty good - soundboard tape that's been through a number of
generations; Includes lots of material that's never been recorded, including
"To America" (one of the many first act finales), "On The Fourth Day Of
July," and loads of chucked lyrics; Missing a small section of "Three Sunny
Rooms" and everything after about halfway through "Dancing With The Fools";
Preserves Stratas's excellent, unrecorded performance)
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The Red Shoes
(Jule Styne/Marsha Norman + "Paul Stryker" (Bob Merrill)/Marsha Norman)
- 1993 - OBC, Gershwin Theatre: Steve Barton (Boris Lermontov), Hugh
Panaro (Julian Craster), Margaret Illman (Victoria Page), George de la
Pena (Grisha Ljubov) U NM
[1]
(INCOMPLETE: Songs only with some dialogue, cuts off in the middle of "The
Ballet Of The Red Shoes")
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Rent (Jonathan
Larson/Jonathan Larson + Billy Aronson/Jonathan Larson) - 6/20/00 - Nederlander
Theatre: Peter Matthew Smith (Roger), Trey Ellett (Mark), Rufus Bonds,
Jr. (Tom Collins), Stu James (Benny), Kamilah Martin (Joanne), Andy Senor
(Angel), Loraine Velez (Mimi), Maggie Benjamin (Maureen) (I had to see
it some time)
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The Robber
Bridegroom (Robert Waldman/Alfred Uhry*) - 10/75 - OBC (First Time
Around), Harkness Theatre: Kevin Kline (Jamie Lochart), Patti LuPone (Rosamund
Musgrove) UM NM
S?
(Includes
the cut song "The Real Mike Fink"; Possibly soundboard)
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Saturday Night
Fever (Various*/Nan Knighton) - 10/31/99 Evening - OBC, Minskoff Theatre:
James Carpinello (Tony Manero), Paige Price (Stephanie Mangano), Orfeh
(Annette), Paul Castree (Bobby C), Bryan Batt (Monty) UM
(Does
not include the "Megamix" at the curtain call; All of the songs have been
recorded (mostly by 70s bands), but not in these versions)
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The Scarlet
Pimpernel, Version 2 (Frank Wildhorn/Nan Knighton) - 10/24/98 Evening
- Minskoff Theatre: Douglas Sills (Percy Blaakeney), Rachel York (Marguerite
St. Just Blakeney), Rex Smith (Chauvelin), James Bohanek (Armand St. Just)
UM
NM
<1G>
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The Scarlet
Pimpernel, Version 3 (Frank Wildhorn/Nan Knighton) - 11/14/99 Evening
- Neil Simon Theatre: Ron Bohmer (Percy Blakkeney), Carolee Carmello (Marguerite
St. Just Blakeney), Marc Kudisch (Chauvelin), Kirk McDonald (Armand St.
Just) UM NM <1G>
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Sherry!
(Laurence Rosenthal/James Lipton*) - 1967: OBC: Clive Revill (Sheridan
Whiteside), Dolores Grey (Lorraine Sheldon), Elizabeth Allen (Maggie Cutler),
Jon Cypher (Bert Jefferson) U NM
S
[1]
(INCOMPLETE: Songs only with some dialogue; Sound is good for such an old
recording)
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Shogun (Paul
Chihara/John Driver*) - Date Unknown (1991) - OBC, Marquis Theatre: Philip
Casnoff (John Blackthorne), June Angela (Mariko), Francis Ruivivar (Toranaga)
U
NM
(Missing most of "Pillowing")
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Side Show
(Henry Krieger/Bill Russell*) - 1997 (Fourth Preview) - OBC, Richard Rodgers
Theatre: Alice Ripley (Violet Hilton), Emily Skinner (Daisy Hilton), Jeff
McCarthy (Terry Connor), Hugh Panaro (Buddy Foster), Norm Lewis (Jake),
Ken Jennings (The Boss) R UM
NM
(Includes LOTS of changed stuff, almost all in Act II: a slightly different
"Dance Of The Freaks"; a slightly different playoff after "We Share Everything";
a much longer "Rare Songbirds"; a brief segment that was cut in favor of
"Good show, you two..."; some cut underscoring during the second part of
"New Year's Day" that uses a bit of the tune from the cut song "Ready To
Play"; the orginal version of "One Plus One Equals Three" (lots of different
lyrics, a completely different intro, and a slightly different tune); a
cut scene after "One Plus One Equals Three" that took place in a radio
studio (and includes a reference to "Terry Turner"); a different musical
transition from "You Should Be Loved" to the midway scene; a slightly fuzzy,
more harshly sung "Beautiful Day For A Wedding"; a slight lyric change
in "Buddy's Confession" ("not enough of a man" instead of "not that strong
of a man"); the cut song "She's Gone"; a cut scene for Buddy, Terry, and
Daisy before "I Will Never Leave You"; the actual end to the finale; Includes
all the other material that was cut from the cast album; There is an old
lady who talks loudly during portions of Act II; Sometimes said to be first
preview, but I recently confirmed that it's the fourth)
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Side Show
(Henry
Krieger/Bill Russell*) - 1997 (Preview) - OBC, Richard Rodgers Theatre:
Alice Ripley (Violet Hilton), Emily Skinner (Daisy Hilton), Jeff McCarthy
(Terry Connor), Hugh Panaro (Buddy Foster), Norm Lewis (Jake), Ken Jennings
(The Boss) R UM
NM
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(Includes
original version of "One Plus One Equals Three" and other minor changes,
along with all the material cut from the cast album))
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Side Show
(Henry Krieger/Bill Russell*) - 11/2/97 - Richard Rodgers Theatre: Kristen
Behrendt (u/s Alice Ripley - Violet Hilton), Lauren Kennedy (u/s Emily
Skinner - Daisy Hilton), Jeff McCarthy (Terry Connor), Hugh Panaro (Buddy
Foster), Norm Lewis (Jake), Ken Jennings (The Boss) UM
NM
(Includes all the material cut from the cast album; Some noise in various
points, and the sound is sometimes a little muffled)
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Side Show
(Henry Krieger/Bill Russell*) - 1997 - OBC, Richard Rodgers Theatre: Alice
Ripley (Violet Hilton), Emily Skinner (Daisy Hilton), Jeff McCarthy (Terry
Connor), Hugh Panaro (Buddy Foster), Norm Lewis (Jake), Ken Jennings (The
Boss) R UM NM
S
(Fantastic
quality soundboard tape and the best performance of the show I've encountered
- everybody's really on; Unfortunately missiing a chunk in Act I (the segment
between "When I'm By Your Side" and "What have we done...") and the beginning
of "Beautiful Day For A Wedding"; Really brings out the orchestrations,
which are great)
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Side Show
(Henry
Krieger/Bill Russell*) - 1/3/98 (Final Performance) - OBC, Richard Rodgers
Theatre: Alice Ripley (Violey Hilton), Emily Skinner (Daisy Hilton), Jeff
McCarthy (Terry Connor), Hugh Panaro (Buddy Foster), Norm Lewis (Jake),
Ken Jennings (The Boss) UM NM
(Includes all the material cut from the cast album and a very brief speech
at the curtain call by Skinner and Ripley; The beginning of the midway
scene and the transition into it are missing; Large portions are fuzzy
and quiet - not so much "for fans only," but it certainly shouldn't be
a first Side Show tape)
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She Loves
Me (Jerry Bock/Sheldon Harnick/Joe Masteroff) - 5/23/93 - Roundabout
Theatre/Stage Right: Judy Kuhn
(Amalia Balash),
Boyd Gaines (Georg Nowack), Howard McGillin (Steven Kodaly), Sally Mayes
(Ilona Ritter), Louis Zorich (Mr. Maraczek), Lee Wilkof (Ladislave Sipos),
Brad Kane (Arpad Lazlo), Jonathan Freeman (Headwaiter) (Includes a portion
of "Tango Tragique" which didn't make this production's cast album (although
it was on the London revival's recording); Judy sounds marvelous, but Boyd
sounds worse than ever)
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Smile
(Marvin Hamlisch/Howard Ashman*) - 1987 or 1987 - OBC, Lunt-Fontanne Theatre:
Jodi Benson (Doria Hudson), Anne Bobby (Robin Gibson), Marsha Waterbury
(Brenda DiCarlo Freelander), Jeff McCarthy (Big Bob Freelander), Dick Patterson
(Ted Farley) U NM
(Sound is fuzzy but understandable, particularly during songs; Sound drops
out a few times during dialogue)
-
Smile
(Marvin Hamlisch/Howard Ashman*) - Unreleased OBC Album: Jodi Benson (Doria
Hudson), Anne Bobby (Robin Gibson), Marsha Waterbury (Brenda DiCarlo Freelander),
Jeff McCarthy (Big Bob Freelander), Dick Patterson (Ted Farley) R
U
NM
S
[1]
(Sound is great; I love this score; About 70 minutes)
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The Sound
Of Music (Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein II/Howard Lindsay &
Russell Crouse) - 6/11/99 - Martin Beck Theatre: Laura Benanti (Maria
Rainer), Richard Chamberlain (Captain Georg von Trapp), Sara Zelle (Liesl
von Trapp), Lenny Wolpe (Max Detweiler), Ben Sheaffer (Rolf Gruber), Jan
Maxwell (Elsa Schraeder)
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Starmites
(Barry
Keating*/Barry Keating & Stuart Ross)- 1989 - OBC, Criterion Center
Stage Right: Liz Larsen (Eleanor Fairchild/Bizarbara), Brian Lane Green
(Spacepunk), Sharon McKnight (Eleanor's Mother/Diva), Gabriel Barre (Trinkulus/Shak
Graa), Gwen Stewart (Canibelle) R
UM
NM
S
[1]
(INCOMPLETE: Songs only with some dialogue; Great quality; I happen to
enjoy this score, and this is (*gasp*) better than the released album (more
complete, full cast); About 72 minutes; Includes the unrecorded Prologue,
"Trink's Narration," "The Connuptial Dance Of Spousal Arousal," "Finaletto,"
Entr'Acte, "Starmites (Reprise)," the Curtain Call/Exit Music and bunches
of dialogue and incidental music)
-
Swing!
(Various*/No Book) - 11/12/99 (Preview) - OBC, St. James Theatre:
Ann Hampton Callaway, Laura Benanti, Casey MacGill, Everett Bradley, Michael
Gruber UM (Includes
numerous numbers later cut)
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Titanic
(Maury Yeston*/Peter Stone) - 3/97 (First Preview) - OBC, Lunt-Fontanne
Theatre R UM
NM
(Fascinating
recording, with much cut material (two completely lost songs, "I Give You
My Hand" for Charles and Caroline and "Behind Every Great Fortune" for
the dying millionaires, along with the original version of "We'll Meet
Tomorrow" as a solo for Charles and the original ending set in 1985); Sound
breaks for a moment in a few places where the show was stopped because
of technical diffculties; Much of the "To The Lifeboats" sequence is not
in the show yet and some portions aren't orchestrated; Missing a
little of "Lady's Maid")
-
Titanic (Maury
Yeston/Maury Yeston/Peter Stone) - 4/18/97 (Critics' Preview) -
OBC, Lunt Fontanne Theatre R UM
NM
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2CD
(Includes
all the material cut for the cast album)
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Titanic
(Maury Yeston*/Peter Stone) - 8/15/97 - 8/15/98 - Lunt Fontanne Theatre:
Michael Cerveris (Thomas Andrews), John Cunningham (Captain E.J. Smith),
Brian D'Arcy James (Last - Frederick Barrett), Martin Moran (Harold Bride),
David Garrison (J. Bruce Ismay), Larry Keith (Isidor Straus/Various), Alma
Cuervo (Ida Straus/Various), Jennifer Piech (Kate McGowen/Various), David
Elder (Frederick Fleet/Various), Allan Corduner (Henry Etches), Bill Buell
(Edgar Beane), Victoria Clark (Alice Beane) (Includes a curtain speech
by Moran along with all the material cut for the cast album; Sound is great
but performers are sometimes drowned out by the orchestra; Lots of squealing
during the bows)
-
Welcome To
The Club (Cy Coleman/Cy Coleman & A.E. Hotchner/A.E. Hotchner)
- 1989 (Preview) - Music Box Theatre: Marilyyn Sokol (Arlene Meltzer), Avery
Schreiber (Milton Meltzer), Bill Buell (Gus Bottomly), Sharon Scruggs (Winona
Shook), Scott Wentworth (Aaron Bates), Samuel E. Wright (Bruce Aiken),
Scott Waara (Kevin Bursteter), Jodi Benson (Betty Bursteter), Marcia Mitzman
(Carol Bates), Terri White (Eve Aiken) U NM
S
(INCOMPLETE: Songs only, with a little dialogue; Includes the cut songs
“Pay Up”, “Let ‘Em Rot”,
“King of the Mound”, “Tired”, “Show
Me a Bachelor”, and “A Girl’s Best Friend”;
Includes Sharon Scruggs before she was replaced by Sally Mayes; Later revised
into Exactly Like You)
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The Wild Party
(Michael John LaChiusa*/Michael John LaChiusa & George C. Wolfe) -
4/15/00 Matinee - OBC, Virginia Theatre: Toni Collette (Queenie), Mandy
Patinkin (Burrs), Eartha Kitt (Dolores Montoya), Tonya Pinkins (Kate),
Yancey Arias (Black), Norm Lewis (Eddie Mackrel), Marc Kudisch (Jackie),
Michael McElroy (Oscar D'Armano), Nathan Lee Graham (Phil D'Armano), Brooke
Sunny Moriber (Nadine), Adam Grupper (Gold), Stuart Zagnit (Goldberg),
Leah Hocking (Mae Mackrel), Jane Summerhays (Miss Madelaine True), Sally
Murphy (Sally) UM (Includes
the songs "Black Bottom," "What I Need," the short version of "Everyone
Has Their Secrets" and the full versions of "Need," "Uptown," "Dry," "Gin"/"Wild,"
and the Finale, all of which were cut or trimmed for the cast album; Will
be sent on one 120 minute tape)
-
*The
Wind In The Willows (William Perry/William Perry & Roger McGough/Jane
Iredale) - 1985 - OBC: David Carroll (Rat), Vicki Lewis (Mole), Nathan
Lane (Toad), Irving Bames (Badger) U
NM
(Not bad at all; Quiet, but pretty much clear)
Assorted
Off-Broadway
-
Abie's Island
Rose (Doug Katsaros/Richard Engquist & Frank Evans/Ron Sproat)
- 4/29/00 Evening (First Preview) - JRT/Playyhouse 91: Heather MacRae (Madeline
Feinman), Keith Lee Grant (August Hyacinth), Steven Rosen (Abie Feinman),
Carla Woods (Rose Hyacinth) U [1]
(Missing a bit of MacRae's dialogue before "Liberal")
-
America Kicks
Up Its Heels (William Finn*/Charles Rubin) - Playwrights Horizons:
Patti LuPone, Dick Latessa (Boris), Alix Korey U
S
NM
(Finn's first stab at a depression musical - makes essentially no sense,
but the score is quite strong, and LuPone sounds like a dream)
-
Ballad For
A Firing Squad (Edward Thomas/Martin Charnin/Jerome Coopersmith) -
12/10/68 - Theatre de Lys (Lucille Lortel Theatre): Bruce Scott (The Young
Soldier), James Hurst (LaFarge), Renata Vaselle (Mata Hari), Adelle Rasey
(Mme. LaFarge) U S
NM
[1]
(INCOMPLETE: songs only with some dialogue; Revised version of Mata
Hari ; Score will always be interesting, book will always be lousy;
Includes two songs that were cut before the Mufti production ("I Did Not
Sleep Last Night" and "What Then?"), along with an Entr'Acte and a different
end to Act I)
-
The Big Bang
(Jed Feuer/Boyd Graham*) - 3/18/00 Evening - Douglas Fairbanks Theatre:
Jed Feuer (Jed Feuer), Boyd Graham (Boyd Graham) U
[1]
(Extremely
funny, but much was visual humor; Hard to understand parts of "The Twentieth
Century")
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The Bomb-Itty
Of Errors (Jordan Allen-Dutton, Jason Catalano, Gregory J. Qaiyum,
Jeffrey A. Qaiyum, & Erik Weiner) - 1/16/00 Evening - 45 Bleecker:
Jordan Allen-Dutton (Various), Jason Catalano (Various), Gregory J. Qaiyum
(Various), Erik Weiner (Various) R U
[1]
(Through-rapped
adaptation of The Comedy of Errors; Missing a line and a half at
the very beginning and a line and a half at the flip)
-
*The
Bone Room (Harvey Schmidt/Tom Jones*) - 2/75 - Portfolio Theatre: Susan
Watson, David Garrison (Strange Jones/Schmidt piece that was given a brief
workshop run and never seen again; Some great songs, two of which ("Come
To Life" and "Joy") were later used in various versions of Colette)
-
Bright Lights
Big City (Paul Scott Goodman) - 3/14/99 - NYTW: Patrick Wilson (Jamie),
Jerry Dixon (Tad Allagash, Etc.), Ann Marie Milazzo (Mom/Various), Natascia
A. Diaz (Vicky/Various) U 2CD
(Great
music, bad libretto)
-
Brownstone
(Peter Larson & Josh Rubins/Josh Rubins & Andrew Cadiff*) - 1984
- First Production, Hudson Guild Theatre: Kiimberly Farr (Joan), Ralph Bruneau
(Stuart), Maureen McGovern (Mary), Lenny Wolpe (Howard), Loni Ackerman
(Claudia) U NM
[1]
(Much shorter version, with a bunch of cut material (including the songs
"The Tonight Show," "Water Through The Trees," (which is in the later version,
but is much longer here) "Some Things Change," "The Books," and "Did You
Ever Fall?"); Missing a bit of "Water Through The Trees" at the flip (annoying,
since it's a lovely song), and the tape cuts off in the middle of "Someone's
Moving Out," losing the last few minutes of the show)
-
Brownstone
(Peter Larson & Josh Rubins/Josh Rubins & Andrew Cadiff*) - 12/6/86
(Final Performance) - Second Production, Roundabout: Liz Callaway (Claudia),
Kimberly Farr (Joan), Rex Smith (Stuart), Ben Harney (Howard), Ernestine
Jackson (Mary) R U
NM
S
(Excellent
lost score; Top quality soundboard tape; Includes a brief curtain call
speech by Harney)
-
The Bubbly
Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin (Kirsten Childs) - 6/24/00 Matinee
- Playwrights Horizons: La Chanze (Viveca "BBubbly" Stanton), Darius De
Haas (Gregory/Various), Jerry Dixon (Lucas/Various), Robert Jason Jackson
(Daddy/Various), Debra M. Walton (MommyVarious), Cheryl Alexander (Granny/Various)
U
(Fine
score, but book problems; La Chanze is great; Will be sent on one 120 minute
tape)
-
Captains Courageous
(Frederick Fryer/Patrick Cook*) - 3/31/99 - MTC: Rich Hebert (Manuel),
Brandon Espinoza (Harvey Ellsworth Cheyne), Michael Mulheren (Captain Troop),
Michael X. Martin (Long Jack) R U
(Excellent
score and cast; Hebert had taken over for Treat Williams for the last week
of the run and was far better; Some loud sounds are a little fuzzy)
-
A Class Act
(Edward Kleban/Edward Kleban + Glenn Slater & Brian Stein/Lonny Price
& Linda Kline) - 10/21/00 Matinee (Preview) - MTC Stage II: Lonny Price
(Ed Kleban), Carolee Carmello (Lucy), Randy Graff (Sophie Callen), Nancy
Kathryn Anderson (Mona), Jonathan Freeman (Lehman Engel), Julia Murney
(Felicia Lipschitz), David Hibbard (Bobby/Michael Bennett), Ray Wills (Charley/Marvin
Hamlisch) UM
(Musical about Kleban's life, using his mostly great songs; Includes the
cut version of "Say Something Funny," used as the opening number)
-
Contact
(Various*/John Weidman & Susan Stroman) - 12/10/99 - Lincoln
Center/Mitzi Newhouse Theatre: Boyd Gaines (Michael Wiley), Karen Ziemba
(The Wife), Jason Antoon (The Husband/The Bartender) (Play with recorded
dance music; There are two instances of about a second of static during
"Sing, Sing, Sing," but those might have been on the recording used in
the the theatre; May fit on one 90 minute tape)
-
Dream True:
My Life With Vernon Dexter (Ricky Ian Gordon/Tina Landau + Ricky Ian
Gordon/Tina Landau)- 4/3/1999 (Preview) - Vineyard Theatre: Jeff McCarthy
(Peter Emmons), Daniel Jenkins (Vernon Dexter), Judy Kuhn (Madge Emmons)
U
(Includes the cut song "The 60s"; Missing one line near the end of Act
II)
-
Enter The
Guardsman (Craig Bohmler/Marion Adler/Scott Wentworth) - 5/28/00 -
Vineyard Theatre: Robert Cuccioli (The Actor), Marla Schaffel (The Actress),
Mark Jacoby (The Playwright), Derin Altay (The Dresser) R
U
(The overture was cut for this production; Sound is generally clearer than
the NJ tape, but, like that one, some lines are lost to laughter; Schaffel
sings much better than Dana Reeve, but Reeve's acting was more accomplished)
-
First Lady
Suite (Michael John LaChiusa) - 12/93? - Public Theater: Carolann Page
(Evelyn Lincoln/Eleanor Roosevelt), Alice Playten (Mamie Eisenhower), Carol
Woods (Lorena Hickok), Priscilla Baskerville (Marian Anderson), Debra Stricklin
(Mary Gallagher/Margaret Truman/Various), Maureen Moore (Jackie Kennedy,
Amelia Earhart), David Wasson (Various) U
NM
[1]
(Great sound, although singers are occasionally drowned out by very loud
piano or audience noise; Possibly missing the end of "Where's Mamie?" and
the beginning of "Olio")
-
Godspell (Stephen
Schwartz/Traditional + Stephen Schwartz/John-Michael Tebelak + the cast)
- 8/4/00 - Third Eye Rep, York Theatre: Barrrett Foa (Jesus), Will Erat
(John/Judas) UM
(Includes a new version of the Prologue as well as rearranged versions
of other songs and a heavily revised book)
-
*Hedwig
And The Angry Inch (Stephen Trask*/John Cameron Mitchell) - 1998 -
Jane Street Theatre: John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig Schmidt/Tommy Gnosis),
Miriam Shor (Yitzak) R
S
NM
2CD
(Taken from the well-circulated pro-shot video of the show; Followed by
Michael Cerveris singin all of the show's songs; A great listen)
-
I Can Get
It For You Wholesale (Harold Rome*/Jerome Weidman) - 1992? - American
Jewish Theatre: Evan Pappas (Harry Bogen), Carolee Carmello (Ruthie Rivkin),
Marcia Lewis (Momma), Vicki Lewis (Miss Marmelstein), Alix Korey (Blanche
Bushkin) UM NM
(Full cast unknown; Uses a slightly revised book and score that, in addition
to being a little darker than the original, drops "I'm Not A Well Man"
and "What's In It For Me?"; Includes unrecorded reprises of "The Sound
Of Money" and "The Way Things Are," as well as an appearance of "What Are
They Doing To Us Now?" at the very beginning of the show; Performed with
only one piano; Great sound; Missing a little bit of dialogue at the flip
in Act I (right after "Too Soon"))
-
The Immigrant
(Steven Alper/Sarah Knapp/Mark Harelik) - 10/8/00 (Final Performance) -
CAP21 Theatre: Evan Pappas (Haskell Harelik), Walter Charles (Milton Perry),
Cass Morgan (Ima Perry), Jacqueline Antaramian (Leah Harelik) U
(Based on Harelik's much-produced play; Interesting score that sounds something
like a down-home Michael John LaChiusa)
-
imPerfect
Chemistry (Albert Tapper/James Racheff*) - 8/20/00 - Minetta Lane Theatre:
Amanda Watkins (Dr. Elizabeth Gibbs), Ken Barnett (Dr. Alvin Rivers), John
Jellison (Dr. Goodman/Dr. Nikolai Bubinsky), Brooks Ashmanskas (Harry Lizzarde)
U
(Execrably
silly musical about scientists who discover a cure for male pattern baldness;
So bad it's barely even campy)
-
Last Romeo
(Sean McCourt) - 12/29/99 - Melting Pot Theatre: Sean McCourt R
UM
NM
[1]
(McCourt's one-man musical; Great stuff; Some of the songs are from his
(highly recommended) solo album, Stick Figure Dancing)
-
The Little
Prince (Rick Cummins/John Scoullar*) - Date Unknown - 28th Street Theatre:
Daisy Eagan (The Prince), Howard Kaye (The Aviator), Merwin Goldsmith (Grownup
#1/The Men On The Planets/The Fox), Natascia Diaz (Grownup #2/The Rose/The
Snake) U NM
(Sound is pretty good: clearish but a little fuzzy; Understanding the dialogue
and lyrics isn't much of a problem, although the plot is incomprehensible
- if you can figure it out, you're a better man (or woman) than I; Missing
tiny bits of dialogue at the flips)
-
Marry Me A
Little (Stephen Sondheim*/Craig Lucas & Norman René) - 10/26/97
- Flushing, NY: Brent Barrett, Sally Mayes <R
NM
[1]
(I
can find absolutely nothing about this production, but I'm thankful that
someone taped it - as usual, Brent and Sally rock the proverbial casbah)
-
More Than
You Deserve (Jim Steinman/Jim Steinman & Michael Weller/Michael
Weller) - 1974? - Public Theater: Fred Gwynne, Kimberly Farr U
NM
(INCOMPLETE:
Missing all of Act II after "If Only" (about 40 minutes in); Quality is
great for such an old tape; Title song later became a tune for Meat Loaf)
-
A New Brain
(William Finn*/William Finn & James Lapine) - 8/98 - Mitzi Newhouse
Theatre: Danny Gurwin (u/s Lewis Cleale - Gordon Schwinn), Norm Lewis (Roger
Delli-Bovi), Penny Fuller (Mimi Schwinn), Mary Testa (Lisa), Liz Larsen
(Rhoda), Michael Mandell (Richard), Kristin Chenoweth (The Waitress/Nancy
D.), John Jellison (Dr. Jafar Berensteiner) UM
NM
[1]
(Contains about ten minutes of material that didn't make the cast album
(including the songs "Be Polite," "A New Brain," and "Craniotomy," as well
as portions of "911 Emergency," "Mother's Gonna Make Things Fine," "Yes,"
"Throw It Out," and "The Homeless Lady's Revenge"); Missing most of the
second verse and bridge of "Change" and the end of "I Feel So Much Spring"
(after everyone sings "...finally there's sun..."); The Minister is either
Mark Hardy or Ric Ryder; Gurwin is quite good, but sometimes sounds too
young)
-
newyorkers
(Stephen Weiner/Glenn Slater*) - 3/22/01 (Preview) - MTC Stage II: Liz
Larsen, Jerry Dixon, Priscilla Lopez, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Stephen DeRosa,
Pamela Isaacs U CD
[1]
(Good sound - some minor clipping, but very little; May include some material
which was changed by the opening; A couple of good songs and fine performances,
but nothing to write home about - mostly one-joke numbers)
-
Next Time
Now! (David Shire/Richard Maltby, Jr./No Book) - 1/89? - Eighty-Eight's:
Michael Brian, Lynne Wintersteller, Brent Barrett, Patrick Scott Brady
(An early version of what eventually became Closer Than Ever; Includes
the cut songs "Mind Over Matter," "Please Don't Make Say," and "Hero's
Love/Role Reversal"; A bit of clipping on very loud portions; missing a
small bit of "Fathers Of Fathers")
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No Way To
Treat A Lady (Douglas J. Cohen) - 1987 - Hudson Guild Theatre: Stephen
Bogardus (Kit Gill), Peter Slutsker (Morris Brummell), June Gable (Mother),
Liz Callaway (Sarah Stone) UM NM
(Very different from recorded 1996 version; Contains the cut songs "Five
More Minutes" (which is here only a few lines at the very beginning
for Kit - the full version of the song was cut from this production during
previews), "A Very Funny Thing," "Killer On The Line," "Mother Likes Sarah,"
"Sarah's Touch," and "A Close Call" (with "I Need A Life," "Only A Heartbeat
Away," "Lunch With Sarah," and "So Much In Common" not in the show yet)
along with a cut reprise of "The First Move," different versions of others
(notably "Still" and "I Have Noticed A Change"), and a very different book
with a bizarre, almost surreal ending; Missing very end of Act I (the last
few words/notes of "You're Getting Warmer") and a bit of the dialogue before
"Still")
-
*One
Two Three Four Five (Maury Yeston*/Larry Gelbart) - 1988/1989 - MTC
Stage I: Davis Gaines (Avi), Lauren Mitchell (Ariel), Jonathan Hadary (Dack),
Kenneth L. Marks (Romer), Mary Testa (Taradee), Philip Hoffman (Kol) R
U
NM2CD
(Yeston's first attempt at a Bible musical; Great score, impossible book)
-
Personals
(Various/Marta Kauffman, David Crane, & Seth Friedman) - 1986? - Minetta
Lane Theatre: Dee Hoty, Nancy Opel, Jason Alexander, Jeff Keller, Laura
Dean, Trey Wilson UM?
CD
[1]
(INCOMPLETE: Songs only; The cast also included, among others, Jason Alexander
and Nancy Opel, but I'm not entirely sure whether or not it's them on this
recording; Aside from some odd background noise on a few tracks, sound
is super-clear; May include unrecorded material, but I'm not familiar with
the London cast album of the show)
-
The Petrified
Prince (Michael John LaChiusa*/Edward Gallardo) - 1995 - Public Theater:
Candy Buckley (Queen Katarina), Daisy Prince (Elise), Alexander Gaberman
(Chaplin - Prince Samson), Timothy Jerome (Cardinal Pointy), Mal Z. Lawrence
(King Maximilliam/Abbe Sebastian/Fernando), Marilyn Cooper (Mama Chiaramonte),
Loni Ackerman (Robert), Ralph Byers (Pope Pius VII), Jane White (Madam
Paulina) R U
NM
(LaChiusa's one really great score, although matched to an incomprehensible
book - too bad it wasn't recorded (was it?); Sound varies from good to
okay; Flips in both acts are during songs ("Never Can Tell" in Act I, "Addio,
Bambino" in Act II))
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Philemon
(Harvey Schmidt/Tom Jones*) - 10/24/99 - Music In A Box, 28th Street
Theatre: Michael J. Farina (Cockian), Bryan Johnson (Captain), Marc O'Donnell
(Andos), Megan Morrison (Kiki), Randi Megibow (Marsyas), Gloria Ptak (The
Wife), Will Erat (Servillus) R U
(Strong
Schmidt/Jones score; Score was recorded but was very rare and never issued
on CD)
-
Romance In
Hard Times (William Finn) - 1989 - Public Theatre: Lillias White (Hennie),
Cleavant Derricks (Boris), Alix Korey (Zoe) R
U
S
NM
(Full
cast and song lists upcoming; Great quality but band sometimes drowns out
singers; Phenomenal Finn score (as good as, if not better than A New
Brain and the Marvin Trilogy), but almost completely incomprehensible
plot; Includes bonus tracks from this (the original finale, cut after the
workshop), A New Brain (the cut song "Anytime (I'll Be There)" sung
by Christopher Innvar and Malcolm Gets, "I'd Rather Be Sailing" sung (badly)
by Christopher Innvar (and well by Malcolm in his bits), and a solo Gets
rendition of "I Feel So Much Spring" from The Rosie O'Donnell Show),
and two demos from The Adventures of Tom Thumb And Thumbelina ("Someone
For Thumbelina To Love" sung by an unknown actress and the bizarre "Welcome
To My Hole" sung by Chip Zien))
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Saturday Night
(Stephen Sondheim*/Julius J. Epstein + Stephen Sondheim)- 2/12/00 Evening
(Preview) - Second Stage: David Campbell (Gene), Lauren Ward (Helen), Christopher
Fitzgerald (Bobby), Andrea Burns (Celeste), Clarke Thorell (Hank), Donald
Corren (Vocalist/Various) UM [1]
(INCOMPLETE: Act I through "A Moment With You" is fine; After that, sound
is fuzzy, getting progressively worse through "Montana Chem" and "Gracious
Living Fantasy," then hitting the point of unintelligibility for a few
minutes before cutting off completely; Act II lasts only a few minutes
before degrading to nothing; Includes the unrecorded Entr'Acte)
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Saturday Night
(Stephen
Sondheim*/Julius J. Epstein + Stephen Sondheim) - Date Unknown (2000) -
Second Stage: David Campbell (Gene), Lauren Ward (Helen), Christopher Fitzgerald
(Bobby), Andrea Burns (Celeste), Clarke Thorell (Hank), Donald Corren (Vocalist/Various)
2CD
UM
("A
Moment With You" and the dialogue before it is from the 2/12/00 tape above;
Includes a brief reprise of "One Wonderful Day" that was used as the Act
I finale and the Entr'Acte, neither of which was recorded, plus some incidental/scene
change music)
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*The
Spitfire Grill (James Valcq/Fred Alley/James Valcq & Fred Alley)
- 9/22/01 (Preview) - Playwrights Horizons/DDuke Theatre: Garrett Long (Percy
Talbott), Liz Callaway (Shelby Thorpe), Phyllis Somervlle (Hannah Ferguson),
Steven Pasquale (Sheriff Joe Sutter), Armand Schultz (Caleb Thorpe), Mary
Gordon Murray (Effy Krayneck) R
U
2CD
(Lovely little show with a great score and wonderful performances; Great
sound; Stereo)
-
Splendora
(Stephen Hoffman/Mark Campbell/Peter Webb) - Unreleased 1995 OB Cast Album
- Nancy Johnston (Jessica Gatewood), Michaell Moore (Timothy John Coldridge),
Ken Krugman (Brother Leggett), Evalyn Baron (Sue Ella Lightfoot), KT Sullivan
(Maga Dell Spivy) U S
CD
[1] (60 Minutes;
Enjoyable score)
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The Wild Party
(Andrew
Lippa) - 2/13/00 Matinee (Preview) - MTC: Julia Murney (Queenie), Brian
d’Arcy James (Burrs), Idina Menzel (Kate), Taye Diggs (Black)
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UM
NM
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(Missing
“Life Of The Party,” a moment of the dialogue before
"A Wild, Wild Party," and one brief moment during "Who Is This Man?," but
includes "Just One Day," the original intro to "A Wild, Wild Party," the
original Finale, and other bits later cut, along with all the stuff cut
for the cast album)
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The Wild Party
(Andrew
Lippa) - 2/19/00 Matinee (Preview) - MTC: Julia Murney (Queenie), Brian
d'Arcy James (Burrs), Idina Menzel (Kate), Taye Diggs (Black)
R
UM
2CD
(Includes
"The Apartment (Sunday Noon)," "Who Is This Man?," "The Gal For Me," "Listen
To Me (Bathroom Quartet)," "The Fight," the reprise of "Poor Child," and
tons of recitative, none of which made it onto the cast album)
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The Wild Party
(Andrew
Lippa) - 4/9/00 Evening (Final Performance) - MTC: Julia Murney (Queenie),
Brian d'Arcy James (Burrs), Idina Menzel (Kate), Taye Diggs (Black)
R
UM
(Extremely
enthusiastic audience; Includes curtain call speeches by Murney and Lippa;
Includes the material cut for the cast album)
Encores!
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Babes In Arms
(Richard
Rodgers/Lorenz Hart/Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart + John Guare) - 2/14/99
Evening - David Campbell (Valentine LaMar), Erin Dilly (Billie Smith),
Jessica Stone (Dolores Reynolds), Christopher Fitzgerald (Gus Fielding),
Melissa Rain Anderson (Baby Rose)
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*Broadway
Bash (Various*/No Book) - 11/18/01 - Kristin Chenoweth, Howard McGillin,
Jason Daniely, Melissa Errico, Christopher Fitzgerald, Donna Murphy, Gary
Beach, Karen Ziemba, Carol Woods, Alix Korey, Vanessa L. Williams, Randy
Graff, Jubilant Sykes, Brandi Chavonne Massey R
2CD (Lots of
great people doing lots of great jobs singing lots of great songs from
shows under consideration for Encores! presentations
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A Connecticut
Yankee (Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart/Herbert Fields + David Ives) -
2/20/01 Matinee - Steven Sutcliffe (Martin Barrett), Christine Ebersole
(Fay Morgan/Morgan LeFay), Judith Blazer (Alice Carter/Alisande), Seán
Martin Hingston (Sir Galahad), Nancy Lemenager (Dame Evelyn), Henry Gibson
(Arthur Pendragos/King Arthur) 2CD UM
(A bit of minor static/clipping at a few brief points when the voices get
very loud/high; Includes a 45-minute post show discussion (which, it should
be noted, takes up a third tape); Includes the songs "Here's Martin The
Groom," "I Blush," and "The Sandwich Men," none of which has been recorded
- I suspect (although cannot confirm right nnow) that there is other material
on here that remains unrecorded (the overture and Entr'Acte, the reprise
of "Thou Swell, Thou Witty," and the Act I Finale ("Ibbidy Bibbidy Sibbidy
Sab"))
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Do Re Mi
(Jule Styne/Betty Comden & Adolph Green/Garson Kanin + David Ives)
- 5/9/99 Evening - Nathan Lane (Hubie Cram),, Randy Graff (Kay Cram), Brian
Stokes Mitchell (John Henry Wheeler), Heather Headley (Tilda Mullen) UM
(Includes
the Entr'Acte, numerous reprises, and the complete "Investigation" sequence,
which haven't been recorded; There's some slight distortion on loud noises,
particularly during "Cry Like The Wind")
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Hair (Galt
MacDermot/James Rado & Gerome Ragni*) - 5/5/01 Matinee - Luther Creek
(Claude Hooper Bukowski), Tom Plotkin (George Berger), Idina Menzel (Sheila
Franklin), Jessica-Snow Wilson (Crissy), Michael McElroy (Hud), Miriam
Shor (Jeanie/Various), Kevin Cahoon (Woof), Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Tourist/Various),
Brandi Chavonne Massey (Dionne) (Includes some unrecorded material, although
I'm not sure exactly what; Superb sound, but somewhat quiet at times; There
was a discussion, but I haven't listened to it yet - it probably needs
some massive amplification)
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On A Clear
Day You Can See Forever (Burton Lane/Alan Jay Lerner/Alan Jay Lerner
+ David Ives) - 2/12/00 Matinee - Kristin Chenoweth (Daisy Gamble/Melinda),
Peter Friedman (Dr. Mark Bruckner), Roger Bart (Warren Smith), Brent Barrett
(Edward Moncrief) UM
(Includes a 45-minute discussion and the songs "Ring Out The Bells" and
"At The Hellrakers'," neither of which has been recorded)
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Promises,
Promises (Burt Bacharach/Hal David/Neil Simon) - 1997 - Martin
Short (Chuck Baxter), Kerry O'Malley (Fran Kubelik), Terrence Mann (J.D.
Sheldrake), Christine Baranski (Marge MacDougall), Dick Latessa (Dr. Dreyfuss),
Jenifer Lewis (Peggy Olsen) UM NM
2CD
(Very
good quality; Includes the new song "You've Got It All Wrong" and some
unrecorded incidental music)
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Promises,
Promises (Burt Bacharach/Hal David/Neil Simon) - 1997 - Martin
Short (Chuck Baxter), Kerry O'Malley (Fran Kubelik), Terrence Mann (J.D.
Sheldrake), Christine Baranski (Marge MacDougall), Dick Latessa (Dr. Dreyfuss),
Jenifer Lewis (Peggy Olsen) UM NM
2CD
(Almost
flawless soundboard recording - only problems are some almost unnoticeable
static/clipping during "A Young Pretty Girl Like You" and some slight misbalancing
of the vocals (the backup singers are too loud in relation to the principals);
Seems to be a different performance from the audience recording; Includes
the new song "You've Got It All Wrong" and some unrecorded incidental music)
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Tenderloin
(Jerry Bock/Sheldon Harnick/Jerome Weidman & George Abbot + John Weidman
& Walter Bobbie) - 3/23/00 - David Ogden Stiers, Patrick Wilson, Debbie
Gravitte, Sarah Uriarte Berry, Jessica Stone, Yvette Cason R
(Generally
fantastic sound quality)
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Wonderful
Town (Leonard Bernstein/Betty Comden & Adolph Green/Joseph Fields
& Jerome Chodorov + Betty Comden & Adolph Green + David Ives) -
5/6/00 - Donna Murphy (Ruth Sherwood), Laura Benanti (Elaine Sherwood),
Richard Muenz (Robert Baker), Raymond Jaramillo McLeod (Wreck), Patrick
Quinn (Guide/Various) R
(Includes a 45-minute discussion; Missing a tiny bit at the beginning of
the "Pass The Football Ballet")
York Theatre
Mainstage Productions
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Exactly Like
You (Cy Coleman/Cy Coleman & A.E. Hotchner/A.E. Hotchner) -
4/18/99 - Lauren Ward (Arlene Murphy), Michael McGrath (Martin Murphy),
Edward Staudenmayer (Kevin Bursteter), Susan Mansur (Priscilla Vanderhosen),
Blair Ross (Winona Shook), Robert Bartley (Aaron Bates), Tony Hastings
(TV Commentator), Doug Katsaros (Judge Maximillian Meltzer), Kate Levering
(Eve Bursteter), Frank Gravis (Lamarr), Donya Lane (Stenographer), Donna
Kelly (Juror) U
(Cy Coleman score; Missing a large portion of the Overture, but you'd never
know; Heavily revised version of Coleman's 1989 flop Welcome To The
Club)
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Fermat's Last
Tango (Joshua Rosenblum/Joanne Sydney Lessner & Joshua Rosenblum/Joanne
Sydney Lessner) - 12/10/00 - Chris Thompson (Daniel Keane), Edwardyne
Cowan (Anna Keane), Jonathan Rabb (Pierre de Fermat), Mitchell Kantor (Pythagoras/Reporter),
Christiane Tisdale (Euclid/Reporter), Gilles Chiasson (Carl Friedrich Gauss/Reporter),
Carrie Wilshusen (Isaac Newton/Reporter) U
[1]
(Includes the song "I'll Always Be There (Fermat's Last Tango)," which
was added after the May 2000 reading, as well as some other material that
was changed/revised; Very enjoyable, if rather strange)
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Jolson &
Co. (Various*/Stephen Mo Hanan & Jay Berkow) - 12/29/99
Matinee - Stephen Mo Hanan (Al Jolson), Robert Ari (Various), Nancy Anderson
(Various) (Play with music about Al Jolson; No new songs, but excellent
versions of them here)
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Little By
Little (Brad Ross/Ellen Greenfield & Hal Hackady/Ellen Greenfield
& Annette Jolles) - 1/29/99 - Liz Larsen (Woman 1), Christiane
Noll (Woman 2), Darrin Baker (Man) UM [1]
(Includes "How Did It Happen?," which was the original opening number,
along with numerous short bits that were cut for the recording)
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Six Wives
(Edward Thomas/Joe Masteroff*) - 10/18/92 - Steve Barton (Henry VIII),
Tovah Feldshuh (Katharine Of Aragon/Anne Of Cleves/Catherine Parr), Kim
Crosby (Anne Boleyn/Kathryn Howard/Jane Seymour), Rex D. Hays (Minister),
Buddy Crutchfield (Messenger/Various) U NM
(No song list; May be missing beginning; Interesting score, but sometimes
difficult to understand words; Will be sent on one 120 minute tape)
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Suburb
(Robert S. Cohen/David Javerbaum/Robert S. Cohen & David Javerbaum)
- 2/24/01 Preview) - James Ludwig (Stuart), Jacquelyn Piro (Alison), Alix
Korey (Rhoda Ravitch), Dennis Kelly (Tom), Ron Butler (Various), James
Sasser (Various), Adinah Alexander (Various), Jennie Eisenhower (Various)
U
NM
(Generally great sound (from a digital master), but the singers are sometimes
overwhelmed by the musicians; Very amusing show, with a great score)
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Taking A Chance
On Love: The Life And Lyrics Of John LaTouche (Various/John LaTouche/Erik
Haagensen) - 2/19/00 Evening (Preview) - Jerry Dixon, Eddie Korbich, Donna
English, Terry Burrell UM (Revue
of songs written by LaTouche, from shows including The Golden Apple
, Cabin In The Sky, Beggar's Holiday, and Candide)
Musicals In Mufti: Underappreciated Musicals In Concert
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70, Girls,
70 (John Kander/Fred Ebb/Joe Masteroff + Fred Ebb & Norman L. Martin
+ David Thompson) - 1/30/00 Matinee - Jane Powell (Ida), Helen Gallagher,
Robert Fitch, George S. Irving, Jane Connell, Charlotte Rae, Mimi Hines
R
(Uses
a revised version of the London book, so "You And I, Love" was cut and
"I Can't Do That Anymore" was used; Uses a brand new (and very funny) arrangement
of "Go Visit Your Grandmother")
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Beggar’s
Holiday (Duke Ellington/John LaTouche + Dale Wasserman*)- 10/1/99 -
Jerry Dixon (Macheath/Beggar), Pamela Isaacs (Miss Jenny), La Chanze (Lucy
Lockit), Tami Swartz (Polly Peachum), Ken Prymus (Mr. Peachum/Various),
Kenneth Kantor (Captain Lockit/Various), Glenn Turner (Sneaky Pete/Street
Singer/Various), Amy Jo Phillips (Mrs. Peachum/Dolly Diddle/Various), Lana
Gordon (Flora Fourways/Various), Cheryl Monroe (Cozy Cool/Various), Jesse
Means (Various), Joe Langworth (Various) R
U
(Very
interesting score - it's thought that Billy Strayhorn may have written
a substantial amount of it)
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Celebration
(Harvey Schmidt/Tom Jones*) - 1/14/01 (Evening) - Keith Charles (Potemkin),
Jeremiah Lockwood Miller (Orphan), Natasha Harper (Angel), Kenneth Kantor
(Edgar Alan Rich) UM NM
2CD
(Includes the unrecorded "Beautician Ballet" and "Saturnalia" segments;
Very good digital sound, but the singers are sometimes overpowered by the
musicians; CDs are copies from the masters)
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Destry Rides
Again (Harold Rome*/Leonard Gershe) - 9/26/99 Matinee - Jim
Newman, Sharon Scruggs (Frenchie), Bill Buell (Wash) UM
(Includes
some reprises which were cut from both cast albums; Follows the Broadway
text)
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The Girl Who
Came to Supper (Noel Coward*/Harry Kurnitz) - 9/17/99 - Simon
Jones (Grand Duke Charles, Prince Regent Of Carpathia), Nancy Anderson
(Mary Morgan), Stephen Mo Hanan (Peter Northbrook), Evalyn Baron (Ada Cockle/Various),
Celeste Holm (Queen Mother) UM (Includes
the songs "Long Live The King (If He Can)" (which was replaced by the here-unused
"My Family Tree") and "What's The Matter With A Nice Beef Stew?" (part
of the English Folk Song sequence), both of which were cut before the Broadway
run)
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Johnny Johnson
(Kurt Weill/Paul Green) - 10/22/00 Matinee - Perry Laylon Ojeda (Johnny
Johnson), Sherry Boone, Peter Flynn, Janelle Anne Robinson, Deborah Jean
Templin, Erik Stein, Aaron Lazar, Steve Pacek, Miguel Cervantes, Kenneth
Cavett UM? (Includes
some cut material which was restored but may have been recorded before;
Wonderful work from Ojeda; Terrible material, though - overlong, boring,
and preachy; Includes a discussion)
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Kean (Robert
Wright & George Forrest*/Peter Stone)- 1/16/00 Matinee - Walter Willison
(Edmund Kean), Christiane Noll (Anna Danby), Susan Watson (Countess Elena
De Koeberg), Robert Sella (The Prince Of Wales), Jesse Tyler Ferguson (Christie)
U
(Missing
about 3 seconds of dialogue at the flip in Act II; Score was recorded but
has not been issued on CD; Includes the song "Inevitable" which was cut
from the Broadway production)
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Kelly
(Moose Charlap/Eddie Lawrence*) - 9/19/98 Evening - Brian D’Arcy
James (Hop Kelly), Mary Stout, Cady Huffman UM
(Not
great quality)
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Mata Hari
(Edward Thomas/Martin Charnin/Jerome Coopersmith) - 5/15/95 - Kirk McDonald
(Young Soldier), Kim Huffman (Mata Hari), Michael Zaslow (Captain LaFarge),
Carolann Page (Paulette LaFarge), James Hindman (Duvalier/Various), Robin
Skye (Pistolette/Various), Timothy Gulan (German Soldier/American Soldier/Various)
UM
NM
(Intriguing score, impossible book; Missing some dialogue at the flips
in both acts; Includes the closing reprise of "Gone (Ballad Of The Firing
Squad)" which is not on the copy of the album that I have)
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Mata Hari
(Edward Thomas/Martin Charnin/Jerome Coopersmith) - 1996 - Unreleased Studio
Album of Mufti production: Kirk McDonald (Young Soldier), Kim Huffman (Mata
Hari), Michael Zaslow (Captain LaFarge), Carolann Page (Paulette LaFarge)
S
NM
[1]
(About 52 minutes; Sound is rather muffled; Does not include the finale,
and a few songs seem to cut off; It's possible that this is not the same
version of the album that came out, as it has been reported that some songs
were recorded multiple times by different people)
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Onward Victoria
(Keith Hermann/Charlotte Anker & Irene Rosenberg*) - 5/7/95 - Sally
Mayes (Victoria Claflin Woodhull), Juliet Ewing (Tennessee "Tennie" Claflin),
Michael Dantuono (Henry Ward Beecher), Jonathan Hadley (Anthony Comstock/Various),
SuEllen Estey (Elizabeth Cady Stanton/Various), Buddy Crutchfield (Charlie
Delmonico/Various) UM NM
(Missing the end of "Unescorted Women" through the end of Act I; Includes
some songs that were apparently not on the OBC album (which I don't have),
some of which may be new: "A City Crowded With Ships," "Victoria's Banner,"
and several reprises, along with cutting the songs "Onward Victoria" and
"Love And Joy")
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Rex (Richard
Rodgers/Sheldon Harnick/Sherman Yellen) - 10/15/00 - Patrick Page (King
Henry VIII), Melissa Errico (Anne Boleyn/Princess Elizabeth), B.D. Wong
(Will Somers), Rebecca Eichenberger (Queen Catherine/Various), Amanda Watkins
(Lady Jane Seymour/Various), Paul Schoeffler (Francis, King Of France/Norfolk/Various),
Patrick J.P. Duffey (Dauphin/Prince Edward), Christopher Sieber (Mark Smeaton/Various),
Jessica Walling (Princess Mary/Various), William Parry (Cardinal Wolsey/Various),
Richard Easton (Comus/Various), Katherine Lessner (Various) UM
(Restores the cut songs "Tell Me, Daisy" (and its reprise), "Dear Jane,"
and "The Pears Of Anjou"; There is some clipping on loud parts; Includes
a discussion, but the sound isn't great)
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Wish You Were
Here (Harold Rome*/Joshua Logan & Arthur Kober) - 1/23/00
Matinee - Sarah Schmidt, Perry Laylon Ojeda, Matt Bogart, Melissa Rain
Anderson, Ward Saxton III UM [1]
(INCOMPLETE:
Only Act I; Includes the song "There's Nothing Nicer Than People," which
was added to the show during the Broadway run (replacing "Goodbye Love")
and is only available on the OLC recording, which has not been issued on
CD, as well as the unrecorded song "Bright College Days")
Readings
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1001 Nights
(John Mercurio*/Kenneth Vega) - 10/17/99 - La Chanze (Sophie), David Christmas
(Clive), Danny Gurwin (Ned), Julia Murney (Katharine), Jeff Edgerton (Ben)
U
(Will
be sent on one 120 minute tape; Interesting piece, but plagued with book
and pacing problems (no musical should ever have a monologue that
long))
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Anna Karenina
(Dan Levine/Peter Kellogg) - 5/14/01 - Melissa Errico (Anna Karenina),
Jennifer Rosin (Princess Kitty Scherbatskaya), Peter Flynn (Constantine
Levin), Allen Fitzpatrick (Karenin), Patrick Page (Count Alexis Vronsky),
Don Stitt (Stiva), Jayne Houdyshell (Princess Betsy) U
(Much clipping on loud sections; Revised version of the 1992 Broadway flop,
with a bunch of songs not on the demo; Includes pre- and post-show speeches
by York Artistic Director James Morgan)
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Avenue Q:
Pilot Episode and Selected Songs and Scenes (Robert Lopez & Jeff
Marks*/Robert Lopez, Jeff Marks, Craig Shemin, & Seth A. Goldstein)
- 5/8/00 - Rick Lyon (Trekkie Monster/Nickiee), Stephanie D'Abruzzo (Kate
Monster/Lucy The Slut), John Tartaglia (Princeton/Paul), Brian Yorkey (Brian
Yorkey), Amanda Green (Gary Coleman), Ann Harada (Various), Lara MacLean
(Various) U [1]
(Hilarious, twisted Sesame Street parody; Only about 52 minutes
long; Includes very funny renditions of Heisler and Goldrich's "Taylor"
and Sondheim's "Like It Was")
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The Day It
Rained Forever (William Whitefield + Tom Gire/William Whitefield &
Ray Bradbury + Tom Gire/Ray Bradbury) - 1/9/2000 - Michael Park
(Mr Terle), Marc Kudisch (Mr. Fremely), KT Sullivan (Miss Hillgood), James
Alexander (Mr. Smith), Gilles Chiasson (The Man), Stephanie Douglas (The
Woman) R U [1]
(Based
on a Bradbury story; Great score)
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Desire Under
The Elms (Edward Thomas/Joe Masteroff*) - 10/18/99 - Michelle
Pawk, Joe Cassidy, David Barron, Robert DuSold, Bill Nolte U
[1]
(Missing
about ten seconds of dialogue at the flip; Based on Thomas and Masteroff's
earlier operatic version)
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The Lady In
Penthouse B (Matthew Ward/Peter Napolitano*) - 5/7/01 - Tovah Feldshuh
(Lady Susan), Liz Callaway (Mel Mitchell), David Edwards (Frank Fortunato/Heavenly/Various),
J.T. Cromwell (George/Various), Michael Cone (Aunt Maida/Various), Jonathan
Hadley (Burt Rogers/Various)
U [1]
2CD
(Amusing and funny show about a gossip columnist and her assistant, although
some of the references will get very dated very fast; Sound is quite quiet,
with some odd background noise - not sure how it'll sound when transferred
to tape; Includes pre-show speeches by York Artistic Director James Morgan
and Director Jay Berkow)
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Proof
AKA Fermat's Last Tango (Joshua Rosenblum/Joanne Sydney Lessner
& Joshua Rosenblum/Joanne Sydney Lessner) - 5/1/00 - Chris Thompson
(Andrew Wiles), Barbara Walsh (Mrs. Wiles), Jonathan Rabb (Pierre de Fermat),
David De Jong (Pythagoras/Reporter), Christiane Tisdale (Euclid/Reporter),
Tom Beckett (Carl Friedrich Gauss/Reporter), Carrie Wilshusen (Isaac Newton/Reporter)
U
[1]
(Includes the cut song "Insult Waltz," as well as some other material that
was altered before the actual production six months later (among other
things, the leading man is still called Andrew Wiles); Lovely score, but
really bizarre libretto - after he solves Fermat's Last Theorem, Andrew
Wiles is visited by the ghosts of great dead mathematicians)
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Roadside
(Harvey Schmidt/Tom Jones*) - 2/28/00 - Steve Blanchard (Texas),
Emily Skinner (Hannie Raider), Dick Latessa (Pap Raider), Eddie Korbich
(Amos K. "Buzzey" Hale), David Duffield (Red Ike), Peter Barent Lewis (Black
Ike), Jack Dabdoub (The Verdigree Marshall) U
(Occasionally
very quiet because reading was unmiked; Nice score)
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The Showgirl
Of 52nd Street (John Kroner/Charles Leipart*) - 12/4/00 - Jennifer
Allen (Billie Shay), Kelly Fleck (Young Billie), Mark Lotito (Joe), Tim
Jerome (Papa/Producer Goldman/Various), Sandy Rosenberg (Mama/Various),
Lawrence Clayton (Buddy Cole/Various), Jennifer Evans (Lisa Jo/Various),
Tom Demenkoff (Johnny Lazarus/Various) R
U
(Interesting stuff, with a couple of knockout songs)
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The Singing
(Daniel Levy/Daniel Levy & Lenora Champagne/Lenora Champagne)- 10/22/99
(Final Performance) - David Hibbard (Michael Ecks), Karen Burlingame
(Claire Ecks), Barbara Tirrell (Mrs. Ecks), Elmore James (Mr. Ecks/The
General), Thos Shipley (The Preacher), Steven Rattazzi (The Doctor), Rick
Adamson (Philips, The CIA Man) R U
(Intelligent,
strange rock opera; 1999 Richard Rodgers Award Winner; Missing a tiny bit
at the flip in Act I)
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The Strange
Case Of Mary Lincoln (Carmel Owen*/June Bingham) - 1/4/01 - Melissa
Hart (Mary Todd Lincoln), Mark Jacoby (Abraham Lincoln), Diane Findlay
(Myra Bradwell/Elizabeth Edwards), Terri White (Delia), Tony Lawson (Robert
Lincoln), Bernie Sheredy (Dr. Patterson/Ninian Edwards/Franc Wilkie) U
2CD
(Pretty lousy show, about Mary Lincoln's brief stay in a mental asylum
after Abraham's assassination; Sound is quite quiet, with some odd background
noise - not sure how it'll sound when transferred to tape)
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Sundown
(Peter Link/Larry Rosler/Larry Rosler & Joe Bravaco) - 3/12/01 - Patrick
Page (Doc Holliday), Judy McLane (Kate FIsher), Patrick Ryan Sullivan (Wyatt
Earp), Michael Berry (Tom McLaury), Rex Hays (Ike Clanton), James Patterson,
Richard Joseph Paul, Drew Taylor, Jimmy Bennett, Margaret Dorn (Charlotte),
Jim Bracchita (John Behan) R U
2CD
(Great country-based score, with a superb cast; Some minor clipping on
louder sections, but it's not too bad; Followed by a twenty-minutes discussion)
Paper
Mill Playhouse
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Anything Goes
(Cole Porter*/Guy Bolton & P.G. Wodehouse + Howard Lindsay & Russel
Crouse + Timothy Crouse & John Weidman) - 9/16/00 Matinee - Chita Rivera
(Reno Sweeney), George Dvorsky (Billy Crocker), Stacey Logan (Hope Harcourt),
Bruce Adler (Moonface Martin), Patrick Quinn (Lord Evelyn Oakleigh), Colleen
Hawks (Erma) (Follows the Lincoln Center book, but cuts "I Want To Row
On The Crew" and part of "Public Enemy Number One" and has a different
finale; Missing the first second of the "Friendship" playoff)
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Arthur: The
Musical (Michael Skloff/Marta Kauffman & David Crane*) -
1989 - Reading/Backers' Audition: Gregg Edelman (Arthur Bach), Judy Blazer
(Linda Marolla), Barney Martin (Ralph Marolla)) R
U
NM
CD
(INCOMPLETE: 70 minutes of selected songs and dialogue, including earlier
versions of "Okay" and "Carried Away"; Complete cast unknown; This complete
recording is out there, I just don't have it)
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Dr. Jekyll
and Mr. Hyde (Phil Hall/David Levy & Leslie Eberhard*) -
11/28/98 Evening - Marc Kudisch (Mr. Edward Hyde), Richard White (Dr. Henry
Jekyll), Glory Crampton (Amanda Lanyon), Judy McLane (Lily), Bob Dorian
(Dr. Gerald Lanyon) U (Missing
a a moment of dialogue at the flip in Act I)
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Mame (Jerry
Herman*/Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee) - 10/9/99 Matinee -
Christine Ebersole (Mame Dennis), Kelly Bishop (Vera Charles) UM
(Includes
"The Fox Hunt" and several unrecorded reprises, along with the "Open A
New Window" ballet; There are a few loud but unobtrusive watch beeps during
the dialogue after "Bosom Buddies")
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Paper Moon
(Larry Grossman/Ellen Fitzhugh & Carol Hall/Martin Casella) - 11/93
- Gregory Harrison (Moses Pray), Natalie De Lucia (Addie Loggins), Christine
Ebersole (Miss Trixie Delight) R U
NM
S
2CD
(Almost perfect sound - sounds like a studio album except for a bit of
unintrusive static; Complete cast unknown; includes bonus tracks of six
songs from the composer demo: "A Place Where You Belong," "Startin' From
Sweet," "Someday, Baby," and the cut songs "Double-Dumb Fool," "Custom,"
and "Old Georgette")
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Pippin
(Stephen Schwartz*/Roger O. Hirson) - 6/28/00 - Jim Newman (The Leading
Player), Jack Noseworthy (Pippin), Natascia A. Diaz (Catherine/Various),
Ed Dixon (Charles/Various), Charlotte Rae (Berthe), Sara Gettelfinger (Fastrada/Various),
Ramzi Khalaf (Theo/Various) UM
(Score was almost completely reorchestrated and rearranged (badly, for
the most part - a doo-wop "War Is A Science," a techno "Glory," dance arrangments
similar to Aida's but far worse), with some slight alterations to
the book and score; Includes some unrecorded material (Various small reprises,
the first act finale (a reprise of "Magic To Do"), the Entr'acte, "There
He Was," "Prayer For A Duck," the new ending), but drops the unrecorded
"Welcome Home, Son"; Be glad you don't have to see the awful choreography)
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Rags (Charles
Strouse/Stephen Schwartz/Joseph Stein) - 11/27/99 Evening - Marilyn
Caskey (Rebecca Hershkowitz), Raymond Jaramillo McLeod (Saul), Wayne LeGette
(Nat Harris), Jonathan Andrew Bleicher (David Hershkowitz), M. Kathryn
Quinlan (Bella), Christopher Bishop (Avram), Cesar Samayoa (Ben), Maureen
Silliman (Rachel) UM ("The
Sound Of Love" was cut for this production, although "Nothing Will Hurt
Us Again" was used at the beginning as sung by Rebecca and David, new material
was added for the first act finale, "Brave New World" became a quartet
for Rebecca, David, Avram, and Bella, the never-recorded "On The Fourth
Day Of July" is used, and there are numerous brief reprises of "Greenhorns"
used as transitions)
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*Rhythm
Ranch (Fred Stark/Hal Hackady*) - 1989 - Liz LArsen (Babe Blandish),
Christopher Durham (Sam Graybeal), Nora Mae Lyng (Brandy), Bob Cuccioli
(Tulsa del Rio), Ruth Williamson (Lucy Calhoun), Buddy Smith (Little Joey),
Bill Rowley (Cactus Hatch), Billy Padgett (Utah Beaudeen/Wa Hoo) U
NM
S
2CD
(Not bad spoof of Roy Rogers/Dale Evans 30s-era cowboy movie musicals;
Sound is mostly understandable, if a little fuzzy and occasionally blown
out by dancing - it must have been recorded through floor mics; By this
point in the run, "She Was One Of A Kind," "They Call Her Rosalita," "You're
Gonna Two-Time, One-Time Once Too Often," and "Ballad Of Silver Cloud"
had all been cut)
-
Sayonara
(George Fischoff/Hy Gilbert/William Luce) - 12/24/87 - Richard White (Major
Lloyd "Ace" Gruver), June Angela (Hana-ogi), Kevin Sweeney (Private Joe
Kelly), Miho (Katsumi), Colleen Fitzpatrick (Eileen Webster), Ako (Fumiko)
U
NM
(Includes much material that was later rewritten or removed; No song list;
Sometimes difficult to understand words)
-
The Student
Prince (Sigmund Romberg/Dorothy V. Donnelly + Forman Brown + Albert
Evans/Dorothy V. Donnelly + Jerome Chodorov + Robert Johanson) - 4/30/00
- Christiane Noll (Kathie), Brandon Jovanoviich (Prince Karl Franz), Jerome
Hines (Dr. Engel), Glory Crampton (Princess Margaret Augusta Theresa),
Robert Longo (Captain Tarnitz), Eddie Bracken (Old Josef), Benjamin Brecher
(Lucas), William Whitefield (Detleff), Steve Hogle (Von Asterberg), Charles
Goff (Herr Ruder) UM
(Uses a different version of the text from the JAY/TER recording and any
other productions/recordings; I can be audibly heard telling someone to
shut up (gimme a break, the person was talking), but it's between lines
of dialogue and nothing is missed)
-
Victor/Victoria
(Henry Mancini + Frank Wildhorn/Leslie Bricusse/Blake Edwards) - 12/1/00
- Judy McLane (Victoria Grant), Lee Roy Reamms (Caroll "Toddy" Todd), Robert
Cuccioli (King Marchan), Tara O'Brien (Norma Cassidy), Jody Ashworth (Squash),
Leisa Mather (Street Singer/Various) UM
(Primarily follows the version used for the tour with Toni Tennille, so
the unrecorded "Who Can I Tell" is at the end of Act I, "Crazy World" is
after "You And Me," and "Paris Makes Me Horny" is cut, but "Louis Says"
is at the top of Act II instead of the tour's "Attitude"; There is a bunch
of annoying audience noise during the Entr'Acte and "Louis Says")
-
Windy City
(Tony Macaulay/Dick Vosburgh*) - 1985 - Gary Sandy (Hildy Johnson), Ron
Holgate (Walter Burns), Judy Kaye (Mollie Molloy) R
UM
NM
S?
[1]
(INCOMPLETE:
Songs only, with selected dialogue; Great sound, although some minor noises
seem to indicate that it was an audience tape; Score heavily revised from
the London production: includes a different Overture and Entr'Acte, the
new (or cut from the OLC album) songs "Hold Page One" (replacing and incorporating
portions of "Hey, Hallelujah"), "He Never Even Touched Me" (which splits
up "Waltz For Mollie"), "Election Song" (Replaces "Saturday"), "Ten Years
From Now" (replacing and incorporating portions of "Long Night Again Tonight")
and a reprise, "A Born Reporter" (replacing "Nobody Walks Over Me"), "Times
We Had" (an extended version of the first part of "Saturday (Reprise)"),
"Natalie" (which uses the same music and many of the same lyrics as as
"Saturday (Reprise)" and capitalizes on the renaming of Amanda Green as
Natalie) and a reprise, "The Day I Quit This Rag" (an extended version
of the first part of "Windy City"), and "Finaletto" (a brief Act I Finale
which uses bits of "Wait Till I Get You On Your Own" and "Windy City"),
along with reprises of "Windy City" and Round In Circles"; There's a slight
musical change to the chorus of "Round In Circles" and an additional section
(for Walter Burns) of "Bensinger's Poem"; There's also an instrumental-with-dialogue
sequence near in Act I (between the reprise of "Ten Years From Now" and
"Finaletto") that I don't think is on the Chicago tape)
Goodspeed
Opera House/Goodspeed-At-Chester (Norma Terris Theatre)
-
Arthur: The
Musical (Michael Skloff/Marta Kauffman & David Crane*) - 9/22/91
- Opera House: Gregg Edelman (Arthur Bach), Carolee Carmello (Linda Marolla),
Michael Allinson (Hobson), Jane Kean (Martha Bach), Jan Neuberger (Susan
Johnson) R U
NM
(INCOMPLETE:
Has almost all music (missing small bits of "The Date," "Champagne," and
"One More Day") but missing substantial dialogue - some between "Fun" and
"We'll Get Through This," all between "Love In Bergdorf Goodman" and "Okay/Really
Great Mood," some between "I Love A Romance" and "You Can't Have Everything,"
possibly some between "Magical Night" and "What I Never Knew," all between
"Can I Live Without The Man/Attilla's There/The Huns Are Marching Home"
and "A Job I Highly Recommend," all between "One More Day" and "We'll Get
Through This (reprise)," some between "Okay (reprise)" and "Fun (reprise)";
None of this stops the score from being fantastic, but I know there are
better tapes of the show, just I haven't come across any of this production)
-
Dear World
(Jerry Herman*/Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee + David Thompson) -
11/24/00 (Matinee) - Norma Terris: Sally Ann Howes (Countess Aurelia),
Guy Stroman (Sewerman), Diane J. Findlay (Constance), Kristin Carbone (Nina),
Georgia Engel (Gabrielle), Kirby Ward (The Prospector), Ben Sheaffer (Julian),
Richard Bell (President La Farge), Warren Kelley (President La Frec), Jeff
Talbott (President La France), Jon Vandertholen (Sergeant), Frank Moran
(Waiter) R UM
(Along with a revised book and much shrunken cast, includes three new (or
restored) songs - "A Sensible Woman," "Just A Little Bit More," and "It's
Really Rather Rugged To Be Rich" - with "One Person" cut and a new finale
(a reprise of "Tomorrow Morning"); Recorded in stereo; Wonderful work from
Howes, as usual)
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It's A Bird,
It's A Plane, It's Superman! (Charles Strouse/Lee Adams/David Newman
& Robert Benton) - 6/27/92 - Opera House: Gary Jackson (Superman/Clark
Kent), Jamie Ross (Max Mencken), Kay McClelland (Lois Lane), Jan Neuberger
(Sydney), Gabriel Barre (Dr. Abner Sedgwick), John Schiappa (Jim Morgan)
UM
NM
(Cast unsure - the person that I got the tape from was told that this has
"some different cast members"; Includes the new songs "Thanks To You" (in
place of "It's Super Nice"), "Nuts To You," and "It's Up To Me" (in place
of "I'm Not Finished Yet"), plus an unrecorded reprise of "Revenge"; Missing
a tiny bit of dance music during "Thanks To You" and a bit of dialogue
in Act II)
-
*Mrs.
McThing (Jacques Urbont/Michael Colby*) - 1984 - Norma Terris: Jeanne
Lehman (Mrs. Howard V. Larue III), Bobby Cavanaugh (Howay), Lynn Eldredge
(Evva Lewis/Mrs. McThing), Danyle Heffernan (Mimi), Deborah Dotson (Carrie),
Dennis Parlato (Virgil McGill), Tommy Hollis (Cheff Ellsworth), Ray Gill
(Poison Eddie Schellenbach), Gibby Brand (Stinker), Brian Worley (Nelson)
U
NM 2CD
(Generally lousy musical verion of the same-titled Mary Chase play, about
a rich woman who incurs the wrath of a witch; Not great sound, and impossible
to follow)
-
No, No, Nanette
(Vincent Youmans/Irving Caesar & Otto Harbach/Otto Harbach & Frank
Mandel + Burt Shevelove) - 8/25/99 - Opera House: Gerry Vichi, Marilyn
Cooper, Andrea Chamberlain (Nannette), Joel Carlton (Tom Trainor), Ellen
Harvey, Mark Martino, Margery Beddow
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On The 20th
Century (Cy Coleman/Betty Comden & Adolph Green*) - 6/16/99 (Matinee)
- Opera House: Mark Jacoby (Oscar Jaffee), DDonna English (Lily Garland),
Jan Neuberger (Letitia Primrose), Michael McCormick, Peter Van Wagner,
Tony Lawson (Bruce Granit) R UM
(Includes
"Max Jacobs," the second and third "I Have Written A Play" segments, and
various transitions, none of which have been recorded)
-
Paper Moon
(Larry
Grossman/Ellen Fitzhugh/Martin Casella) - 8/96 - Opera House: Mark Zimmerman
(Moses Pray), Joanna Pacitti (Addie Loggins), Julie Johnson (Miss Trixie
Delight) U NM
(Completely restructured and rewritten since Paper Mill (with five songs,
one tune, one title, and one lyricist remaining); Not as strong as
the Paper Mill version (although one of the new songs, "Who Belongs To
Who?," is great); The first couple of minutes of Act I, Side B (the flip
is after "I Do What I Can (With What I Got)") is quiet)
-
Summer Of
'42 (David Kirshenbaum*/Hunter Foster) - 8/19/00 (Matinee) - Norma
Terris: Ryan Driscoll (Hermie), Idina Menzel (Dorothy), Brett Tabisel (Oscy),
Jason Marcus (Benjie), Megan Walker (Miriam), Bill Kux (Mr. Sanders/Walter
Winchell), Celia Keenan-Bolger (Aggie), Jeanne Goodman (Gloria), Matt Farnsworth
(Pete/Singer) R U
(Highest
possible recommendation: really wonderful, with some magnificently gorgeous
music; Includes the cut song "Less Than Perfect" and some other material
which was slightly changed - this was before "Losing Track Of Time" was
moved to Act I and replaced in Act II by "Story So Far")
Helen
Hayes Performing Arts Center (Nyack, NY)
-
Company
(Stephen Sondheim*/George Furth) - 6/22/99 - Norm Lewis (Bobby),
Donna McKechnie (Joanne), Alix Korey (Amy) R
-
HONK!
(George Stiles/Anthony Drewe*) - 3/3/00 - Gerard Salvador (u/s Gavin Creel
- Ugly), Alison Fraser (Ida), Steven DeRosa,, Michael Mandell, Nancy Anderson,
Jill Geddes, Darin DePaul, Evalyn Baron (Slightly loud audience - there's
a young child crying loudly (don't ask me why) during "Warts And All")
-
Jesus Christ
Superstar (Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice*)- 12/27/98 - Billy Porter
(Jesus Christ), Emily Skinner (Mary Magdalene), Drew Sarich (Judas Iscariot)
-
Joseph and
the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice*) -
12/19/97 - Andrea McArdle (Narrator), John Sawyer (Joseph), Michael Berry
(Jacob/Potiphar/Pharaoh) NM [1]
(First seven minutes or so (up to partway through "Joseph's Coat), is horrible,
then gets much better; Includes BC/EFA speech by McArdle after curtain
call)
-
Mame (Jerry
Herman*/Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee) - 6/22/00 - Carole Lawrence
(Mame Dennis), Diane J. Findlay (Vera Charles) UM(So
unbelievably awful, I recorded running snide commentary - unfortunately
much of it is hard to hear/understand; Includes "The Fox Hunt" and several
unrecorded reprises, along with the "Open A Window" ballet)
American Tours
(Pre- and Post-Broadway)
-
1600 Pennsylvania
Avenue (Leonard Bernstein/Alan Jay Lerner*) - 2/24/76 (First Out-Of-Town
Preview) - World Premiere, Philadelphia: Ken Howard (The Presidents), Patricia
Routledge (The First Ladies), Gilbert Price (Lud), Emily Yancey (Seena)
R
UM
NM S (Great quality
for such an old tape; Includes a pre-show speech by Bernstein and a brief
break in the performance at a point where there's a technical problem;
The transition between the two tapes and the second act flip are both during
songs ("Monroviad (The Mark Of A Man)" and "Duet For One (First Lady Of
The Land, but nothing is missing; Includes craploads of material cut before
the Broadway opening)
-
Aida (Elton
John/Tim Rice/Linda Woolverton + David Henry Hwang & Robert Falls)
- 11/27/99 (Matinee) - Cadillac Palace Theattrre, Chicago: Heather Headley
(Aida), Adam Pascal (Radames), Sherie Renee Scott (Amneris), John Hickok
(Zoser), Damien Perkins (Mereb) UM NM
(Includes the lousy cut opening number "Our Nation Holds Sway," a much
better first act finale (reprising "Our Nation Holds Sway" and having Aida
sing a bit of "I Know The Truth"), a very different "Every Story Is A Love
Story," the original placement of "The Gods Love Nubia" (Act II, between
"Radames's Letter" and "How I Know You (Reprise)"), the original version
of "Elaborate Lives" (sung primarily by Aida), and a cut reprise of "Not
Me" (performed by Radames in counterpoint with the reprise of "Elaborate
Lives")
-
Annie 2: Miss
Hannigan's Revenge (Charles Strouse/Martin Charnin/Thomas Meehan) -
Various dates - Washington, DC (Mostly): Dorothy Loudon, Harve Presnell,
Danielle Findley, Raymond Thorne R S
U
NM
2CD
(Compilation: Disc one is a soundboard recording of most songs from DC,
with audience recordings of additional numbers mixed in; Disc two is a
compilation of composer demos, cut songs, alternate versions, et cetera;
Quality varies from excellent to could be better)
-
Carmelina
(Burton Lane/Alan Jay Lerner*) - 3/7/79 (Opening Night) - Kennedy Center,
Washington DC: Georgia Brown (Carmelina Campbell), Cesare Siepi (Vittorio),
Josie de Guzman (Gia Campbell), Grace Keagy (Rosa), John Michael King,
Gordon Ramsey, Howard Ross, Virginia Martin S
UM
NM
CD
(INCOMPLETE: Songs only with some dialogue; Includes numerous reprises
that didn't make the album, along with a wonderful nearly-seven-minute-long
Entr'Acte; Lyrics sometimes hard to understand; Nice underappreciated score)
-
Chess (Benny
Andersson & Bjorn Ulvaeus/Tim Rice/Richard Nelson + Robert Coe) - 1990
- National Tour, Venue Unknown: Carolee Carmmello (Florence Vassy), John
Herrera (Anatoly Sergievsky), Stephen Bogardus (Freddie Trumper), Barbara
Walsh (Svetlana Sergiveskya), David Hurst (Molokov), Gregory Jbara (Walter
Anderson), Ken Ard (The Arbiter) UM NM
(Includes "Freddie Goes Metal," which remains unrecorded; Missing some
dialogue after the Act I flip and the switch in tapes during Act II, then
missing part of "Endgame" at the flip in Act II)
-
Colette
(Harvey Schmidt/Tom Jones*) - 1982 - Auditorium Theatre, Denver: Diana
Rigg (Colette), John Reardon (Willy), Martin Vidnovic (Maurice), Marta
Eggerth (Sido), Robert Helpmann R S
UM
NM
(Later revised into Colette Collage; Includes the songs "There's
Another World" (the fantastic opening number), "Do Not Hold On" and its
reprise, "Semiramis," "Dream Of Egypt," "Music Hall Scandal," "Curiosity,"
"I Miss You (Reprise)," and "Madame Colette," none of which were in the
later version (or at least weren't on its recording))
-
Evita (Andrew
Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice*) - 1/30/99 - National Tour, NJPAC, Newark:
Natalie Toro (Eva Duarte Peron), Raul Esparza (Che Guevara), Raymond Jaramillo
McLeod (Juan Peron), Angela Covington (Peron's Mistress), Tom Flynn (Augustin
Magaldi)
-
Floyd Collins
(Adam Guettel/Adam Guettel + Tina Landau/Tina Landau) - 6/5/99 - Mini-tour,
Goodman Theatre, Chicago: Romain Frugé (Floyd Collins), Clarke Thorell
(Homer Collins), Kim Huber (Nellie Collins), Ann Allgood (Miss Jane Collins),
John Taylor (Lee Collins), Jacob Garrett White (Jewell Estes), Guy Adkins
(Skeets Miller), Marty Higginbottom (Bee Doyle) UM
NM
2CD
(Odd sound - sometimes nice and clear, other times extremely muffled; Includes
the songs "Where A Man Belongs" (which replaced "'Tween A Rock An' A Hard
Place" during the tour) and "Blue Eyes" (which just wasn't on the studio
recording), as well as some other unrecorded bits and incidental music)
-
Jekyll &
Hyde (Frank Wildhorn/Leslie Bricusse*) - 1999 - National Tour: Chuck
Wagner (Dr. Henry Jekyll/Mr. Edward Hyde), Sharon Brown (Lucy), Andrea
Rivette (Emma Carew) UM NM
(Missing part of "This Is The Moment" and all of Act II between "A New
Life" and the last reprise of "Facade"; Musically and structurally, much
closer to the Warlow concept album and the German production than the Broadway
version)
-
Lolita, My
Love (John Barry/Alan Jay Lerner*) - 1971 - Shubert Theatre, Boston:
John Neville (Humbert Humbert), Denise Nickerson (Lolita Haze), Dorothy
Loudon (Charlotte Haze), Leonard Frey (Clare Quilty) R
U
NM
S
(A
little quiet, but fine quality; My personal favorite Lerner work; Includes,
as bonus tracks, the three cut songs from the Philadelphia tape ("Mother
Needs A Boyfriend," "Have You Got What You Came With?," and "It's A Bad,
Bad World"), the original version of "Going, Going, Gone" from the same,
and five songs from the studio demo (vocal and instrumental versions of
"Lolita" and "The Broken Promise Land Of Fifteen" and a cheesy, discofied
version of "Going, Going, Gone" which cuts off near the end); Too bad the
show is probably pretty much lost forever)
-
*Love
Match (David Shire/Richard Maltby, Jr./Christian Hamilton) - 1970 -
Patricia Routledge (Queen Victoria), Laurence Guittard (Prince Albert)
U
NM
S
CD
[1]
(Lovely Maltby/Shire score, although the show closed on the road; Several
of the songs were later used in Starting Here, Starting Now)
-
Martin Guerre
(Claude-Michel
Schönberg/Alain Boublil & Stephen Clark*) - 1/27/00 (Opening Night)
- 5th Avenue Theatre, Seattle: Stephen R. Buuntrock (Arnaud du Thil), Erin
Dilly (Bertrande de Rols), Hugh Panaro (Martin Guere), Jose Llana (Guillaume),
Michael Arnold (Benoit) UM
NM
2CD
(Excellent
recording made from an MD master; One tiny skip during the reprise of "Live
With Somebody You Love")
-
Mary C. Brown
And The Hollywood Sign (Dory Previn) - 1972 - Shubert Theatre, Los
Angeles: Elizabeth Ashley (Mary C. Brown), Don Chastain, Philip Thomas
(Cully Surroga?), Sorrell Booke, Seth Allen, Delores Hall U
NM
S?
CD
[1]
(INCOMPLETE:
Songs only with some dialogue; About 73 minutes; Defies all rational description
- I think it's about a Hollywood starlet whoo joins a strange cult, gets
kicked out for singing a song about Jesus being a hermaphrodite, and then
leaps to her death off the "Hollywood" sign, but I'm not entirely sure;
Closed after three previews, and with very good reason; Probably a soundboard
tape)
-
Parade
(Jason Robert Brown*/Alfred Uhry) - 10/13/99 - 5th Avenue Theatre,
Seattle: David Pittu (Leo Frank), Andrea Burns (Lucille Frank), Randy Redd
(Britt Craig), Keith Byron Kirk (Jim Conley), Rick Hilsabeck (Governor
John Slaton), Donald Grody (Old Soldier/Judge Roan), Jeff Edgerton (Young
Soldier/Fiddlin' John/Various), Daniel Frank Kelley (Frankie Epps), Peter
Samuel (Hugh Dorsey), John Leslie Wolfe (Tom Watson), Adinah Alexander
(Mrs. Phagan), Kristen Bowden (Mary Phagan), Ray Aranha (Newt Lee) R
UM
NM
2CD
(Includes
all the material cut for the cast album: "Watson's Lullabye," "Somethin'
Ain't Right," "Newt Lee's Testimony," and various reprises and transitions,
as well as the new opening of Act II which replaced "It Goes On And On"
for the tour; Phenomenal recording - copied from the digital master)
-
The Producers
(Mel Brooks*/Mel Brooks & Thomas Meehan) - 2/3/01 (Fourth Preview)
- Cadillac Palace Theatre, Chicago: Nathan LLane (Max Bialystock), Matthew
Broderick (Leo Bloom), Gary Beach (Roger de Bris), Brad Oscar (Franz Liebkind),
Roger Bart (Carmen Ghia), Cady Huffman (Ulla), Eric Gunhus (Lead Tenor/Various)
UM
NM
<1G>
(Includes some material which didn't make it to New York and some which
did but didn't make the cast album - some reprises and dance/incidental
music)
-
Reuben, Reuben
-
10/55 - Shubert Theatre, Boston: Eddie Albert (Reuben), Evelyn Lear, Kaye
Ballard (The Countess) U NM
S
(Formerly the strangest musical I'd ever heard - mostly incomprehensible
- but then I heard Mary C. Brown And The Hollywood Sign; Missing
small parts along the way; Some lovely music, but mostly thoroughly bizarre)
-
Seussical
(Stephen Flaherty/Lynn Ahrens/Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty + Eric
Idle) - 9/1/00 (6th Preview) - Colonial Theatre, Boston: Kevin Chamberlin
(Horton The Elephant), David Shiner (The Cat In The Hat), Andrew Keenan-Bolger
(Jo-Jo), Janine LaManna (Gertrude McFuzz), Michele Pawk (Mayzie LaBird),
Sharon Wilkins (The Sour Kangaroo/Various), Stuart Zagnit (The Mayor Of
Whoville/Various), Alice Playten (Mrs. Mayor/The Lorax), Eddie Korbich
(The Once-Ler/Various), Erick Devine (General Genghis Kahn Schmitz/Various)
UM
2CD
(There is a second of static near the end of "All For You"; Includes bunches
of material that was changed/dropped during the Boston run or before New
York, among which is the long (13 freakin' minutes!) "Lorax" sequence;
Some talky kids show up on the tape, but aren't particularly intrusive)
-
Shogun (Paul
Chihara/John Driver*) - 1990 - Washington, DC: Peter Karrie (John
Blackthorne), June Angela (Mariko), Francis Ruivivar (Toranaga) U
NM
(Includes much material that was cut before Broadway, along with original
leading man Karrie; I defy you to follow the plot)
-
Titanic
(Maury Yeston*/Peter Stone) - 9/10/00 (Final Performance) - Seattle:
William Parry (Captain E.J. Smith), Marcus Chait (Frederick Barrett), Thom
Sesma (Thomas Andrews), Dale Sandish (Harold Bride), William Youmans (J.
Bruce Ismay), Melissa Bell (Kate McGowen/Various), Marc Jordan (Isidor
Straus/Various), Kay Walbye (Ida Straus/Various), Edward Conery (Henry
Etches), Timothy Fitz-Gerald (Frederick Fleet/Various), David Beditz (Edgar
Beane), Christa Justus (Alice Beane) UM NM
2CD
(Includes all of the same unrecorded material as the various Broadway recordings,
plus a lengthy curtain speech, presumably by Parry; Excellent quality,
from a digital master)
-
Woman Of The
Year (John Kander/Fred Ebb/Peter Stone) - Date Unknown - National Tour,
LA: Lauren Bacall (Tess Harding), Harry Guardino (Sam Craig) S
UM
NM
CD
[1]
(INCOMPLETE: Songs only with bits of dialogue; Contains tons of stuff different
from the cast album, including the added song "Open The Window, Sam,"
the song "The Two Of Us," which was cut from the OBC album, and completely
rewritten versions of the Overture, "Woman Of The Year," and the Finale
(now a reprise of the title song instead of "We're Gonna Work It Out");
Sound quality varies, but always very good)
-
Woman Of The
Year (John Kander/Fred Ebb/Peter Stone) - Date Unknown - National Tour:
Barbara Eden (Tess Harding), Don Chastain (Sam Craig) S
UM
NM
[1](INCOMPLETE: Eight songs only with bits
of dialogue; Contains some changed material)
Other
American Regional
-
*4
A.M. Boogie Blues (Jim Owen/Marsha Meyers*) - 1996? - Unreleased Chicago
Cast Album: Candace L. Johnson (Diana Keyes Martin), Gaye Lynn Scott (Boogie
Mae/Bag Lady/Charlene), Charlie Clark (Boogie Fred/Bryce/Josh/Jeffrey),
Pamela S. Fox (Boogie Taffy/Little Di/Cat), Neda Spears (Boogie Linda/Mom/Mrs.
Kraftowitz), Tom Janson (Boogie Hal/Pastor/Gary) U
NM
S
[1]
(Not terrible, but the songs are all a capella, which can get kinda grating
after a while; About 55 minutes; Copied from an original tape of the album)
-
Arthur: The
Musical (Michael Skloff/Marta Kauffman & David Crane*) - 1992 -
Marriott Lincolnshire, Chicago, IL: Gene Weygandt (Arthur Bach), Kathy
Santen (Linda Marolla), William Brown, John Cooke, Jessica Frankel (Martha
Bach) R U NM
S
(Missing a bit of dialogue after "I Love A Romance" and the beginning of
"The Memory Of Tonight (reprise)"; Excellent sound; the lyrics of "Fun"
are very different from any other recordings after the first verse)
-
Babes In Arms
(Richard Rodgers/Lorenz Hart/Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart)
- 5/21/00 - Ovations!, Chicago, IL: Sttephen R. Buntrock (Valentine
LaMar), Alice Ripley (Billie Smith), Jeff Dumas (Gus Fielding), Rachel
Rockwell (Dolores Reynolds), Melissa Rain Anderson (Baby Rose), George
Wendt(! - Sheriff Reynolds) NM <1G>
(Missing
a bit of dialogue after "Way Out West"; Chicago's equivalent of Encores!;
Will be sent on one 120 minute tape)
-
The
Ballad Of Little Jo (Mike Reid/Sarah Schlesinger*) - 10/8/00 - Steppenwolf
Theatre, Chicago: Judy Kuhn (Jo Monaghan), David New (Jordan Ellis), Jessica
Boevers (Sarah Stewart Ellis), Jose Llana (Tin Man Wong) U
NM
<1G>
(Okay
sound - much hiss, but songs and most dialogue are very easy to understand;
Missing tiny bits of dilaogue at the flips)
-
Ballroom
(Billy
Goldenberg/Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman/Jerome Kass) - Date Unknown
- Stock/Tour, Location Unknown: Dorothy Colllins (Bea Asher) NM
S?
[1]
(INCOMPLETE: Collins's songs (10 songs) only with some dialogue; About
35 minutes; Possibly sound system; Other cast members unknown)
-
Ballroom
(Billy
Goldenberg/Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman/Jerome Kass) - Date Unknown
- Pre-Broadway quasi-workshop, Stratford Fesstival, Stratford, CT: Dorothy
Loudon (Bea Asher) NM
[1]
(INCOMPLETE: Three songs only, two of them cut; Very short; Only includes
"Who Gave You Permission?," "The Job Application," and "Fifty Percent";
Followed by a four-song mix of random studio recordings - Ann Hampton Callaway
singing "Fifty Percent," Linzi Hately singing "Carrie" and "Sooner Or Later,"
and Barbara Cook performing "I'm Late")
-
Bat
Boy: The Musical (*Laurence O'Keefe/Keythe Farley & Brian Flemming)
- 1999 - Actors' Gang, Los Angeles, CA: Deveen May (Bat Boy), Kaitlin Hopkins
(Meredith) U NM
S
[1]
(INCOMPLETE: Songs only (possibly missing some) with a bit of dialogue;
56 minutes; Actually quite good; Complete cast unknown; Includes the cut
song "Let It Be Me")
-
Bells Are
Ringing (Jule Styne/Betty Comden & Adolph Green*) - 5/99 - Reprise!,
Freud Playhouse, Los Angeles, CA: Carolee Carmello (Ella Peterson), Stephen
Bogardus (Jeff Moss), Gary Beach (Sandor), Brooks Almy (Sue), David Engel
(Carl) UM? NM
(INCOMPLETE: Songs only; Missing the Entr'Acte; May include unrecorded
material, but I'm not particularly familiar with the OBC album or film
soundtrack)
-
*Brownstone
(Peter Larson & Josh Rubins/Josh Rubins & Andrew Cadiff*) - 1/26/01
- Allegro Productions, Parsippany Playhouse,, Pasippany, NJ: Jennifer Sammartino
(Claudia), Heather Suffin (Joan), Lou Steele (Stuart), Russell M. Maitland
(Howard), Gwendolyn Spencer (Mary) U
2CD
(Nice semi-professional
production of rarely-seen but great show; A tiny bit of clipping on a few
very loud moments)
-
Camelot
(Fredrick Loewe/Alan Jay Lerner*) - 6/6/98 - Santa Barbara, CA: James Barbour
(Lancelot), Mark Capri (King Arthur), Glory Crampton (Guenevere), Chad
Borden (Mordred) NM
[1]
(INCOMPLETE: Around 58 minutes of highlights, containing "C'est Moi," "The
Lusty Month Of May," "How To Handle A Woman," "Before I Gaze At You Again,"
"If Ever I Would Leave You," "The Seven Deadly Virtues," "What Do The Simple
Folk Do," "I Loved You Once In Silence," and some dialogue; Okay sound
(clear, but quite a bit of hiss and some strange noises); Followed by 11
minutes from the Hartford Stage Fascinating Rhythm (5/28/97, all
Gershwin music, with Barbour), with three songs and part of a fourth)
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Cather County
(Ed Dixon) - 2/98 - Dallas Lyric Stage, Dallas, TX: Steve Barcus (Jay Ellington
Harper), Greg Dulcie (Canute/Bohemian), Gaitley Matthews (Allen Poole),
Dara Whitehead (Nellie Bly), Randy Tallman (Yenson/Preacher/Bohemian),
Sally Soldo (Mary Yenson/Bohemian), Lori Evanson (Lena Yenson), Diane Guthrie
(Madame Tradutorri), Candace Evans (Jessica), Pamela Doherty (Tommy)
R
U
NM
S
[1]
(Great
soundboard; Missing the last minute or so of Act I; Amazingly gorgeous
score, although the show seems to be somewhat hard to follow without either
seeing it or knowing the various Willa Cather short stories that it's based
on; No full songlist; Dixon recorded two songs from this ("Out Here In
The Woods" and "I Built This House For You") on his solo album)
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Chess (Benny
Andersson & Bjorn Ulvaeus/Tim Rice*) - 9/7/99 - Alliance Theatre, Atlanta,
GA: Brian D'Arcy James (Anatoly Sergievsky), Kim Huber (Florence Vassy),
Sean McDermott (Freddie Trumper), Rebekah Baty (Svetlana Sergiveskya),
Charles Pistone (Molokov), LaParee Young (Walter Anderson), Fernand Roderick
(The Arbiter) R UM
NM
(Includes "Smile, You Got Your First Exclusive Story," "Reporters," "Freddie
Goes Metal," and "Let's Work Together," which languish unrecorded; Missing
some dialogue after each flip; Very well performed)
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*Deconstructing
Mary (Various*/Mary Testa & Scott Griffin) - 7/22/01 Evening (Final
Performance) - White Barn Theatre, Westport, CT: Mary Testa R
UM
CD
[1]
(Testa's insane, bizarre, marvelous solo piece; Includes songs by writers
from the Gershwins, Bacharach and David, and Michael John LaChiusa to Jimi
Hendrix, Prince, and Björk; In stereo; Includes a preshow speech by
General Manager Vincent Curcio)
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*Eliot
Ness In Cleveland (Robert Lindsey Nassif*/Peter Ullian) - 1998 - Denver
Center Theatre: Peter Samuel (Eliot Ness), Alice Vienneau (Hildy Lincoln),
Terence Goodman (Al Capone), William Parry (Thurgood Stoneham) U
NM
S
CD
[1]
(INCOMPLETE: Songs only with a little dialogue; Some great songs, although
the music is often inappropriate for the setting; Includes a bunch of cut
songs; Most the reprise of "Whatever Happened To Organized Crime?" is missing)
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Enter The
Guardsman (Craig Bohmler/Marion Adler/Scott Wentworth) - 9/12/99
- New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, Kirby Theeatre, Drew University, NJ:
Robert Cuccioli (The Actor), Dana Reeve (The Actress), Mark Jacoby (The
Playwright), Derin Altay (The Dresser) R U
(Wonderful show - Highly recommended; Also have a CD
with songs and selected dialogue; Some lines are obscured by laughter)
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Evita
(Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice*) - 7/24/86 - Blackfriars Summer Theatre,
Providence College, Providence, RI: Liz Callaway (Eva Duarte Peron), Dan
Foster (Che Guevara), Carl DeSimone (Juan Peron), Julie Marrinucci (Peron's
Mistress), Timothy Ray (Augustin Magaldi) (A rather painful listening experience,
if you ask me - besides Callaway and Foster, who are both good, the cast
isn't that great, and the small band seems to spend a good portion of the
show out of tune)
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The Fields
Of Ambrosia (Martin Silvestri/Joel Higgins*) - 1996 - George Street
Playhouse, New Brunswick, NJ: Joel Higgins (Jonas Candide), Christine Andreas
(Gretchen Herzallerliebst), Eddie Korbich (Jimmy) R
UM
NM
(Excellent show with magnificent unappreciated score - HIGHLY recommended;
Includes lots of material that didn't make it onto the London cast album
(the show is sung through), along with a much shorter "Ball And Chain,"
some different lyrics in "Reasonable Man," and a different tune in the
chorus of "All In This Together")
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The Full Monty
(David Yazbek*/Terrence McNally) - 6/4/00 - Old Globe Theatre, San Diego,
CA: Patrick Wilson (Jerry Lukowski), John Ellison Conlee (Dave Bukatinsky),
Kathleen Freeman (Jeanette Burmeister), Andre DeShields (Noah T. "Horse"
Simmons), Jason Daniely (Malcolm MacGregor), Emily Skinner (Vicki Nichols),
Annie Golden (Georgie Bukatinsky), Romain Frugé (Ethan Girard),
Marcus Neville (Harold Nichols) UM (Includes
the cut songs "Red Camaro" (replaced by "Man"), "The Ship Sailed On," and
"Let's Just Dance" (replaced by "Life With Harold"), along a cut verse
of "Scrap" for Harold; Missing the beginning of "Let's Just Dance" and
a bit of dialogue before at, as well as a bit of dialogue before the reprise
of "You Rule My World," both at the flips)
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The Gig
(Douglas J. Cohen) - Date Unknown (Mid-90s) - Location Unknown (possibly
Goodspeed-At-Chester): William Parry (Marty), James Judy (Jack), Charles
Pistone (Gil), Michael McCormick (Arthur), David Brummell (Georgie), Stuart
Zagnit (Aaron), Don Mayo (Marshall), Stephen Berger (Abe Mitgang), Steve
Routman (Vince Amato), Donna English (Lucy), Ilene Kristen (Ricki Valentine),
Alison Bevan (Donna) R UM
NM
[1]
(INCOMPLETE: Songs only with some dialogue; Great score; Pretty good sound)
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Godspell
(Stephen Schwartz/Traditional + Stephen Schwartz/John-Michael Tebelak)
- 11/9/96 - Los Angeles, CA: James Barbour ((Jesus), Eydie Allyson, Kevin
Bailey, Julianne Grossman, Susan Jordan, Ron Kellum, Cleo King, Gerry McIntyre,
Michael Paternostro, Laura Soltis NM
(James (along with the rest of the cast) sounds marvelous, but this show
still does nothing for me; Missing a tiny bit of "All Good Gifts" at the
Act I flip and some patches of dialogue (mostly in Act II) because the
original tape recorder was voice activated)
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*Golden
Boy (Charles Strouse/Lee Adams + Charles Strouse/Clifford Odets + William
Gibson + Keith Glover) - 11/10/00 - Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, CT -
Rodney Hicks (Joe Bonaparte), Michael Rupert (Tom Moody), Nana Visitor
(Lorna Moon), Doug Eskew (Mr. Bonaparte), Frank Mastrone (Tokio), Peter
Jay Fernandez (Eddie Sateen), Milton Craig Nealy (Ronnie Jefferson), David
St. Louis (Frank Lane), Harriet D. Foy (Annie Bonaparte Jefferson) R
UM2CD
NM
(See entry below for a full description of the changes made for this production
- this recording, however, includes some droopped dialogue and has better
sound)
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Golden Boy
(Charles Strouse/Lee Adams + Charles Strouse/Clifford Odets + William Gibson
+ Keith Glover) - 11/25/00 - Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven, CT - Rodney
Hicks (Joe Bonaparte), Michael Rupert (Tom Moody), Nana Visitor (Lorna
Moon), Doug Eskew (Mr. Bonaparte), Frank Mastrone (Tokio), Peter Jay Fernandez
(Eddie Sateen), Milton Craig Nealy (Ronnie Jefferson), David St. Louis
(Frank Lane), Harriet D. Foy (Annie Bonaparte Jefferson) UM
(Includes a heavily revised book and score, with 13 unrecorded songs (The
new "Workout Song," "Playing The Game," "Natural African Man," "Butterfly"
and its reprise, "Yes, Yes, Yes," "Everybody's Got A Price," "What Am I
Gonna Do Without You?," and "One More Chance," plus the restored "The Road
Tour," "Yes, I Can," and "He's A Jolly Good Fellow" and a reprise of "Stick
Around" for Joe and Tom), along with heavily revised versions of four songs
("Gimme Some," "Don't Forget 127th Street," "Colorful," and "No More");
There's some minor clipping because the show was so disgustingly overmiked
(little enough to be mostly unintrusive, enough to be annoying); There's
a momentary, almost unnoticeable skip during "Yes, I Can"; Excellent work
from Hicks, Rupert, and Eskew)
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Guys and Dolls
(Frank Loesser*/Jo Swerling & Abe Burrows)- 12/22/99 - Arena Stage,
Washington, DC: Maurice Hines (Nathan Detroit), Brian Sutherland (Sky Masterson),
Diane Sutherland (Sarah Brown), Alexandra Foucard (Adelaide), Wayne W.
Pretlow (Nicely-Nicely Johnson) Terrence Currier (Arvide)
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Halloween
(Mitch Leigh/Sidney Michaels*) - 1972 - Florida State University Theatre:
Jose Ferrer (Charley Beddoes), Dick Shawn (Jerome Lieberwitz), Barbara
Cook (Victoria Bascombe) U S
NM
(INCOMPLETE: Songs only with some dialogue; For Barbara Cook nuts and masochists
only - this show sucks with a capital S-U-C-K-S; There are three numbers
on the songlist (the Overture, "Nothing I've Ever Read," and "Come To These
Holy Arms") that were either not recorded or were cut by the time of the
recording)
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Harmony
(Barry Manilow/Bruce Sussman*) - 11/30/97 (Final Matinee) - La Jolla Playhouse,
La Jolla, CA: Danny Burstein (Rabbi), Steven Goldstein (Erich), Patrick
Wilson (Chopin), Rebecca Luker (Mary), Janet Metz (Ruth), Thom Christopher
Warren (Harry), James Clow (Bobby), Mark Chmiel (Lesh), Thursday Farrar
(Josephine Baker), Jodi Stevens (Marlene Dietrich) R
U
NM
(Surprisingly strong score - sounds nothing like Manilow's usual work;
About the Comedian Harmonists, but a hell of a lot better than Band
In Berlin; Missing bits of dialogue at the flips; Sound is slightly
fuzzy after the Act II flip until a bit into "Threnody"; Includes a BC/EFA
speech at the curtain call)
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The Hidden
Sky (Peter Foley*/Kate Chisholm) - 3/18/00 - Prince Music Theatre,
Philadelphia, PA: Ana Maria Andricain (Ganil Kalson), Cesar Samayoa (Mede),
Kenneth Cavett (Lee/Various), Phyllis Bash (Yin) U
NM
2CD
(Slightly muffled, but generally clear; Interesting score, but difficult
plot (based on an Ursula K. LeGuin short story); Copied from a digital
master)
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The House
Of Martin Guerre (Leslie Arden*/Leslie Arden & Anna Theresa Cascio)
- 1996 - Goodman Theatre, Chicago, IL: Anthoony Crivello (Arnaud du Tilh),
Julain Molnar (Bertrande de Rols), Kevin Gudahl (Pierre Guerre), Hollis
Resnik (Bernarde de Rols), Frances Limoncelli (Catherine) U
NM
(Nice score, but sometimes difficult to understand lyrics)
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Into The Woods
(Stephen Sondheim*/James Lapine) - 12/15/00 - Ordway Music Theatre, St.
Paul, MN: Brian D'Arcy James (The Baker), Leah Hocking (The Baker's Wife),
Liz McCartney (The Witch), Daniel Frank Kelly (Jack), Patricia Ben Peterson
(Cinderella), Pat Harrington (The Narrator), Christopher Carl (One of the
princes), Tracey Katz Palladini (Little Red Riding Hood) UM
2CD
NM
(Great digital sound; Includes a couple of small bits that have not, to
my knowledge, been recorded; Uses "Our Little World"; Full cast forthcoming)
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Jane Eyre
(Paul Gordon/Paul Gordon + John Caird/John Caird) - 1999 - La Jolla Playhouse,
La Jolla, CA: Marla Schaffel (Jane Eyre), James Barbour (Edward Rochester),
Mary Stout (Mrs. Fairfax) UM NM
(Excellent sound from a digital master; Includes lots of unrecorded and/or
cut material, since the show is pretty much through-sung; Some dialogue
has been cut from the recording)
-
*The
Last Five Years (Jason Robert Brown) - 6/29/01 - Northlight Theatre,
Skokie, IL: Norbert Leo Butz (Jamie), Lauren Kennedy (Kathleen) R
U
CD
(Exceptional piece, exceptionally performed; Slightly harsh sound)
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A Little Night
Music (Stephen Sondheim*/Hugh Wheeler) - 9/23/00 Evening - North Shore
Music Theatre, Beverly, MA: Jeff McCarthy (Fredrik Egerman), Donna McKechnie
(Desirée Armfeldt), Chuck Wagner (Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm), Angela
Gaynor (Anne Egerman), Diana Canova (Countess Charlotte Malcolm), Merle
Louise (Madame Armfeldt), Adam Monley (Henrik Egerman), Julia Haubner (Petra),
Natasha Ashworth (Fredrika Armfeldt) UM 2CD
NM
(Includes some unrecorded reprises and incidental music; From a digital
master; Sound is occaisonally very slightly muffled, and there's a strange
(but unintrusive) clicking noise briefly during parts of Act II; Wonderful
work from McCarthy and Wagner)
-
*Lovers
And Friends (Chautauqua Variations) (Michael John LaChiusa) - 6/29/01
(First Performance) - Chicago Lyric Opera, DePaul Merle Reskin Theatre,
Chicago, IL: Robert Orth (Babbitt Cross), Stacey Tappan (Isis Cross), Melina
Pyron (Lucy Cross), Hollis Resnik (Betsy Laughlin), Michael Sommese (Senator
Michael Laughlin), Christopher Dickerson (Nimrod Baruch), Philip Torre
(Edgar Montoya), Dina Kuznetsova (B.E.) R
U
3CD
NM
(Slightly better sound than my master recording (below), but quieter)
-
*Lovers
And Friends (Chautauqua Variations) (Michael John LaChiusa) - 6/30/01
(Final Performance) - Chicago Lyric Opera, DePaul Merle Reskin Theatre,
Chicago, IL: Robert Orth (Babbitt Cross), Stacey Tappan (Isis Cross), Melina
Pyron (Lucy Cross), Hollis Resnik (Betsy Laughlin), Michael Sommese (Senator
Michael Laughlin), Christopher Dickerson (Nimrod Baruch), Philip Torre
(Edgar Montoya), Dina Kuznetsova (B.E.) R
U
2CD
(A fascinating opera/musical, with a gorgeous score, although the plot
is a little hard to follow; The singers weren't miked and are sometimes
overwhelmed by the orchestra)
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Mack and Mabel
(Jerry Herman*/Michael Stewart + Francine Pascal) - 7/18/99 (Closing Performance)
- Barrington Stage Company, Sheffield, MA: JJeff McCarthy (Mack Sennett),
Kelli Rabke (Mabel Normand), Kathryn Kendall (Lottie), Will Erat (Frank)
NM
<1G>
(Distortion
during loud parts, but totally listenable)
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Mail (Michael
Rupert + Brian (Stokes) Mitchell/Jerry Colker*) - 1988 - Pasadena Playhouse,
Pasadena, CA: Michael Rupert (Alex Berkowitz), Mara Getz (Dana Kass), Antonia
Ellis (Sandi), Brian (Stokes) Mitchell (Franklin), Robert Mandan (Max Berkowitz),
Mary Bond Davis (Various) U
NM
(Nice rock-based score, but makes very little sense without knowing the
plot or concept: a man comes back to his apartment after four months of
"finding himself" and has to deal with the backed-up mail (really, it's
better than it sounds); Sound is pretty good - there's some noise,
though, and the first couple of minutes of the second side of each tape
isn't spectacular; Cast unverified, but I'm assuming it's the same
as that of the Broadway production; Includes some material that was
changed for the Broadway engagement (or at least the current performance
script), most noticeably a lot of rearranged dialogue, "Monolithic Madness"
without any dialogue before or during it, a different "Hit The Ground Runnin'"
(a solo for Dana right after Alex leaves), a different duet for Alex and
Dana right after he comes back (built on what is now the bridge of "Hit
The Ground Runnin'"), some different lyrics for "It's None Of My Business"
(here titled "By The Same Token"), no "You Better Get Out Of Town," a rather
different "One Step At A Time" that uses more of "Ambivalent Rag," and
"Crazy World" is only at the end, so there's nothing in its place in Act
I and something else in place of the reprises of it and "A Blank Piece
Of Paper" near the end)
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Martin Guerre
(Roger Ames/Laura Harrington) - 1993 - Hartford Stage, Hartford, CT: Judy
Kuhn (Mireille de Rols), Patrick Cassidy (Arnaud du Tilh), Malcolm Gets
(Martin Guerre), Beth Fowler, Cris Groenendaal U
NM
[1]
(INCOMPLETE: Songs only (probably incomplete in that respect, as well)
with almost no dialogue - under 50 minutes; Perhaps the biggest anticlimax
I've run across in my trading career - I had this on the top of my want
list, then I finally get it and it stinks; Some interesting music, I suppose,
but the lyrics are lousy; Harrington and Ames have collaborated before
on operas, which should give you an idea of where their priorities lie;
Almost all of the dialogue has been eliminated from the tape, so unless
you're familiar with the story (and who isn't these days?), you'll be completely
lost - I am and I still can't figure out what's going on sometimes;
Even the sound isn't very good)
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Men (Jimmy
Roberts/Joe DiPietro*) - 11/26/00 - American Stage Company, Bergen Community
College, Paramus, NJ: Jordan Leeds (Tom Ambrose), Tom Zemon (Sebastian),
Marylee Graffeo (Lucy Ambrose), Andrea Chamberlain (Female Critic/Various),
Larry Raben (Male Critic/Various) (Very nice new musical from the authors
of I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change; Some sound is a little
screwy, but that's because the sound system in the theatre was awful and
I was sitting right in front of a speaker; Much stronger, more organic
score than I ever expected, with a couple of thoroughly excellent songs
("The Better Man Won," "Because," and "The Life Of My American Dream" top
the list))
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Moby Dick
(Doug Katsaros/Mark St. Germain*) - 9/96 - Ohio workshop/production: Kenneth
Kramer (Captain Ahab), Brandon Tate (Pip), Doug Katsaros (Starbuck), Mark
Heffernan (Ishmael), Christopher Gales (Queequeg), John Popa (Elijah),
Richard D. Reahm (Father Mapple), Roger Smith (Fedallah), Michael O'Brien
(Stubb), Greg Emanuelson (Bildad/Captain Boomer), Brian K. Fetty (Dr. Bunger/Captain
Gardener), Robert Parenti (Carpenter), Jack Frient (Peleg) U
S
NM
<2G?>
(Superb sound, aside from a few barely noticeable skips; Cast (Katsaros
aside) is unknowns, but generally very good (although Tate is pretty grating);
Very strong score; An earlier version was presented at the York in the
mid-80s, and a revised version is now intended for Broadway; Will be sent
on one 120-minute tape)
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Nicolette
And Aucassin (David Friedman/Peter Kellogg*) - 9/9/00 (Final Matinee)
- Westport Country Playhouse, Westport, CT: Jeremy Webb (Aucassin), Darlesia
Cearcy (Nicolette), Bronson Pinchot (Valere), Bill Buell (Count de Beauclaire),
Chuck Cooper (King Mostansir), Nancy Anderson (Gwendolyn), Richard White
(Count de Valence), James Judy (Lord Montescu), Jennifer Allen (Nun) U
2CD
(Sound is very good because I was right in front of a speaker; Amusing,
although the dialogue is all written in rhyme and starts to grate after
a while)
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Night Governess
(Polly Pen) - 5/21/00 (Final Matinee) - McCarter Theatre, Princeton, NJ:
Judith Blazer, John Jellison, Robert Sella, Danny Gurwin, Erin Hill, Mary
Stout, Alma Cuervo, Danielle Ferland U NM
<1G>
(Missing small parts of songs at flips; Sound is okay; Songlist allegedly
forthcoming)
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Once Around
The City (Robert Reale/Willie Reale*) - 6/98 - New York Stage And Film
at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY - Powerhouse Theatre: Jonathan Dokuchitz
(David), Jane Bodle (Gwen), David Margulies (Lorenzo/Charlie), Elizabeth
Jane Zins (Elizabeth), Michael Potts (Rudy), Joe Grifasi (Mario), Peter
Jay Fernandez (Luis), John Sloman (John), Michael A. Shepperd (Bill), Reed
Birney (Hank) R U
NM
<1G>
[1]
(INCOMPLETE: Songs only with some dialogue; Includes 11 songs not on the
demo (22 total); Nice, jazzy score with some really strong parts (the fantastic
"Nobody Can Touch Me" and a very funny eleven-o'clocker entitled "Bad Guys
From Toledo" come to mind); Includes the song "No More Mr. Nice Guy," which
was added late in the run, and the overture and the songs "Best Of All,
You" and "Hot In Here," which were cut before New York; Too bad the person
didn't tape the whole show (*glare in his direction*), because the dialogue
was great)
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Pippin!
Pippin! (Stephen Schwartz*/Ron Strauss) - 1967 Carnegie Mellon University
cast album S U
NM
CD
[1]
(Completely different score from Pippin, and I don't believe that
any of this music has shown up in any other Schwartz works; About 54 minutes)
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Promises,
Promises (Burt Bacharach/Hal David/Neil Simon) - 2/4/01 - Ovations!,
Chicago, IL: Jason Graae (Chuck Baxter), Susan Moniz (Fran Kubelik), George
Hearn (J.D. Sheldrake), Rosalyn Rahn Kerins (Marge MacDougall), Dick Latessa
(Dr. Dreyfuss), Catherine Lord (Peggy Olsen) UM
NM
<1G>
(Not bad sound; Follows a condensation of the Encores! text, so includes
the new (although, by now, four years old) song "You've Got It All Wrong")
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Queen Of The
Stardust Ballroom (Billy Goldenberg/Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman/Jerome
Kass) - 1992 - Long Beach CLO, Terrace Theatre, Long Beach, CA: Tyne Daly
(Bea Asher), Charles Durning (Al O'Hara), Claiborne Cary (Angie), Eileen
Barnett (Diane), Richard Romanus (Vince U
NM
(Heavily
revised version of Ballroom that keeps only eight songs from the
original ("A Terrific Band And A Real Nice Crowd," "A Song For Dancin',"
"Dreams," "Somebody Did Alright For Herself," "Goodnight Is Not Goodbye,"
"Dreams (Reprise)," "Fifty Percent," and "I Love To Dance") and inserts
14 that are either new or cut from the original (Including the great cut
songs "Who Gave You Permission?" and "The Job Application"); Daly fluctuates
between great and awful (the end of "Fifty Percent" is painful), Durning
can't sing; The show was sent to me on two 60s - the flips are during "A
Terrific Band And A Real Nice Crowd" in Act I and during some instrumental
music in Act II, but nothing is missing)
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The Rhythm
Club (Matt Sklar/Chad Beguelin*) - 9/5/00 (First Preview) - Signature
Theatre, Arlington, VA: Jeremy Kushnier (Jake Beck), Lauren Kennedy (Petra
Wolff), Tim Martin Gleason (Adam Gernstein), Megan Lawrence (Greta Hauser),
Barbara Walsh (Miriam Gernstein), Florence Lacey (Anna Wolff), Larry Cahn
(John Gernstein), Kirk McDonald (Samuel Krause), Kevin Kern (Thomas Berndt),
Buzz Mauro (Gustav Herbert), Jonathan Hogan (Herr Kroger), Marsh Hanson
(Jimmy Kingston) R U
(Highest possible recommendation - amazing show; Includes some material
which has apparently been changed along the way)
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Romeo and
Juliet (Terrence Mann & Jerome Korman/William Shakespeare + Terrence
Mann*) - 9/4/99 - Ordway Music Theatre, St. Paul, MN: Patrick Wilson (Romeo),
Irene Molloy (Juliet) U NM<2G>
(Sound
occasionally cuts out for a few seconds at a time, but almost never during
music)
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Roza (Gilbert
Becaud/Julian More*) - Date Unknown (1987, presumably) - Mark Taper Forum,
Los Angeles, CA: Georgia Brown (Roza), Bob Gunton (Lola), Max Loving, Alex
Paez, Al DeCristo, Marcia Lewis U NM
S
(Includes
the cut songs "Don't Even Think About Tomorrow" and "Go Death"; Sound is
slightly fuzzy at times)
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Side Show
(Henry
Krieger/Bill Russell*) - 2/27/99 - Boston Conservatory, Emerson Majestic
Theatre, Boston, MA UM
[1]
(INCOMPLETE: Only Act I)
-
Side Show
(Henry
Krieger/Bill Russell*) - 6/14/99 - Signature Theatre, Arlington, VA: Sherri
Edelen (Violet Hilton), Amy Goldberger (Daisy Hilton), Matt Bogart (Terry
Connor), P.J. Simmons (u/s Will Gartshore - Buddy Foster - First/Only Performance),
Eric Jordan Young (Jake), Michael Sharp (The Boss) UM
(A few lines are lost to the lack of miking; This production cut the Dance
Of The Freaks and the second part of "Beautiful Day For A Wedding")
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*The
Spitfire Grill (James Valcq/James Valcq & Fred Alley/Fred Alley)
- 2000 - George Street Playhouse, New Brunswwick, NJ: Garrett Long (Percy
Talbott), Beth Fowler (Hannah Ferguson), Janet Metz (Shelby Goddard), Anton
Schultz (Caleb Goddard), Susan Mansur (Effy Krayneck) U
NM
S
CD
[1]
(INCOMPLETE: Songs only with some dialogue; Includes the cut songs "Winter
Sequence" (replaced by "Ice And Snow") and "Are You Out There?" (replaced
by "Forgotten Lullaby"), along with dropped segments of "This Wide Woods,"
"Shoot The Moon," "Come Alive Again/Dear Mrs. Ferguson," and "Way Back
Home"; Missing the very ends of "Something's Cookin' At The Spitfire Grill"
and "Digging Stone," as well as all of "Wild Bird," although the cut from
the demo (of better quality than the actual copy of the demo that I have)
is in its place; Sounds like Steven Pasquale as Joe Sutter, but I have
no confirmation of that)
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Svengali (Frank
Wildhorn/Gregory Boyd*) - 1991(?) - Alley Theatre, Houston, TX: Chuck Wagner
(Svengali), Linda Eder (Trilby), Jason Workman (Billie), Philip Hoffman
(Gecko) U NM
2CD
(Okay
quality; Wildhorn's best overall score; Complete cast and songlist unknown)
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Time and Again
(Walter Edgar Kennon*/Jack Viertel) - 1996 - Old Globe Theatre, San Diego,
CA: Howard McGillin (Si Morley), Rebecca Luker (Julia Charbonneau), Jessica
Molaskey (Kate Mancuso/Mrs. Carmody), John Carpenter (Dr. Danziger), William
Parry (Jake Pickering/Ruben Prien), Joseph Kolinski (Trolleyman/Various),
Danny Burstein (Frank/Felix), KT Sullivan (Joyce/Apple Mary) U
NM
(Parts of the first song are missing (and some material may be missing
before it); There's heavy static during the first song, about a half-hour
in, and over most of Act II, Side B (after "Time And Time Again"); Lovely
score, but some major text problems: if you haven't read the book, you'll
be completely lost (I have, and have trouble following the plot anyway);
Includes a whole lot of material that was changed during the run as well
as large portions that were cut or changed before the New York run)
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What The World
Needs Now (Burt Bacharach/Hal David/Kenny Solms & Gillian Lynne)
- 4/26/98 - Old Globe Theatre, San Diego, CAA: Lewis Cleale (Alfie), Sutton
Foster (Jennifer), John Bolton (Arnie), Paula Newsome (Liz) NM
(Amusingly
misguided attempt to create a narrative musical around Bacharach and David
songs (something that I'm sure could be done, but wasn't by Solms and Lynne);
Very well sung, although unfulfilling in that many songs appear in the
score very briefly as fragments; Parts of "Paper Maché" and "Alfie
(Reprise)" are missing because of the flips in Acts I and II respectively)
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Windy City
(Tony Macaulay/Dick Vosburgh*) - 1984 - Marriot Lincolnshire, Chicago,
IL: Kurt Johns (Hildy Johnson), Ron Holgate (Walter Burns), Vanessa Shaw
(Mollie Molloy), Paula Scrofano (Natalie) R
UM
NM
S
(Great sound, although performers are somtimes overwhelmed by orchestra;
Score heavily revised from the London production: includes a different
Overture and Entr'Acte, the new (or cut from the OLC album) songs "Hold
Page One" (replacing and incorporating portions of "Hey, Hallelujah"),
"He Never Even Touched Me" (which splits up "Waltz For Mollie"), "Election
Song" (Replaces "Saturday"), "Ten Years From Now" (replacing and incorporating
portions of "Long Night Again Tonight") and a reprise, "A Born Reporter"
(replacing "Nobody Walks Over Me"), "Times We Had" (an extended version
of the first part of "Saturday (Reprise)"), "Natalie" (which uses the same
music and many of the same lyrics as as "Saturday (Reprise)" and capitalizes
on the renaming of Amanda Green as Natalie) and a reprise, "The Day I Quit
This Rag" (an extended version of the first part of "Windy City"), and
"Finaletto" (a brief Act I Finale which uses bits of "Wait Till I Get You
On Your Own" and "Windy City"), along with reprises of "Waltz For Mollie,"
"Windy City," and Round In Circles"; There's a slight musical change to
the chorus of "Round In Circles" and an additional section (for Walter
Burns) of "Bensinger's Poem"; There are strange momentary breaks where
the sound backtracks for a moment during "Times We Had," the finale, and
dialogue between "Waltz For Mollie (Reprise)" and "Windy City (Reprise)";
There's some dialogue missing at the flips (after "A Born Reporter" in
Act I and just before "Bensinger's Poem" in Act II)
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Working
(Various*/Stephen Schwartz & Nina Faso) - 3/7/99 - Long Wharf Theatre,
Hartford, CT: Alix Korey, Emily Skinner, Pamela Isaacs, Ken Prymus, John
Herrera, Ann Harada, Rex Robbins, Gavin DeGraw, Matthew Saldwar U
NM
[1]
(Original score was recorded but has yet to be released on CD; Includes
the new songs "Traffic Jam" and "I'm Just Movin'"; Drops the original production's
"Neat To Be A Newsboy," "Treasure Island Trio," "If I Could've Been," and
"Joe,"; Missing some dialogue along the way - may be incomplete)
London/Other
UK
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Assassins
(Stephen Sondheim*/John Weidman) - 1992 - OLC, Donmar Warehouse: Anthony
Barclay (The Balladeer), David Firth (John Wilkes Booth), Jack Ellis (Leon
Czolgosz), Henry Goodman (Charles Guiteau), Michael Cantwell (John Hinckley,
Jr.), Louise Gold (Sara Jane Moore), Paul Bentley (The Proprietor/Various),
Cathryn Bradshaw (Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme), Gareth Snook (Lee Harvey Oswald/Various),
Ciaran Hinds (Sam Byck) UM NM
[1]
(Includes the song "Something Just Broke" which was added for this production;
Missing a bit of "Unworthy Of Your Love"; Includes a disturbingly Scottish-accented
performance from Hinds, playing the decidedly American Sam Byck)
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Children Of
Eden (Stephen Schwartz*/John Caird) - 1/8/91 (Opening Night) - OLC:
Ken Page (Father), Martin Smith (Adam), Shezwae Powell (Eve), Richard Lloyd-King
(Snake), Adrian Beaumont (Cain), Kevin Colson (Noah), Earlene Bentley (Mama
Noah), Frances Ruffelle (Yonah), Anthony Barclay (Japheth), Ray Shell (Shem)
R
UM
NM
S
(Sound
is sometimes a little quiet, but always clear; Includes a ton of unrecorded
material, including an almost totally different "Civilized Society" and
many reprises and recitative sequences; along with the songs cut after
the London run ("Civilized Society," "Shipshape," and the original versions
of "World Without You" and "Lost In The Wilderness"); Preserves the original
version of the text, which is IMO infinitely superior to the current revision)
-
Dean (Robert
Campbell*/John Howlett) - 1977 - OLC, Casino Theatre: Glenn Conway (James
Dean), Jill Jarress (Girlfriend Of James Dean/Various), Anna Nicholas (Pier
Angeli/Various), Oscar James (Moses/Piano Player/Various), Peter Karrie
(Studio Manager/Various), Marc Anthony (Vic Damone/Various), Alastair Kerr
(Young Dean/Various), John Blythe (Ben/Various), Betty Benfield (Hedda
Hopper/Various) U NM
S? (Probably a soundboard tape; Biomusical
about James Dean with interesting score heavily influenced by 50s rock;
Pretty good sound)
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Enter The
Guardsman (Craig Bohmler/Marian Adler/Scott Wentworth) - 9/20/97 -
OLC, Donmar Warehouse: Alex Hanson (The Actor), Janie Dee (The Actress),
Nicky Henson (The Playwright), Angela Richards (The Dresser) R
U
NM
(The
Overture was not used, although a different prelude was; "Tonight Was Like
The First Night" is much shorter; There's a cut intro to and internal segment
in "The Actor's Fantasy"; Other songs have slight changes in them; Dee
and Hanson are both spectacular, although Henson leaves something to be
desired)
-
*Girlfriends
(Howard Goodall*/Howard Goodall & John Retallack) - 11/21/87 (Final
Performance) - OLC, The Playhouse: Hazel O'Connor (Phyllis), David Easter
(The Pilot), Clare Burt (Jane), Donna Champion (Flight Officer Fielding),
Tracey Halsey (Sally), Tina Jone (Sergeant Woods), Caroline Mander (Amy),
Fletcher Mathers (Brenda), Jenna Russell (Jasmine), Norma Atallah (Norma),
Julie Jupp (Julie), Sara Weymouth (Carol) U
NM
S
2CD
(Ambitious, interesting (if occasionally hard to follow) musical about
women in the British service during World War II; Some great songs)
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Hello Again
(Michael John LaChiusa) - 4/13/01 - OLC, Bridewell Theatre: Ellen O'Grady
(The Whore), Matt Rawle (The Soldier), Golda Rosheuvel (The Nurse), Mark
Stobbart (The College Boy), Jenna Russell (The Young Wife), Charles Shirvell
(The Husband), Dominic Brewer (The Young Thing), Michael Cahill (The Writer),
Anita Louise Combe (The Actress), Nigel Richards (The Senator) UM
NM
2CD
(Generally very good sound (from a digital master), but there's some static
at a few points, a couple of momentary dropouts, and some portions where
the singers are overwhelmed by the musicians; Includes, in addition to
much material left off the cast album, the entirely new "Rewrite" sequence,
which replaces "Silent Movie" for The Writer and The Actress; Great cast,
and, although no one can match up to the original off-Broadway cast, there's
no known tape of them, and these people come close)
-
The Fix
(Dana P. Rowe/John Dempsey*) - 1997 - OLC, Donmar Warehouse: John
Barrowman (Cal Chandler), Philip Quast (Grahame Chandler), Kathryn Evans
(Violet Chandler), Krysten Cummings (Tina McCoy), David Firth (Reed Chandler)
UM
NM
(Includes
much material cut from the cast album: "Let The Games Begin," "The Funeral,"
some material before (and the original ending of) "One, Two, Three," "Army
Chant," "Man And Wife," parts of "America's Son," "Flash, Pop, Sizzle!,"
one verse of "Two Guys At Harvard," "Lion Hunts The Tiger," and various
reprises and midsong dialogue)
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Lautrec
(Charles Aznavour/Charles Aznavour + Dee Shipman/Shaun McKenna) - 6/3/00
- Shaftesbury Theatre: Sévan Stephan (Henri Toulouse-Lautrec), Hannah
Waddingham (Suzanne Valadon), Rachel Izen (u/s Jill Martin - Adèle
Toulouse-Lautrec), Nigel Williams (Alphonse Toulouse-Lautrec), Peter Gallagher
(Aristide Bruant), Martin Fisher (Gabriel Tapie de Céleyron), Sadie
Nine (La Goulue), David Langham (Valentin-le-Désossé), Wendy
Lee Taylor (Jane Avril) R U
NM
2CD
(As yet unindexed; Great digital sound; Really great score, marvelously
sung)
-
Les Miserables
(Claude-Michel
Schönberg/Alain Boublil & Herbert Kretzmer*) - Early Barbican
(pre-West End) preview - OLC, Barbican Theatre: Colm Wilkinson (Jean Valjean),
Roger Allam (Javert), Patti LuPone (Fantine), Rebecca Caine (Cosette),
Michael Ball (Marius Pontmercy), Frances Ruffelle (Eponine Thenardier),
Alun Armstrong (Thenardier) UM NM
(Sound not spectacular; Includes numerous cut portions, although the ends
of "Castle On A Cloud," "Plumet Attack," and "Dog Eat Dog" are missing)
-
Marilyn!
(Mort Garson/Jacques Wilson*) - 1983 - OLC, Adelphi Theatre: Stephanie
Lawrence (Norma Jean/Marilyn Monroe), John Christie (Camera), Judith Bruce
(Mama), David Firth (Arthur Miller/Various), John Bennet (Johnny Hyde/Lee
Strasberg/Various), Bruce Barry (Andre De Diennes/Various) U
NM
(Sometimes
hard to understand lyrics; Missing a moment near the end)
-
Marilyn!
(Mort Garson/Jacques Wilson*) - 1983 (Different Performance from above)
- OLC, Adelphi Theatre: Stephanie Lawrence ((Norma Jean/Marilyn Monroe),
John Christie (Camera), Judith Bruce (Mama), David Firth (Arthur Miller/Various),
John Bennet (Johnny Hyde/Lee Strasberg/Various), Bruce Barry (Andre De
Diennes/Various) R U
NM
2CD
(Far
better recording than above tape; Has a number of changes since the above
tape (for one thing, about five minutes was lopped off each act, including
portions of "Seeing Other Men," most of "Bigger Than Life," and all of
"Don't Get Serious" and "The Funeral"); Mostly superb sound for a nearly-twenty-year-old
audience recording, and, moreso than the above recording, displays just
how dazzling the score is; There are a number of brief and annoying but
mostly unintrusive skips here and there, and the current indexing isn't
very good, but I plan to fix the latter)
-
Napoleon
(Timothy Williams/Andrew Sabiston/Timothy Williams & Andrew Sabiston)
- 11/15/00 - Shaftesbury Theatre: Uwe Kr&oumml;ger (Napoleon Bonaparte),
Anastasia Barzee (Josephine), David Burt (Talleyrand), Nigel Richards (Lucien
Bonaparte), Jody Crosier (Anton), David Arneil (Fouché), Teddy Kempner
(Garrau), Sarah Ingram (Thérèse), Lynsey Britton (Clarice),
Tom Sellwood (Charles) R UM
NM
(Great sound, aside from some hiss; Missing small bits at the flips (during
"Eighteenth Of Brumaire" in Act I and "Exile Of The Heart" in Act II) and
a small bit about five minutes into Act I Side B (right at the the end
of "Eighteenth Of Brumaire"), and cuts off right at the end of the show
- missing the bows and exit music; In addition to massive amounts
of material that simply wasn't recorded on the Toronto album, much of what
was has been revised (among many other things, "The Victim's Ball" is almost
completely different); Great score, thinks I, and Uwe is phenomenal)
-
No Way To
Treat A Lady - 9/20/89 - OLC: David Burt (Morris Brummell), Martin
Smith (Kit Gill), Susannah Fellowes (Sarah Stone), Vivienne Martin, Barbara
Young UM NM S
[1]
(INCOMPLETE: Songs only with some dialogue; Cuts off after "I Have Noticed
A Change"; Includes the cut songs "Five More Minutes" (much longer than
on the 1987 off-Broadway recording), "A Very Funny Thing," and "Sarah's
Touch," along with bunches of dropped lyrics; Good sound generally, but
much hiss, and there's some clipping on loud portions)
-
Passion
(Stephen Sondheim*/James Lapine) - 9/28/96 (Final Performance) - Queen's
Theatre: Michael Ball (Giorgio), Maria Friedman (Fosca), Monica Ernesti
(Clara) UM? NM
(Pretty good sound; Missing small bits at the flips; May include some unrecorded
material, but I'm not nearly as familiar with the albums as I should be)
-
Sweeney Todd:
The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street (Stephen Sondheim*/Hugh Wheeler) -
1993(?) - BBC Radio 2 Broadcast/Cottesloe Theatre: Denis Quilley (Sweeney
Todd), Julia McKenzie (Nellie Lovett), Adrian Lester (Anthony Hope), Carol
Starks (Johanna), Adrian Lewis Morgan (Tobias Ragg), Christopher Benjamin
(Judge Turpin), Barry James (Beadle Bamford), Sheila Reid (Beggar Woman),
Nick Holder (Pirelli) R NM
2CD
(Sound is great; Quilley is a brilliant Todd, surpassing even the
OBC's Len Cariou, and McKenzie matches evenly to Angela Lansbury; Includes
"The Beggar Woman's Lullabye," which was added after the Broadway production,
and Turpin's "Johanna" and the second part of "The Contest," both
of which were removed from the Broadway production but recorded)
-
Whatever Happened
To Baby Jane? (Lee Pockriss/Hal Hackady/Henry Farrell) - 11/98 - Brighton
Workshop/Concert: Millicent Martin (Jane Hudson), Jan Hartley (Blanche
Hudson), John Conroy (Daddy Hudson) U NM
S
(INCOMPLETE: Most songs with some dialogue; Sound is clear but distant/quiet;
Approximately 58 minutes, followed by about 15 minutes from the demo (with
Alix Korey and two unknown performers singing three songs ("Opening," "Talent,"
and "When Am I Gonna Be Me?"); No full cast or songlist)
-
The Witches
Of Eastwick (Dana P. Rowe/John Dempsey*) - 6/24/00 (First Preview)
- OLC, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane: Ian McShanne (Darryl Van Horne), Maria
Friedman (Sukie Rougemont), Joanna Riding (Jane Smart), Lucie Arnaz (Alexandra
Spofford), Rosemary Ashe (Felicia Gabriel), Caroline Sheen (Jennifer Gabriel),
Peter Jöback (Michael Spofford), Stephen Tate (Clyde Gabriel) UM
NM
(Quality is eh; Includes the cut songs "What About The Egrets?" and "Isn't
This What Every Woman Wants?" and lots of other cut material)
-
Worzel Gummidge
(Denis
King/Keith Waterhouse & Willis Hall*) - 1981/1982 - Extremely rare/obscure
OLC album: Cast unknown (Jon Pertwee?) U
NM
CD
[1]
(Amusing stuff, with one really great song ("Why Should She Choose A Scarecrow?");
I'm in the process of hunting down the info for this; Based on a TV series
(itself based on a series of children's books) about a living scarecrow;
About 40 minutes)
Germany/Austria
-
Elisabeth
(Sylvester Levay/Michael Kunze*) - 9/3/92 (Opening Night) - Theater An
Der Wien, Vienna: Pia Douwes (Elisabeth), Ethan Freeman (Luigi Lucheni),
Uwe Kröger (Der Tod), Viktor Gernot, Andreas Bieber, Wolfgang Pampel
NM
S
(In German; Great quality; Missing a few small parts and what I assume
to be the very end of the show)
-
Der Glöckner
Von Notre Dame (Alan Menken/Stephen Schwartz + Michael Kunze/James
Lapine + Michael Kunze) - 5/15/99 (Second Preview) - Berlin: Drew Sarich
(Quasimodo), Norbert Lamla (Richter Frollo), Judy Weiss (Esmeralda), Jens
Janke (Clopin), Fredrik Lycke (Phoebus) UM
NM
(In German; Often quiet, but generally clear; Orchestra sometimes overpowers
performers - it sounds almost as if the taper were sitting right next to
the percussion players; Includes several brief reprises not on the cast
album, as well as some different orchestrations and different versions
of some songs; Includes a lengthy pre-show speech; Missing a small segment
of the final sequence at the Act II flip)
-
Grand Hotel
(Robert Wright & George Forrest + Maury Yeston/Robert Wright &
George Forrest + Maury Yeston + Unknown/Luther Davis + Peter Stone + Unknown)
- 1991? - Radio Broadcast/Theatre Des Westerrns, Berlin: Leslie Caron (Elizaveta
Grushinskaya), Helmut Baumann (Otto Kringelein), Michelle Becker (Flaemmchen)
UM
NM
S
(Translator and full cast unknown (I have a list of the principals, but
not who plays which roles mostly); Includes "The Boston Merger," "Everybody's
Doing It," "No Encore," the full "Love Can't Happen," and other material
that didn't make the Broadway album; Excellent sound; Missing an almost
imperceptible bit of "Bonjour Amour")
-
Hedwig And
The Angry Inch (Stephen Trask/Stephen Trask + Unknown/John Cameron
Mitchell + Unknown) - Date unknown (1999?) - Venue unknown: Gerd Köster
(Hedwig Schmidt), Anja Lais (Yitzak) UM? NM
[1]
(Sound is mediocre - sounds somewhat clipped; In German, obviously; Missing
the end of one song at the flip and cuts off during another, but I'm (lamentably)
not familiar enough with the score in English to know which ones; May include
unrecorded material)
-
Jekyll &
Hyde (Frank Wildhorn/Leslie Bricusse + Melitta Edith*) - 4/17/99 -
Bremen, Germany: Ethan Freeman (Dr. Henry Jekyll/Mr. Edward Hyde), Lyn
Liechty (Lucy), Susanne Dengler (Lisa Carew), Eberhard Storz, Chris Morandi
UM
NM
(Odd hybrid of Broadway and Anthony Warlow album versions - opens with
"Lost In The Darkness," followed by "I Need To Know" and "Board Of Governors,"
THEN going into "Facade" and "Bitch, Bitch, Bitch"; has B'way version's
propensity for reprising "Facade" and basically follows that version's
song order but contains much cut material: part of "The Engagement Party,"
"Bring On The Men," both bar sequences, "The Girls Of The Night" (used
in Act I, with "No One Knows Who I Am" in Act II like the concept album),
"The World Has Gone Insane," et cetera; Complete cast unknown; Includes
lots of material that, although it's been recorded in English, did not
make the German album)
-
Les Miserables
(Claude-Michel Schönberg/Alain Boublil + Heinz Rudolf Kunze*) - 11/28/99
(Closing Night) - Duisburg: Charles Fornara (Jean Valjean), Hartwig Rudolz
(Javert), Maya Hakvoort (Fantine), Lilian Marti (Cosette), Michael Lewis
(Marius Pontmercy), Jacqueline Braun (Eponine Thenardier) NM
<2G>
(Superb digital sound, although there are some small breaks (nothing missing)
at some points; Includes an opening speech by company manager Dagmar Regorsek
and a second finale)
-
Tanz Der Vampire
(Jim Steinman/Jim Steinman + Michael Kunze*) - 1998 - Theater An Der Wien,
Vienna: Steve Barton (Graf Von Krolock), Aris Sas (Alfred), Cornelia Zenz
(Sarah), Jens Janke, Sascha Krebs, Susanne Altschul NM
(Some distortion during "Die Unstillbare Gier" (Krolock's Soliloquy) and
"Tanz der Vampire" (the Act II finale); Complete cast unknown)
Other
International
-
*Angry
Penguins (Carissa Campbell & Peter J. Casey) - 9/27/00 - Reading,
The Studio, Sydney Opera House, Sydney, Australia: Adam Champion (Harold
Stewart), Kane Alexander (James McCauley), Amanda Bishop (Tess Van Southern/Ethel
Malley), Jason Langley (Max Harris/Major Alf Conlon) U
NM
CD[1]
(Apparently a work in progress; Enjoyable musical based on the Ern Malley
scandal, in which two bored guys invented a fake poet and pretended to
have found a great deal of his work - it's hard to explain)
-
Dracula (Marek
Norman/Richard Ouzounian*) - 5/22/99 (Preview) - Avon Theatre, Stratford
Festival, Stratford, Ontario: Roger Honeywell (Jonathan Harker), Juan Chioran
(Dracula), June Crowley (Mina Murray), Michael Fletcher (Abraham Van Helsing),
Amy Walsh (Lucy Westenra), Shawn Wright (Jack Seward), Benendict Campbell
(R.M. Renfield) R U
NM
<1G>
(Great score and performances - very atmospheric)
-
Fiddler
On The Roof (Jerry Bock/Sheldon Harnick/Joseph Stein) - 8/16/00 - Stratford
Festival, Stratford, Ontario: Brent Carver (Tevye), Barbara Barsky (Golde),
Robin Hutton (Tzeitel), Tracy Michailidis (Hodel), Michael Therriault (Motel
Kamzoil), Fred Love (Perchik), George Masswohl (Lazar Wolf) UM
NM
<1G>
(Generally good sound, although some fuzziness at a few points; Missing
a small portion of the dance music of "To Life" at the flip in Act I, a
portion of "The Wedding Dance" where the taper switched cassettes, and
a bit of dialogue at the flip in Act II)
-
Les
Miserables (Claude-Michel Schönberg/Alain
Boublil*) - 10/91 (Opening Night) -
Paris: Robert Marien (Jean Valjean), Patrick Rocca (Javert), Louise Pitre
(Fantine), Marie Zamora (Cosette), Jerome Pradon (Marius Pontmercy), Stephanie
Martin (Eponine Thenardier) NM
(In French; Missing a few small parts)
-
The Secret
Garden (Marsha Norman*/Lucy Simon) - 9/3/95 (Second Preview) - Melbourne,
Australia: Anthony Warlow (Archibald Craven), Philip Quast (Neville Craven),
Marina Prior (Lily Craven), Samantha Fiddes, Bart Richie, Tom Blair, Susan-Ann
Walker UM NM
(Quality
is quite good, performances excellent; Complete cast unknown)
Seth Rudetsky's
Broadway Chatterbox
-
12/16/99 - Kristin
Chenoweth, Norm Lewis R [1]
NM
(Norm sings "I'd Rather Be Sailing" (William Finn - A New Brain);
Missing a bit of talk at the flip)
-
2/3/00 - Emily
Skinner, Alice Ripley R [1]
NM
(Emily sings "A New Life" (Frank Wildhorn/Leslie Bricusse - Jekyll &
Hyde), Alice sings "Rainbow High" (Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice - Evita);
Missing a bit of talk at the flip)
-
2/17/00 - Alix
Korey, Brian D'Arcy James R [1]
NM
(Alix
sings "An Old-Fashioned Love Story" (Andrew Lippa - The Wild Party);
Missing a bit of talk at the flip)
-
8/10/00 - Marc
Kudisch, Michael John LaChiusa [1] (Marc
sings "Breezin' Through Another Day" (Michael John LaChiusa - The Wild
Party); Static is heavy but nonintrusive during most of Marc's interview,
but much of LaChiusa's is unhearable)
-
10/16/00 - Julia
Murney, Andrew Lippa R UM
[1]
(Some clipping on loud parts, but not too awful; Julia sings a phenomenal
"Raise The Roof" (Andrew Lippa - The Wild Party - Andrew plays the
piano and provides backup vocals) and Andrew sings the very funny "Cindy"
(Andrew Lippa/Tom Greenwald))
-
11/30/00 - Andrea
Burns, Jason Robert Brown R UM
[1]
(Some light buzz during the songs; Andrea sings "I'm A Part Of That" (Jason
Robert Brown - The Last Five Years), Jason sings "What A Bastard
The World Is" (Yoko Ono - New York Rock - One of the funniest things
I've ever heard), and they duet on "I'd Give It All For You" (Jason Robert
Brown - Songs For A New World); You can hear me make a fool of myself
on this tape)
-
*12/20/01
- Jerry Dixon, La Chanze R
CD
[1]
(Stereo;
A bit of flattening on a few very loud moments, but mostly great sound;
Nobody sings anything, but a very enjoyable listen anyway)
Concerts,
Etc. (Solo concerts are listed by first name)
-
Alice Ripley
- 1997? - Rock demos, 6 songs R U
NM
S
CD
[1]
(Sound is somewhat muffled from generation loss; Includes six rock songs
written by Alice (not sure if all of them are performed by her), none of
which have been recorded, although they're all very good; Includes, as
a bonus track, a slightly clipped/staticy copy of the "One Small Step"
skit from
The Late Show with David Letterman, performed by a group
of stage actors including Alice, Brian D'Arcy James, and Rebecca Luker
(full cast unknown at this time); Approximately 27 minutes)
-
Brian D'Arcy
James and Friends (Various) - 8/9/98 - China Club: with Clarke Thorell,
Theresa McCarthy, Martin Moran UM NM
[1]
(Includes
some songs from the as-yet-unproduced musicals Big Time (Douglas
J. Cohen*/Douglas Carter Beane) and Joe! (Dan Lipton & David
Rossmer); Also includes quite a few songs written by James and his Titanic
cohorts; No complete song list)
-
*Baby
(David Shire/Richard Maltby, Jr./Sybille Pearson) - 6/9/01 - Reunion Concert,
Irvington Town Hall Theatre: Liz Callaway (Lizzie Fields), Todd Graff (Danny
Hooper), Martin Vidnovic (Nick Sakarian), Catherine Cox (Pam Sakarian),
Cass Morgan (Arlene McNally), Cris Groenendaal (Alan McNally) UM
2CD
(Sound varies, since the theatre had terrible acoustics; Uses a revised
book and score; Includes some unrecorded reprises of "We Start Today,"
"What Could Be Better?," and "Fatherhood Blues," as well as the brief new
song "Boyz R Us"; Includes a quartet of opening speeches, by Didi Conn,
Olivia Sklar, Denise Bessette, and Dan Foster)
-
Beyond The
Cradle: The Music Of Marc Blitzstein (Marc Blitzstein*/No Book) - 2/7/00
- Joe's Pub: Brooks Ashmanskas, Malcolm Getss, Victoria Clark, Lauren Flanigan
R
UM
NM
[1]
(Missing
the end of "One Kind Word" and the beginning of "I Wish It So"; I personally
love this guy's work (except
Juno), hence the recommendation)
-
*Bright
Lights Big City Unplugged (Paul Scott Goodman) - 10/23/99 - The Living
Room: Paul Scott Goodman, Natascia Diaz, Liza Lapira NM
[1]
(Various songs from BLBC are performed, obviously; Uninteresting,
unless you happen to like the show's score (and I do))
-
Chess
(Benny Andersson & Bjorn Ulvaeus/Tim Rice*) - 5/10/1998 - BC/EFA
Concert, John Houseman Theatre: Robert Evan (Anatoly Sergievsky), Christiane
Noll (Florence Vassy), Alice Ripley (Svetlana Sergievskya), Brian d'Arcy
James (Freddie Trumper), Raymond Jaramillo McLeod (Molokov), Danny Zolli
(The Arbiter), Michael Cerveris (Narrator) R
NM
(There
are momentary breaks between songs, but no material is missing; Combines
the Concept Album and Broadway texts, but without adding in any unrecorded
material)
-
China Club Valentines
Day Concert (Various) - 2/14/99 - Brian Stokes Mitchell, Loni Ackerman,
Doug Sills, Craig Schulman, Rita Harvey, Jeremy Kushnier, Ric Ryder, Jeri
Sager, Danny Zolli, Alice Ripley, Emily Skinner, John Bolton UM
NM
(Sound ranges from eh to stinky; The last song of the first act (Zolli's
"Gethsemane") is cut off; I don't have a full song list)
-
A Coward-ly Cavalcade
(Noel Coward/No Book) - 12/11/00 - Pasadena Playhouse, Pasadena, CA: B.J.
Ward, Stephanie Zimbalist, Harry Groener, Amy Pietz, Adrienne Barbeau,
Eydie Allyson, William Atherton, Brad Ellis, Bruce Vilanch, Yvette Cason,
Shirley Knight (Many annoying sound oddities, but, when working, sound
is generally good; Missing beginning of "Why Must The Show Go On?" and
cuts off about 50 seconds into "If Love Were All" (losing the finale as
well); Some very nice stuff)
-
David Campbell
(Various) - 11/4/00 (9:30 PM Show) - Orange County Performing Arts Center,
Costa Mesa, CA NM <1G>
[1]
(Includes,
among other great performances, performances of "Hello, Dolly!" as Mandy
Patinkin and "Bring Him Home"; Missing the beginning of "Taking The
Wheel" where the taper (a friend of mine who is not an adept flipper) flipped)
-
Emily Skinner
In Concert (Various) - 12/26/00 - Richmond, VA R
NM
<1G>
[1]
(Includes a number of songs Emily hasn't otherwise recorded ("New Year's
Eve," "Miss Celie's Blues (Sister)," "The Ingenue," "Someone Like You"
(from Jekyll & Hyde), and "I'll Be Home For Christmas"); She's
in top form here, and performs a "There's A Place Called Home" which blows
away the rendition on the cast album of A Christmas Carol; Missing
a bit of between-song chatter at the flip)
-
An Enchanted
Evening (Richard Rodgers, Mary Rodgers Guettel, & Adam Guettel/Various/No
Book) - 6/12/00 - Prince Music Theatre Gala: Jose Llana, Christine Andreas,
Jim Walton, Judy Kuhn, Martin Vidnovic, Adam Guettel, Mark Waldrop NM
CD
[1]
(Benefit concert of Rodgers family music; Copy of CD made from digital
master; Missing some between-song chatter which was deleted to fit on one
CD)
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Infinite Joy:
Songs By William Finn (William Finn) - 10/9/00 - Joe's Pub: William
Finn, Stephen De Rosa, Mary Testa, Lewis Cleale, Liz Callaway, Wanda Houston,
James Sasser, Farah Alvin, Kristin Woodbury UM
NM
2CD
(20 songs total, 4 unrecorded (De Rosa's "Welcome To My Hole" and "Famous
Boy," Cleale's "Too Much Drama In My Life," and Finn's "The Ballad Of Jack
Eric Williams"), plus 3 more songs that have been recorded but weren't
released as part of Infinite Joy (Callaway's "I'd Rather Be Saling,"
Cleale's "And They're Off," and Testa's "Change"); Some fascinating material
and wonderful performances (particularly Testa's "All Fall Down," Cleale's
"Hitchhiking Across America" and "And They're Off," and De Rosa's hilarious
solo recreation of a community theatre performance of Falsettos's
"The Baseball Game"); Includes material from In Trousers , Romance
In Hard Times, Falsettos, A New Brain, The Royal Family
Of Broadway, and the as-yet-unreleased film The Adventures Of Tom
Thumb And Thumbelina, as well as Finn's proverbial trunk)
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Jason Robert
Brown And Friends (Various) - 5/17/99 - Joe's Pub: with Andrea Burns, Norm
Lewis, Brooks Ashmanskas, John Pizzarelli UM
NM
[1]
(Includes music from JRB's as yet unproduced (sorta) work, The Moneyman;
Missing the end of one piece from this and the beginning of another at
the flip)
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Jason Robert
Brown And Friends (Jason Robert Brown*/No Book) - 9/26/99 - Peter B. Lewis
Theater, Guggenheim Museum: with Jessica Molaskey, Keith Byron Kirk, Brooks
Ashmanskas, James Barbour, Jill Geddes, Randy Redd, Brooke Sunny Moriber,
Alissa Dean, Stacy Francis UM NM
[1]
(Includes music from JRB's as yet unproduced (sorta) work, The Moneyman
and
The Last Five Years; Missing a bit of "All The Wasted Time"
at the flip)
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LaLaLaChiusa
(Michael
John LaChiusa*/No Book) - 10/00 (Date Forthcoming) - Joe's Pub: Judy Blazer,
Matt Bogart, Mary Testa, Nathan Lee Graham, Michael John LaChiusa UM
NM
CD
[1]
(19 songs total, 16 unrecorded, all fascinating; Excellent digital
sound)
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*Larry
Grossman And Friends (Larry Grossman/Various/No Book) - 2001 - Joe's Pub:
with Christopher Sieber, Andrea Burns, Dee Hoty UM
NM
CD
[1]
(Great soundboard recording; Includes 21 songs total, 8 unrecorded; Grossman
is one of my favorite composers, and this is a great showcase for his work
- would that it were longer than just 88 minnutes)
-
Lee Jordan Interviews
The Cast Of Company (Stephen Sondheim*/No Book) - 1971 - Promotional
Album: Lee Jordan, Hal Prince, Dean Jones, Barbara Barrie, Elaine Stritch,
Stephen Sondheim UM NM
CD
[1]
(Includes interviews by Jordan with aformentioned people; Includes almost
unpalatably cheesy performances (not by the OBC) of 7 songs from the score,
some with slightly different lyrics; Runs about 50 minutes)
-
*MCC
Benefit (Various/No Book) - 4/2/01 - Patti LuPone, Peter Gallagher, Donna
Murphy, Taylor Dayne, Adam Pascal NM
[1]
(The concept was that the performers got to sing songs that they would
never get to do on stage, so we get such wackiness as Gallagher's "I'm
Still Here" and "Don't Cry For Me, Argentina," LuPone's "Trouble," and
Pascal's "Frank Mills"; Not bad sound)
-
*Music
by Dan Levine (Dan Levine/Various) - 15 songs: Gregg Edelman, John Cullum
U
NM
S
CD
[1]
(Includes songs from the demos of Anna Karenina and Dance On
The Rooftops, as well as other pieces; Not bad stuff)
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A Musical Conversation
With Elaine Stritch (Various) - 8/5/00 - HHPAC: with Larry Grossman UM
(Lengthy "concert-sation" with Stritch performing a number of songs and
talking with Grossman, who also MDs)
-
New Faces On
Broadway (Various) - 11/17/00 - Carnegie Hall: Emily Skinner, Jason Daniely,
Billy Porter, Marin Mazzie, Jason Robert Brown UM
2CD
(Concert of music by Michael John LaChiusa, Ricky Ian Gordon, Adam Guettel,
and Jason Robert Brown; Includes a bunch of unrecorded material - at least
two RIG songs ("Summer" and Dream True's "We Will Always Walk Together,"
plus possibly others - I'm not sure whether "Heaven" or "When Sue Wears
Red" are recorded), a gorgeous suite from Guettel's in-progress musical
A
Light In The Piazza, and a wonderful, Brown-led performance of his
own "Music Of Heaven"; Some phenomenal performances, particularly of the
Gordon and Brown material (including an orgasmic rendition of "A New World"
and the best "Stars And The Moon" that I've ever heard); Some minor sound
problems are evident on the recording, but they were problems with the
speakers there, not with my mics; Recorded in stereo)
-
One Night Only
(Various) - 8/14/00 - 7th Note Showclub, San Francisco: Touring casts of
Les
Miserables and Titanic UM
(Amusing; "Lucky" and "The Riddle Song" are ripped to shreds, but "A Yak
Named Jack," "The French Song," and the monologue before the opera medley
are a riot, "Ordinary Day" rocks (until the end, quoth a friend), and hey,
what could be better than six chorus boys performing "The Cell Block Tango?";
Missing the first halves of "Making Love Alone" and "Song For The Dumped"
and the first few lines of "The Alto's Lament")
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Open The Door
(Various) - 11/8/99 - Union Square Theatre: Julia Murney, Emily Skinner,
Scott Wise, Beth Rudetsky, Audra McDonald, Alix Korey, Orfeh, Adam Guettel,
Christine Pedi, Malcolm Gets, Donna McKechnie, Christiane Noll, Brian D'Arcy
James, Billy Porter, Kristin Chenoweth, Betty Buckley NM
(Hosted
by Seth Rudetsky; Missing part of McKechnie's "Walk Down Memory Lane")
-
*Paul
Scott Goodman at NYTW Community Day (Paul Scott Goodman) - 7/16/01 - NYTW:
with Kristin Lee Kelly UM
NM
[1](About
14 minutes; Goodman and Kelly perform three songs and the tape then cuts
off)
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Ruthie Henshall
In Concert (Various) - 5/25/97 - Royal Festival Hall [1]
(Kind of odd: not sure when (or if) acts start and end, seems to just cut
off after "Someone To Watch Over Me"; About 80 minutes; Some brief distortion
at times)
-
Sean McCourt's
Big Top (Various) - 5/22/00 - Wilson's: with Alice Ripley, Matthew Bennett
UM
NM
<1G>
(One
of several concerts given by McCourt and various friends of his to perform
their own music; Missing the end of a song or two; Quite a bit of crowd
noise; No complete songlist)
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Seasons of
Love (Various) - 11/23/98 - HHPAC: Alice Ripley, Emily Skinner,
Norm Lewis, Hugh Panaro, Dana Reeve, Billy Porter, Doug LaBrecque, Lonette
McKee, Jeanette Palmer, Kai Braithwaite, Imani Parks, John E. Brady, Richard
Blake, Jim Poulos UM (Hosted
by Adam Michaels; Will be sent on one 120 minute tape)
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She Loves
Me (Jerry Bock/Sheldon Harnick/Joe Masteroff) - 4/77 - Town Hall: Madelaine
Kahn (Amalia Balash), Barry Bostwick (Georg Nowack), Rita Moreno (Ilona
Ritter), Laurence Guittard (Steven Kodaly), George Rose (Mr. Maraczek)
NM
(Kahn
is oddly subdued here, but Bostwick is the best Georg I've ever heard (and
I've heard a bunch); Uses a cut down book and the original versions of
"Tango Tragique" and "Twelve Days To Christmas")
-
*Songs
by Dean Bryant and Matthew Frank (Matthew Frank/Dean Bryant*) - 11 songs
R
U
NM
CD[1]
(A bunch of songs by a pair of insanely talented Australians, performed
by them and others; About 45 minutes; Copied from an origina demo CD)
-
*Stephen
Schwartz and Friends (Various*/No Book) - 5/4/01 - Allen Park Civic Auditorium,
Allen Park, Michigan: with Debbie Gravitte, Scott Coulter UM?
NM
2CD
(Lots of songs written or cowritten by Schwartz, some of which may be unrecorded;
Great sound)
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Stephen Sondheim's
70th Birthday (Various) - 5/00 (Not sure of exact date) - NPR Broadcast
from Library Of Congress: Davis Gaines, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Nathan Lane,
Marin Mazzie, Debra Monk, Audra McDonald UM
NM
2CD
(Includes
unrecorded Sondheim material from
The Frogs ("Parados: The Frogs")
and Wise Guys ("A Little House For Mama"); Excellent sound and strong
performances)
-
This Morning:
Sheila Rogers interviews about Larry's Party (Marek Norman/Richard
Ouzounian/No Book) - 1/1/01 - CBC Broadcast: Sheila Rogers, Brent Carver,
Richard Ouzounian, Susan Gilmour, Marek Norman R
U
NM
<1G>
[1]
(Carver performs "Part Of Me," Gilmour sings "What I Believe," and they
duet on "Look At The Sky"; This is great stuff; Missing a bit of Gilmour's
talking at the flip)
-
Today 4 U:
Unsung Jonathan Larson (Jonathan Larson*/No Book) - Date Unknown (1996?)
- NYTW: Anthony Rapp, Ben Stiller, Fredi Wallker, Wilson Jermaine Heredia,
Mark Setlock, Byron Utley, Marin Mazzie, Scott Burkell, Gilles Chiasson,
Shelley Dickinson, Jesse L. Martin, Taye Diggs, Idina Menzel, Daphne Rubin-Vega,
Darius DeHaas, Shayna Steele, Richie Havens, Sarah Jessica Parker, Mary-Chapin
Carpenter, Gwen Stewart, Aiko Nakasone, Norbert Leo Butz U
(Concert
of "lost" Larson songs, many of which should have stayed that way IMO;
Very quiet - hearable, but not always understandable; The end of "Over
It" is missing)
Demos/Promos/Other
Readings/Workshops/Similar/Uncategorizable
-
*9
Rue d'Antin (Ron Abel/Chuck Steffan/Daniel O'Connor) - Demo with 17
songs: Linda Purl (Marguerite Gautier), Robert Lee Jacobs (Armand Duval),
Kevin Spirtas (Baron de Varville), Tom Wood (Gaston), Christopher Carroll
(M. Duval) S
U
NM
CD
[1]
(Somewhat blah musicalization of Camille; About 45 minutes; Copied
from an original demo CD)
-
*Abandon
(Kevin Kiddoo) - Demo with 8 songs: Abigail Wolff, Julianne Heckert, Michael
Mariani, Mark Peters S U
NM
CD
[1]
(Strange, operatic piece that may or may not have something to do with
a journalist caught up in the Bosnian conflict; About 42 minutes; Copied
from an original demo CD)
-
Abyssinia
(Ted Kociolek/James Racheff/James Racheff & Ted Kociolek) - Demo with
5 songs: Stacey Francis (Abyssinia), Carol Dennis (Mother Vera), Michael
Mandell (Preacher), Roz Brown (Patience) S
U
NM
CD
[1]
(About
22 minutes; It's a gospel musical - what else do you need to know?; Copied
from an original demo CD)
-
The Adventures
Of Tom Sawyer (Don Schlitz*/Ken Ludwig) - Promo recording with four
songs: Joshua Park (Tom Sawyer), Kristen Bell (Becky Thatcher), Linda Purl
(Aunt Polly) S U
NM
CD
[1]
(A little over 16 minutes; Includes many cut lyrics in "Hey, Tom Sawyer"
(including a whole chopped section at the beginning); Different orchestrations
from the final show; May end up being the only professional recording of
any of this score)
-
*After
All (Robert Grusecki/Robert Grusecki & Anya Tucker) - Composer
Demos with 15 songs S U
NM
CD
[1]
(Enjoyable musicalization of Much Ado About Nothing, with some very
nice songs; Copied from an original demo CD; About 43 minutes)
-
*After
The Fair (Matthew Ward/Stephen Cole*) - Demo with 13 songs S
UM?
NM
[1]
(Cast unknown; About 50 minutes; May include some changed lyrics, but I'm
not particularly familiar with the cast album, since I find the score to
be rather boring)
-
Aida (Elton
John/Tim Rice/Linda Woolverton + David Henry Hwang & Robert Falls)
- Composer Demos with 13 songs S UM
NM
[1]
(Includes the cut songs "Night Of Nights" and "Our Nation Holds Sway,"
a cut instrumental march, a much longer "Every Story Is A Love Story,"
a rather different "Dance Of The Robe," and some different lyrics across
the board; There is a mysterious gap part way through "My Strongest Suit";
Performed by John and a synthesized band, when it would have been a whole
lot better if it had just been John and solo piano, but whatever)
-
Alice
(Tom Waits & Kathleen Brennan*/Paul Schmidt) - Demo/Studio Recording/Live
with 28 Songs (27 different, 14 vocal): Tom Waits S
U
NM
CD
[1]
(Engagingly bizarre (albeit incomprehensible) adaptation of the life and
work of Lewis Carroll; One song is live; Contains 13 instrumental interludes;
Somewhere between Stephen Sondheim, Kurt Weill, and Danny Elfman; Approximately
78 minutes)
-
All Bets Off
(Danny Troob*/Jamie Donnelly) - Demo with 5 songs: Patti LuPone S
U
NM
[1]
(Very short; Pretty cheesy; LuPone sings one song; Rest of cast unknown)
-
An American
Tragedy (Charles Strouse/Lee Adams & Charles Strouse/David Shaber)
- Composer Demo with 18 songs R S
U
NM
CD[1]
(About 52 minutes; Superbly scored, as yet unproduced adaptation of the
Dreiser novel (also made into the movie A Place In The Sun); No
official songlist yet)
-
Anna Karenina
(Dan Levine/Peter Kellogg*) - Demo with 16 songs: Ann Crumb (Anna Karenina),
Dan Levine, John Cullum S U
NM
[1]
(About 40 minutes; Mostly rather silly)
-
Anna Karenina
(Dan Levine/Peter Kellogg*) - Later demo with 11 songs: Gregg Edelman (Constantine
Levin) S U NM
CD
[1]
(About
30 minutes; Some tracks seem to be the same as the above recording, but
most aren't, and although it's missing several songs on that tape, there's
one new one ("I Never Dreamed"); A bit of static at the beginning of a
few tracks)
-
Anne AKA
Anne
And Gilbert (Bob Johnston/Bob Johnston & Jeff Hochhauser/Jeff Hochhauser)
- Demo with three songs: Cast unknown (Slighhtly under ten minutes; Based
on Anne Of Green Gables)
-
*Another
Year AKA Searching 4 Y (Edward Thomas/Jon Marans*) - Demo with
15 songs: Stephen Bogardus (Ken Marcus), Carol Woods (Sharon Groomes/Kristin),
Alton White (Desmond), Brad Kane (Miguel/Andy), Terry Burrell (Delia),
Karen Saunders (Kimm), Victor Trent Cook (Michael) S
U
NM
[1]
(Not sure where in Searching 4 Y's life cycle this comes; About
50 minutes; Includes the cut songs "Another Year" and its reprise, "A Second
Chance," "The Pool Is Closed," "I Can't Sleep," "Dancing To The Disco Beat,"
"New Coats," and "I Won't Forget You," as well as a totally different "Who
Needs Geometry?"; Copied from an original demo tape)
-
*Anyone
Can Whistle (Stephen Sondheim*/Arthur Laurents) - Studio Demo with
7 songs S NM
[1]
(Cast unknown; Under 45 minutes)
-
The Apprenticeship
Of Duddy Kravitz (Alan Menken/David Spencer/David Spencer (+ Austin
Pendleton)) - Composer/Cast Demos with around 27 songs: Lonny Price (Duddy
Kravitz/Various) S U
NM
[1]
(The strange book billing is because Pendleton wrote the show's book for
its first incarnation (1987, Philiadelphia), Spencer did heavy rewrites
and took credit for the rest, and I don't know when this demo is from;
Other possible cast members include James Judy (Virgil), John Horton, and
Jenny Giering (Yvette); Approximately 83 minutes)
-
Arthur: The
Musical (Michael Skloff/Marta Kauffman & David Crane*) - Demo with
13 songs: Harry Groener (Arthur Bach), Liz Callaway (Linda Marolla) S
U
NM
[1]
(About 40 minutes; Includes full-length (although not full-plot - numerous
major events are left out) running narration; Includes one cut song, "There's
Only One Woman For Me," which was replaced by "Fun" and uses that song's
refrain as a bridge)
-
*At
The Met (Jenny Giering/Beth Blatt*) - Composer Demo with 6 songs S
U
NM
[1]
(Interesting stuff, although incomprehensible, and I can't find any information
about the show; About 30 minutes; Copied from an original demo tape)
-
*At
Wit's End (Michael Duff/Cheri Coons*) - Demo with 8 songs S
U
NM
CD
[1]
(Cast unknown; Not bad material; Musical about Alexander Woolcott and the
Algonquin Roundtable that was recently premiered in Florida, where it won
a couple of awards; About 27 minutes)
-
Avenue Q
(Robert Lopez & Jeff Marks*/Robert Lopez, Jeff Marks, Craig Shemin,
& Seth A. Goldstein) - Demo with four songs S
U
NM
CD
[1]
(Performers
unknown (possibly the same as the 5/8/00 York reading); About nine minutes;
On CD with demo of Kermit, Prince Of Denmark and six other various
cuts by the same composers; Sound varies throughout whole disc; Copied
from an original demo CD)
-
*Baby
(David Shire/Richard Maltby, Jr./Sybille Pearson) - Composer Demo with
11 songs S
UM
NM
[1]
(Includes the cut song "I Wouldn't Go Back" and a different finale)
-
The Ballad
Of Little Jo (Mike Reid/Sarah Schlesinger*) - Demo with 15 songs: Judy
Kuhn (Jo Monaghan) S U
NM
CD
[1]
(About 53 minutes; Full cast unknown, but probably B.D. Wong as Tin Man
Wong; Some songs are in slightly different versions than in the Chicago
run; Almost perfect sound; Interesting material)
-
Bare (Damon
Intrabartolo/Jon Hartmere/Damon Intrabartolo & Jon Hartmere) - Live
Demo with around 12 songs and some recitative: John Torres (Peter), John
Griffin (Jason), Jenna Leigh Green (Ivy), Keili Lefkovitz (Nadia), Mark
Edgar Stephens (Priest), Stephanie Andersen (Sister Chantelle) S
U
NM
CD
[1]
(Apparently recorded digitally through the soundboard during rehearsals;
Not all songs are complete, it seems; About 73 minutes; Amazing sound -
a complete version of this seems to exist, since additional clips from
it that aren't on this disc used to available on the show's website; Includes
some material that was cut during the LA run, including the song "Best
Kept Secret")
-
*Barnstormer
(Douglas J. Cohen/Cheryl L. Davis*) - Demo with 4 songs: Adrienne Williams,
Selena Nelson S
U
NM
CD
[1]
(Nice beginnings of a score; About Bessie Williams, the first major black
female pilot; About 14 minutes; Copied from an original demo CD)
-
*Battleship
Potemkin (Eric Allaman/Jeffrey Couchman*) - Demo with 28 songs S
U
NM
(Cast
unknown; About 100 minutes; Will be sent on one 120-minute cassette; Ultimately
rather silly; Copied from an original demo tape)
-
*Beasts
And Saints (Daniel Messé/Mindi Dickstein*) - Demo with 7 songs:
Michelle Blakely, Jeff Blumenkrantz, Ted Brunetti, Jenny Giering S
U
NM
CD
[1]
(Strange piece that seems to be some sort of update of Alice In Wonderland,
or something like that; Interesting score; About 30 minutes; Copied from
an original demo CD)
-
*Bells
Are Ringing (Jule Styne/Betty Comden & Adolph Green) - Composer
Demos with 13 songs S
UM
NM
[1]
(Passable sound; Includes the cut song "Boogie, Woogie, Shoogie, Baby,"
the mostly cut "Gotta Do It," and another dropped song that I couldn' figure
out a title for; "Mu-Cha-Cha" and "Hello, Hello There" don't have lyrics
yet; Under 45 minutes)
-
*Ben
Franklin In Paris (Mark Sandrich, Jr./Sidney Michaels*) - Composer/Studio
Demo with 11 songs S
UM
NM
CD
[1]
(10 of the 11 songs were cut - "Until You're Recognized," "60 Seconds,"
"Benjamin," "A Clockwork Toy," "Since We Last Talked Alone," "The Things
I Haven't Done Yet," "Won't They Be Surprised," "A French Wench," "Hot
Chocolate," and "My Great-Grandchildren" - and the 11th, "I Invented Myself,"
has some changed lyrics; Sound quality varies)
-
*Betting
On Bertie (Robert Wright & George Forrest/P.G. Wodehouse + Robert
Wright & George Forrest/P.G. Wodehouse & Guy Bolton + Walter Willison
& Douglas Holmes) - Demo with 7 songs: Emily Loesser, Joy Hermalyn,
Douglas Holmes, Walter Willison, Donna Lee Marshall, Robin Baxter S
U
NM
CD
[1]
(Blah musical based on the Jeeves and Wooster stories; About 18 minutes;
Copied from an original demo CD)
-
*Beyond
The Dream (Brian Besterman/William Schermerhorn*) - Demo with 12 songs:
Norm Lewis (Daedalus), Roger Bart (Icarus), Alix Korey (Demeter), Jeremy
Kushnier (The Suitor/Hades), Liz Callaway (Persephone) S
U
NM
CD
[1]
(About 35 minutes; Not bad stuff, combining the myth of Icarus and Daedalus
with that of Persephone and Hades; I used to have a shorter version of
this under the name Constellations, but this is the full recording;
Copied from an original demo CD)
-
*The
Big Bang (Jed Feuer/Boyd Graham*) - Composer Demos with 16 songs S
UM
NM
CD
[1]
(Given that the composers wrote the show for themselves and performed it
off-Broadway, playing themselves, one might consider this a cast demo;
About 28 minutes; Includes the cut songs "Evolution," "Attila," and "Holding
Out For A Hero/Pocahontas," as well as a dropped finale; Funny stuff)
-
Blood And
Fire (Lisa Heffter/Jeffrey Couchman*) - Demo with 3 songs S
U
NM
CD
[1]
(Cast
unknown; About 9 minutes; Not great sound, but not great material, either)
-
Bojangles
(Charles Strouse/Sammy Cahn/Norman Mitgang) - Composer Demos with 14 songs
(12 different) S U
NM
[1]
(About 45 minutes; A bunch of the tunes later wound up in Annie 2)
-
Bojangles
(Charles Strouse/Sammy Cahn/Norman Mitgang) - 1/24/80 - Backers' Audition:
Ira Hawkins, Juanita Fleming, Charles Strouse, Sammy Cahn S
U
NM
CD
UNINDEXED
[1]
(Just under an hour; Fantastic sound except that some of the piano music
sounds oddly distorted (it's not too intrusive, though); There's some really
great stuff in here (not just "Da-Da Da-Da Da Da"); This is currently on
1 unindexed CD)
-
*Bonnie
And Clyde (Christopher Eickmann, Andrew Herron, & Doug Ritchie*/Christopher
Eickmann, Andrew Herron, Doug Ritchie, & Will Pomerantz) - Demo with
16 songs: Megan MacClannan (Bonnie Parker), Kevin Alvey (Clyde Barrow)
S
U
NM
CD
[1]
(Pretty
lousy two-character musical about the famed criminals; Copied from an original
demo CD; About 42 minutes)
-
*Bonnie
And Clyde (Bernard Poli/Bernard Poli + Simon Porter/Bernard Poli) -
Demo with 17 songs: Alexandre Bonstein (Clyde Barrow), Khémi (Bonnie
Parker), Simon Porter (Ranger Frank Hamer), Valery Rodrigez (Buck Barrow),
Annita Covelli (Blanche Caldwell), Dennis Astorga (W.D. Jones) S
U
NM
CD
[1]
(Like every bad Europopera rolled into one and injected with additional
cheesiness; About 61 minutes; Copied from an original demo CD)
-
*The
Book Of Candy (Mel Marvin/Susan Dworkin*) - Demo with 16 songs: Lori
Ada, Evalyn Baron (Maida/Various), Danny Burstein, Adam Heller, Martin
Vidnovic, Kerry O'Malley, Eleanor Reissa, Drew Sarich (Shaul/Various),
Martin Vidnovic S
U
NM
CD
[1]
(About 35 minutes; Blah musicalization of Dworkin's book, recently premiered
in New Jersey; Includes the cut song "Semen Screwup," as well as some other
material which has probably been dropped; Copied from an original demo
CD)
-
Bright Lights
Big City (Paul Scott Goodman) - Demo with around 12 songs and some
recitative: Norbert Leo Butz (Jamie), Kurt Deutsch (Tad Allagash), Anthony
Rapp (Michael) S U
NM
[1]
(Includes the cut song "The Me I Used To Be," as well as cut/changed lyrics
and segments all over the place; Slightly over 25 minutes; I wouldn't be
surprised if there's a complete version of this somewhere, as this recording
covers basically the first 25 minutes of the show, with some small gaps
in the narrative)
-
*Bring
Me The Head Of Deepak Chopra (Ira Marlowe) - Composer/Cast Demos with
16 songs: Ira Marlowe, Heidi Andersen S
U
NM
CD
[1]
(Incomprehensible, generally terrible piece that never lives up to a great
opening number entitled "It Sucks Being Dead"; About 28 minutes; Copied
from an original demo CD)
-
A Broadway
Musical (Charles Strouse/Lee Adams/William F. Brown) - Composer Demos
with 4 songs (3 different) S U
NM
[1]
(About 15 minutes; Performed live with some narration)
-
The Burt Bacharach/Hal
David Project (Burt Bacharach/Hal David/No Book) - 6/19/00 - Roundabout
Reading, Studio 54: Capathia Jenkins, Tony Vincent, Jessica Boevers, Rich
Affanato, Sutton Foster R [1]
(Very well performed Bacharach/David revue; Includes two opening speeches,
one by Roundabout's Julia Levy, the other by director Scott Ellis)
-
*Butterfly
Dreams (Thad Wheeler/Thad Wheeler, Francesca Vanasco, & Jim Wheeler/Francesca
Vanasco) - Demo with 8 songs: Christeena Riggs, Kelli Rabke, Francis Ruivivar
(Indescribably silly piece about singing bugs...or something like that;
Full cast unknown; About 22 minutes; Four songs ("Lament," "Skreevy's Song,"
"Incantation," and "You Carry Me") have no lyrics at this point; Copied
from an original demo CD)
-
Cabaret
(John Kander/Fred Ebb/Joe Masteroff) - Composer Demo with 20 songs S
UM
NM
CD
[1]
(Includes the cut songs "Angel Of Love," "Herman, My German," Down, Down,
Down," "Guten Abend," and "The Man In The Mirror," none of which have been
recorded, the cut songs "I Don't Care Much," "Roommates," "Goodtime Charley,"
and "It'll All Blow Over," all of which have been recorded, a cut reprise
of "Wilkommen," and a completely different finale; About 58 minutes; Some
LP noise (clicks/pops) is audible, but nonintrusive)
-
Camila: The
Tango Musical (Lori McKelvey) - Demo with 13 songs: Andrea Burns (Camila),
Robert Cuccioli (Ladislaos), Norbert Leo Butz (Ladislaos), Marcy Harriel
(Camila), Jere Shea (Ladislaos), Lorraine Serabian S
U
NM
[1]
(Okay music, lousy lyrics; About 30 minutes)
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*Camille:
La Dame Aux Camélias (Julia Gregory) - Demo with 7 songs: Christiane
Noll (Camille), Joseph Cassidy (Armand), Cyndi Neal (Prudence), Tracy Venner-Warren
(Julie) S
U
NM
CD
[1]
(Another uninteresting Camille musical; About 24 minutes; Copied
from an original demo CD)
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*The
Case Of The Dead Flamingo Dancer (Donald Oliver/Dan Butler*) - Demo
with 12 Songs: James Brennan (Nick Lambert), Debbie Shapiro (Gussie), Harvey
Evans (Courtly DeManor), Rebecca Luker (Cecily DeManor), Dolores Gray (Veronica
Chandler), Gary Krawford (Eliot Payson III) S
U
NM
CD
[1]
(Enjoyable (if very "out there") musical about a tap-dancing detective
solving a murder; Gray performed under the assumed name "Cornelia DeFlanders";
Sound is slightly muffled from generation lost, and a few people seem to
have been standing nowhere near the mics during recording)
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*Celebration
(Harvey Schmidt/Tom Jones*) - Studio Demo with 7 songs S
U
NM
[1]
(Cast unknown; Nice sound; Great score, although it sounds pretty odd to
hear the songs "popped" up; Under 45 minutes; Recorded and released on
CD, but out of print)
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*Chaplin
(Roger Anderson/Lee Goldsmith/Ernest Kinoy) - Demo with 21 songs: Wayne
LeGette, Maribeth Graham, Alix Korey, R. David Robinson, Michael St. Pierre,
Matthew Solari S
U
NM
[1]
(Reasonably blah, although pleasant; Great sound; About 71 minutes)
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*Chicago
(John Kander/Fred Ebb/Fred Ebb & Bob Fosse) - Composer Demos with 24
songs S
UM
NM
CD
[1]
(Includes the cut songs "Ten Percent," "Yes! No!," "Windowpanes Of Rose,"
"P-P-Pansy Eyes," "It," and "Loopin' The Loop," along with a completely
different "We Both Reached For The Gun" and a dropped intro to "Roxie";
About 76 minutes)
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Children Of
Eden (Stephen Schwartz*/John Caird) - Demo with 9 songs: Frances Ruffelle
(Women), Ray Shell? S NM
(About 35 minutes; Includes the song "Civilized Society" and the
original versions of "World Without You" and "Lost In The Wilderness,"
all of which made it onto the London cast album but have since been cut
from the show; I've heard Ray Shell is on this, but I have no confirmation)
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Christina
Alberta's Father (Polly Pen) - Demo with
a whole bunch of songs: Henry Stram, Marla Schaffel (Christina Alberta),
Eddie Korbich S
U
NM
[1]
(A little under 45 minutes; Very quiet, but very clear; Full cast/song
info forthcoming; Pretty but incomprehensible)
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A Christmas
Carol (Alan Menken/Lynn Ahrens/Lynn Ahrens & Mike Ockrent) - Composer
Demos with two songs S NM
(Menken
performs "God Bless Us, Everyone" and "There's A Place Called Home";
Under five minutes)
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A Christmas
Carol (Alan Menken/Lynn Ahrens/Lynn Ahrens & Mike Ockrent) - Workshop:
Cast unknown S UM
NM
(Apparently has some performers who went on to be in the first cast at
Madison Square Garden; Lots of lyrics that were changed; About 57 minutes)
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City Of Dreams
(Joseph Zellnik/David Zellnik*) - Demo with 5 songs: Alison Fraser (Larisch)
S
U
NM
CD
[1]
(About
16 minutes; Transferred from an original demo cassette; Monumentally depressing
musical about Vienna's Crown Prince Rudolf, his young mistress Mary, and
their suicide)
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The Civil
War (Frank Wildhorn/Jack Feldman/Gregory Boyd) - Demo with 29 songs:
Linda Eder S UM
NM
2CD
(Other cast members unknown; Includes the cut song "Cover Me," as well
as different versions of others; Great sound, but missing the end of the
Prologue; Some of the recordings on this may be the same as the recordings
used on the released Complete Work 2CD set)
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A Class Act
(Edward Kleban*/Linda Kline & Lonny Price) - Demo with 14 songs: Randy
Graff (Sophie) S UM
NM
CD
[1]
(About 32 minutes; Rest of cast unknown, but probably Peter Scolari as
Ed; Includes different versions of some songs, including a trio version
of "Mona"; Flawless sound)
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Conrack
(Lee Pockriss/Anne Croswell/Granvill Burgess) - Demo with 11 songs S
U
NM
[1]
(Cast unknown, but may be Matthew Bennett as Conroy and Pamela Isaacs as
Jackie; Includes the songs "Pushin' Thirty" and "Anna," which were either
cut before the 1991 Goodspeed-At-Chester run or added after it; Mostly
great sound; Just under 36 minutes)
-
Constellations
(Brian Besterman/William Schermerhorn*) - Demo with 6 songs: Norm Lewis,
Roger Bart, Alix Korey, Jeremy Kushnier, Anthony Rapp S
U
NM
[1]
(A little under 20 minutes; Pleasant-sounding rock musical seemingly based
on the story of Icarus; Marvelous sound except for a few loud moments during
"Until That Day" (which, naturally, is Korey's solo...grr); Tape made from
a copy of the master CD)
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Convenience
(Gregg Coffin) - Full Show Composer Demos with 31 songs S
UMNM
2CD
(Around 110 minutes; Copied from a master CD; Interesting William Finn-ish
material; Includes some material that was cut/rewritten before the Rochester
run)
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*Convenience
(Gregg Coffin) - 9/25/00 - NAMT Readings: Jim Poulos (Vince), Mary Jo McConnell
(Liz), Melissa Rain Anderson (Young Liz), Ron DeStefano (Ethan/Young Vince),
Michael Dantuono (Abe) NM [1]
<1G>
(Both NAMT readings on one tape - each is about 30 minutes; Not great sound)
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A Country
Christmas Carol (Albert Evans/Albert Evans & Ron Kaehler/Ron Kaehler)
- Demo with 18 songs: Heidi Karol Johnson (BBobbie Jo Cratchit/Belle), Christy
Romano (Jane Cratchit/Fanny Scrooge), G. Wayne Hoffman (Ebenezer Scrooge),
Jack Ingram (Tim Cratchit/Boy Eb), Bart Shatto (Dwight Scrooge/Young Eb),
Audrey Lavine (Lavinia), Linda Sue Moshier (Little Linda Lee) S
U
NM
CD
[1]
(About
46 minutes; Everything you need to know is in the title; Pleasant enough,
but mostly pretty boring and monotonous; Copied from an original demo CD)
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Cupid And
Psyche (Jihwan Kim/Sean Hartley*) - Demo with 13 songs: Sean Hartley
(Cupid/Pan), Wendy Brown (Psyche), Tracy Moore (Venus), Daniel Pitt Stoller
(Mercury) S U
NM
CD
[1]
(Copied
from an original demo CD; Includes the cut songs "A Little Love," "Love
Would Just Get In The Way," "You Don't Belong Here," "Mother Knows Everything,"
and "I Think I'm Going To Die Today;" About 30 minutes; Cute, with some
very nice music)
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Curtains
(John Kander/Fred Ebb/Peter Stone) - Composer Demos with a bunch of songs
(I haven't counted): John Kander, Fred Ebb S
U
NM
[1]
(Very funny unproduced show - to prevent a bad show from being put on,
a backer starts murdering the cast; May be incomplete)
-
Dance Of The
Vampires (Jim Steinman) - Demo with 13 songs: Steve Barton (Count von
Krolock), Aris Sas (Alfred) S UM
NM
CD
[1]
(Rest of cast unknown; 5 tracks are in German (from that production's cast
album); Includes the newly added song "Is Nothing Sacred?"; Lousy lyrics,
but great music, well sung by several singers (besides Sas and Barton,
others may include Lyn Liechty); Around 71 minutes, 54 in English)
-
Dance On The
Rooftops (Dan Levine/Jon Marans/Allan Knee) - Demo with 13 songs: Gregg
Edelman (Jesse Dubinsky) R S
U
NM
CD
[1]
(About
40 minutes; Superb stuff; Some minor, almost unnoticeable clipping on a
few tracks; Includes the cut song "Got No Price Tag On Me" na dthe dropped
original version of "Dance On The Rooftops" and its reprise; Copied from
an original demo CD)
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*Dance
On The Rooftops (Dan Levine/Jon Marans/Allan Knee) - Later Demo with
15 songs: Gregg Edelman (Jesse Dubinsky), Alix Korey (Roz) R
S
U
NM
CD
[1]
(About
56 minutes; Includes some different versions of songs from the earlier
demo, along with several new songs; Includes the cut songs "Got No Price
Tag On Me," "Let's Not Fall In Love," and "One Little Trophy"; Copied from
an original demo CD)
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Darling Of
The Day (Jule Styne/E.Y. Harburg/Nunnally Johnson) - Studio Demo with
8 songs (7 different) S UM
NM
CD
[1]
(Includes
the cut songs "Putney-On-The-Thames" and "A Blushing Bride," as well as
two renditions of "What Makes A Marriage Merry?" and, surely, some cut
lyrics; About 25 minutes)
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The Day Of
The Locust (Tom Judson/Oliver Goldstick*) - Date unknown (I'd guess
early-to-mid-80s)) - Reading: Doug Plummer (Tod Hackett), Peter Slutsker
(Abe Kusich), Richard Pierce (Homer Simpson), Richard Mason (Harry Greener),
Mimi Wyche (Faye Greener), Marisha J. Czernik (Joan Schwartzen), Larry
Yando (Claude Estee/Earl Shoop), Dorothy Brodesser (Mrs. Loomis), Richard
Stegman (Adore Loomis), Bob Antonelli (Miguel/The Pink Lady) U
NM
(Disappointing - a marvelous idea for a musical, but not well executed
(heavily unbalanced and rather boring); Based on novel and film of same
name; Goldstick, for anyone who cares, was later a producer and writer
for (beware of shameless plug for my favorite TV show (before it was cruelly
cancelled)) the best show recently on TV, Popular; Missing a bit
of dialogue at a flip in Act I; Two songs on the songlist ("The Cockfight"
and "I Can Still Hear That Laugh (Reprise)") are not performed))
-
Day Of The
Locust (James Bassi/Richard Lollo/Unknown) - Demo with 5 songs (4 different):
Eddie Korbich, Kerry Butler S U
NM
CD
[1]
(Apparently
recorded live; Full cast unknown; Includes two renditions of "Riding On
A Cloud" - one by Korbich, one by an unknown singer; On CD with Nickleby
and songs from two other Bassi/Lollo works; Even worse than the Judson/Goldstick
attempt at the same material; About 9 minutes)
-
*Decameron
Nights (Richard Peaslee/Kenneth Cavander*) - Demo with 9 songs: Anna
Bergman, Kevin DiSimone, Margaret Dorn, William Paul Michals S
U
NM
CD
[1]
(None-too-good reworking of a 1970s Broadway bomb called Boccaccio,
based on several of the stories in that author's Decameron; 5 of
the songs ("The Best Of Times," "The Men Who Have Loved Me," "Lucky Anichino,"
"All The Women You Want," and "Madonna Isabella") are abridged versions;
About 21 minutes; Copied from an original demo CD)
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Dorian
(James J. Mellon & Scott DeTurk*/James J. Mellon & Duane Poole)
- Demo with 11 songs: David Burnham (Dorian Gray), LaTonya Holmes (Celia
Vane), Armelia McQueen (Mama Vane), Duane Barnes (James Vane), Robert Cuccioli
(Henry Lord) S U
NM
CD
[1]
(About
35 minutes; Vaguely intriguing modernized
Picture Of Dorian Gray
that's been produced in LA; Interestingly, more was recorded than is on
this demo - another track is available on the show's website; Copied from
an original demo CD)
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Dr. Jekyll
and Mr. Hyde (Phil Hall/David Levy & Leslie Eberhard*) - Demo with
15 songs: Joe Mahowald, Marin Mazzie, Ann Runolfsson, Ann Brown (Includes
very different versions of several songs, but nothing completely cut; Oddly
missing numerous major numbers from the score as presented at Paper Mill
("Under The Skin," Another Man," and, most notably, "I Am the Night");
Nice to finally be able to understand the lyrics of "Two Sides Of London";
Slightly under 45 minutes)
-
*Dr.
Sex AKA Kinsey Report (Larry Bortniker*/Larry Bortniker &
Sally Deering) - Demo with 18 songs S U
NM
[1]
(Cast unknown; Bizarre musical about the life of Alfred Kinsey; About 50
minutes)
-
*Dracula
(Richard Oberacker/Richard Oberacker & Michael Lazar) - Demo with 26
songs: Alice Ripley (Mina Murray), Lauren Kennedy (Lucy Westenra), Merwin
Foard (Dracula), Jason Reif (Jonathan Harker), Richard Poole (Renfield),
Joaquin Romageura (Van Helsing), Scott Coulter (Dr. Seward), Don Farrell
(Quincy Morris) S U
NM
2CD
[1]
(Full cast unknown; An interesting piece, being staged later this year
at CCM; Perhaps a bit too repetitive at a few points, but generally nice;
About 83 minutes)
-
*Dracula
(Frank Wildhorn/Don Black & Christopher Hampton) - Demo with 21 songs:
Douglas Sills (Dracula/Jack Seward), Christiane Noll (Mina Murray/Vampire
Girls), Alice Ripley (Lucy Westenra), Robert Evan (Jonathan Harker), William
Youmans (Renfield), Chuck Wagner (Abraham Van Helsing), Coleen Sexton (Vampire
Girls) S U
NM
CD
[1]
(Extraordinarily boring, although nicely cast; About 50 minutes)
-
Drat! The
Cat! (Milton Schafer/Ira Levin*) - Studio Demo with 8 songs (7 different)
S
NM
CD
UNINDEXED
[1]
(A little under 21 minutes; Almost unbearably cheesy, with a frighteningly
bizarre instrumental version of the title song interspersed with meows;
Includes a second rendition of "She Touched Me"; Currently unindexed, but
soon to be fixed; Mediocre sound - loud and clear, but some minor LP-static)
-
The Dream
On Royal Street (Alan Menken/David Rogers/June Walker Rogers) - Composer
Demos with 16 songs S U
NM
CD
[1]
(A Midsummer Night's Dream set in New Orleans during Mardi Gras;
Pleasantly blah with 3 standout songs: the very funny "Treat Me Like A
Dog," the catchy "What Fools These Mortals Be," and a brilliant setting
of the "The Tragedy Of Pyramus And Thisbe" as a six-and-a-half minute rock
song)
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espresso trasho
(Eric Schorr/Charles Leipart*) - Demo with five songs: Sally Mayes (Susie),
Adrian Bailey (Joe), Gregory Jbara (Pete Toselli), Marla Schaffel, Joe
Lutton, Kim Hawthorne S U
NM
CD
[1]
(Perfect
sound - transferred from an original demo tape; About 17 minutes; Updated
rock-based version of The School For Scandal)
-
The Fields
Of Ambrosia (Martin Silvestri/Joel Higgins*) - Full Show Demo: Joel
Higgins (Jonas Candide), Christine Andreas (Gretchen Herzallerliebst),
Eddie Korbich (Jimmy) R S
UM
NM
(Excellent show with magnificent unappreciated score - Highest possible
recommendation; Same cast as George Street production; Act I is pretty
good sound through "Who Are You?," then wavers repeatedly between excellent
and heard-through-a-thin-wall, finally settling at okay about halfway through
"Step Right Up"; Act II is all excellent sound; Contains lots
of material that didn't make it onto the London album, along with a shorter
"Ball And Chain," different lyrics for part of "Reasonable Man," and a
different tune in the chorus of "All In This Together")
-
*Fire,
Water, Earth, Air (Jeffrey Hardy/Brian Crawley*) - Demo with 10 songs:
Sara Ramirez, John Sloman, Darius de Haas, Aisha de Haas R
S
UNM
CD
[1]
(Offbeat, fascinating work that consists of four mini-musicals, each based
around one element - the songs on the demo are from Fire and Water;
Workshopped at the O'Neill a couple of years ago, and now back in rewrites)
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First Flight
(James Sasser/James Sasser & James Dilda/James Dilda) - Demo with 8
songs: James Sasser (Wilbur Wright), Sandy Binion (Susan Wright), Nina
Hennessey (Katharine Wright), Joe Beredino (Orville Wright), Craig Bennett
(Milton Wright) S U
NM
CD
[1]
(Copied
from an original demo CD; Very strong, intriguing musical about the Wright
brothers, with a sort of Floyd Collins feel to the music; About
30 minutes)
-
The Flood
(Cara Reichel & Peter Mills) - Demo with 4 songs S
U
NM
CD
[1]
(About
15 minutes; Cast unknown; One track ("Let The River Rise") appears to have
been recorded live; Not very good, except for one song ("It's Amazing The
Things That Float"))
-
*Frieda
And Diego (Keiko Takeda/Adair Seldon*) - Demo with 4 songs S
UM
NM
CD
[1]
(Cast unknown; Lousy musical about Frieda Kahlo and Diego Rivera, obviously;
About 16 minutes; Copied from an original demo CD)
-
*Fritz
And Froyim (Mark Barkan & Rolf Barnes/Norman Beim*) - Reading/Demo
with 10 songs U
NM
CD
[1]
(Pretty lousy stuff, and bad sound to boot; Based loosely on a Romain Gary
novel; About a former SS officer who is haunted by teh ghost of a Jewish
ventriloquist whom he killed during the Holocaust; About 25 minutes)
-
A Funny Thing
Happened On The Way To The Forum (Stephen Sondheim*/Burt Shevelove
& Larry Gelbart) - Composer Demos with 20 songs (17 different) R
S
UM
NM
CD
[1]
(Sound is a little scratchy, but sounds GREAT for its age; Includes tons
of cut material (much of which has since been recorded): eight completely
cut songs (with additional renditions of three of them) and loads of cut
lyrics (primarily in "The House Of Marcus Lycus" and "Free"); About 50
minutes)
-
Gallery
(Ed Kleban) - Composer Demos with 28 songs S
U
NM
[1]
(Just
under 90 minutes; Some fascinating material; Sound is sometimes slightly
harsh)
-
Girls Are
From Pluto, Boys Are From Uranus (Howard Levitsky/Bethany McLure*)
- Demo with 5 songs: Jeremy Chu (Chris), Harrley Adams (Nick), Cameron Bowen
(Alex) S U NM
CD
[1]
(About
10 minutes; Cute musical about three sixth graders, with some great lyrics;
The whole piece is only 12 minutes long, so this is the entire score; Copied
from an original demo CD)
-
*Glimmerglass
(Douglas J. Cohen/Ted Drachman/Jonathan Bolt) - Demo with 17 songs: Marla
Schaffel, Lewis Cleale, Jessica Molaskey, David Masenheimer, Jennifer Piech,
David Aron Damane, Casper Roos, Jay Douglas, Jeff Gardner, Billy Hartung
R
S
UNM
CD
[1]
(Great score; Based on a group of James Fenimore Cooper novels; About 54
minutes)
-
Golden Gate
(John Kander/Fred Ebb/Richard Morris) - Composer Demos with 18 songs and
some dialogue (Kind of strange, with one really excellent song ("There's
Nothing Wrong With My Life") and a couple of pretty nice ones; Cuts off
during the finale, but all that's missing is the end of a reprise of "Anywhere
You Are"; one song was reused in The Happy Time ("A Certain Girl"),
one was reused in but cut from The Rink ("Yesterday Is Yesterday"),
and two others were recorded by Liza Minnelli ("I'm One Of The Smart Ones"
and "Anywhere You Are"); Just over an hour)
-
Goodtime Charley
(Larry Grossman/Hal Hackady/Sidney Michaels) - Studio Demo with 6 songs
(4 different) S UM
NM
CD
[1]
(A little under 17 minutes; Includes the cut song "Tomorrow's Good Old
Days"; Includes alternate versions of "To Make The Boy A Man" (sung by
a man!) and "Goodtime Charley"; Nice sound, except that the first rendition
of "To Make The Boy A Man" is a little muffled)
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The Graduate
(Bob Merrill*/Unknown) - Various Demos with 16 songs (12 different): Bob
Merrill S U NM
[1]
(Almost unrelentingly lousy; A little over an hour total; Side A is five
songs and a reprise sung by an unknown man with a bad voice; Side B is
10 songs sung and narrated by Merrill and an unknown cast)
-
The Grave
White Way (Joe Patrick Ward) - Live Demo with 9 songs: Craig A. Curtis
(Greg), Andrew Makay (Jacob), Lesli Margherita (Lindsey), Amy Rutberg (Amanda),
Shannon Stoeke (Sheldon), Joe Patrick Ward (Joel) S
U
NM
CD
[1]
(About
30 minutes; Insanely hilarious send-up of various musicals; Recorded digitally
through the soundboard in LA; Copied from an original demo CD)
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Grind
(Larry Grossman/Ellen Fitzhugh/Fay Kanin) - Composer Demo with 15 songs
S
UM
NM
[1]
(Around 43 minutes; Includes the cut songs "Wind-Up Dolly," "I'm The Best"
and its reprise, "Boys Will Be Boys," "George," "Chocolate Dolly," and
"Good As New," as well as the unrecorded song "Cadava" and bunches of dumped
lyrics (primarily in "Grind"); Lots of hiss, but perfectly understandable)
-
Hairspray
(Marc Shaiman/Marc Shaiman & Scott Wittman/Mark O'Donnell) - Demo with
4 songs: Cast unknown S U
NM
CD
[1]
(Around 12 minutes; Based on the John Waters movie and scheduled for a
Broadway production next season; Probably Jenifer Smith as Motor Mouth
Mabel)
-
The Happy
Prince (Frank Schiro) - Demo with 7 songs: Peter Flynn (The Happy Prince),
Andrea Burns (Rara), Billy Hipkins (Homer), Tim Howard (Cedric), Tim Salamandyk
(Frederic) S U
NM
CD
[1]
(About
17 minutes; Kinda blah; Copied from an original demo CD)
-
Harmony
(Barry Manilow/Bruce Sussman*) - Composer/Cast Demos with 18 songs R
S
U
NM
[1]
(Includes a longer Overture, a cut reprise of "Every Single Day," and somewhat
different versions of most numbers; "Home" cuts off; Strong score)
-
*Her
Lightness (Polly Pen/James Milton*) - 6/9/01 - Reading, San Jose Rep:
Lianne Marie Dobbs (Lucy), Steve Rhyne (Will), Christopher Gurr (The King),
Annmarie Martin (The Queen), Milissa Carey (Old Woman) R
S
U
NM
<1G>
CD[1]
(Sweet, clever opera/musical based on George MacDonald's The Light Princess;
Great sound - from a digital master)
-
*Herringbone
(Walter Edgar Kennon/Ellen Fitzhugh/Tom Cone) - Demo with 19 songs S
U
NM
CD
[1]
(Cast unknown; Incredibly bizarre one-man musical that's been performed
by people as disparate as David Rounds, Joel Grey, and B.D. Wong; About
48 minutes)
-
The Honeymooners
(Alan
Menken/Howard Ashman/Unknown) - Composer Demos with 8 songs S
U
NM
CD
[1]
(About
25 minutes; Enjoyably silly, with a kickass ballad in "To The Moon")
-
Houdini
(Michael Martin*/Michael Martin & Brian Bazala) - Demo with 5 songs:
Chris Diamantopoulos (Harry Houdini), Kristen Pfeffer (Bess Houdini) S
U
NM
CD
[1]
(About
18 minutes; Okay stuff, nothing special; Copied from an original demo CD)
-
*The
Human Comedy (Galt MacDermot/William Dumaresq*) - Studio Demo with
4 songs S NM
[1]
(Cast unknown; Not bad)
-
In That Valley
(Richard Oberacker*/Steven Minning & Richard Oberacker) - Demo with
22 songs: Jessica Hendy (Jenny Wiley), Chris Diamantopoulos (Thomas Wiley),
Patrick Noe (Tice Harmon), James Falls (Red Coat), Mark Jacoby (Tice Harmon),
Alice Ripley (Jenny Wiley), Stephen Bogardus (Thomas Wiley), Darren Mathias
(Henry Scaggs), Natalie Collins (Martha Scaggs), Sally Ann Tumas (Jean
Scaggs), Scott Coulter (James Scaggs), Perry Silverbird (Black Wolf), Frank
Anderson (Henry Scaggs) S U
NM
CD
[1]
(About
70 minutes; Jacoby, Bogardus, and Anderson each only appear on one track,
Ripley on two; Great score, perfect sound; Copied from an original demo
CD)
-
*In
The Beginning
(Maury Yeston*/David Hahn) - Demo with 13 songs: Victoria
Clark, Brian d'Arcy James, Martin Moran R
S
U
NM
CD
[1]
(43
Minutes; Complete/Exact cast unknown; Much better copy than the one one
mostly circulating, with the correct version of "New Words" (d'Arcy James'
version instead of Liz Callaway's version); Yeston's Bible musical;
Some excellent stuff)
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The IT Girl
(Paul McKibbins/BT McNicholl/BT McNicholl & Michael Small) - Demo with
9 songs (8 different): Alicia Miller (Betty Lou Spence), John Halmi (Jonathan
Waltham), Randy Lake (Monty Montgomery), Lesley Blumenthal (Adela Van Norman),
Lisa Morris (Molly/Shopgirl/Various), Debbie Rubin (Shopgirl/Various) S
U
NM
CD
[1]
(About
25 minutes; Includes a second version (the closing reprise) of "It"; Copied
from an original demo CD)
-
*It's
A Bird, It's A Plan, It's Superman - 1975 - TV Soundtrack: Cast forthcoming
S
UM
NM
CD
[1]
(INCOMPLETE: Songs only; About 35 minutes; Really, really silly arrangements;
Includes the new song "This Is A Great Country")
-
Jane Eyre
(Paul Gordon/Paul Gordon + John Caird/John Caird) - Demo with about 23
songs: Marla Schaffel (Jane Eyre), Anthony Crivello (Edward Fairfax Rochester),
Martha Hawley (Mrs. Fairfax), Chad Frisque (St. John Rivers), Angela Lockett
(Helen Burns) S UM
NM
CD
[1]
(About 70 minutes; Includes some unrecorded material, including the song
"Silent Rebellion" (which was in the show in Toronto but not recorded),
and the song "This Child" (apparently cut after the Wichita production),
plus changed lyrics up the wazoo; Sounds like Crivello; The very end (last
half second, if that much) of "Children Of God" is cut off)
-
Jean Seberg
(Marvin Hamlisch/Christopher Adler/Julian Barry) - Date Unknown - Workshop?:
Cast Unknown (Cheryl Kennedy? - Jean Seberg) S?
U
NM
(A very strange work - sometimes seems almost more like a play with lengthy
songs than like a true musical; The person I got this from listed it as
a tryout under the title Jean, however I believe it may be a tape
of the Michael Bennett-directed workshop - I've heard of a tape of that
existing, and the solo piano accompaniment seems rather workshop-ish; May
be a soundboard tape; Includes the cut songs "Ever Since I Touched You"
and "Gotta Get A Partner," as well as other material changed by the time
of the London production)
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Joe! (Dan
Lipton & David Rossmer) - 3/29/99 - Industry Premiere Reading: Anthony
Rapp (Joe), Emily Loesser (Laura), Jeremy Kushnier (Noah), John Jellison
(Joe's Dad), Melissa Hart (Joe's Mom) U NM
(Occasionally hard to understand; Plot is hard to follow since stage directions
are mostly overpowered by piano; Includes some dropped material)
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Joe! (Dan
Lipton & David Rossmer) - Demo with 7 songs: Brian d'Arcy James (Joe),
John Jellison (Joe's Dad), Norm Lewis (Alarm Clock), Nancy Opel (Joe's
Mom), Kristin Chenoweth (Laura) S U
NM
CD
[1]
(About 27 minutes; Includes minor bits of dropped material; Copied from
a master CD; Strong material)
-
Joe! (Dan
Lipton & David Rossmer) - 6/18/01 - MTC 6@6 Reading: Brian d'Arcy James
(Joe), Sutton Foster (Laura Miller), Marc Kudisch (Noah Katz), Sally Mayes
(Joe's Mom), David Garrison (Joe's Dad), Duane Boutté (Dave/Various),
William Youmans (Jay Gnojeski/Various), John Bolton (Jeff/Various), Raul
Aranas (Jimmy/Various), Steven Rosen (Alarm Clock/Various), Ashley Rose
Orr (The Kid/Various), Ann Arvia (Prostitute/Various), Timothy A. Fitz-Gerald
(Long Distance Guy/Various), Stacie Morgain Lewis (Elevator/Various) U
2CD
(Some clipping on loud portions, but not much, and some parts are kinda
quiet (and, through no fault of my own, it's almost impossible to hear
some of the lines sung by the audience during "Don't Let The End Of Act
One Ruin Act Two"; Really hilarious show, and a much better recording than
the 3/29/99 reading
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*Kept
(Henry Krieger/Bill Russell*) - 5/25/01 - First Reading, Laurie Beechman
Theatre, Westbank Café: Julia Murney (Caleigh), Kane Alexander (Ian
Foster), Jeff McCarthy (Marshall Fiske), Karen Murphy (Mrs. Foster), Mary
Testa (Brigitte), Josh Prince (Blake) U
2CD
RESTRICTED
TRADE (Well-done (although in need of revision)
update of Camille; Kickass songs and performances; Fantastic sound,
except for during the opening number ("Rush"), but I screwed with my mic
during the applause; Includes a pre-show speech by Russell)
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Kermit, Prince
Of Denmark (Robert Lopez & Jeff Marks) - Demo with seven songs
(six different) S U
NM
CD
[1]
(Occasionally
hilariously funny Mupptized version of Hamlet; Includes two versions
of "Without You"; Performers unknown; About 21 minutes; On CD with demo
of Avenue Q and six other various cuts by the same composers; Sound
varies throughout whole disc; Copied from an original demo CD)
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Kicks: The
Showgirl Musical (Alan Menken/Tom Eyen*) - Full Length Composer Demo
with 21 definable songs and a whole lot of recitative S
U
NM
[1]
(Score is very interesting, but it's obvious why the show never went anywhere;
Runs approximately 105 minutes)
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Kingdom Come:
A Disco. A Musical (Joshua Z. Kant/Stephen Tomac*) - Demo with
4 songs: Anthony Rapp, Tony Capone, Niki Davis, Carla Hargrove, Randy Redd,
Jeanne Kant, Jamie Smith, Ginny Pike, Vaughn Fritts, Tim McCanna, Joshua
Kant. Stephen Tomac S U
NM
CD
[1]
(I've
listed all of the people listed as "performers" on the demo - it's not
stated who sings which songs, however, I figure that it's Rapp and Capone
doing "The Loser Song," Redd doing "Simon Says," and possibly Hargrove
doing "Here"; About 10 minutes; Interesting stuff, although some of the
stronger material in the show isn't on the demo; Copied from an original
demo CD)
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The Lady In
Penthouse B (Matthew Ward/Peter Napolitano*) - Demo with 10 songs:
Alix Kore (Lady Susan) S U
NM
[1] (About 40 minutes; Korey is only one one
track, rest of cast unknown; Two cuts are live; Includes the cut songs
"Only In New York" and "I'm Here To Stay")
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Lautrec
(Charles Aznavour/Charles Aznavour + Dee Shipman/Shaun McKenna) - Demo
with 7 songs: Cast unknown S U
NM
[1]
(Includes the cut song "Me" and many changed lyrics; I'm pretty sure Aznavour
himself sings two tracks; Slightly under 23 minutes)
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Liberty Smith:
The American Musical (Michael Weiner/Adam Abraham/Marc Madnick &
Eric R. Cohen) - Demo with 8 songs: David Burnham (Liberty Smith), Susan
Egan (Emily Andrews), James Gilstrap (Crispus Attucks), Norman Large (Benedict
Arnold), Andrew Makay (John André), Jason Graae (Benjamin Franklin),
Patrick Cassidy (Liberty Smith), John Barrowman (Solomon Smith), Craig
Curtis (Roger Smith), William Seymour (Paul Revere) S
U
NM
CD
[1]
(About
32 minutes; Rather nice stuff, although occasionally a bit overblown and
overly poppish; Copied from an original demo CD)
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The Life
(Cy Coleman/Ira Gasman/Cy Coleman & Ira Gasman) - 8/13/90 - Workshop,
Westbeth Theatre Center: Pamela Isaacs (Queen), Lillias White (Sonja),
Chuck Cooper (Memphis), Edwin Louis Battle (Fleetwood), Lori Fischer (Mary),
Larry Marshall (Lacy), Bill Buell (Harry), Alde Lewis, Jr. (Bobby), D.
Drake (Crystal) UM NM
[1]
<1G>
(INCOMPLETE: Songs only with some dialogue; Includes the cut songs "Reefer
Man," "Signifyin' Monkey," and "Lucky Me," very different versions of "Check
It Out!" and its reprise (here much longer at the beginning and titled
"The Street"), "Piece Of The Action" (includes several sections of recitative
sung by Fleetwood and another man, probably Jojo (Stanley W. (Wayne) Mathis),
"Don't Take Much" (split into pieces with other sections between), "Why
Don't They Leave Us Alone?" (sung just by the hookers and titled "Working
Girls"), and "Use What You Got" (used as a brief throwaway in the middle
of Act II), as well as different lyrics all over the place; Missing a bit
of "Working Girls" (only about half a line and some music) and cuts off
partway through the reprise of "The Street"; Pretty good quality, but sometimes
hard to understand and kinda distant)
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*Little
Women (Kim Oler/Alison Hubbard/Allan Knee) - Demo with 5 songs S
U
NM
CD[1]
(Cast unknown; About 14 minutes; Nice stuff - these are from the original
score, before Oler and Hubbard were kicked off the project and replaced
by Jason Howland and Mindi Dickstein)
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Mack And Mabel
(Jerry Herman*/Michael Stewart) - Studio Demo with 8 songs (7 different)
S
NM
CD
[1]
(Includes the cut song "Today I'm Gonna Think About Me" (which has since
been recorded, on Sally Mayes's solo album Boys And Girls Like You And
Me), as well as a few changed lyrics; Includes a second rendition of
"When Mabel Walks In The Room"; About 24 minutes)
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*Madame
La Gimp: Lady Of Times Square (Charles Strouse/Hal David/Thomas Meehan)
- Composer/Cast Demos with 16 songs (13 diffferent): Gillian Bevan, Simon
Green S U
NM
CD[1]
(Odd piece - unsure what it's about, apparently unproduced, and I can't
find any information about the show; About 35 minutes)
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Madly In Love
(Vernon Duke/Various/Robert Armin) - Demo with 18 songs: Karen Ziemba (Joyce),
Jay O. Sanders (Jeffrey), Tia Speros (Marcia), Brent Barrett (Henry/Jeffrey),
Denise Nolin (Ella), Stuart Zagnit (Digges), Paul Amodeo (Charlie), Robert
Armin (Mr. West) S UM
NM
CD
[1]
(About
48 minutes; Very enjoyable musical version of the movie It's Love I'm
After using songs with music by Duke; Copied from an original demo
CD)
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Mail (Michael
Rupert/Jerry Colker*) - Reading/Composer Demo with 34 songs: Michael Rupert
(Alex Berkowitz, sorta) S U
NM
[1]
(Six songs are from a studio demo, all performed by Rupert, and the rest
are apparently recorded through the sound system at a staged reading (songs
only, almost no dialogue); Includes lots of material that has since been
heavily revised, including the cut songs "You Left Me Flat," "Letter From
The Landlord," "Writing Is A Craft," "Other People," "Tentatively," "Contact
Your Mother," and "Letterland," as well as a chopped sequence of reprises
near the end of the show, along with very different versions of "It's None
Of My Business," "Junk Mail," "What Have You Been Doing For The Past Ten
Years?," "One Lost Weekend," "Pages Of My Diary," "Publish Your Book,"
and "Don't Count On It"; On the demo, Alex's name seems to be Robert, and
in the reading, it's Adam; About 78 minutes; Rest of cast of reading unknown,
and might not even be Rupert in it)
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Mata Hari
(Edward Thomas/Martin Charnin/Jerome Coopersmith) - Studio Demo with eight
songs S U NM
[1]
(About 18 minutes; Includes the cut songs "There Will Be Love Again" and
"In Madrid" and shorter, poppishly arranged versions of the other six ("I'm
Saving Myself For A Soldier," "Maman," "The Choice Is Yours," "How Young
You Were Tonight," "No More Than A Moment," and "Everyone Has Something
To Hide"))
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Marilyn!
(Mort Garson/Jacques Wilson*) - Demo with around 38 songs and some dialogue:
Cast Unkown (Stephanie Lawrence? - Norma Jean/Marilyn) S
U
NM
(A little under 105 minutes; Contains almost the entire earlier version
of the show, including quite a bit of dialogue (Among other segments, "What
Do We Do With The Girl?," "So Happy To See Me," and "It Was Not Meant To
Be" are not in the score yet); Includes the cut songs "I Do It For The
Stars" and "What About Me?," as well as other material that was cut/changed
before the London opening (such as a completely different scene centered
around Jim Dougherty in place of "What Do We Do With The Girl?" and having
Camera sing "Somewhere, A Phone Is Ringing"); Missing the first second
or so of "Did You Know Marilyn Monroe?")
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Marvin 3
AKA Falsettoland (William Finn*/William Finn & James Lapine)
- Date Unknown - Early Reading: Michael Rupeert (Marvin), Stephen Bogardus
(Whizzer), Chip Zien (Mendel), Randy Graff (Trina), Mary Testa (Dr. Charlotte),
Kay McClelland (Cordelia) (Contains massive amounts of cut material: 8
full songs ("Perfect," "Three Dates With Marvin And Whizzer: A True Story,"
"Where Has It Gone?," "Everything Will Be Alright," "I'm Not Gonna Tell
You What To Do," "I'm Not A Good Psychiatrist," "Nothing's Going To Change,"
and "If He Doesn't Want A Bar Mitzvah"), two reprises from March Of
The Falsettos ("This Has Got To Come To A Stop" and "Another Chess
Game"), and revised material that remained in the show; Just under an hour
long; Great sound, except for a few odd moments; The Jason is unknown)
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*Mary
C. Brown And The Hollywood Sign (Dory Previn) - Demo with 17 songs
S
U
NM
CD
[1]
(Cast unknown; Heavily revised version, retaining only 6 songs from the
original ("Mary C. Brown And The Hollywood Sign," "The Holy Man On Malibu
Bus Number Three," "The Midget's Lament," "Hey Mom, That's Okayo" (originally
titled "Cully Surroga He's Almost Blind"), "When A Man Wants A Woman,"
and "Starlet Starlet On The Screen") and part of a seventh tune (part of
"Three Lassies" uses the same music as "Four Quarters"); Sound and sources
for the tracks varies; About 45 minutes; Copied from an original demo CD)
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mem'rable
(Ellen Weiss*/Michael Slade) - Demo with 16 songs: Glory Crampton (Isabel
Durand), Brent Barrett (Nicholas Zorn), Barbara Walsh (Millicent Cousins),
Colin Hanlon (Teddy), John Horton (Anton Durand), Bill Parry (Richard Cousins)
S
U
NM
CD
[1]
(About
38 minutes; Nice enough stuff, but the book is better than the songs; Copied
from an original demo CD)
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*Merchandise
(Authors forthcoming) - Demo with 17 songs S
U
NM
CD
[1]
(Cast unknown; Lousy modernization of The Merchant Of Venice; Two
tracks ("My DNA" and "Merchandise") are live, and a third ("When You Let
Jessica Know") has no lyrics; About 50 minutes; Copied from an original
demo CD)
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Metro
(Janusz Stoklosa/Agata Miklaszeska & Maryna Miklaszeska + Mary Bracken
Phillips/Agata Miklaszeska & Maryna Miklaszeska + Mary Bracken Phillips
& Janusz Józefowicz) - Demo with 10 songs: OBC, apparently S
U
NM
[1]
(A little under 50 minutes; Two songs ("Metro" and "A Ja Ne" - "But Not
Me" in English) are in Polish, the rest are in English; Great sound, although
there's an odd clicking in the background at some points)
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Metropolis
(Joe Brooks/Joe Brooks & Dusty Hughes*) - Demo/Concept Album with 8
songs: Stephanie Lawrence (Maria/Futura), Michael Ball (Steven Freeman)
S
UM
NM
[1]
(About 30 minutes; INCOMPLETE: Contains selections from the unreleased
concept album; Includes the cut song "I Will Shine On"; "101.11" is shorter
and has a slightly different melody; "Hold Back The Night" is much shorter;
"It's Only Love" and "Bring On The Night" are sung as shorter solos for
Maria; The verses of "You Are The Light" are completely different; "When
Maria Wakes" has some different lyrics; "Let's Watch The World Go To The
Devil" is very different)
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Metropolis
(Joe Brooks/Joe Brooks & Dusty Hughes) - Demo/Concept Album with about
37 songs: Stephanie Lawrence (Maria/Futura), Michael Ball (Steven Freeman)
S
UM
NM
[1]
(INCOMPLETE: Act I only; I know Act II exists, because tracks from it are
on the above tape; Includes tons of material cut or changed by the
final show, including loads of recitative, lots of different lyrics, four
completely cut songs ("What A Disgrace," "At Your Machines," Old Robots,"
and "We Must Smash Up The Machines), and very different versions of "This
Is Life," "Children Of Metropolis" (there's an unrecognizable song in its
place and the tune that's now used for it is here called "Workers Of Metropolis"),
and "Metropolis")
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*Mirette
(Harvey Schmidt/Tom Jones/Elizabeth Diggs) - Demo with 12 songs: Kristin
Chenoweth S
U
NM
[1]
(Full cast unknown, and Chenoweth has a small part; May include cut material;
Nice score)
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Misery
(Bob Johnston/Bob Johnston & Jeff Hochhauser/Jeff Hochhauser) - Composer
Demo with a whole bunch of songs (All of Act I) R
S
U
NM
[1]
(Almost
freakish, mostly sung adaptation of the Stephen King novel; Really enjoyable;
Only Act I is finished so far)
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Miss Saigon
(Claude-Michel
Schönberg/Alain Boublil & Richard Maltby, Jr.*) - 24 songs: Frances
Ruffelle, Linzi Hately, Claire Moore, David Essex, Peter Kings-Berry, Claude-Michel
Schönberg S
UM
NM
[1]
(A little under 90 minutes; Sound isn't spectacular; Includes the cut songs
"Too Much For One Heart" and "What If He Doesn't Come Back Home Tonight?"
along with tons of cut lyrics; Some tracks from demo, some from unreleased
(unfinished?) concept album, some from unknown sources; Some different
recordings of the same songs; Complete/Exact cast unknown)
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Miss Spectacular
(Jerry Herman/Ken Ludwig) - Demo/Unreleased Concept Album with 13 songs:
Debbie Gravitte, Steve Lawrence, Michael Feinstein, Faith Prince, Karen
Morrow, Christine Baranski, Davis Gaines S
U
NM
CD
[1]
(Sound only comes out of one channel, and there are a few sound oddities,
but otherwise excellent sound; Kinda boring if you ask me; A little over
45 minutes)
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The Molly
Maguires (Sid Cherry*/William Strzempek) - Demo with 11 songs: Liz
Callaway (Mary), Jeff McCarthy (Kehoe) S U
NM
[1]
(About 40 minutes; Full cast unknown; Nice Celtic-based score)
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My Favorite
Year (Stephen Flaherty/Lynn Ahrens/Joseph Dougherty) - Demo with 5
songs: Jason Graae (Benjy Stone) S UM
NM
[1]
(About 26 minutes; No cast list, other than Graae; Includes the cut song
"The Writer Saves The Day" as well as a longer version of "The Musketeer
Sketch" and a slightly different "Twenty Million People"; May be incomplete)
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The Mystery
Of Edwin Drood (Rupert Holmes) - Staged reading with most of later
OBC: Betty Buckley (Edwin Drood), Howard McGillin (John Jasper), George
Rose(?), Cleo Laine (Princess Puffer), Patty Cohenour(? - Rosa Bud) S
UM
NM
3CD
(Includes the cut songs "There'll Be England Again" (and a closing reprise),
"When The Wicked Man Comes," "Sapsea's Song," "I Wouldn't Say No," "When
Shall These Three Meet Again?," and "Evensong," along with "A British Subject"
(which didn't make either version of the cast album and may have been cut),
and "Dick Datchery Exposed" and the reprise of "Perfect Strangers" (neither
of which made the album because they changed depending on the audience's
choices of detective and lovers); Sound is a little screwy for the first
few minutes of Side B of Tape I (which includes about half of "The Wages
Of Sin"); Runs about five or ten minutes too long to fit on two 80 minute
CDs, so I had to do it on three 74s)
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Napoleon
(Timothy Williams/Andrew Sabiston/Timothy Williams & Andrew Sabiston)
- Demo with 18 songs: Cast unknown S UM
NM
[1]
(Apart from a few different lyrics, seems almost identical to the Toronto
album, and may be the same cast (led by Jerôme Pradon))
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Nickleby
(James Bassi/Richard Lollo/Unknown) - Demo with 3 songs: Ann Crumb S
U
NM
CD
[1]
(About
9 minutes; Full cast unknown; Rather lousy; On CD with Day Of The Locust
and songs from two other Bassi/Lollo works)
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The Night
They Raided Minsky's (Charles Strouse/Susan Birkenhead/Evan Hunter)
- Demo with approximately 26 songs: Brent Baarrett (Billy Minsky), Marin
Mazzie (Mary), Debbie Gravitte S U
NM
CD
[1]
(53 minutes; Fully orchestrated and performed by a full cast - sounds like
a full-on cast album; The last note or two of some songs are cut off)
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*No,
No, Nanette (Vincent Youmans/Various/Otto Harbach & Frank Mandel
+ Burt Shevelove) - Buster Davis' Demo, 17 songs S
UM
NM
[1]
(Tape of Buster Davis playing various songs, mostly fragments, that may
have been in the show at one time or considered for inclusion in the revision;
Five cut songs; Under 45 minutes)
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Notes To MariAnne
(Dan Lipton & David Rossmer) - Composer Demo of 8 songs from Act I
S
U
NM
CD
[1]
(About
20 minutes; Six songs performed by Rossmer, two by Lipton; Very strange
material (completely different from
Joe!), but interesting)
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*O.
Henry's Lovers (Michael Valenti/Joe DiPietro*) - Demo with 8 songs:
Mitch Daniels, Kevin Gray, Kelli Rabke, KT Sullivan, Melissa Weil, Michael
Valenti S
U
NM
CD
[1]
(Nice stuff, based on a couple of O. Henry stories; About 25 minutes; Copied
from an original demo CD)
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Observation
Deck (Richard Pearson Thomas*/No Book) - Demo with 11 songs: Lauren
Ward, Michael Winther, Theresa McCarthy S
U
NM
CD
[1]
(About
40 minutes; Not so much a demo of a show but a demo of songs written by
Pearson Thomas, as performed in a Lincoln Center concert (by this title
and with these performers); Some excellent stuff (particularly "A Love
Song Has To Rhyme," "Love Was," and "Just Another Hour"); Some minor sonic
oddities on a few tracks; Transferred from an original demo tape)
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Of Mice And
Men (No Score/John Steinbeck) - 7/31/00 - Roundabout Reading, American
Airlines Theatre: Michael Hayden (George), Michael Gaston (Lenny), Ralph
Waite (Candy), Don Chastain (The Boss), Tricia Paoluccio (Curly's Wife)
(NOT A MUSICAL; Missing some stage directions at the flips)
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Once Around
The City (Robert Reale/Willie Reale*) - Demo/Live with 14 songs: Performers
unknown S? U
NM
[1]
(About 45 minutes; Possibly Albert Schultz as David; Some cuts are from
some sort of live performance, others seem to be studio; All but one cut
are perfectly clear; Includes three songs ("Neat Little Package Deal,"
"No Regrets," and "I'm In Love With You") that were cut before the NYS&F
production, as well as two more songs ("Best Of All, You" and "Hot In Here")
that were cut before New York and a longer version of the reprise of "Shelter,"
which was eventually dropped during New York previews)
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Over And Over
(John Kander/Fred Ebb/Joseph Stein) - Composer Demo with 20 songs S
U
NM
[1]
(Just over an hour; Includes several songs that were dropped before or
during the Signature Theatre production, but since that show changed nightly,
I'm not sure of which songs never made it in; Possible cut outs include
"Prologue: Freeport, New Jersey," "Warm," "What For?," and "No One Can
Say That But Me")
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Paper Moon
(Larry Grossman/Ellen Fitzhugh/Martin Casella) - 1990 - Reading: Gregory
Harrison (Moses Pray), Christine Ebersole(? - Miss Trixie Delight) S?
U
NM
[1]
(INCOMPLETE: Songs only with a little dialogue; Includes the cut songs
"Double-Dumb Fool," "Old Georgette," "Alabama Family," and "For Love Or
Money")
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Pete'N'Keely
(Various*/James Hindman) - Demo with 11 songs: Sally Mayes (Keely), George
Dvorsky (Pete) (About 30 minutes; Includes several songs written for the
show (Patrick Brady/Mark Waldrop) as well as several standards)
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*Pipe
Dream (Richard Rodgers/Oscar Hammerstein II*) - Rarities: Judy Blazer,
Mary Testa S NM
[1]
(Only two songs - Blazer sings "Everybody's Got A Home but Me" and Testa
sings "Sweet Thursday" with an unidentified chorus; Source unknown; Under
6 minutes)
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A Pray By
Blecht AKA The Exception And The Rule (Leonard Bernstein/Stephen
Sondheim/John Guare) - 1968 - Backers' Audition: Stephen Sondheim, Leonard
Bernstein S? U
NM
CD
[1]
(Essentially incomprehensible - Sondheim and Bernstein pretty much babbling
for 48 minutes)
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*Prodigal
Son AKA Prodigal (Matthew Frank/Dean Bryant*) - Demo with 17
songs S U
NM
CD
[1]
(Cast unknown; A great Australian musical premiering off-Broadway later
this season; Includes the cut songs "Where Is He?" and "Compromise," as
well as other bits that have been rewritten)
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Quasimodo
(Larry Grossman/Hal Hackady/Anthony Scully) - 1978 - Backers' Audition:
Hal Hackady(?), Laura Kenyon U NM
[1]
(12 songs from the score sung by Hackady (could be Grossman, but I've heard
him sing and it doesn't sound like him - granted, I heard him 22 years
after this was recorded) and Kenyon, with narration provided by producer
Lorin E. Price; Okay sound (much better on most songs); About 55 minutes)
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Quasimodo
(Byron Janis/Hal Hackady/Anthony Scully?) - Studio demo of later version
(after Grossman left the project) with 9 songs (8 different) U
NM
[1]
(Cast unknown; About 23 minutes; Lyrics for four songs ("Welcome To Paris,"
"Like Any Man," "In His Eyes," and "All That's Left Of Love") are mostly
held over from the earlier version)
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Raggedy Ann
(Joe Raposo*/William Gibson) - Demo with 21 songs U
NM
(Cast unknown; About 45 minutes; Includes the songs "Mexico," "Never Get
Away," "Would You Like A Little Music?," and "Do You Still Remember?,"
all of which were cut before the ill-fated Broadway production, along with
a different version of "I Come Riding; Small parts are missing from "Welcome
To L.A."/"Diagnosis (Reprise)" and the instrumental before "Carry On (Reprise)";
Some of it is actually (*gasp*) appealing)
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Ragtime
(Stephen Flaherty/Lynn Ahrens/Terrence McNally) - Date Unknown - First
Reading, Toronto: Brian Stokes Mitchell (Coalhouse Walker, Jr.), Donna
Murphy (Mother), Joel Grey (Tateh), Audra McDonald (Sarah), Susan Egan
(Evelyn Nesbit) S? UM
NM
(Quiet but clear; May be from the soundboard; During parts of Act II (particularly
the end sequence), there seems to be something else coming out of the right
channel; Includes lots of cut material - tons of changed dialogue, three
removed songs ("The Girl On The Swing" (later replaced by "Crime Of The
Century"), "Buy A Silhouette" (replaced by "Success," although the music
remains as the intro to "Gliding"), and "Look What You've Done" (which
remains vestigially but was originally a very long duet for Coalhouse and
Booker T. Washington), along with a brief removed bit for The Little Boy
at the top of Act II), many removed reprises, a completely different intro
to "Wheels Of A Dream," and different lyrics to many songs; Missing
the beginning of "What A Game!" and part of the finale; Complete cast unknown)
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*Revenge
Of The Bride Of The Werewolf (and other musicals) (Bruce Pomahac/Michael
Glenn Smith*) - Demo with 26 songs: Julie-Ann Liechty (Miss F/Leda/Sidora/Various),
Michael Fabbro (Harry DeReves/Hermes/Bernardo/ Carlo/Various), Ray DeMattis
(Rich/Various), Christiane Noll (Leda), Bob Frisch (Tyndareus/Various),
Carole Monferdini (Sidora's Mother/Various) S
U
NM
CD[1]
(Interesting trio of short musical one-acts; Noll sings only one song;
About 53 minutes; Copied from an original demo CD)
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The Rink
(John Kander/Fred Ebb/Terrence McNally) - Composer Demo with 22 songs S
UM
NM
[1]
(A little under 72 minutes; Includes the cut songs "A Postcard," "In Lecce
Bella," "Eight Ducks"/"One Of Those Moments," "Yesterday Is Yesterday"
(originally from Golden Gate), "Only In The Movies" (completely
different from the same-titled song in Kiss Of The Spider Woman),
"Murphy's Law," and "When The Antonellis Were Here," along with very different
versions of "Under The Rollercoaster," "What Happened To The Old Days?"
and "Coda," not to mention some changed lyrics (notably in "All The Children
In A Row"); Some minor fuzziness from generation loss, but generally quite
good; Interesting to listen to all of cut stuff, all of which seems to
be in Act II)
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The Rhythm
Club (Matt Sklar/Chad Beguelin*) - Demo with seven songs: Brian D'Arcy
James (Jake Beck), Alice Ripley (Petra Wolff), Roger Bart (Adam Gernstein),
Michele Pawk, Vicki Clark, Brent Barrett (John Gernstein), Christiane Noll
(Petra Wolff), Christ Diamantopoulos (Adam Gernstein) R
S
U
NM
CD[1]
(This is the third of four (known) demos - it combines tracks from the
second demo (ten tracks - as yet unfound) with three tracks recorded later;
Great sound, and I love this score; Pawk and Clark play Miriam Gernstein
and Anna Wolff, but I'm not sure which one plays which)
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*The
Road to Hollywood (Michael Pace & Rob Preston*/Walter Bobbie &
Michael Pace) - Demo with 15 songs: David Carroll (Tappy Butler), Gregg
Edelman (Beau Hartman), Randy Graff (Princess Dorothy Of Loumania), Zora
Rasmussen (Diva Rita), Steven Skybell (Mr. Fritz), Becky Baker (Babs),
Nancy Myers (Toots), Avril Gentiles (Queen Minnie Of Loumania), Fyvush
Finkel (Shiny Eisenberg), Terry Mann (Frankie Francado) S
U
NM
[1]
(About 41 minutes; Includes the cut song "55 Cities (In 55 Days)" as well
as some dropped portions of other songs; Copied from an original demo CD)
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*The
Road to Hollywood (Michael Pace & Rob Preston*/Walter Bobbie &
Michael Pace) - 8/4/01 - Workshop, The Old Barn Theatre, Eugene O'Neill
Center, Waterford, CT: Tom Plotkin (Tappy Butler), Jonathan Dokuchitz (Beau
Hartman), Laura Benanti (Princess Dorothy Of Loumania), Debbie Gravitte
(Diva Rita), Jeff Blumenkrantz (Mr. Fritz), Jenny Hill (Babs), Rosalind
Brown (Toots), Janie Sell Trese (Queen Minnie Of Loumania), P.J. Benjamin
(Shiny Eisenberg), Marc Kudisch (Frankie Francado) U
2CD
(Amusing
spoof of/homage to the Bing Crosby/Bob Hope road movies of the 40s; Nicely
scored, and wonderfully performed by a perfect cast; Includes the cut song
"55 Cities (In 55 Days)" and its reprise)
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Roza (Gilbert
Becaud/Julian More*) - Composer Demo with 11 songs (10 Different) U
NM
(About 42 minutes; Includes three completely cut songs ("The Lion And The
Lamb," "Looking After Ourselves," and "Meet Me Halfway"), along with "The
World Belongs To Crazy People," which was folded into "Merci"; Includes
two different versions of "House In Algiers"; Sung mostly by Becaud - some
of the songs (particularly "House In Algiers" and "Don't Make Me Laugh")
sound somewhat silly sung by men)
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Saturday
Night (Stephen Sondheim*/Julius J. Epstein + Arte Johnson) - 1954 -
Backers' Audition: Jack Cassidy (Gene), Leila Martin (Helen), Arte Johnson
(Bobby), Alice Ghostley (Celeste) S UM
NM
[1]
(About
56 minutes; Includes longer versions of "Class" and "That Kind Of A Neighborhood"
and a different finale)
-
*Say
Yes! (Wally Harper/Sherman Yellen*) - Demo with 17 songs S
U
NM
CD
[1]
(Cast unknown; Generally uninteresting World's Fair-set musical; About
53 minutes; Copied from an original demo CD)
-
*The
Screams Of Kitty Genovese (Will Todd/David Simpatico*) - Full Show
Demo: Juliet Lambert (Kitty Genovese), Craig Rubano (Winston Moseley),
Julia Murney, Jerry Dixon (Baby) S
U
NM
CD
[1]
(About 66 minutes; Intelligent although difficult quasi-operatic piece
about the infamous Kitty Genovese murder; Workshopped at the O'Neill Center
in the summer of 2000, and this demo is based on that workshop - I'm in
the process of hopefully acquiring a full cast list; Not very well indexed
at the moment)
-
Searching
For Y (Edward Thomas/Jon Marans*) - Demo with 10 songs: Gregg Edelman
(Ken Marcus) S U
NM
CD
[1]
(About
31 minutes; Possibly Lillias White as Sharon Groomes; Perfect sound, very
strong score)
-
The
Secret Garden (Lucy Simon/Marsha Norman*) - Demo/Live with 12 songs
- Daisy Eagan (Mary Lennox), Patti Cohenour (Lily Craven), Mandy Patinkin
(Archibald Craven), Robert Westenberg (Neville Craven), Alison Fraser (Martha)
S
UM
NM
(Combines
a demo with some live performances; Includes a different version of "It's
A Maze")
-
Serafina
(Jule Styne/Leslie Bricusse/Unknown) - Composer Demos with 17 songs S
U
NM
[1]
(Unproduced (and with good reason) musical version of Tennessee Williams's
play The Rose Tattoo; Two songs ("Rosario" and "Who Needs It?")
have no lyrics yet; About 55 minutes)
-
Seussical
(Stephen Flaherty/Lynn Ahrens/Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty + Eric
Idle) - 1999 (July or August) - Workshop, Toronto: Kevin Chamberlin (Horton
The Elephant), Andrea Martin (The Cat In The Hat), Janine LaManna (Gertrude
McFuzz), Michele Pawk (Mayzie LaBird), Sharon Wilkins (The Sour Kangaroo/Various),
Stuart Zagnit (The Mayor Of Whoville/Various), Alice Playten (Mrs. Mayor/The
Lorax), Erick Devine (General Genghis Kahn Schmitz/Various) S
UM
NM
(Includes the cut songs "Running The Show," "McElligott's Pool," "The Whos'
Christmas Pageant," and "The Lorax," as well as a completely different
"Mayzie In Palm Beach" and some changed/cut lyrics and segments;
Almost identical, material-wise, to my Boston audio; Missing the first
few lines of "Oh, The Thinks You Can Think!" and small portions of "Chasing
The Whos" and "The Lorax")
-
Seussical
(Stephen Flaherty/Lynn Ahrens/Lynn Ahrens & Stephen Flaherty + Eric
Idle) - 4/00 - Group Sales Presentation, Richard Rodgers Theatre: Kevin
Chamberlin (Horton The Elephant), Andrea Martin (The Cat In The Hat), Janine
LaManna (Gertrude McFuzz), Michele Pawk (Mayzie LaBird), Sharon Wilkins
(The Sour Kangaroo), Stuart Zagnit (The Mayor Of Whoville), Alice Playten
(Mrs. Mayor) UM NM
CD
[1]
(Sound isn't great; 40-minute-long compression of Act I; Includes the cut
songs "I'm Running The Show" and "McElligott's Pool," and some different
lyrics, and a first act finale which may have never been actually used
in the show (using "Solla Salew" and a reprise of "Oh, The Thinks You Can
Think!" similar to the one at the end of the full show))
-
Shogun (Paul
Chihara/John Driver*) - Demo with 14 songs: Peter Karrie (John Blackthorne),
June Angela (Mariko), Francis Ruivivar (Toranaga) S
U
NM
[1]
(Includes
the cut song "Yin Together With Yang"; Company believed to be OBC)
-
The Showgirl
Of 52nd Street (John Kroner/Charles Leipart) - Demo with 10 songs:
Mimi Hines (Billie Shay), Karen Murphy (Young Billie/Billie Shay/Mama),
Kerry O'Malley (Young Billie), Stephen Berger (Papa/Various), Darin Baker
(Joe/Various), Sally Wilfert (Young Billie), Karen Mason (Billie Shay),
Bryan Batt (Johnny Lazarus), Lawrence Clayton (Buddy Cole/Various) S
U
NM
CD
[1]
(About
42 minutes; Consists primarily of songs from Act I, with one from Act II
("All That I Am"); Copied from an original demo disc)
-
Side Show
(Henry
Krieger/Bill Russell*) - 1996 - Workshop, Richard Rodgers Theatre: Alice
Ripley (Violet Hilton), Emily Skinner (Daisy Hilton), Jeff McCarthy (Terry
Turner), Danny Gurwin (Buddy Sawyer), James Stovall (Jake), Ken Jennings(?
- Boss Meyers) >S UM
NM
(Includes
many changes and the cut songs "What Would That Be Like?," "Brother, Brother,"
"Ready To Play," "Two Gems In A Single Shell" (a different second act opening
that has some music in common with "Rare Songbirds On Display"), "Stuck
With You," "They Hardly Know I'm Around," and "She's Gone"; Complete cast
unknown)
-
The Singing
(Daniel Levy/Daniel Levy & Lenora Champagne/Lenora Champagne) - 10/2/98
- Reading, New Dramatists: Gregory Purnhagenn (Michael Ecks), Karen Burlingame
(Claire Ecks), Barbara Tirrell (Mrs. Ecks), Michael Lofton (Mr. Ecks),
Peter Jay Fernandez (The Preacher), Nick Wyman (Johnson, The General),
Steven Ratazzi (The Doctor), Rick Adamson (Philips, The CIA Man) S
U
NM
2CD
(Essentially
a studio album - perfect sound and no audible audience noise; Includes
some material dropped or changed before the 10/99 York Theatre reading;
Copied from a set of original demo CDs)
-
*Shoot!
- a musical in 36 exposures (Brooks Cowaan/Jeff Matson*) - Demo with
8 songs (Cast unknown; Not very good at all; About 23 minutes; Copied from
an original demo CD)
-
*The
Southpaw (Harold Rome*/Unknown) - Composer/Studio Demo with 8 songs
(7 different) S U
NM
CD
[1]
(Cast unknown; Includes two versions of "Henry," one by Rome and one by
an unknown singer; Pretty nice stuff; Unproduced; About 22 minutes)
-
The Spitfire
Grill (James Valcq/Fred Alley/James Valcq & Fred Alley) - Demo
with six songs S U
NM
CD[1]
(Cast unknown, but probably Garrett Long as Percy; Slightly muffled sound;
Nice songs; Includes the cut song "I Thought I Knew"; About 21 minutes)
-
Star Wars
(Charles Strouse/Unknown*) - Demo with 2 songs: Chuck Wagner, Nicola Boyer
S
U
NM
[1]
(Very... interesting; Supposedly, there's a full-length version
of this that has never "escaped")
-
Stealing
(Ada Janik*/Ted Sod) - Demo/Reading with 13 songs - Mary Testa, Vicki Lewis,
Tonya Pinkins, Willy Falk, Rita Gardner, Tico Wells S
U
NM
[1]
(About 46 minutes; Some tracks are studio demos, others quiet and often
unlistenable live recordings assumably from the 1985 O'Neill Center reading;
Undistinguished score, except for one pretty song called "Bird On A Wire"
and the title song, which is catchy for two minutes and then boring for
another eight and a half)
-
*Suburb
(Robert S. Cohen/David Javerbaum/Robert S. Cohen & David Javerbaum)
- Demo with 9 songs: Alix Korey (Rhoda Ravittch), Reathel Bean, Nancy Anderson
(Alison) R
S
UNM
CD
[1]
(Full cast possibly forthcoming; A great score, although there's a lot
more of it than is on this recording; About 38 minutes; Copied from an
original demo CD)
-
Summer Of
'42 (David Kirshenbaum*/Hunter Foster) - Demo with 23 songs: Alice
Ripley (Dorothy), Jeremy Kushnier (Oscy) R
S
UNM
CD
[1]
(About 69 minutes; Full cast coming shortly; Just got a new copy of this,
copied from an original demo CD; Includes lots of cut/changed material,
including the cut songs "Right Where You Should Be," "I Think I Love Her,"
and "Home At Last" (incidentally, that last one is fantastic), a much longer
"Less Than Perfect," a lengthy chopped intro to "Losing Track Of Time"
(here sung in Act I, before "The Movies"), a shorter version of "The Movies,"
and lotsa cut/changed lyrics)
-
Summer Of
'42 (David Kirshenbaum*/Hunter Foster) - 10/30/00 - Roundabout
Reading, American Airlines Theatre: Ryan Driscoll (Hermie), Idina Menzel
(Dorothy), Brett Tabisel (Oscy), Jason Marcus (Benjie), Megan Walker (Miriam),
Bill Kux (Mr. Sanders/Walter Winchell), Celia Keenan-Bolger (Aggie), Jeanne
Goodman (Gloria), Matt Farnsworth (Pete/Singer) R
U
(Highest
possible recommendation: really wonderful, with some magnificently gorgeous
music; Has some changes since Goodspeed: "Losing Track Of Time" has been
moved to Act I (replacing "Less Than Perfect") and "Story So Far" has replaced
it in Act II, there are some lyric and dialogue changes here and there,
the reprise of "The Terrible Trio" after "Will That Ever Happen To Me?"
has ben cut, and "Unfinished Business" has been moved to after "Little
Did I Dream"; Includes an opening speech from Roundabout's Julia Levy)
-
Svengali (Frank
Wildhorn/Gregory Boyd*) - Demo with 11 songs: Linda Eder (Trilby), Dave
Clemmons (Svengali/Billie) S U
NM
[1]
CD
(41
minutes; Sometimes reputed to be unreleased concept album, but it's not;
Includes several songs that didn't make it to the final version of the
show as presented in Houston; There's at least one singer who is unidentified)
-
Sweeney Todd:
The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street (Stephen Sondheim*/Hugh Wheeler) -
Composer Demos with 23 songs S
UM
NM
[1]
CD
(Just under 80 minutes, including some narration; Some different lyrics
in various places, including a cut verse of "Poor Thing" and quite a few
changes in "Pirelli's Miracle Elixir"; Sondheim sounds pretty awful on
this recording, but it's enjoyable hearing him sing all the parts in "God,
That's Good!"; Most of the lyrics for "Not While I'm Around" had yet to
be written at this point)
-
Sweet Smell
Of Success (Marvin Hamlisch/Craig Carnelia/John Guare) - Composer/Cast
Demos with 25 songs: Brian D'Arcy James (Sidney Falco), Craig Carnelia
(JJ Hunsecker/Dallas Cochran) Lauren Ward (Susan Hunsecker), Stacey Logan
(Rita) R S
U
NM
[1]
CD
(Amazing score, amazing quality; Just under 80 minutes; Not recommended
for people who haven't seen the movie)
-
*Take
Flight (David Shire/Richard Maltby, Jr./Marsha Norman) - 8/4/01 - Workshop,
The Old Barn Theatre, Eugene O'Neill Center, Waterford, CT: Christiane
Noll (Amelia Earhart), Jack Noseworthy (Charles Lindbergh), Kevin Gray
(George Putnam), Daniel Jenkins (Wilbur Wright), Steven Sutcliffe (Orville
Wright), Rita Harvey (Anne Morrow/Various), John Jellison (Various), Timothy
A. Fitz-Gerald (Various), Frank Mastrone (Various), Matthew Jones (Various),
Christa Justus (Various) R U
2CD
(Extraordinary piece that weaves together the stories of Earhart, Lindbergh,
and the Wright brothers; Superbly written and performed, with a score totally
unlike anything else that Maltby and Shire have written; A bit of clipping
on some very loud moments (pretty much just the beginning of the show and
the end of both acts))
-
The Tenants
Of 3R (Stephen Hoffman/Mark Campbell/Stephen Hoffman, Mark Campbell,
& Susan Einhorn) - Full show demo with 23 songs: Evalyn Baron, Catherine
Cox S U NM
[1]
(Full
cast unknown; Ambitious, interesting concept musical about all the people
who live in a single apartment over the course of the 20th century; About
70 minutes)
-
*Tevye
AKA Fiddler On The Roof (Jerry Bock/Sheldon Harnick/Joseph Stein)
- Composer Demos with 16 songs S UM
NM
[1]
CD
(Includes the cut songs "We've Never Missed A Sabbath Yet," "What A Life,"
"A Butcher Has No Heart," ""How Much Richer Could One Man Be?," "Papa,
Please," "If I Were A Woman," "Dear, Sweet Sewing Machine," "Get Thee Out,"
and "When Messiah Comes," along with a very different "Anatevka" and a
longer "Chava"; Some sonic imperfections; An interesting listen; About
52 minutes)
-
Theda Bara
And The Frontier Rabbi (Bob Johnston/Bob Johnston & Jeff Hochhauser/Jeff
Hochhauser) - Compilation of demos and live performances: Cast unknown
except for Liz Larsen on one track S U
NM
[1]
(Silly and incomprehensible, but fun; Seems to cover the whole score, without
all the dialogue; Apparently includes some cut songs)
-
Time And Again
(Walter Edgar Kennon*/Jack Viertel) - Demo with 20 songs: Howard McGillin
(Si Morley), Rebecca Luker (Julia Charbonneau), Jessica Molaskey (Kate
Mancuso) S U
NM
[1]
(About an hour; Part of "What Of Love?" is missing; Includes the cut songs
"Quibodet," "Einstein's Propositions," "When Mama Met Papa," "Fairy Tale
Life," and "You're Mine"/"Modern Romance," and has different versions of
other songs))
-
Thoroughly
Modern Millie (Various + Jeanine Tesori/Various + Dick Scanlan/Richard
Morris & Dick Scanlan) - Workshop 10/99 - Lamb's Theatre: Kristin Chenoweth
(Millie Dilmount), David Campbell (Jimmy Smith), Bea Arthur (Mrs. Meers),
Marc Kudisch (Trevor Graydon), Amanda Serkasevich (Miss Dorothy Brown),
Yvette Cason (Muzzy), Francis Jue (Bun Foo), Ken Leung (Ching Ho) S
UM
NM
[1]
CD
(INCOMPLETE: Songs only with some dialogue; Other than a skip during "Operator
Lingo (Reprise)" and some static/noise here and there, sound is extremely
clear, if a bit quiet; Includes bunches of cut material, including the
songs "I Want To Be An Actor Lady" and "Chuck It, John")
-
Twist Of Fate
(Ron Abel/Lissa Levin*) - Demo with 14 songs: Debbie Gravitte (Dominique
St. Marie), Michelle Nicastro R S
U
NM
CD
[1]
(Full
cast unknown; About 46 minutes; Copied from an original demo CD; Very striking
score and plot - about gypsy fortune tellers in 1970s LA (although that
simplifies it a lot); A few minor sonic oddities)
-
*UG
(Rick Rhodes/Jim Geoghan, Vivian Rhodes, & Rick Rhodes/Jim Geoghan)
- Demo with 16 songs S
U
NM
CD
[1]
(An enjoyable listen - about a caveman who accidentally invents theatre;
Possibly performed by the authors; About 51 minutes; Copied from an original
demo CD)
-
Vanity And
Vexation AKA Normal (Tom Kochan/Yvonne Adrian & Cheryl Stern)
- Demo with 11 songs: Barbara Walsh (Gayla),, Adam Heller (Robert), Erin
Leigh Peck (Polly), Jeff Skowron (Zachary), Rita Gardner (Woman #1), Susan
Mansur (Woman #2), Shannon Polly (Woman #3) (Copied from an original demo
CD; About 29 minutes; Strange but interesting - seems to be about the effects
on a family of the daughter's illness)
-
Violet
(Jeanine Tesori/Brian Crawley*) - Demo with 10 songs: Michael McElroy (Flick)
S
U
NM
[1]
CD
(McElroy's is the only voice I recognize, but it stands to reason that
the other singers are also the OOBC (Lauren Ward, Michael Park, others);
About 35 minutes; Includes the cut song "Close Our Eyes"; "Surprised" has
some different lyrics and a different ending and "You're Different" has
slightly different lyrics)
-
Wait For Me,
World (John Kander/Fred Ebb/Unknown) - Composer Demos with 12 songs
(11 different) S
U
NM
[1]
CD
(About 38 minutes; Unproduced musical about the life of Horatio Alger;
Sound quality varies from track to track; Two songs were later recycled
- "I Can't Do That Anymore" was used in the revised version of 70, Girls,
70 and "It's The Strangest Thing" was used in The Act)
-
*A
Wee Bit O'Scotch (Harold Rome*/Edward Chodorov) - Composer/Studio Demos
with 17 songs: Harold Rome, Rose Marie Jun S
U
NM
[1]
CD
(Not very good; Unproduced musical based on an obscure William Gilbert
play; Passable sound; About 52 minutes)
-
*What
A Piece Of Work Is Dan! (Daniel Shamir/Richard Looney + Daniel Shamir
+ William Shakespeare/Richard Looney) - Demo with 5 songs S
U
NM
[1]
CD
(Cast unknown; An odd, none-too-good musical about a guy trying to write
a Shakespeare-based musical; About 14 minutes; Copied from an original
demo CD)
-
*What
A Piece Of Work Is Dan! (Daniel Shamir/Richard Looney + Daniel Shamir
+ William Shakespeare/Richard Looney) - Demo with 7 songs (6 different)
S
U
NM
[1]
CD
(Cast unknown; An odd, none-too-good musical about a guy trying to write
a Shakespeare-based musical; Some different cuts from the above recording;
Includes a remix of "To Be Or Not To Be"; About 21 minutes; Copied from
an original demo CD)
-
Whatever Happened
To Baby Jane? (Lee Pockriss/Hal Hackady/Henry Farrell) - Demo with
eight songs: Alix Korey (Jane Hudson), Kim Criswell (Blanche Hudson) S
U
NM
[1]
(Just under 32 minutes; Some amusing/interesting material, particularly
"Talent" and "Four Walls"; Other performers unknown; Some minor sound oddities,
but generally fine)
-
Wicked City
AKA Oedipus, Private Eye (Matt Sklar/Chad Beguelin*) - Demo with
6 songs: Michele Pawk (Jo), Brian d'Arcy James (Eddie Kane), Capathia Jenkins
(Madame Teresa), Jan Maxwell R S
U
NM
CD
[1]
(About
15 minutes; Great stuff; Copied from an original demo CD)
-
The Wild Party
(Andrew
Lippa) - 8/97 - Second Reading, O'Neill Center, CT: Julia Murney (Queenie),
Norm Lewis (Black), Kristin Chenoweth (Mae), Alix Korey (Madelaine True),
Jeff Edgerton (one of the Brothers D'Armano, probably Oscar) S
UM
NM
[1]
(Includes the cut songs "One In A Million" and "When I First Met Him,"
plus a very different and much longer "Queenie Was A Blonde" (sung primarily
by Black, it seems), and lots of cut/changed lyrics and material); Missing
two small bits at the beginning of Side B (one of which cuts off the beginning
of "What Is It About Her?"), then cuts off in the middle of "Jackie's Last
Dance"; Kind of mixed on this one - sound is generally good, but sometimes
very quiet, and there are the dropouts, but then again there's also the
cut/changed material - it's worth having, I'd say; The first of the dropouts
seems to be a flip, and it's at 57 minutes in, which leads me to believe
that there's a complete version of this out there and that someone back
up the line was lazy and copied it onto a 90 instead of a 120)
-
The Wild Party
(Andrew
Lippa) - Demo with eight songs: Michael McElroy (Black), Julia Murney (Queenie),
Alix Korey (Madelaine True), Kristin Chenoweth (Mae), Luther Creek, Jason
Paige S UM
NM
CD
[1]
(30
Minutes; Complete cast unknown; Includes some very slight lyric changes
and the original opening to "A Wild, Wild Party," as well as "The Fight,"
which didn't make the cast album)
-
The Wild Party
(Michael John LaChiusa*/Michael John LaChiusa & George C. Wolfe) -
Promo recording with three songs and radio spot: Toni Collette (Queenie),
Mandy Patinkin (Burrs), Michael McElroy (Oscar D'Armano), Nathan Lee Graham
(Phil D'Armano), Eartha Kitt S UM
NM
[1]
(9
Minutes; Includes an earlier version of "Wild Party" and the complete version
of "Uptown")
-
Wise Guys
(Stephen Sondheim*/John Weidman) - 11/20/99? (Final Performance, apparently)
- Workshop, NYTW: Nathan Lane, Victor Garberr, Candy Buckley (Mama), Michael
Hall (Paris Singer), Kevin Chamberlin (Various), William Parry (Papa),
Jessica Molaskey (Various) S U
NM
2CD
(Sound
is good but slightly fuzzy - kinda like a radio broadcast; Missing
a bit or two of dialogue; Includes a curtain speech by Lane, which is why
I think that it's the 11/20 closing night)
-
The Witches
Of Eastwick (Dana P. Rowe/John Dempsey*) - Demo with 7 songs: John
Dempsey, Linda Balgord, Kristin Chenoweth S
UM
NM
CD
[1]
(About 30 minutes; Complete cast unknown; Includes the cut songs "The Fires
Of Creation" and "The Mystery Of You" (collectively replaced by "Eye Of
The Beholder") along with a large chopped section of "Eastwick Knows,"
some slightly different lyrics in "Make Him Mine," and a bunch of changes
in "Who's The Man?")
-
The Witches
Of Eastwick (Dana P. Rowe/John Dempsey*) - Composer/Cast Demos with
around 33 songs S UM
NM
[1]
(Includes 5 of the 7 tracks from the above demo - of the remaining 28,
7 are performed by a cast and the other 21 are performed by the authors;
Includes massive amounts of unrecorded material, although some of it may
still be in the show: along with several brief bits, there are the cut
songs "I've Got A Life To Live" (and its reprise), "The Sky Is Falling"
(and its reprise), "The Lenox House" (and its reprise), "Out, Out," "What
About The Egrets?" (cut during London previews), "One Word Shy" (replaced
by "Words, Words, Words"), "Little Miracles," Out Of Step" (replaced thematically
by (but placed differently from) "Dirty Laundry"), and "Isn't This What
Every Woman Wants?" (cut during London previews); Fascinating hearing all
of this additional material, some of which is far superior to what eventually
replaced it; About 90 minutes)
-
*Wit's
End (Norman Matthews/Dorothy Parker + Norman Matthews/Norman Matthews)
- Demo with 9 songs: Karen Mason (Dorothy Paarker) S
U
NM
CD[1]
(One-woman musical about Dorothy Parker, obviously, and using her poems
as lyrics; About 19 minutes; Copied from an original demo CD)
-
Worldcafe
(Paul Chant/Andrew MacBean*) - Demo with 14 songs - Nadia Strahan S
U
NM
[1]
(Probably the demo based on the Edinburgh festival workshop, in which case
the other cast members include Joe Rice, Dermot Martin, Catherine Porter,
and Ian McKeith - if not, then other cast members may include (among others)
Glyn Kerslake, Sally Ann Triplett, Ali Jaier, Darryl Knock, Louise Pitre,
and Charles Azulay; Great sound and attractive score; About 48 minutes)
-
Valentine's
Day (Denis King/Benny Green/Unknown) - Promo single with 2 songs: Alexander
Hanson S U NM
CD
[1]
(About 6 minutes; Both songs are quite lovely)
-
The Visit
(John Kander/Fred Ebb/Terrence McNally) - Demo with 6 songs: Lucie Arnaz
(Claire Zachanassian), Brent Barrett, Alix Korey, Marc Kudisch R
S
U
NM
CD
[1]
(Full cast unknown; Just under 20 minutes; Good stuff, particularly the
very funny "Goodbye")
-
A Year With
Frog And Toad (Robert Reale/Willie Reale*) - New York Stage And Film
at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY - Reading, Powerhouse Theatre: Mark
Linn-Baker (Toad), Robert Sella (Frog), Michael Winther (Snail/Various),
Diane Sutherland (Various), Mary Stout (Various) U
[1]
(Amusing and tuneful; There are loud kids at points, but they don't interfere
much)
-
Zhivago
(Lucy Simon/Susan Birkenhead/Arthur Kopit) - Demo with 12 songs: Marin
Mazzie (Lara), Jeff McCarthy S U
NM
CD
[1] (About 38 minutes; Sounds kinda muffled,
but I was able to fix it up somewhat in the transfer; No accurate songlist
(the one I compiled myself is pretty good at best, quite dodgy at worst);
Extraordinarily depressing music; I believe that Kopit is no longer involved
in the project - it may in fact be dead altogether)
New Tapes
That I Haven't Listened To And/Or Catalogued Yet
-
Jon Stewart -
Carnegie Hall 6/8/00 (MASTER) with opener Hugh Fink - 1 Tape
-
Hallelujah,
Baby! - Mufti 10/29/00 (MASTER) - With discussion
-
Kit Marlowe
- PLAY - Public Theatre 11/22/00 (MASTER) - Christian Camargo, Sam Trammell,
Jon DeVries, Robert Sella
-
Patti LuPone:
Matters Of The Heart - Lincoln Center 11/26/00 (MASTER)
-
Harold And
Maude - York Theatre Reading 11/27/00 (MASTER) - Estelle Parsons, Marc
O'Donnell, Penny Fuller, Christa Justus, James Dybas - Book and Lyrics
by Tom Jones, Music by William Goldenberg
-
Ruthie Henshall
In Concert - 12/9/00 (MASTER) - Emelin Theatre, Mamaroneck, NY
-
Annie -
HHPAC 12/21/00 (MASTER) - Martin Vidnovic, Beth Leavel, Kelsey Fatabene,
Alec Timerman, Kim Ramsey
-
Comic Potential
- PLAY - MTC 12/23/00 Matinee (MASTER) - Jannie Dee, Alexander Chaplin,
Peter Michael Goetz - With post-show discussion
-
Peter Schickele/PDQ
Bach - Carnegie Hall 12/26/00 (MASTER) - Performs "Grand Seranade For An
Awful Lot Of Instruments," "Classical Rap," "'Safe' Sextet," "Minuet Militaire,"
"Fugue Of The Volga Boatmen," and "1712 Overture"; I attempted to record
commentary/descriptions of the visual humor
-
Forbidden
Broadway 2001: A Spoof Odyssey - Ellen's Stardust Diner 12/27/00 (MASTER)
- Felicia Finley, Danny Gurwin, Tony Nation,, Christine Pedi
-
Miss Saigon
- Broadway 1/3/01 Evening (MASTER) - Melindaa Chua (Alt. Lea Salonga), Will
Chase, Luoyong Wang, Ruthie Henshall, Michael K. Lee, Charles E. Wallace,
Charlene Carabeo
-
Shakespeare's
Villains - Public Theater/Anspacher Theatre 1/14/01 (MASTER) - Steven
Berkoff's fantastic solo performance of and about Shakespearean villains
- Very quiet - Possibly unsalvageable - Datee listed probably wrong, gotta
check my calendar
-
Celebration
- Mufti 1/14/01 (MASTER) - With discussion -- Very quiet - Possibly unsalvageable
-
John Simon talk
- 1/17/01 (MASTER) - Emelin Theatre - Very qquiet - Probably unsalvageable
-
Baker Street
-
Mufti
1/20/01 (MASTER) - With discussion
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Brownstone
- Allegro Productions (New Jersey) - 1/26/011 (MASTER)
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Carmen Jones
- Mufti 1/28/01 (MASTER) - Act I only - Withh discussion
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Twelve Angry
Men - PLAY - Roundabout Reading 1/29/01 (MASTER) - Philip Bosco, David
Morse, Jay O. Sanders, Dylan Baker, Shawn Elliott, Dan Hedaya, Anthony
Arkin, Jeffrey Hayenga, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Paul Michael Valley, Mason
Adams, John Fiedler
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Time And Again
- MTC 2/2/01 (MASTER) - Lewis Cleale, Laura Benanti, Julia Murney, David
McCallum, Lauren Ward, Jeff Edgerton, Christopher Innvar
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Bells Are
Ringing - Stamford, CT, First Preview 2/20/01 (MASTER) - Faith Prince,
Marc Kudisch, David Garrison, Beth Fowler, Martin Moran
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What A Piece
Of Work Is Dan! - York Reading 2/25/01 (MASTER) - Richard Binder, Anthony
Pastore, Richard Looney, Greg Ainsworth, Tessa Martin, Laura Penney, Jasmine
Spiess - 1 tape
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The Petrified
Forest - PLAY - Roundabout Reading 2/26/01 (MASTER) - Keith Carradine,
Cheyenne Casebier, Mason Adams, Leo Burmester, Roger Howarth, Dylan Chalfy
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A Class Act
-
Broadway 3/2/01 (Preview, MASTER) - Lonny Price, Randy Graff, Donna Bullock,
Nancy Anderson, Patrick Quinn, Sara Ramirez, David Hibbard, Jonathan Hadley
(u/s Jeff Blumenkrantz)
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Suburb
- York Theatre 3/3/01 (MASTER) - James Ludwiig, Jacqueline Piro, Alix Korey,
Dennis Kelly, Ron Butler, James Sasser, Adinah Alexander, Jennie Eisenhower
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If It Was
Easy - PLAY - 3/9/01 (MASTER) - John Jellison, Bonnie Comley, William
Marshall Miller - Worst thing I've ever seen
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Bright Eyed
Joy: The Music Of Ricky Ian Gordon - Lincoln Center/Alice Tully Hall
3/13/01 (MASTER) - Brian D'Arcy James, Judith Blazer, Kristin Chenoweth,
Adam Guettel, Billy Porter, Camellia Johnson, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson,
Monique McDonald, Chris Pedro Trakas
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Starmites
2001 - 3/16/01 (MASTER) - First twenty minutes heavily clipped
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The Good Thief
- PLAY - 3/18/01 (MASTER) - Brian D'Arcy Jammes - Stereo - 1 Tape
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Hobson's Choice
- PLAY - Roundabout reading 3/19/01 (MASTER)) - Cherry Jones, Brian Murray,
David Aaron Baker
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Fully Committed
- PLAY - 3/20/01 (MASTER) - Christopher Fitzzgerald - 1 Tape
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Michael Winther:
Hear
And Now - Lincoln Center American Songbook 3/23/01 Early Show (MASTER)
- With Jenny Giering - 1 Tape<
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Bloomer Girl
- Encores! 3/24/01 Matinee (MASTER) - Kate JJennings Grant, Michael Park,
Donna Lynne Champlin, Jubilant Sykes - Stereo - with discussion (in mono)
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Beyond The
Cradle: The Music Of Marc Blitzstein - Lincoln Center American Songbook
3/24/01 Early Show (MASTER) - Longer than Joe's Pub version - Norm Lewis,
Lauren Flanigan, Malcolm Gets, Victoria Clark - Stereo - 1 Tape
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Cupid And
Psyche - NMTN Reading 3/26/01 (MASTER) - Matthew West, Kate Gilligan,
Jeff Edgerton, Deborah Tranelli
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A Tale Of
Two Cities - HHPAC 4/1/01 (Final Performance, MASTER) - Tom Zemon,
Peter Flynn, Sarah Uriarte Berry, Mark Jacoby, Jan Neuberger, Ray DeMattis
- Oh my, was this show bad :-)>
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Elegies For
Angels, Punks, And Raging Queens - FIT Concert 4/2/01 (MASTER) - A
whole mess of people
-
Follies
- 4/13/01 (MASTER) - Judith Ivey, Gregory Haarrison, Treat Williams, Blythe
Danner, et cetera
-
Broadway Musicals
Of 1957 - Town Hall concert 4/16/01 (MASTER) - Alix Korey, Eric Michael
Gillett, Adriane Lenox, Jay Rogers
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Bat Boy: The
Musical - 4/21/01 Matinee (MASTER) - JP Potter (u/s Deven May), Kaitlin
Hopkins, Sean McCourt, Kerry Butler, Trent Armand Kendall, Doug Storm,
Jim Price, Richard Pruitt, Daria Hardeman - INCOMPLETE: Cuts off after
"More Blood" - Act I stereo, Act II mono
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Shine!
- NMTN Reading 4/23/01 (MASTER) - Jeremiah MMiller, Andrea Burns, Matthew
Shepard, Carole Shelley, Bill Buell, Brooks Ashmanskas, J. Brandon Savage,
Tim Ewing, Harvey Evans, James Celentano, Daniel Frank Kelly
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The Music Of
Jason Robert Brown - Cooper Union Concert 4/28/01 (MASTER) - Jason Robert
Brown, Jill Geddes, Lauren Kennedy, Keith Byron Kirk, Donna Murphy, Harvey
Evans, David Pittu, Andrea Burns, Jeff Edgerton, Randy Redd, Brooks Ashmanskas,
Mackenzie Mauzy, Jenny Giering, Emily Klein, Megan McGinniss, Alison Lory,
John Paul Almon - Stereo
-
Lewis Black -
Second Stage 4/30/01 (MASTER)
-
Tom Sawyer
- 5/4/01 (MASTER) - Joshua Park, Jim Poulouss, Kristen Bell, Linda Purl,
Kevin Serge Durand, John Dossett, Tom Aldredge, Jane Connell - Stereo
-
The Producers
- OBC 5/6/01 (MASTER) - Nathan Lane, Mattheww Broderick, Brad Oscar, Roger
Bart, Gary Beach, Cady Huffman, Eric Gunhus
-
Urinetown:
The Musical - 5/11/01 (MASTER) - John Cullum, Hunter Foster, Jeff McCarthy,
Jennifer Laura Thompson, Nancy Opel, Spencer Kayden - Stereo
-
Josephine's
Song - York Reading 5/21/01 (MASTER) - Tamara Tunie, Lillias White,
Barbara D. Mills, Paul Schoeffler, Nancy Johnston, Doug Eskew, Adrian Bailey,
Michael Brian, Kia Glover, Stacey Sargeant
-
The IT Girl
- York Theatre 5/25/01 (MASTER) - Jean Louissa Kelly, Jonathan Dokuchitz,
Stephen DeRosa, Jessica Boevers, Susan M. Haefner, Danette Holden, Monte
Wheeler
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Brigadoon
- Goodspeed Opera House 5/27/01 Matinee (MASSTER) - James Clow, Amanda Serkasevich,
Lisa Brescia, Daniel Reichard
-
Double Trouble
- Goodspeed-At-Chester 5/27/01 Evening (MASTTER) - Jim Walton, Bob Walton
- Stereo
-
Homespun And
Hogwash - York Reading 5/31/01 (MASTER) - Kathleen Curran, David Garrison,
James Hindman, Susan Russell, Steve Routman, Mary Stout, Rachel Jones,
Kris Koop, Abe Reybold, Paul Blankenship
-
A Class Act
- 6/2/01 Matinee (MASTER) - Adam Heller on aas Ed, Michelle Ragusa as Mona,
rest OBC - Stereo
-
Urinetown
- 6/4/01 (MASTER) - John Cullum, Hunter Fostter, Jeff McCarthy, Jennifer
Laura Thompson, Nancy Opel, Spencer Kayden - Stereo - Act I and two minutes
of Act II only
-
Bells Are
Ringing - 6/8/01 (MASTER) - Faith Prince, Marc Kudisch - Act I mono,
Act II stereo, volume fluctuates, cuts off during the reprise of "Long
Before I Knew You"
-
A Class Act
- Final Performance 6/10/01 (MASTER) - Micheelle Ragusa as Mona, rest OBC
- Stereo - Includes lengthy curtain speech bby Lonny Price
-
Great Expectations
- York Reading 6/11/01 (MASTER) - Jeff Edgerrton, Vicki Stuart, Katharine
Leonard, John Hickok, Cameron Bowen, Don Chastain, Kevin Bernard, Darrell
Babidge, Luisa Tedoff, Molly Ephraim, Michelle Carano, Chris Weikel, Tim
Howard - Another dreadful Dickens musical, although there's some very nice
music courtesy of Doug Katsaros
-
Once Around
The City - Second Stage 6/13/01 (Third Preview, MASTER) - Michael Magee,
Jane Bodle, Joe Grifasi, Geoffrey Nauffts, Peter Jay Fernandez, Michael
Potts, William Parry, Brandy Zarle, Anne Torsiglieri, Anna Stone, Harry
Althaus - Stereo - With discussion in mono
-
Bat Boy: The
Musical - 6/14/01 (MASTER) - Charles Gray on for Trent Armand Kendall,
rest OOBC
-
Annie Get
Your Gun - 6/19/01 (MASTER) - Reba McEntire, Brent Barrett
-
What A Piece
Of Work Is Dan! - York Reading 6/25/01 (MASTER) - Stephen Brockway,
Anthony Pastore, Richard Looney, Greg Ainsworth, Tessa Martin, Laura Penney,
Jessica Ordman - Heavily revised since February
-
Kiss Me, Kate
- 7/2/01 (MASTER) - Burke Moses, Carolee Carrmello, Janine LaManna, Michael
Berresse - Walter Charles' first performance as Harrison Howell
-
Carousel
- Paper Mill Playhouse 7/6/01 (MASTER) - Mattt Bogart, Glory Crampton, Christiane
Noll, Brandon Jovanovich, Marsha Bagwell
-
The Music
Man - 7/8/01 (MASTER) - Eric McCormack, Rebecca Luker
-
Once Around
The City - 7/13/01 (MASTER) - Michael Magee, Jane Bodle, Joe Grifasi,
Geoffrey Nauffts, Peter Jay Fernandez, Michael Potts, William Parry, Brandy
Zarle, Anne Torsiglieri, Anna Stone, Harry Althaus - Stereo
-
Hypatia
- York Reading 7/16/01 (MASTER) - Leah Hockiing, Sharon Wheatley, Tracey
Lee, C. Mingo Long, Thom Sesma, Paula Leggett Chase, Danette Holden
-
Prodigal
- York Reading 7/17/01 (MASTER) - Joshua Parrk, Sandy Binion, Simon Relph,
Denise Summerford, Christian Borle - With discussion
-
Deconstructing
Mary - White Barn Theatre 7/22/01 (MASTER, Final Performance) - Mary
Testa's one-woman show
-
And Then There's
Bea - HHPAC 7/27/01 (MASTER) - Bea Arthur, Billy Goldenberg
-
They All Laughed
- Goodspeed - 7/29/01 (MASTER) - Marla Schafffel, James Ludwig, Michael
McGrath, Mary Beth Piel, Mark Lotito, Amanda Watkins, Donna English, Diane
J. Findlay, David Dollase, Dennis Kelly
-
Floating City
- 6/28/98 - Songs written and performed by vvarious composers and performers,
Sean McCourt and Brian D'Arcy James among them - Pro Live Recording - 1
Tape
-
Betty's Summer
Vacation - PLAY - Durang Comedy
-
Les Miserables
-
LA 1988 - William Solo, Jeff McCarthy, Elinore O'Connell, Kay Cole, Gary
Beach, Michelle Nicastro, Karen Fineman, Reece Holland, Raymond Saar
-
La Cava
- OLC - Juli-Alanah Brighten, Oliver Tobias<
-
The Rhythm
Club - 10/5/00 - Signature Theatre, Arlington, VA
-
The Rhythm
Club - 10/19/00 - Signature Theatre, Arlington, VA
-
Anne And Gilbert
- York Theatre Reading 11/6/00>
-
Femme Fatale-
Workshop 2/26/00 - Christiane Noll, Natalie Toro, Janet Metz, Sara Ramirez,
Priscilla Lopez
-
Triumph Of
Love - Broadway 11/15/97 - Alix Korey u/s Betty Buckley, otherwise
OBC
-
Everything's
Ducky - La Mirada 12/2/00 - Natalie Toro, etc.
-
How Do You
Do, I Love You! - Westbury Music Fair 11/67 - Phyllis Newman, Carole
Cook - Songs only - Early Maltby/Shire score
-
Li'l Abner
- Encores! 1998 - Burke Moses, Alice Ripley<
-
Baby -
Manchester 10/13/90 - Caroline O'Connor
-
Do I Hear
A Waltz? - George Street Playhouse 11/14/99 - Penny Fuller, Charles
Cioffi, Lynn Cohen, Todd Gearhart, Anna Belknap, Robert Levine, Luce Ennis
-
Follies
- BBC Radio 2 Broadcast - Julia McKenzie, Doonna McKechnie
-
Houdini
- Reading 1/29/01 - 1 120-Minute Tape>
-
Another Midsummer
Night - Chicago 1995 - Michael Rupert, Kathleen Rowe McAllen, Jessica
Molaskey, Jim Walton, Hollis Resnick, Jim Corti, Nick Wyman, Mary Ernster,
Jennifer Rosin, Lisa Menninger
-
Time And Again
- Old Globe 1996 (Preview, Different recordiing from the one I have)
-
She Loves
Me - London Revival - Ruthie Henshall, Gordon Joseph Sinclair
-
Ziegfeld Follies
Of 1936 - Encores! - Lotsa people
-
Ruthie Henshall
- Various British concerts
-
The Green
Heart - OOBC 1997 - Karen Trott, David Andrew MacDonald, Alison Fraser,
John Ellison Conlee, Ruth Williamson
Non-Theatre
-
“Weird
Al” Yankovic - 2/6/2000 - Beacon Theatre, NY UM
[1]
Hard to
Find Pro Albums (All on CD and/or one cassette, unless otherwise noted)
-
Bar Mitzvah
Boy (1978 OLCA - Jule Styne music; 47 Minutes)
-
Barnum (1980
OBCA)
-
Ben Franklin
In Paris (1964 OBCA)
-
Big (1996
OBCA, 65 Minutes)
-
Budgie (1989
OLCA; 56 Minutes)
-
Candide
(1999 LRCA - Unavailable in US; 74 minutes)
-
Chess (1988
OBCA)
-
Dance A Little
Closer (1983 OBCA – OOP in US; 65 Minutes) R
-
Extra Blatt
(Windy
City) (OOP German Cast; Not on CD)
-
The Fields
of Ambrosia (HTF OLCA; 75 Minutes) R
-
The Fields
of Ambrosia (4 track sampler; Different recordings from cast album;
One different cast member; 18 minutes)
-
Freudiana
(1990
English Language Concept Album)
-
Gone With
The Wind (1972 OLC - Unreleased on CD; 52 minutes; Not on CD)
-
Her First
Roman (1993 30th Anniversary Recording, Lockett-Palmer issue –
Not sure if there’s any difference in sound quality as there
sometimes is between reissues)
-
Jane Eyre
(1996
Toronto Cast - HTF; Not on CD)
-
King David
(1997
Live NY Concert Cast, Even harder to find outside NY)
-
Metro
(1992? Polish cast recording - Not available in US)
-
Oklahoma
(1998 LRCA - Not available in US; 74 Minutes)
-
On Your Toes
(1983
BRCA – OOP in US; Never released in US in full) R
-
Plain And
Fancy (1955 OBCA)
-
Rags (OBC
Members) R
-
Romance/Romance
(1988 OBCA - OOP in US; 68 minutes)
-
Sail Away
(1961
OBCA)
-
She Loves
Me (1964 OLCA - Two songs otherwise unrecorded)
-
Sie Liebt
Mich... (1996 Vienna She Loves Me; 75 minutes; Not on CD)
-
Sugar Babies
(1976(?) OBCA - OOP; 75 minutes)
-
Weird Romance
(1992
OOBCA - Alan Menken music) R
-
Windy City
(1982
OLCA; 61 minutes) R
-
Zombie Ball
(Very
strange 1993 German recording of Zombie Prom)
Along
with many regularly available CDs - Inquire for full list
Also inquire for
tapes upcoming
Code originally
by Bettina Pagalilauan
Modified
by Seth Christenfeld