Broadway

The Wizard Of Oz: 1998 Cast Recording (Madison Square Garden Cast)

How do you fill the ruby slippers of Judy Garland? That’s a question, thankfully, only Jessica Grove needs to answer. It’s difficult not to hear indelible tunes like “Over the Rainbow” and “We’re Off to See the Wizard” without thinking way back to the MGM movie version of 1939, but this touring-cast production uses unique enough music arrangements …

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Cabaret (1999 Studio Cast) (First Complete Recording)

This 1999 entry in JAY’s Masterworks Edition series captures Kander and Ebb’s Cabaret in an excellent two-disc release that preserves the complete Broadway score with its original orchestrations and vocal arrangements, as well as an addendum of four songs written for the 1972 motion picture (including “Maybe This Time” and “Money, Money”) as well as three written for …

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Betty Buckley’s Broadway

It’d be easy to argue that Betty Buckley has been the premier American Broadway diva of the ’80s and ’90s. It’s strange, then, to realize how few of her important roles have been captured on cast recordings (with Cats the obvious exception). Thankfully, Buckley has recorded a string of albums for Sterling Records in the 1990s, and this …

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Standard Time

Those who know Sam Harris only as the original Star Search grand champion or maybe as a Motown recording artist might be surprised by this 1997 take on popular standards, but Harris graduated to a career in musical theater, including time on Broadway in Grease and The Life as well as a memorable stint as the title character …

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