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It's been suggested that almost as many baby boomers were conceived to the romantic sounds of Johnny Mathis's voice as to Sinatra's--and when you consider that Read more

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Great music!!
Johnny Mathis has a voice like the angel.
Johnny M
Just got home from vacation.Thank you soooo much for this. I only wish I had it before vacation so the car trip would have been Wonderful! Wonderful!

Ladies at party loved remembering
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One Of A Kind
Fiddler On The Roof is one of the greatest of all musicals. A flawless book, remarkable score and wonderful performances.
A Timeless Classic
This musical is so very beautiful. The music is fantastic. Of course my favorite song is Sunrise, Sunset. I highly recommend this recording to anyone who is interested in musical theatre. You can play this CD over and over again for years to come and still enjoy it.

Great!!!
I would give this c.d. 4 and 3/4 stars if I could. Three reasons why it is not 5 is that it doesn't include "Tevye's Monologue", "Tevye's Rebuttal", and (My most favorite song out of the show) "Chavaleh." I could live without the first two but the c.d. just seems to be missing something without "Chavaleh." But otherwise I love this c.d.
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This 1974 Norman Jewison film may have been a critical misstep, but some fans actually preferred it to Broadway's rock spectacle. The thing is, Read more

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JC SUPES soundtrack : the Ultimate
Originally issued in 1970 packaged as a double Lp Concept album with Deep Purple's Ian Gillan as Christ back in the days of theshort-lived Rock Opera genre -- Jesus Christ Superstar was intially held as a musical play out of compromise and fear from sensoral scrutiny by its writers Timothy Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, as in its stead they opted to issue it on a 2 disc set of vinyl platters thus - until the time when it is finally made into a musical play in London the following year.
Get the Original Soundtrack Recording
I am not sure which is worse:the atricious sound quality of this version of the soundtrack or Ted Neely.Let me just say that I am a huge fan of JCS.Huge.If you truly enjoy the music, I'd strongly recommend purchasing the 1996 remastered version of the 1970 original album.
The original soundtrack is a million times better
The emotive nature of the songs is nearly lost in the movie (which I am watching again as I type for about the 100th time), in part because there is a lot of movement to account for. In the London concept soundtrack Read more

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My First Sondheim
This was the first Sondheim album I ever had, and I got hooked.
Haunting, melancholy, life-affirming -- a work of art
Sometimes it's great not to have heard something in your youth - it makes it that much more enjoyable when you finally encounter it further down the line. I had already enjoyed Sondheim's genius work in the musicals "Sweeney Todd" and "Into the Woods" but only just heard "Company" for the first time this year. All I can say is I'll never hear the word "Barcelona" without thinking of Sondheim's gorgeous song of that name from this musical about the ups and downs of marriage and loneliness and how these states of being both mirror-reflect and contradict each other (sometimes at the same time, as Sondheim observes in the song "Sorry-Grateful").
You're always sorry, you're always grateful
I actually have two recordings of Company - I bought this one for the fabulous performances of Elaine Stritch and well, everyone except Dean Jones, and the 1995 Broadway Revival Cast for the superior vocal talents of that show's Bobby and the additional song "Marry Me a Little." If you're a true Sondheim devotee, I'd get both recordings. If you only buy one recording though, this should be it.
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It's probably best known for raising the stakes for 1980s blockbuster shows by landing a helicopter on stage, but Read more

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Original (?) cast recording
Interesting that they call this the original cast recording when Her or Me was replaced with the retooled Now That I've Seen Her...

GREAT
I love this CD. It has a long story. I live in Costa Rica, when I was in highschool an interchange student from USA lend me his Miss Saigon cassette. I love it. since then I look for it all over my country but it is just impossible to fin it. So many years later I bought th CD and I'm happy about it. A Great deal!!

A Musical Classic, and rightly so...
Fifteen years of owning this CD and this recording never ceases to amaze me. I have watched Miss Saigon in its grand Broadway scale, not to mention its ambitious helicopter scene, years back and it has set the bar on my theater standards. This recording recaptures that aural experience in this epic 2-CD compilation.
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If you loved the Movie -- YOU WON'T GET ADELAIDE
Sorry, I didn't get to see the Broadway show.I really loved the movie --Frank Sinatra & Stubby Kaye are spectacular.Brando can't sing, but tries to sing and dance. One of my favorite songs NOT AVAILABLE ON THE BROADWAY ALBUM is "Adelaide" ... is taking a chance on me.That was disappointing.
Great Recording
Great recording of one of the greats. The original is now difficult to listen to due to the tinny sound and mono recording. this revival was wonderful, with a great cast and now a definitive, excellent recording. Skip the movie soundtrack.

Damon Runyon was Smilling on Broadway...
Drats !I can't believe I let myself miss this revival... If the stage production was as good as the cast recording I can only say that I really hope that the chaps in Great Britain who are currently rehearsing up the latest revival are on up on their jippers (or whatever they call them) on this one... (Actually the New York dialect doesn't seem so authentic on this one... strange... guess Gulliani really did clean up Time Square...)
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Jason Robert Brown, one of musical theater's brightest young composers, made his first New York splash in 1995 with Read more

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Wonderful Work of Art
I absolutely fell in love with this cd when I first heard it.It is very uplifting and full of inspirational songs that will lift your spirits and just make you feel good!Having read some of the other reviews, I'm excited to check out JRB's other works.
review from the Philippines
This is the first CD that I bought online from this site, and I'm absolutely loving it! I came to know about JRB when I managed to read the piano/vocal book of Last Five Years. I did some research online and was totally blown away by his songs - music, lyrics and all.
Jason Robert Brown's brilliant introudction
`Songs For A New World' represents Jason Robert Brown's brilliant introduction to the world of musical theatre. The show is a revue of some of the songwriter's past work; skillfully linked together by a sense of yearning, challenge and sometimes sadness.
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the iron curtain lives on in this masterpiece
I bought the double LP on vinyl as soon as it came out and later crossed over to the CD version, although i have to say the sound recording of the Cd is inferior in quality. I guess it was early days of Dolby sound. Abba's last studio album, the visitors, also suffered from the same technical imperfection. Since then I've spent the last 20 years listening to chess.I heard one commentary that it was as if Bjorn and Benny were let out of their cage when they composed this piece, . I have to agree. A ten year stint as the musical backbone of Abba seems like a warm up session compared to the musical genius of this album. My two favourite tracks are embassy lament for it's wittiness and Pity the child, as it cuts me to the bone every time I hear it.

Excellent musci
The London version is vastly superior to the American "let's cram in a happy ending, so the audience goes home feeling cheery" version. The lyrics are clever and witty, the singing rich and wonderful. Not a revival of an old show, or a movie-turned-musical. This is an original work. There's nothing like it.

Not Perfect, but Still Worthwhile
It took me a while to get into "Chess." But after comparing this recording with the delicate, miscast American version, I realized how great this recording is.
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Cheated out of playing nightclub canary Sally Bowles on Broadway in director Hal Price's Read more

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A Different Interpretation of Cabaret
It really bothered me that a review below stated that Liza Minnelli wasn't Sally Bowles and that the song "Cabaret" is about Sally being upset that she lost her true love and that its about Sally coming to the realization that she is stuck in the awful cabaret.
Love this album
Just got a new CD player for car and this is one of the first albums I had to have on CD. Now all I need is "Two Ladies".

Viva La Diva
After reading all of the reviews where everyone blasts Liza Minnelli, and how this was a vehicle for her talents...I think they forget that she was originally desired for the role of Sally Bowles in the first place, and was considered too American. Yes, one cannot deny this is Judy Garland's daughter. Every actor/actress has one or two roles that define perfection...and in this case (as much as I hate to admit) this is Liza's. Ripping apart the "love triangle" and comparing it to the broadway musical, you are forgetting to the heart of this production in the first place: the stories written by Christopher Isherwood, and that is exactly what Fosse did in his desire to return to the original inspiration. Sexuality couldn't be mentioned in 1966 as something realistic or even a possibility. But blooming homosexuality/bisexuality was VERY prelevent in Weimar Berlin (it is even alluded to in the silent German classic: Pandora's Box, with Louise Brooks, which has modern cinema's first lesbian and remember, in Frankfurt there was a center for Studies on Human Sexuality that as early as 1925 said that homosexuality was natural...one of the first places to be destroyed by fascism and Hitler) and to me, that is why the story line and these songs work...it is realistic and also very true to Isherwood's stories. So if anything, blame the stage musical for glossing over the truth...not the film. Obvious critics also blast the cutting out of a lot of the original tracks, which again works because the story line has changed. Why include tracks of Sally's landlady singing about her love for a Jewish fruit vendor if it isn't even alluded to in the film?
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Just when you thought Andrew Lloyd Webber was stuck in a rut, he pulls off a new success. But maybe the reason Read more

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Fantastic Dreams
This CD is just fabulous, "Like an Eagle", "Chayia Chayia", "Closer Than Ever" and "Wedding Qwalli" among my favorites. Andrew Lloyd Webber does it again.

Good representation of A. R. Rahman's best
Warning: Anyone who has seen the musical or merely picked up this CD soundtrack but knows absolutely nothing about Bollywood won't get the big hype surrounding this music. If you know A. R. Rahman's work and have followed his music throughout his amazing career, though, you will adore this CD. Another reason to adore it: even if you don't speak a lick of Hindi, you can still follow along with the English snippets and the catchy Hindi phrases. However, if your lack of Hindi skills is paired with no knowledge of what Bollywood is all about, the lyrics will come across quite easily as cheesy and the premise of the show fluffy. I'm not here to convert anyone to the style of Bollywood, but merely to ask you to appreciate this soundtrack as a play-on version of the real deal. A. R. Rahman's work is legendary and, when it comes down to it, the show is all about the music. And look at that- that's what this CD is!
BOMBAY AWAKES!
I know these aren't the songs currently used in the Broadway version. Why? I don't know. Apparently the show is VERY under-rated and isn't as good at the box office as it's leading competitors. I don't see why, though. The dancing, music, sets, all AMAZING!
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As conceived by Stephen Sondheim and cocreator James Lapine (following their Pulitzer Prize-winning Read more

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Gleason, Zien, Peters, Sondheim, Lapine... What could be better?
With an all-star cast and production team, it's no wonder that this show is one of the best ever written.When you combine the endless talents of the wonderful Joanna Gleason with the ridiculously incredible music of Stephen Sondheim, the result is a good year at the Tonys.Gleason's Baker's Wife, for which she won the Tony, is touching, heartbreaking, relatable, witty, smart and hilarious, not to mention the incredible vocals.Chip Zien and Gleason are a match made in heaven and play off of eachother extremely well in such tracks as "I Guess This Is Goodbye/Maybe They're Magic" and "It Takes Two".Bernadette Peters, with the help of the rest of the outstanding cast, relays an extremely powerful message, and she does it with, as usual, amazing vocals.This Sondheim-Lapine musical is talent at it's best.
One of the Best!
Sondheim's "Into the Woods" is a true classic in every sense of the word. The music and lyrics are wonderful and invetive, and this cast recording lives up to it all. This recording has one of the best ensemble casts I have heard. The best performances IMO come from Robert Westenberg, Johanna Gleason, and of course Bernedette Peters who was robbed of a Tony nod for her awesome performance as the witch. My favorite numbers are Prolouge, Hello Little Girl, Agony, Giants in the Sky, Moments in the Woods, No One is Alone, and Finale. Make sure to get a hold of the wonderful video reocording of this show with the original cast as well!

Fun, Accessable Songs
In the middle of the late 80s "British Invasion" ("Le Miz", "Phantom") came Stephen Sondheim's brilliant "Into The Woods", a look at fairy tales and what happens after "happily ever after".Although it lost to "Phantom" for Best Musical, it did pick up Best Score & Actress (Joanna Gleason).
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What a BORE!
Saw the show in Washington and nearly fell asleep. Should never have been made. The score is dismall with a couple of all too brief moments of musicality, wisely given to Maureen McGovern. However, it's not enough to save this misguided mess. Skip the CD, pick up Jane Eyre, a musical version of a classic that works beautifully and deserved more success than it acheived.

Foster Showcase
Little Women is all about Sutton Foster. She does a great job, but as shown by the earily closing of the show it, one actress can't fix a flop. The songs in Little Women which tell a story or forward the plot of the show like "Weekly Volcano Press," "Astonishing," and "An Operatic Tradegy" are good and very entertaining, however a lot of the other songs in the show are stagnant. Basically any number without Foster or McGovern in it is not worth listening to. The show comes across as having good intentions. Though it has some good songs (I know people who have used some as audition pieces well), it does not seem to jump out at the audience at all.

Little Women, has a lot of problems
First off, this show should be called JO!,because she is the only character you ever hear from in this weak adaptation of Little Women.
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BUY this one, NOT the Madonna version
This is a great Broadway soundtrack.Mandy Patinkin has an amazing voice, and the singing is amazing.Don't bother with the pathetic movie version.

MANDY PATINKEN IS BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!!
OMG! Who knew he could sing?? High Flying adored is one of the best (most beautiful) songs on the album! I can't imagine how people can say Antonio Bandaras is better, just because he has a Spanish accent (i haven't seen the movie, though). I also LOVE LuPone in Rainbow High! Especially this part:
Evita - Broadway Cast
This is a wonderful adaptation of Evita.Patti Lupone's voice is extraordinary and I also enjoy Mandy Patinkin as Che Guevara.Highly recommended. ... Read more

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A young man graduates from college and wonders how to find real meaning in his life. What's an heir to the 9th-century Holy Roman Empire to do? If you're Pippin, son of Charlemagne, you decide to dabble in war, sex, and politics before finally finding love. When Bob Fosse directed the original Broadway production of Read more

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One Of a Kind
Saw Pippin on Broadway a couple times, and back then it was uncomparable. Fosse's staging, Vereen's performance, Tony Walton's sets and costumes and Schwartz's music were unique. It was a big old, dazzling carnival. Only wish I had seen Irene Ryan, but alas, she had passed away before I saw the show. Still, the CD preserves her performance as well as the rest of this highly imaginative and original piece. Skip the filmed version, somehow the magic got lost, while it is mildy diverting, it nonetheless, misses the impact of the live performance.

Welcome Surprise
This CD was a welcome surprise.It contains all of the original 1972 cast of the hit Broadway Musical "Pippin" !The words to each song are included and 3 bonus tracks including 2 of early Michael Jackson and another of the Supremes. The whole CD had been remastered. It was a nostalgia "trip" and current enough for today!

Great songs, great grooves
PIPPIN has such a unique mix of 70's soul and Broadway show biz.It works every step of the way, though, with unbelievably catchy songs, great melodies, and toe-tapping grooves.The play may occasionally run thin on story framework, but it's got the best soundtrack of any musical. ... Read more

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The original 1950 production of this classic played the mythical Damon Runyon world of New York City gamblers a lot straighter than the 1992 Broadway revival did. In fact, 1950 reviewers called this the "Read more

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One of the greats
Guys and Dolls is one of the the greatest of all Broadway musicals, and this recording is the best evidence of why that's so. Starting with the classic Damon Runyon stories, Frank Loesser wrote songs that really suited these characters, and the performances on this recording bring these characters to life in a way that contemporary revivials don't.
Original cast great- movie soundtrack add-ons are awful
You've got to give five stars to this CD of the original cast recording.It's one of the most musical of the classic broadway musicals, and one of the few that's truly American in its character.Loesser is at his best here.The sound quality is from the fifties but the performance quality more than compmensates.But I'd give anything to be able to erase the movie sound track cuts which the CD producers included to fill out the disc.Marlon Brando and Jean Simmons are miscast as musical artists and their reditions are simply awful. Keep your remote handy and change to the next CD when the last chords of the original cast fade out.

The best
This is the best musical I've EVER seen!The songs are so fun and I love listening to them!I think everyone who sees this musical will absolutely LOVE it!
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