The best of Broadway, 1935-2005
Publisher
Decca
Publication Date
p2005
Language
English
Table of Contents
From the Music CD
Disc 1. A time of hope, Broadway 1935-1946. Oklahoma! Oh what a beautiful mornin' / Richard Rodgers (Alfred Drake)
Porgy and Bess. Summertime / George Gershwin (Anne Brown)
Pal Joey. I could write a book (Vivian Blaine) ; Higher and higher. It never entered my mind (Shirley Ross) / Richard Rodgers
On the town. I can cook too / Leonard Bernstein (Nancy Walker)
Panama Hattie. Make it another old fashioned, please / Cole Porter (Ethel Merman)
Carousel. If I loved you / Richard Rodgers (Jan Clayton, John Raitt)
Leave it to me. My heart belongs to daddy / Cole Porter (Mary Martin)
A Connecticut yankee. Thou swell / Richard Rodgers (Dick Foran, Julie Warren)
This is the army. I left my heart at the stage door canteen (Earl Oxford, Soldier Chorus) ; Annie get your gun. There's no business like show business (Marty May, Ray Middleton, William O'Neal) / Irving Berlin
Streets of Paris. South American Way / Jimmy McHugh (Carmen Miranda)
Disc 2. Denter stage, Broadway 1947-1958. The king and I. Shall we dance / Richard Rodgers (Gertrude Lawrence, Yul Brynner)
Wonderful town. Ohio / Leonard Bernstein (Edith Adams, Rosalind Russell)
Guys and dolls. Luck be a lady / Frank Loesser (Robert Alda, Guys and Dolls Male Cast Ensemble)
The threepenny opera. Mack the knife / Kurt Weill (Gerald Price)
On your toes. There's a small hotel / Richard Rodgers (Bobby Van, Kay Coulter)
Where's Charley? Once in love with Amy / Frank Loesser (Ray Bolger)
Texas, li'l darlin. Yodel blues / Robert Emmett Dolan (Kenny Delmar, Li'l Darlin' Chorus Texas)
The golden apple. Lazy afternoon / Jerome Moross (Kaye Ballard)
Arms and the girl. There must be somethin' better than love / Morton Gould (Pearl Bailey)
Call me madam. You're just in love / Irving Berlin (Dick Haymes, Ethel Merman)
The amazing Adele. Now is the time / Albert W. Selden (Johnny Desmond)
Disc 3. Put on a happy face, Broadway 1959-1967. Man of la Mancha. The impossible dream / Mitchell Leigh (Richard Kiley)
Carnival. Love makes the world go 'round / Bob Merrill (Anna Maria Alberghetti)
The Fantasticks. Try to remember / Harvey Schmidt (Jerry Orbach)
Bye, bye Birdie. Put on a happy face / Charles Strouse (Peter Marshall)
Destry rides again. I say hello / Harold Rome (Dolores Gray)
You're a good man, Charlie Brown. Happiness / Clark Gesner (Cast Ensemble)
She loves me. She loves me / Jerry Bock (Daniel Massey)
Stop the world, I wanna get off. What kind of fool am I / Bricusse, Newley (Anthony Newley)
Once upon a mattress. Shy / Mary Rodgers (Carol Burnett, Joe Bova, Cast Ensemble)
Oliver! Consider yourself / Lionel Bart (Keith Hamshere, Martin Horsey, Cast Ensemble)
Henry, sweet Henry. Poor little person / Bob Merrill (Alice Playten)
Disc 4. Broadway magic, Broadway 1968-1980. Pippin. Magic to do / Stephen Schwartz (Ben Vereen)
They're playing our song. They're playing my song / Marvin Hamlisch (Lucie Arnaz, Robert Klein)
Jesus Christ superstar. I don't know how to love him / Andrew Lloyd Webber (Yvonne Elliman)
Mack & Mabel. I won't send roses / Jerry Hermann (Robert Preston)
Hair. Good morning starshine / Galt Macdermot (Annabel Leventon, Lindra Kendrick)
Evita. Don't cry for me, Argentina / Andrew Lloyd Webber (Patti LuPone)
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. Hard candy Christmas / Carol Hall
Lorelei. Diamonds are a girl's best friend / Jule Styne (Carol Channing)
The boy friend. Won't you Charleston with me? / Sandy Wilson (Andy Duncan, Harvey Evans)
Applause. Applause / Charles Strouse (Ronnie Franklin)
Disc 5. The British invasion, Broadway 1981-1992. The phantom of the opera. The phantom of the opera (Michael Crawford, Sarah Brightman) ; Cats. Memory (Betty Buckley) / Andrew Lloyd Webber
Les miserables. On my own / Claude-Michel Schoenberg (Frances Ruffelle)
Big River. Muddy water / Roger Miller
The secret garden. How could I ever know / Lucy Simon (Bryn Terfel, Renee Fleming)
Miss Saigon. American dream / Claude-Michel Schoenberg (Jonathan Pryce)
Chess. I know him so well / Andersson, Ulvaeus, Anderson (Barbara Dickson, Elaine Paige)
Jelly's last jam. Doctor Jazz / Joseph Oliver (Gregory Hines)
Me and my girl. Me and my girl / Noel Gay (Robert Lindsay)
Little shop of horrors. Suddenly Seymour / Alan Menken (Ellen Greene, Jennifer Leigh Warren, Lee Wilkof)
Disc 6. Broadway today, Broadway 1993-2005. Mamma Mia! Mamma Mia! / Andersson, Ulvaeus, Anderson (Siobhán McCarthy)
Wicked. Popular / Stephen Schwartz (Kristin Chenoweth)
Rent. Seasons of love / Jonathan Larson (Cast Ensemble)
Seussical. Oh, the thinks you can think / Stephen Flaherty (David Shiner, Cast Ensemble)
Damn Yankees. Whatever Lola wants / Richard Adler (Bebe Neuwirth)
Always
Patsy Cline. Crazy / Willie Nelson (Mandy Barnett)
Saturday night fever. How deep is your love / M. Gibb, B. Gibb, R. Gibb (Adam Garcia, Anita Louise Combe)
Big. Stars / David Shire (Christa Moore, Dan Jenkins)
The wild party. People like us / La Chiusa (Toni Collette, Yancey Arias)
The boy from Oz. I go to Rio / Peter Allen (Hugh Jackman, Cast Ensemble).
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