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Seussical: The Musical (Original Cast Recording)

by: Original Broadway Cast, Stephen Flaherty, Eric Idle, Lynn Ahrens

Release Date February 06, 2001
I am very pleased with this CD. The order process and delivery of items from Amazon.com is wonderful.

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Monty Python's Spamalot (2005 Original Broadway Cast)

by: Eric Idle, John Du Prez, Tim Curry, David Hyde Pierce, Hank Azaria

Release Date May 03, 2005
Love it! If you are a fan of Monty Python's Holy Grail you will not be disappointed!

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Eric Idle Sings Monty Python

by: Eric Idle

Release Date March 03, 2003
You shouldn't look at this as a failure because Eric is only 1/6 of Monty Python, in fact it should be veiwed as a success because of that. I've always loved Eric more than the other Pythons, so I didn't mind the lack of the others here. Sure, a few songs felt lonely, but most were awesome. Eric is a very talented and wonderful man, who's heart is in the right place. I love this CD, and if you've ever enjoyed any Python song, you will too. Lets face it- who else did he need for the songs? He certainly carried The Lumberjack Song well without Michael. He didn't need John's awful out of tune voice (Sorry, but John is a HORRID singer) for the Eric the Half a Bee song. He was great. Buy this CD if you love Monty Python or Eric Idle. Don't buy this ... Read More:

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The Rutland Isles

by: Eric Idle

Release Date March 04, 2003
This album is delightfully subversive and deliciously naughty. The few naysayers here are simply silly sods!

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Best of Broadway

from: Warner Classics

Release Date December 26, 2006
This album is delightfully subversive and deliciously naughty. The few naysayers here are simply silly sods!

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Gilbert & Sullivan - The Mikado / ENO · Robison [Highlights]

by: Arthur Sullivan, W.S. Gilbert, Peter Robinson, Eric Idle, Lesley Garrett, English National Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Richard Angas, Bonaventure Bottone

Release Date May 18, 1999
The simple fact is that all the music of G&S's "The Mikado" cannot be squeezed onto a single, traditional CD.

This recording admittedly shoehorns in most of the score. Nevertheless, there are gaping omissions which are, to put the best possible face on it, misleading to the casual listener and acutely painful to a G&S fan. Among them are the missing overture, the trio, "I am so proud;" the madrigal, "Brightly dawns our wedding day" and the entrance of the Mikado with his Daughter-in-Law Elect treading right on his heels.

The performance is a perfectly competent one. If you want neither more nor less than a sound recording of this particular cast and you are indifferent to the disappearance of bleeding hunks, then this is the ... Read More:

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The Mikado: Highlights From The English National Opera Production

by: Arthur Sullivan

Release Date April 16, 1995
I liked this production, though I like a traditional one better. And as far as "how the opera was meant to be performed", the comic patter role was generally not performed by an opera singer in the old days, but by a comic actor who could sing. Idle sings well enough (barely).

Personally, I didn't care for some aspects of the 1982 PBS/BBC Mikado. The Nanki-Poo sang well, but was badly made up and being a full head taller than anyone else came off rather Karlovian, in my not so humble opinion.

I have not yet seen nor heard a perfect Mikado.

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Broadway Gold

from: Decca

Release Date October 23, 2007
I liked this production, though I like a traditional one better. And as far as "how the opera was meant to be performed", the comic patter role was generally not performed by an opera singer in the old days, but by a comic actor who could sing. Idle sings well enough (barely).

Personally, I didn't care for some aspects of the 1982 PBS/BBC Mikado. The Nanki-Poo sang well, but was badly made up and being a full head taller than anyone else came off rather Karlovian, in my not so humble opinion.

I have not yet seen nor heard a perfect Mikado.

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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer / The Island of Misfit Toys

from: Good Times Video

Release Date October 30, 2001
I liked this production, though I like a traditional one better. And as far as "how the opera was meant to be performed", the comic patter role was generally not performed by an opera singer in the old days, but by a comic actor who could sing. Idle sings well enough (barely).

Personally, I didn't care for some aspects of the 1982 PBS/BBC Mikado. The Nanki-Poo sang well, but was badly made up and being a full head taller than anyone else came off rather Karlovian, in my not so humble opinion.

I have not yet seen nor heard a perfect Mikado.

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The Best Of Gilbert & Sullivan Arias & Duets / English National, D'Oyly Carte, Sadler's Wells Operas

by: Arthur Sullivan, English National Opera, D'Oyly Carte Opera, Sadler's Wells Opera

Release Date April 16, 1995
I like this album, it includes a wide varity of songs fron the different operas. The sound quality is a bit like a record, which thew me off for a bit. If you like that sound then this is a good recording for, but if you want digital clarity this is not for you.