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Broadway's Greatest Leading Men

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by: Various Artists

Release Date May 23, 2000
Broadway's Greatest Leading Men is a great sampling of Broadway's best. I gave it a 4 1/2 star rating only because there were a few of the great shows not represented--like Pajama Game and Camelot. This collection did however open my eyes to shows I was less familar with. Performances by Robert Klein, Joel Grey and Anthony Newley were excellent, but Richard Kiley's "Impossible Dream" and John Raitt's "Soliloquy" alone made buying the CD worthwhile. It's a must for the Broadway lover. I can't wait for Leading Men II.

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The 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Broadway

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from: Hip-O Records

Release Date June 20, 2006
This cd has a good variety of songs, but chooses some rather obscure numbers to put on a best of broadway cd. It goes from such well-known undeniable classics as "The Impossible Dream" to little-known songs that could not even be called the best in their own plays, such as "There's a Small Hotel" and "Whatever Lola Wants". Even "You Can't Get a Man with a Gun", which is definitely a classic song, is also obviously not by any measure the best song in the amazing play, Annie, Get Your Gun. So, it is a good cd with a decent variety, but its strange inclusions and gaping omissions make it a very inadequate representation of the best of broadway.

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Broadway - The American Musical (PBS Series)

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from: Sony

Release Date October 19, 2004
Of course there should have been much more. I remember there been a Metropolian Opera series called CAST ALBUMS- 100 YEARS that was put out for a limited time only and had like five volumes.
As Peter Filichia noted they left out SHE LOVES ME, BRIGADOON and SWEENEY TODD. Also nothing from PACIFIC OVERTURES, BIG RIVER, CHESS, CRAZY FOR YOU, JEKYLL & HYDE, TITANIC, THE SCARLET
PIMPERNEL, FOOTLOOSE- THE MUSICAL, THE FULL MONTY, URINTOWN...
But they couldn't have put it all. I would have done without Lee Remick's
"Anyone Can Whistle", because the show was a flop. I guess because it was Sondheim's first "serious" show...