Broadway Today [From the Original Cast Recordings]

Marc Shaiman (Composer), Mel Brooks (Composer), Elton John (Composer), Billy Joel (Composer), Alan Menken (Composer), Benny / Ulvaeus, Bjorn / Anderson, Stig Andersson (Composer), Giacomo Puccini (Composer), Jeanine Tesori (Composer), John Kander (Composer), John / Elfman, Danny Kander (Composer), Nathan Lane (Performer), Beth Fowler (Performer), Alfred Boe (Performer), Wei Huang (Performer), Gavin Creel (Performer), Matthew Broderick (Performer), Adam Pascal (Performer), Renée Zellweger (Performer), Catherine Zeta-Jones (Performer), Marissa Jaret Winokur (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Nathan Lane, Beth Fowler, Alfred Boe, Wei Huang, Gavin Creel, et al.
• Composer: Marc Shaiman, Mel Brooks, Elton John, Billy Joel, Alan Menken, et al.
• Audio CD (June 3, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B000096FUC
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #145,625 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

This compilation gives a pretty good idea of what you'll hear if you buy a ticket for a Broadway show in 2003. Leaving revivals aside (there's no Man of La Mancha or Gypsy, for instance), the tracks tend to encompass contemporary songwriters on the Great White Way. Fittingly, the CD begins and concludes with numbers from Hairspray, arguably the most vibrant new pop musical to come down the pike in ages. Sandwiched between are songs by authors making a belated stage debut (Mel Brooks and The Producers, Billy Joel and Movin’ Out), arty newcomers (Janine Tesori and ) and seasoned pros (Alan Menken and Howard Ashman with Beauty and the Beast). Of course, the most seasoned pro of them all may well be Giacomo Puccini, making a belated Broadway debut thanks to Baz Lurhrmann's production of La Boheme. The addition of Chicago’s "All That Jazz" (from the movie, not the show!) reeks of opportunism, but overall it doesn't spoil a varied collection that should appeal to broad-minded pop lovers everywhere. --Elisabeth Vincentelli

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7 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars What do I need with This?, July 5, 2003

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This review is from: Broadway Today [From the Original Cast Recordings] (Audio CD)

If you are a broadway passer-by, someone who looks to getting to know just what's on broadway and not what's it like, someone who says he's seen all of the broadway shows after reading the "what's on listings" in the papers this is a CD for you. I don't own the CD but own all of the Cds from which songs were taken to make this CD. every musical has it's own style and kind of music, and this CD doesn't even take all the highlights. If you are into really experiencing something when listening to a cd, if you are a real broadway-lover and you are interested in modern musical-writing, every one of the original cast recordings (from which songs were taken to this CD-hairpsray, producers, millie, aida, b&b, boheme, moving out) will be a much bigger enjoyment for you than this one. and most preferabely- all of them! :)