My Favorite Year (1992 Original Broadway Cast) [Cast Recording]

Lainie Kazan, Mary Stout, Andrea Martin, Stephen Flaherty, Lynn Ahrens, Michael McGrath, Tim Curry | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 6, 1993)
• Original Release Date: April 14, 1993
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Cast Recording
• Label: RCA Victor Broadway
• ASIN: B000003FGC
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #96,214 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A nice compliment to the film.., November 26, 2004

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C. A Baker (Santa Rosa CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My Favorite Year (1992 Original Broadway Cast) (Audio CD)

I've enjoyed the Peter O'Toole, Mark Lynn Baker film since it's first appearance. So, when I discovered this musical version of the fabulous film with the amazing Tim Curry I just had to check it out.
This is a very nice musical..it isn't stunning or amazing but I can imagine it was a very fun show to go see. Most of the music is pretty light hearted but Tim has a couple of good strong songs for that amazing voice of his.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Unsung wonder, May 26, 2003

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"laurasp" (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: My Favorite Year (1992 Original Broadway Cast) (Audio CD)

Besides Ragtime, Aherns and Flaherty get little notice in the musical theater world. They deserve so much more credit. This show, along with Once on this Island, are among my favorites.
Tim Curry is amazing as always in this part. His emotion and strength is evident despite this simply being the soundtrack. Lainie Kazan and Andrea Martin are comic geniuses and certainly hold their own in this show. Evan Pappas is great as an innocent young man on his television journey. Highlights of this recording include "If the World Were Like the Movies," "Professional Showbizness Comedy," and "Rookie in the Ring."
As far as excellence of musicality, this show does show the immature stages of the pair. Ragtime is far more full and smooth, but My Favorite Year is an unsung musical that deserves some more attention.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars My favorite show (well, one of them...), January 17, 2003

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babydoh - See all my reviews

This review is from: My Favorite Year (1992 Original Broadway Cast) (Audio CD)

I am an actress who occasionally does musicals, and this was the first one I ever did (at age 12 I played Tess). Although it's not up there with the greatest shows in the world and was not awfully successful (it closed after about 30 performances on Broadway), My Favorite Year is one of my very favorites. The music - although, again, it is not terrific - is a lot of fun to listen to and I guarantee you will want to hear this CD over and over again if you buy it. The best numbers in the show are the opening number, "Twenty Million People," and Swann's "Exits". "Shut up and Dance," sung by the male lead, Benjy Stone, and his romantic interest, K.C., is good too, although I must warn you that it will play over and over again in your mind long after you've turned off the CD, possibly driving you mad. (Now that I've written that, it's happening to me. Aaargh...) All in all, I think this is a CD worth buying. The show is so much fun. If I could go back to that time and do it all over again, I would.