Ultimate Broadway II: The Very Best of Broadway Now [CAST RECORDING]

Various Artists (Artist)

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 20, 2003)
• SPARS Code: ADD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Cast Recording
• Label: RCA Victor Broadway
• ASIN: B000092Q7E
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #73,426 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

  Popular in this category: (What's this?)

  #78 in

  Music > Classical > Featured Performers, A-Z > ( N ) > New York Philharmonic Orchestra

Track Listings

1. Overture (from Gypsy) - London Cast Recording

2. Man of La Mancha (I, Don Quixote) - Brian Stokes Mitchell, Ernie Sabella

3. Run, Freedom, Run! - Hunter Foster

4. Your Daddy's Son - Ted Sperling, Ragtime Orchestra

5. Music Of The Night (From The Phantom Of The Opera) - Colm Wilkinson

6. All That Jazz (from "Chicago") - Bebe Neuwirth

7. Gimme Gimme - Michael Rafter

8. La bohème; Act I; O soave fanciulla - Placido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes, Montserrat Caballé

9. Next Best Thing To Love - Randy Graff

10. Cabaret - Natasha Richardson

11. Springtime For Hitler (From "The Producers") - John Morris, Mel Brooks

12. Losing My Mind - Barbara Cook

13. Time Warp - Raúl Esparza

14. Oklahoma!; Oklahoma - Finale: Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' (Reprise) - Musical Cast Recording

15. Breeze Off the River - Patrick Wilson

16. Big Spender - Jane Lanier, Valarie Pettiford, Shannon Lewis, Kim Greene, Kim Morgan, Dana Moore, Rachelle Rak, Elizbeth Parkinson, Dede LaBarre, Mary Ann Lamb, Mary McLeod

17. Gee Officer Krupke - Cast

18. Agony - Paul Gemignani

19. Bring Him Home (from Les Miserables) - Colm Wilkinson, Colm

20. Lullaby of Broadway (from "42nd Street") - John Lesko, Jerry Orbach

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

26 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars POOR EXCUSE FOR SOME GOOD THEATER MUSIC, May 20, 2003

By	Alan W. Petrucelli (THE ENTERTAINMENT REPORT (ALAN W. PETRUCELLI)) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

The best of Broadway? Sure, if you consider the best of Broadway only those songs taken only from RCA Victor cast recordings. Expect the expected: Tracks from "Ragtime," "Chicago," "42nd Street" and "Man of La Mancha," sung by the likes of Audra
McDonald, Bebe Neuwirth, Jerry Orbach and Brian Stokes Mitchell. Including a live recording of Barbara Cook warbling "Losing My Mind" from her "Mostly Sondheim" CD isn't exactly kosher. But then again, neither is this gimmick-riddled release. Curtain up?
Half-way, maybe. Light the lights? Dim them, please.

15 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Moderate Quality, June 19, 2003

By	"themouth23" (Hartland, WI, USA) - See all my reviews

I believe that the show selection for this CD was excellent. However the song selection and song order were not. Why pick "Your Daddy's Son" from Ragtime when you can have the amazing and fantastic "Prologue" from the same show. Also I believe that a mistake was made by slecting "I Don Quixote" from Man of La Mancha instead of the much more listenable "Impossible Dream." Also the overture from Gypsy is not the proper song to start out a CD. Perhaps the "Overture" from The Phantom of the Opera.

This is however an excellent example of showtunes for inexperienced members of the theatrical world.