Category: Cast Recordings

Posted in Cast Recordings Music Musicals Theatre

Album Review: Bugsy Malone (NYMT 1997)

  “We could have been anything that we wanted to be” The news that the Lyric Hammersmith…

Posted in Cast Recordings Music Musicals West End

Album Review: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Original London Cast Recording)

  “That’s my Charlie, that’s my son” At a time when big new musicals have been dropping…

Posted in Cast Recordings Music Musicals

Album Review: Spamalot UK Cast Album

  “Now we can go straight into the middle eight” Now that Spamalot has left the West…

Posted in Cast Recordings Music Musicals

Album Review: The A-Z of Mrs P (Original London Cast Recording)

  “Could you ever be happy mama?” In a musical theatre landscape that often seems risk-averse when…

Posted in Cast Recordings Music Theatre

Album Review: Privates on Parade (1977)

  “Remember the yearning we felt inside” This 1977 recording of Denis King’s music is not going…

Posted in Broadway Cast Recordings Music Musicals National Theatre Stephen Sondheim Theatre

Album Review: A Little Night Music (NT vs Broadway Revival Cast recordings)

  “Isn’t it bliss? Don’t you approve?” I always assume that people know where the name of…

Posted in Broadway Cast Recordings Music Musicals

Album Review: Matilda the Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

  “You mustn’t let a little thing like little stop you” The joys of Matilda the Musical…

Posted in Cast Recordings Film Kristen Anderson-Lopez Music Robert Lopez

Album Review: Frozen (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

  “It’s time to see what I can do” Disney’s Frozen is as close to a stone-cold…

Posted in Cast Recordings Music Musicals Stiles + Drewe Theatre

Album Review: Betty Blue Eyes (Official London Cast Recording)

  “He has magic fingers” Before it came to an untimely end, the cast of Betty Blue…