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The original Broadway cast album was Ethel Merman's first recording in the then-new stereophonic sound technology. [ citation needed ] Motion pictures recorded in stereo had been steadily made since 1953, and stereo was first used on magnetic tape in 1954, but it was not until 1958, a year before Gypsy opened, that it became possible to use ...
An original cast recording or OCR, as the name implies, features the voices of the show's original cast. A cast recording featuring the first cast to perform a musical in a particular venue is known, for example, as an "original Broadway cast recording" (OBCR) or an "original London cast recording" (OLCR).
Original Broadway cast recording: The original Broadway cast of West Side Story and the New York Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein: 1957 "Tom Dooley" The Kingston Trio: 1958 "Rumble" Link Wray: 1958 The Play of Daniel: A Twelfth-Century Drama: New York Pro Musica under the direction of Noah Greenberg 1958 "Rank Stranger" The Stanley ...
LuPone is widely regarded as one of the greatest Broadway performers of her generation, [29] [124] [125] [126] and one of the most influential actors in musical theater. [127] The London Times once nicknamed her the "first lady of the theater", [ 29 ] and American-British journalist Hadley Freeman declared her "the queen of Broadway" and "the ...
The Broadway cast recording of the 1957 musical The Music Man was released as an album by Capitol Records. The original release formats included LP, 4×EP, and reel-to-reel tape. [2] The album spent several weeks at number one on Billboard's Best Selling LPs chart. [5]
“Gypsy,” which opened Dec. 19 at the newly restored Majestic Theatre, is the smartest kind of revival: one that excavates profound new layers of a classic piece, without plundering the musical ...
Danny Burstein, Joy Woods, and Audra McDonald in Gypsy, open now at Broadway’s Majestic Theatre. Julieta Cervantes Woods recalls her first interaction with the show, as a child via the TV film ...
The Broadway cast recording of the musical My Fair Lady was first released April 2, 1956 by Columbia Records, [2] with songs by Lerner and Loewe, conducted by Franz Allers, starring Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews. Columbia president Goddard Lieberson provided the $375,000 needed to stage the show in return for the rights to the cast recording. [2]