"The stage is where I live and come alive and act out all the things that go on in my life. It's not just what I do for a living, it's my shrink and my love affair. No one in my life has ever or ever will kiss me on the mouth like this lover called my relationship with my performance."
currently somewhere between 41 and 60 counting some questionable ones and double discs as 2
"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel
"YIKES PEOPLE!!!! How do you have that many! Ok ,the question here should be how many NON BURNED cast albums do you have? Becuase if none were burned that would be sooooooooooo freaking much money!!!! Heres how much figuring each cd is $20!
If people were actually spending this much money on cast albums, they are freaking crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Some of my purchased cds were from Columbia Broadway Masterworks Digitally Remastered, and (maybe the price tag is in my area) $11.99 + 6% NJ Tax ($12.71).
"The cynicism you refer to, I acquired the day I discovered I was different from little boys!~All About Eve
One of my summer projects is cataloguing my CDs - at rough estimate, I'd guess the number of CAST albums is somewhere in the 5 or 600s. To whoever said 20 dollars a CD - you're kidding right? I buy everything -- but in discount bins, off itunes, or where most of my less-popular cds came from EBAY!!! I'd say the estimate on how much I spend per CD is somewhere closer to 10 dollars on average -- and I've been collecting since I was in (not kidding) fifth grade when my grandparents bought me Kiss Me Kate (OBC) and Sound of Music (OBC) as a gift because they'd heard how much I liked A Chorus Line when I went to see it. That would mean I've been collecting for about 17 years now...
Less than half-a dozen of mine are burned, and those are mostly out-of-print titles that I am still looking for real copies. I like having teh booklet and all the packaging.
But if you are talking value add to that my complete set of Best Plays volumes (1894-2004)plus hundreds of published scripts and books about the theatre. And a huge library of Classical music, Jazz and big bands.
Problem is I live in a bachelor apt!!
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks." Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com
BUT i refuse to spend all the money on a cd merely for one or two songs, so i only own those cast recordings that i believe are truly special in their own unique ways. i.e. i'm not about to go and buy the bloody 'brooklyn' recording just to hear once up a time am i? pity so many do
"...But Kungurtseva reels off multiple fouettes and the tape is stopped so she can take a bow. The Jester, an abomination introduced to Swan Lake in Soviet times, extorts applause from the audience. The cuts don't help the storytelling, the production is bare bones and they go for the '50s-style happy ending.
The audience cheers like mad at the end. It's the Russian ballet, after all..."
"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird
250ish. I'm 22 and have only been properyl collecting for about 3 years. I buy a lot, luckily, I can afford to buy them. Only about10 are burned. This week I bought Spelling Bee, All Shook Up, Sweet Charity and Piazza.
"Jane, I've been dealt a blow - I've been dealt a blow, Jane."
Almost 800, I believe. Not a single one is "burned." I have replaced most of my LPs, so they basically don't count. Although there are some of those, such as the soundtrack for the TV production of Shangri-La, which hold an honored place alongside the CD collection.
Somebody mentioned they don't buy cast albums just to get a song or two. Well, I almost never listen to single songs from shows. Broadway scores are about just that--the SCORE, in TOTAL. I don't regard them as something like stand alone "pop tunes" or whatever. If I wish to listen to a show, it's the whole thing I want to hear.
It was more difficult to skip songs on Lp's (always a risk of scratching the record...better to let it play through the entire side.) CD's made it easier to program out songs you didn't care for or (better) to re-arrange the songs into show order.
Shows are like Operas, and demand you sit and listen to them. (Ever had an OCR on in the background when a friend stops by to talk to you? The style of singing keeps pulling their focus and they will ask you to turn it down. or off.) OCR's are foreground listening.
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks." Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com
"The stage is where I live and come alive and act out all the things that go on in my life. It's not just what I do for a living, it's my shrink and my love affair. No one in my life has ever or ever will kiss me on the mouth like this lover called my relationship with my performance."
Save him please, just save him
My poor Boq, my sweet, my brave him
Don't leave me till my sorry life has scene
Alone and loveless here, just the girl in the mirror
Just her and me, the Wicked Witch of the East
35. But I make sure that when I get a recording that I like it. I also get them all at discount/used stores or iTunes.
"Who says you can't bend over backwards and eat bugs if you want to? I guess the bugs would probably say you can't do that that, but assuming that they are willing and consenting bugs, then there's no problem. Let's wig out eating bugs."
-RuPaul