The Year of Living Cinematically

As usual: each film was watched in its entirety. All films that I’d never seen before have been marked with an asterisk.

*Show Boat (1929) 1/1
Pinocchio (1940) 1/6
Sleeping Beauty (1959) 1/10
101 Dalmatians (1961) 1/12
*The Aristocats (1970) 1/23
*Sister Kenny (1946) 2/26
*The Farewell (2019) 2/27
Victor/Victoria (1982) 2/28
*Written on the Wind (1956) 2/29
*One Hour With You (1932) 2/29
*The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931) 2/29
Good News (1947) 3/6
*Cabin in the Sky (1943) 3/7
The Quiet Man (1952) 3/20
Clue (1985) 3/27
*Love and Death (1975) 4/12
*Little Women (2019) 4/15
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) 5/18
Show Boat (1936) 5/19
Life After Tomorrow (2006) 5/19
Show Business: The Road to Broadway (2007) 5/19
*Three Coins in the Fountain (1954) 5/21
How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967) 5/22
Holiday (1938) 5/25
42nd Street (1933) 5/26
The Thin Man (1934) 5/28
Easy Living (1937) 6/1
Hope and Glory (1987) 6/3
Flower Drum Song (1961) 6/3
*The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939) 6/4
*Spitfire (1934) 6/4
*It’s Love I’m After (1937) 6/4
Calamity Jane (1953) 6/5
High Society (1956) 6/6
*Music in the Air (1934) 6/6
*King of Jazz (1930) 6/7
*Undercurrent (1946) 6/7
*The Talk of the Town (1942) 6/7
Z (1969) 6/8
*The Whole Town’s Talking (1935) 6/9
*Gidget (1959) 6/10
*The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957) 6/10
*The Devil and Miss Jones (1941) 6/11
She’s Working Her Way Through College (1952) 6/13
The Trouble With Angels (1966) 6/15
*Beat the Devil (1953) 6/17
*Raintree County (1957) 6/17
*Pin Up Girl (1944) 6/18
My Favorite Wife (1940) 6/18
*Bitter Sweet (1940) 6/18
*The Wings of Eagles (1957) 6/19
*New Moon (1940) 6/20
*So This Is Love (1953) 6/20
*Song of Love (1947) 6/22
*A Midsummer’s Night Sex Comedy (1982) 6/23
*King Solomon’s Mines (1950) 6/24
*The Petrified Forest (1936) 6/25
Sister Act (1992) 6/26
The Party (1968) 6/26
*Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968) 6/26
*Atlantic City (1980) 6/27
Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines (1965) 6/28
*Murder She Said (1961) 6/29
*Melvin and Howard (1980) 6/30
*The Front (1976) 6/30
*The Human Comedy (1943) 7/1
Twister (1996) 7/3
*Hamilton (2020) 7/4
*San Francisco (1936) 7/5
Guys and Dolls (1955) 7/6
My Favorite Year (1982) 7/25
Light in the Piazza (1962) 7/26
*It’s a Date (1940) 8/4
*The Story of Irene and Vernon Castle (1939) 8/5
*Lady of Burlesque (1943) 8/5
The Mad Miss Manton (1938) 8/6
*The Student Prince (1954) 8/6
*The Opposite Sex (1956) 8/9
*Butterflies Are Free (1972) 8/9
The First Wives Club (1996) 8/10
The Letter (1940) 8/14
*A Free Soul (1931) 8/16
Steel Magnolias (1989) 8/18
*Dream Wife (1953) 8/18
Moonstruck (1987) 8/18
*The Prince of Tides (1991) 8/20
The Lady Eve (1941) 8/22
Suspicion (1941) 8/25
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) 8/25
Clash of the Titans (1981) 8/25
State Fair (1945) 8/28
Moonstruck (1987) 8/30
The Phantom Tollbooth (1970) 9/1
Grease (1978) 9/3
*Grease 2 (1982) 9/4
*Flying Down to Rio (1933) 9/7
Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993) 9/8
*Footlight Parade (1933) 9/9
Psycho (1960) 9/17
Little Shop of Horrors (1986) 9/22
Destry Rides Again (1939) 9/24
The Sound of Music (1965) 9/29
Summer Stock (1950) 9/30
Oklahoma! (1955) 10/2
*The Goodbye Girl (1977) 10/8
*Cats (2019) 10/12
Barefoot in the Park (1967) 10/15
Now, Voyager (1942) 10/17
*Howard (2018) 10/20
Auntie Mame (1958) 10/21
Hud (1963) 10/22
To Sir With Love (1967) 10/24
*Cluny Brown (1946) 10/30
*Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957) 11/3
*The Gunfighter (1950) 11/4
Brigadoon (1954) 11/5
Lifeboat (1944) 11/7
*Mother Wore Tights (1947) 11/10
Moonstruck (1987) 11/13
Moonstruck (1987) 11/13
*Baby Boom (1987) 11/16
*Till the Clouds Roll By (1946) 11/16
The Queen (2006) 11/17
*You’ll Never Get Rich (1941) 11/20
A Star Is Born (1954) 11/20
*Love Me Tonight (1932) 11/24
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947) 12/1
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967) 12/2
Les Girls (1957) 12/3
The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964) 12/3
*Mank (2020) 12/4
*Marnie (1964) 12/8
*Nothing Sacred (1937) 12/10
*Grace Quigley (1984) 12/11
Moonstruck (1987) 12/12
*Let Them All Talk (2020) 12/15
The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) 12/15
*Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2020) 12/18
Desk Set (1957) 12/20
Remember the Night (1940) 12/21
Come to the Stable (1949) 12/22
Elf (2003) 12/24
Christmas Vacation (1989) 12/24
The Bishop’s Wife (1947) 12/25
Christmas in Connecticut (1945) 12/27
*The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) 12/29
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) 12/31
Operation Petticoat (1959) 12/31

My Year in Show Music

Old habits die hard. I haven’t written about theatre in years but I am still keeping track of what I listen to; a grasp at normalcy in abnormal times, perhaps. Every recording—which I listened to in its entirety; the only criterion—is linked to its own page on castalbums.org (a site I highly recommend for serious collectors of theatre music).

An asterisk indicates a recording I listened to for the first time.

1/3 – Fiorello! [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/6 – Chicago [1998 London Cast Recording]
1/9 – A Little Night Music [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/13 – The Visit [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/14 – Barbara Cook: It’s Better with a Band
1/20 – The Most Happy Fella [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
2/2 – Kwamina [Original Broadway Cast Recording – Deluxe Edition]
2/2 – Porgy and Bess [2019 Metropolitan Opera Cast Recording]*
2/3 – Prettybelle [Studio Cast Recording]
2/4 – Show Boat [1993 World Premiere Cast Recording]
2/8 – A Chorus Line [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
2/12 – Annie [Original London Cast Recording]
2/14 – Six [Studio Cast Recording]
2/15 – Lady in the Dark [1963 Studio Cast Recording]
2/16 – Bright Star [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
2/24 – Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/2 – On the Level [Original London Cast Recording]*
3/3 – The Merry Widow [1968 Studio Cast Recording]
3/17 – Juno [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/25 – June Bronhill at the Sydney Opera House*
3/28 – Something’s Afoot [World Premiere Cast Recording]*
3/29 – La Cage Aux Folles [Original Australian Cast Recording]
3/30 – The Boys from Syracuse [Encores! Cast Recording]
4/3 – Six [Studio Cast Recording]
4/13 – South Pacific [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
4/14 – Bye Bye Birdie [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
4/17 – Fiddler on the Roof [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
4/18 – The Light in the Piazza [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
4/19 – Carousel [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
4/20 – The Wedding Singer [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
4/21 – Pal Joey [Encores! Cast Recording]
4/24 – Barbra Streisand: The Second Barbra Streisand Album
4/26 – Company [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
4/29 – On the Level [Original London Cast Recording]
5/2 – Sunday in the Park with George [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/5 – John Raitt: Highlights of Broadway
5/7 – No, No, Nanette [1971 Broadway Cast Recording]
5/14 – The Last Five Years [Original Cast Recording]
5/15 – Rags [Original London Cast Recording]*
5/18 – The Good Companions [Original London Cast Recording]
5/19 – The Girl Who Came to Supper [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/21 – Gypsy [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/23 – Annie [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/24 – Legally Blonde [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/27 – Six [Studio Cast Recording]
6/13 – Geraldine Fitzgerald: Streetsongs*
6/20 – Raisin [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
6/27 – Phantom [Original Cast Recording]
6/28 – Flower Drum Song [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
6/29 – Rodgers & Hammerstein: The Complete Overtures
6/29 – Flower Drum Song [Original London Cast Recording]
7/2 – Ann Veronica [Original London Cast Recording]*
7/2 – James Shigeta: Scene One*
7/3 – The Phantom of the Opera [Original London Cast Recording]
7/6 – The Sound of Music [Original London Cast Recording]
7/7 – Ragtime [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
7/7 – Robert and Elizabeth [Original London Cast Recording]
7/8 – Ain’t Misbehavin’ [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
7/8 – James Shigeta: We Speak the Same Language*
7/18 – Hello, Dolly! [Original French Cast Recording]*
7/20 – Zip Goes a Million [Original London Cast Recording]*
7/21 – Happy Holiday [Original London Cast Recording]*
8/3 – Here’s Love [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
8/9 – The Merry Widow [1962 Studio Cast Recording]
8/13 – Chitty Chitty Bang Bang [Original London Cast Recording]
8/15 – Company [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
8/15 – A Chorus Line [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
8/16 – The Producers [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
8/19 – Destry Rides Again [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
8/19 – Diahann Carroll Sings Harold Arlen*
8/20 – Beautiful [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
8/21 – Kiss Me, Kate [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
8/21 – Sail Away [Original London Cast Recording]
8/22 – Passion Flower Hotel [Original London Cast Recording]
8/24 – Dolores Gray: Heat Wave, The Decca Singles 1953-1955*
8/24 – Mr. & Mrs. [Original London Cast Recording]*
8/25 – Anne of Green Gables [Canadian Studio Cast Recording]
8/26 – Mary Poppins [1966 London Studio Cast Recording]*
8/26 – Hallelujah, Baby! [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
8/27 – James Joyce’s The Dead [PICT Cast Recording]
8/27 – Anything Goes [2003 London Revival Cast Recording]
8/29 – The Desert Song [1967 London Studio Cast Recording]*
8/30 – Pippin [New Broadway Cast Recording]
8/31 – Rachel Bay Jones: ShowFolk*
9/2 – Carousel [1994 Broadway Cast Recording]
9/2 – Oklahoma! [1966 London Studio Cast Recording]*
9/6 – Kiss Me, Kate [1967 London Studio Cast Recording]
9/9 – On the Town [1959 London Studio Cast Recording]*
9/11 – South Pacific [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
9/12 – Grease 2 [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]*
9/15 – Blitz! [Original London Cast Recording]
9/15 – Salad Days [Original London Cast Recording]*
9/15 – Free As Air [Original London Cast Recording]*
9/17 – On the Level [Original London Cast Recording]
9/17 – My Fair Lady [Original London Cast Recording]
9/17 – The Secret Garden [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
9/17 – The Pajama Game [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
9/17 – Nick Cordero: Live Your Life [Live at 54 Below]*
9/20 – Nine [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/3 – Rex [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/5 – Six [Studio Cast Recording]
10/5 – Evita [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/6 – Carnival [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/7 – The King and I [1966 London Studio Cast Recording]*
10/16 – Anyone Can Whistle [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/16 – Mame [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/16 – Dear World [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/16 – Gypsy [Original London Cast Recording]
10/16 – Sweeney Todd [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/20 – Oliver! [1962 London Studio Cast Recording]*
10/20 – The Bridges of Madison County [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/22 – Grease 2 [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
10/23 – Laura Benanti*
10/25 – Seesaw [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/28 – High Spirits [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/30 – The Scottsboro Boys [Original Cast Recording]
11/3 – The Unsinkable Molly Brown [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/6 – Mary Poppins [The Definitive 2020 Cast Recording]*
11/6 – Porgy and Bess [Houston Grand Opera Cast Recording]
11/16 – The Sound of Music [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/4 – Anyone Can Whistle [First Complete Recording]*
12/17 – Bye Bye Birdie [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/23 – Strike Up the Band [1990 Studio Cast Recording]
12/23 – Brigadoon [1991 Studio Cast Recording]
12/23 – The Secret Garden [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/23 – Show Boat [1993 World Premiere Cast Recording]
12/23 – Rebecca Luker: Anything Goes – The Songs of Cole Porter
12/23 – The Boys from Syracuse [Encores! Cast Recording]
12/23 – The Sound of Music [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
12/24 – The Music Man [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
12/24 – She Loves Me [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/25 – Rebecca Luker & Sally Wilfert: All the Girls*
12/25 – Six [Studio Cast Recording]