My Year in Show Music

For 2023 made a deliberate choice to try and listen to a different cast recording every day (repeats don’t count). There were some days when it just couldn’t happen but I made up for it as best I could.

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 first-time listen.

1/1 – Six [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/2 – Candide [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/3 – Chicago [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/4 – Gypsy [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
1/5 – My Fair Lady [Original London Cast Recording]
1/6 – It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It’s Superman [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/7 – Wonderful Town [1999 Studio Cast Recording]
1/8 – Zorba [Broadway Revival Cast Recording]
1/9 – The Band’s Visit [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/10 – Allegro [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/11 – Annie Get Your Gun [1991 Studio Cast Recording]
1/12 – The Most Happy Fella [Original London Cast Recording]
1/13 – The Happy Time [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/14 – Mary Poppins [The Definitive 2020 Cast Recording]
1/15 – How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
1/16 – I Had a Ball [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/17 – Romance/Romance [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/18 – Ragtime [Concept Cast Recording]
1/18 – Ragtime [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/18 – Ragtime [Original 2009 Broadway Cast]
1/19 – Giant [Original Cast Recording]
1/20 – The Boys from Syracuse [1963 Off-Broadway Cast Recording]
1/21 – Promises, Promises [Original London Cast Recording]
1/22 – Oklahoma! [1952 Studio Cast Recording]
1/23 – Bye Bye Birdie [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/23 – Bye Bye Birdie [Original London Cast Recording]
1/23 – Bajour [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/23 – West Side Story [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/24 – High Society [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/25 – Golden Boy [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/26 – Nine [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
1/26 – The Most Happy Fella [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/27 – Darling of the Day [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/28 – The King and I [The 2015 Broadway Cast Recording]
1/28 – She Loves Me [Original London Cast Recording]
1/29 – Whoop-Up [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/30 – Urinetown [Original Cast Recording]
1/31 – Anya [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
2/1 – Flora, the Red Menace [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
2/2 – Sail Away [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
2/3 – Pipe Dream [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
2/4 – Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
2/4 – Passion Flower Hotel [Original London Cast Recording]
2/5 – Woman of the Year [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
2/6 – Show Boat [1962 Studio Cast Recording]
2/7 – Greenwillow [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
2/8 – Henry, Sweet Henry [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
2/9 – Promises, Promises [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
2/11 – Fiorello! [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
2/12 – Fade Out—Fade In [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
2/13 – Kiss Me, Kate [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
2/14 – Kimberly Akimbo [Original Broadway Cast Recording]*
2/14 – Kimberly Akimbo [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
2/15 – On the Level [Original London Cast Recording]
2/15 – Kimberly Akimbo [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
2/16 – Baby [New Off-Broadway Cast Recording]*
2/17 – Pal Joey [1952 Broadway Revival Cast Recording]
2/18 – Tenderloin [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
2/18 – The Sound of Music [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
2/19 – Oh, Kay! [1960 Off-Broadway Cast Recording]*
2/19 – On the Twentieth Century [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
2/20 – Oliver! [Original London Cast Recording]
2/21 – Call Me Madam [Encores! Cast Recording]
2/22 – Paint Your Wagon [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
2/23 – Canterbury Tales [Original London Cast Recording]*
2/24 – The Phantom of the Opera [Original Hamburg Cast Recording]*
2/25 – Wonderful Town [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
2/25 – A Little Night Music [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
2/26 – New Girl in Town [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
2/27 – Me and Juliet [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
2/28 – Flahooley [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/1 – Carmen Jones [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/1 – Kimberly Akimbo [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/2 – Lady, Be Good [Encores! Cast Recording]
3/2 – The Sound of Music [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
3/3 – I Do! I Do! [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/4 – The Wild Party [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/5 – Marie Christine [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/6 – On Your Toes [1983 Broadway Cast Recording]
3/7 – Wildcat [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/8 – Sweet Charity [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/9 – Fiddler on the Roof [Original London Cast Recording]
3/10 – Illya Darling [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/11 – Donnybrook! [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/11 – Sondheim: A Musical Tribute [Concert Cast Recording]
3/12 – Juno [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/13 – Irene [1973 Broadway Cast Recording]
3/14 – Bring Back Birdie [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/15 – Man of La Mancha [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/16 – Annie [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/17 – Eileen [1946 Studio Cast Recording]*
3/17 – Finian’s Rainbow [1960 Broadway Cast Recording]
3/17 – Kimberly Akimbo [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/18 – Flower Drum Song [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/18 – Tovarich [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/19 – Seesaw [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/20 – How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying [Original London Cast Recording]
3/20 – Dear World [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/21 – Can-Can [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/22 – Do I Hear a Waltz? [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/22 – I Do! I Do! [Original London Cast Recording]
3/23 – Hazel Flagg [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/24 – City of Angels [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/24 – Parade [2023 Broadway Cast Recording]*
3/25 – Bar Mitzvah Boy [Original London Cast Recording]
3/26 – Carousel [Music Theater of Lincoln Center Cast Recording]
3/27 – A Time for Singing [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/28 – Ragtime [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/28 – House of Flowers [1968 Off-Broadway Cast Recording]*
3/29 – Jennie [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/29 – Ragtime [Concept Cast Recording]
3/30 – Where’s Charley? [Original London Cast Recording]
3/31 – Oklahoma! [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
4/1- Bells Are Ringing [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
4/2 – Sing Street [Original Broadway Cast Recording]*
4/3 – Prettybelle [Studio Cast Recording]
4/4 – Hello, Dolly! [1967 Broadway Cast Recording]
4/4 – Kimberly Akimbo [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
4/5 – Pacific Overtures [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
4/6 – Of Thee I Sing [Broadway Revival Cast Recording]
4/7 – Six [Studio Cast Recording]
4/8 – The Fantasticks [Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording]
4/9 – The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
4/10 – Nine [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
4/10 – Mame [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
4/11 – A Party with Betty Comden and Adolph Green [Original Broadway Cast Recording]*
4/12 – Saturday Night [World Premiere Cast Recording]
4/12 – Sugar Babies [The Broadway Cast Recording]
4/13 – Marry Me a Little [Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording]*
4/14 – Two on the Aisle [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
4/15 – Follies [Paper Mill Playhouse Cast Recording]
4/16 – The Phantom of the Opera [Original London Cast Recording]
4/17 – Is There Life After High School? [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
4/17 – Barbara Cook: It’s Better with a Band
4/18 – Jamaica [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
4/19 – The Music Man [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
4/20 – The Pajama Game [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
4/21 – The Apple Tree [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
4/22 – Robert and Elizabeth [Original London Cast Recording]
4/23 – She Loves Me [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
4/24 – Swinging on a Star [Original Broadway Cast Recording]*
4/25 – The Scarlet Pimpernel [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
4/26 – Fings Ain’t Wot They Used T’Be [Original London Cast Recording]*
4/27 – Brigadoon [1957 Studio Cast Recording]
4/28 – Half a Sixpence [Original London Cast Recording]
4/29 – On a Clear Day You Can See Forever [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
4/30 – A Chorus Line [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/1 – I’m Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road [Original Cast Recording]
5/1 – Gypsy [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
5/2 – Show Boat [1993 World Premiere Cast Recording]
5/3 – Two by Two [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/4 – Merrily We Roll Along [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/5 – The Sound of Music [Original London Cast Recording]
5/6 – The Girl Who Came to Supper [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/7 – State Fair [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/8 – Oliver! [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/9 – Plain and Fancy [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/10 – Hello, Dolly! [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/11 – Angel [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/12 – La Cage Aux Folles [Original Australian Cast Recording]
5/13 – Little Mary Sunshine [Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording]
5/14 – Cyrano [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/16 – Strike Up the Band [1990 Studio Cast Recording]
5/19 – Fosse [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/20 – Fun Home [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/21 – Grease [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
5/22 – The Apple Tree [1972 Canadian Cast Recording]
5/23 – Rex [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/24 – Tina [Original London Cast Recording]
5/25 – Take Me Along [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/27 – The Robber Bridegroom [2016 Cast Recording]
5/28 – Me and Juliet [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/28 – Leader of the Pack [Original Broadway Cast Recording]*
5/29 – Goodtime Charley [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/30 – Fiddler on the Roof [2018 Cast Recording]
5/31 – Cry for Us All [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
6/2 – Camelot [The 2023 Broadway Cast Recording]*
6/3 – Carmelina [Original Cast Recording]
6/4 – Guys and Dolls [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
6/6 – All American [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
6/7 – Cinderella [2008 International Tour Cast Recording]*
6/8 – South Pacific [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
6/9 – Into the Woods [2022 Broadway Cast Recording]
6/10 – [title of show] [Original Cast Recording]
6/11 – Kimberly Akimbo [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
6/12 – A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
6/13 – Some Like It Hot [Original Broadway Cast Recording]*
6/14 – 110 in the Shade [The 2007 Broadway Cast Recording]
6/15 – The Wizard of Oz [1988 London Cast Recording]
6/16 – Diana [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
6/17 – Over Here! [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
6/18 – The Bridges of Madison County [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
6/19 – Carnival [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
6/20 – The Grass Harp [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
6/21 – Oklahoma! [1998 Royal National Theatre Cast Recording]
6/22 – The Unsinkable Molly Brown [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
6/23 – The Body Beautiful [Original Broadway Cast]*
6/23 – Fiddler on the Roof [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
6/24 – A Little Night Music [1996 London Cast Recording]
6/27 – The Light in the Piazza [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
6/28 – Beauty and the Beast [Original London Cast Recording]*
6/29 – Sweet Smell of Success [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
6/30 – New York, New York [Original Broadway Cast Recording]*
7/1 – Zorba [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
7/2 – Carousel [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
7/3 – Grey Gardens [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
7/4 – 1776 [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
7/5 – Mamma Mia [Original London Cast Recording]
7/6 – Hello, Dolly! [30th Anniversary Cast Recording]
7/7 – Sweeney Todd [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
7/8 – Street Scene [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
7/9 – Ben Franklin in Paris [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
7/10 – Blitz! [Original London Cast Recording]
7/11 – The Rothschilds [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
7/12 – Up in Central Park [Original Cast Recording]
7/14 – Arms and the Girl [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
7/16 – Make a Wish [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
7/17 – Irma La Douce [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
7/17 – La Cage Aux Folles [Original Australian Cast Recording]
7/18 – The Dancing Years [1968 London Cast Recording]
7/20 – 42nd Street [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
7/22 – Wish You Were Here [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
7/23 – Funny Girl [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
7/24 – Hairspray [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
7/25 – The Wiz [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
7/26 – Jekyll & Hyde [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
7/27 – The Wedding Singer [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
7/28 – Song of Norway [1959 Revival Cast Recording]
7/28 – 110 in the Shade [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
7/28 – Baker Street [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
7/29 – Pal Joey [1950 Studio Cast Recording]
7/30 – Oh, Kay! [1955 Studio Cast Recording]
7/30 – Kimberly Akimbo [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
7/31 – Applause [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
8/1 – Bravo Giovanni [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
8/2 – Miss Liberty [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
8/3 – Purlie [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
8/4 – Mack & Mabel [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
8/5 – Sunday in the Park with George [2017 Broadway Cast Recording]
8/6 – Brigadoon [Encores! Cast Recording]
8/7 – Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown [Original London Cast Recording]
8/8 – Titanic [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
8/9 – Chrysanthemum [Original London Cast Recording]
8/10 – Gypsy [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
8/11 – High Button Shoes [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
8/12 – The Lion King [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
8/13 – She Loves Me [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
8/14 – They’re Playing Our Song [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
8/15 – Fanny [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
8/16 – The Boy Friend [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
8/16 – State Fair [1945 Motion Picture Soundtrack]
8/17 – The King and I [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
8/17 – South Pacific [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
8/18 – Destry Rides Again [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
8/19 – I Love My Wife [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
8/19 – Anne of Green Gables [Original London Cast Recording]
8/20 – The Rink [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
8/20 – Divorce Me, Darling [Original London Cast Recording]*
8/20 – Oklahoma! [1979 Broadway Revival Cast Recording]
8/21 – La Cage Aux Folles [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
8/21 – West Side Story [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
8/22 – Annie Get Your Gun [1957 Television Cast Recording]
8/22 – Barbra Streisand: The Second Barbra Streisand Album
8/23 – On the Town [1960 Studio Cast Recording]
8/24 – No, No, Nanette [1971 Broadway Cast Recording]
8/25 – Spamalot [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
8/26 – You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown [Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording]
8/27 – My Fair Lady [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
8/28 – First Impressions [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
8/28 – The King and I [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
8/29 – Crazy for You [Original London Cast Recording]
8/29 – Lock Up Your Daughters [Original London Cast Recording]*
8/30 – Show Boat [1946 Broadway Revival Cast Recording]
8/31 – Milk and Honey [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
9/1 – The Music Man [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
9/3 – Little Me [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
9/4 – Damn Yankees [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
9/5 – Gentlemen Prefer Blondes [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
9/6 – Kwamina [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
9/7 – Show Boat [1988 Studio Cast Recording]
9/7 – Sweeney Todd [2023 Broadway Cast Recording]*
9/8 – Barnum [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
9/8 – Rosemary Clooney: Rodgers, Hart & Hammerstein*
9/9 – Kismet [1964 London Studio Cast Recording]
9/10 – Purlie [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
9/11 – The Boys from Syracuse [Encores! Cast Recording]
9/12 – No Strings [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
9/13 – Catch Me If You Can [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
9/14 – Hello, Dolly! [Original London Cast Recording]
9/14 – Marguerite [Original London Cast Recording]*
9/14 – Oklahoma! [World Premiere Complete Recording]*
9/15 – Oklahoma! [World Premiere Complete Recording]
9/15 – On the Twentieth Century [New Broadway Cast Recording]
9/16 – Matilda [Original Stratford Cast Recording]
9/17 – How Now, Dow Jones [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
9/18 – Company [2018 London Cast Recording]
9/18 – Sunday in the Park with George [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
9/19 – Merrily We Roll Along [First Complete Recording]*
9/20 – Annie Get Your Gun [Music Theater of Lincoln Center Revival Cast Recording]
9/20 – Damn Yankees [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
9/21 – Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris [Original Cast Recording]
9/21 – Sunset Boulevard [American Premiere Recording]
9/22 – High Spirits [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
9/22 – Lost in the Stars [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
9/23 – The Act [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
9/24 – Seventeen [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
9/24 – St. Louis Woman [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
9/24 – The King and I [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
9/25 – Silk Stockings [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
9/25 – Coco [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
9/26 – Anyone Can Whistle [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
9/27 – Cabaret [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
9/27 – Mexican Hayride [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
9/27 – South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
9/28 – The Gay Life [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
9/29 – Guys and Dolls [The 2023 London Cast Recording]*
9/30 – Steel Pier [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/1 – Wicked [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/1 – Good News [Studio Cast Recording]
10/2 – Jimmy [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/3 – Baby [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/4 – The Wild Party [Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording]
10/5 – Raisin [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/6 – How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/7 – Brigadoon [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/8 – Hallelujah, Baby! [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/8 – Kimberly Akimbo [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/9 – Best Foot Forward [1963 Revival Cast Recording]
10/10 – The Will Rogers Follies [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/11 – Crazy for You [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/11 – Billy Elliot [Original London Cast Recording]
10/11 – Cinderella [1957 Television Cast Recording]
10/12 – Golden Rainbow [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/12 – Mary Poppins [Original London Cast Recording]
10/13 – Les Miserables [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/13 – Destry Rides Again [Original London Cast Recording]*
10/14 – Follies [1985 Concert Cast Recording]
10/14 – The Desert Song [1959 London Studio Cast Recording]
10/15 – Grand Hotel [Broadway Cast Recording]
10/15 – Gigi [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/16 – Pipe Dream [Encores! Cast Recording]
10/16 – Evita [Concept Cast Recording]
10/17 – Grab Me a Gondola [Original London Cast Recording]
10/18 – The Magic Show [Original Broadway Cast Recording]*
10/18 – The Boys from Syracuse [1953 Studio Cast Recording]
10/19 – Salad Days [Original London Cast Recording]
10/19 – Belle [Original London Cast Recording]*
10/19 – The Pajama Game [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/20 – City of Angels [Original London Cast Recording]
10/21 – Pins and Needles [Studio Cast Recording]
10/22 – Simply Heavenly [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/22 – Song & Dance [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/23 – I Can Get It for You Wholesale [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/23 – Singin’ in the Rain [2012 London Cast Recording]
10/24 – The Grand Tour [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/24 – Finian’s Rainbow [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
10/25 – The Book of Mormon [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/25 – Passion [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/26 – Kiss of the Spider Woman [Original London Cast Recording]
10/27 – Brigadoon [1991 Studio Cast Recording]
10/27 – Yentl [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack – 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition]*
10/28 – Follies [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/29 – Top Banana [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/29 – The Mystery of Edwin Drood [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/29 – A Family Affair [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/30 – Company [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/30 – Wicked [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/30 – Kiss Me, Kate [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/31 – Li’l Abner [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/1 – Nick & Nora [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/1 – Redhead [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/2 – Out of This World [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/3 – The Happiest Girl in the World [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/3 – Nine [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/4 – Sunset Boulevard [World Premiere Cast Recording]
11/4 – Carousel [1994 Broadway Cast Recording]
11/4 – Sweet Charity [Original London Cast Recording]
11/5 – Goldilocks [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/6 – Show Boat [1966 Lincoln Center Revival Cast Recording]
11/6 – Carmen Jones [1962 Studio Cast Recording]
11/6 – Caroline, or Change [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
11/7 – What Makes Sammy Run? [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/7 – Canterbury Tales [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/7 – Cabaret [1986 London Revival Cast Recording]*
11/8 – March of the Falsettos [Original Cast Recording]
11/8 – Falsettoland [Original Cast Recording]
11/8 – The Barbra Streisand Album
11/9 – The Secret Garden [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/9 – Barbra Streisand Live at the Bon Soir
11/10 – Chess [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/10 – Barbra Streisand: The Second Barbra Streisand Album
11/11 – Waitress [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/11 – Sweeney Todd [The 2012 London Cast Recording]
11/12 – Pump Boys and Dinettes [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/12 – Cabin in the Sky [Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording]
11/13 – Mack & Mabel [1995 London Cast Recording]
11/13 – The Boy Friend [1970 Broadway Revival Cast Recording]
11/14 – The New Moon [Encores! Cast Recording]
11/14 – Phantom [Original Cast Recording]
11/15 – Merrily We Roll Along [New Broadway Cast Recording]*
11/15 – Anything Goes [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
11/15 – Merrily We Roll Along [New Broadway Cast Recording]
11/16 – My Fair Lady [20th Anniversary Broadway Cast Recording]
11/16 – The Girl in Pink Tights [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/17 – Dreamgirls [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/18 – The Merry Widow [Sadler’s Wells Opera Cast Recording]
11/19 – Wedding in Paris [Original London Cast Recording]*
11/20 – Grease [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/21 – Pippin [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/22 – Very Good Eddie [Broadway Revival Cast Recording]
11/23 – Guys and Dolls [National Theatre Revival Cast Recording]
11/24 – Flower Drum Song [Original London Cast Recording]
11/25 – Flowers for Mrs. Harris [Chichester Festival Theatre Cast Recording]*
11/26 – Call Me Mister [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/27 – Wonderful Town [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
11/28 – Five Guys Named Moe [Original London Cast Recording]
11/29 – Irma La Douce [Original London Cast Recording]
11/30 – Sunset Boulevard [Original Canadian Cast Recording]
12/1 – The Sound of Music [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack – Super Deluxe Edition
12/1 – 9 to 5 [Original West End Cast Recording]*
12/2 – A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/3 – Into the Woods [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
12/4 – Tip-Toes [New York Concert Cast Recording]*
12/4 – Baby [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/5 – Subways Are for Sleeping [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/6 – Kismet [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/7 – Two Gentlemen of Verona [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/8 – Stephen Sondheim’s Old Friends [Concert Cast Recording]*
12/8 – Gypsy [The 2015 London Cast Recording]
12/9 – Hedwig and the Angry Inch [Original Cast Recording]
12/10 – The Card [Original London Cast Recording]
12/11 – Annie Get Your Gun [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/11 – The Sound of Music [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
12/11 – December Songs [For Voice and Orchestra]
12/12 – 70, Girls, 70 [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/13 – Here’s Love [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/14 – 42nd Street [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
12/14 – Candide [Scottish Opera Cast Recording]*
12/15 – Days of Wine and Roses [Original Cast Recording]*
12/16 – A Connecticut Yankee [1943 Broadway Cast Recording]
12/17 – Elf [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/17 – Godspell [2023 Spanish Cast Recording]*
12/18 – Side Show [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/19 – Me and My Girl [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/20 – Bye Bye Birdie [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/20 – Sally [Original London Cast Recording]*
12/20 – Peter Pan [London Studio Cast Recording]*
12/21 – A Christmas Story [World Premiere Cast Recording]
12/22 – Fifty Million Frenchmen [Studio Cast Recording]
12/23 – Babes in Arms [Encores! Cast Recording]
12/24 – She Loves Me [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/24 – The Last Sweet Days of Isaac [Original Cast Recording]*
12/25 – Holiday Inn [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/25 – Mrs. Santa Claus [Television Cast Recording]
12/26 – Man with a Load of Mischief [Original Cast Recording]
12/26 – Celeste Holm Gives a Very Personal Tribute to Oklahoma!*
12/27 – The King and I [1977 Broadway Revival Cast Recording]
12/28 – Ernest in Love [Original Cast Recording]
12/29 – The Color Purple [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/30 – Nine [London Concert Cast Recording]*
12/31 – I Do! I Do! [1996 Off-Broadway Cast Recording]*
12/31 – Kimberly Akimbo [Original Broadway Cast Recording]

The Year of Living Cinematically

The only rule: each entry was watched in its entirety. All films that I saw for the first time are marked with an asterisk.

*Glass Onion (2022) 1/2
*Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964) 1/8
*Marriage Italian Style (1964) 1/9
The Pumpkin Eater (1964) 1/10
The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964) 1/11
Mary Poppins (1964) 1/12
*Shotgun Wedding (2023) 1/27
*You People (2023) 1/28
To Catch a Thief (1955) 2/7
Raging Bull (1980) 2/8
*Heaven Can Wait (1943) 2/9
Airplane! (1980) 2/9
*A Bill of Divorcement (1932) 2/10
Bye Bye Birdie (1963) 2/11
Love Affair (1939) 2/11
From Here to Eternity (1953) 2/13
Gaslight (1944) 2/14
Double Indemnity (1944) 2/15
*Ryan’s Daughter (1970) 2/16
Written on the Wind (1956) 2/17
Bullets Over Broadway (1994) 2/18
*Licorice Pizza (2021) 2/19
Yours, Mine and Ours (1968) 2/20
The Remains of the Day (1993) 2/21
*Midnight (1939) 2/22
*Tunes of Glory (1960) 2/22
A Passage to India (1984) 2/23
*A Foreign Affair (1948) 2/24
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) 2/25
Wall-E (2008) 2/26
*The Ice Storm (1997) 2/27
Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949) 2/27
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) 2/28
A Star Is Born (1937) 3/1
The Apartment (1960) 3/2
*Mighty Aphrodite (1995) 3/3
The Brady Bunch Movie (1995) 3/4
A Very Brady Sequel (1996) 3/4
Annie (1982) 3/5
Casablanca (1942) 3/6
Adam’s Rib (1949) 3/7
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) 3/9
Moonlight (2016) 3/13
Sunrise (1927) 3/22
The Birds (1963) 3/28
A Night at the Opera (1935) 3/30
*History is Made at Night (1937)
Marnie (1964) 4/25
The Prince and the Showgirl (1957) 5/5
The Wizard of Oz (1939) 6/11
Rear Window (1954) 6/14
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) 6/15
What’s Up, Doc? (1972) 6/19
The Trouble with Harry (1955) 6/21
A Room with a View (1985) 6/27
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) 6/28
*The In-Laws (1979) 7/5
*Mission Impossible—Dead Reckoning, Part One (2023) 7/14
*Imitation of Life (1934) 7/18
*Mad About Music (1938) 7/28
*Can’t Help Singing (1944) 7/31
The Third Man (1949) 8/5
Niagara (1953) 8/18
*Barbie (2023) 8/27
Moonstruck (1987) 9/24
The Sound of Music (1965) 9/25
*Targets (1968) 9/26
*Death in Venice (1971) 10/10
Mystic River (2003) 10/15
Don’t Look Now (1973) 10/20
Shadow of a Doubt (1943) 10/24
*Hester Street (1975) 11/3
The Princess Bride (1987) 11/15
*Candy Cane Lane (2023) 12/6
Elf (2003) 12/20
*Maestro (2023) 12/20
*Metropolitan (1990) 12/23
Christmas Vacation (1989) 12/24
The Bishop’s Wife (1947) 12/27
Christmas in Connecticut (1945) 12/29

The Year of Living Cinematically

The only rule: each entry was watched in its entirety. All films that I saw for the first time are marked with an asterisk.

High Noon (1952) 1/4
Lilies of the Field (1963) 1/11
*The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) 1/18
Vertigo (1958) 1/29
*Topaz (1969) 1/30
The Parent Trap (1998) 2/9
All That Heaven Allows (1955) 2/13
The Music Man (1962) 2/14
*Three Little Words (1950) 2/16
Moonstruck (1987) 2/20
*The French Dispatch (2021) 2/28
*West Side Story (2021) 3/3
*Summer of Soul (2021) 3/18
*CODA (2021) 3/24
*White Hot: The Rise and Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch (2022) 4/20
The Crucible (1996) 4/30
Imitation of Life (1959) 4/30
Flower Drum Song (1961) 6/5
*Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022) 6/18
*The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) 7/4
Moonstruck (1987) 7/29
*Local Hero (1993) 9/7
The Clock (1945) 9/8
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 9/13
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 9/14
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 9/17
The Parent Trap (1998) 9/18
*The Piano (1993) 9/28
*Claudine (1974) 10/3
The Sound of Music (1965) 10/5
Singin’ in the Rain (1952) 10/22
Peyton Place (1957) 10/24
Vertigo (1958) 10/24
Funny Girl (1968) 10/25
*In a Lonely Place (1950) 10/25
*To Sleep with Anger (1990) 10/26
Gypsy (1962) 10/27
*See How They Run (2022) 11/16
Come Back, Little Sheba (1952) 11/17
*Quartet (1981) 11/18
The Goonies (1985) 11/19
*Matilda (2022) 11/29
Desk Set (1957) 12/5
*Heat and Dust (1983) 12/8
*The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) 12/16
Elf (2003) 12/22
The Bishop’s Wife (1947) 12/25
Moonstruck (`1987) 12/26
Christmas Vacation (1989) 12/27

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 first-time listen.

1/2 – The King and I [1977 Broadway Revival Cast Recording]
1/11 – Caroline, or Change [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
1/17 – The Card [Original London Cast Recording]*
1/18 – Charlie Girl [Original London Cast Recording]
1/19 – The Most Happy Fella [Complete Studio Cast Recording]
1/20 – I Can Get It For You Wholesale [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/24 – Linzi Hateley: For the First Time*
1/30 – Ragtime [Concept Cast Recording]
2/8 – Peter Pan [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
2/18 – Regina [1958 NYCO Cast Recording]
2/19 – Crazy For You [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
2/21 – Six [Studio Cast Recording]
2/23 – Brigadoon [2019 Vienna Cast Recording]*
2/24 – The Sound of Music [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
2/25 – Flying Over Sunset [Original Broadway Cast Recording]*
3/3 – West Side Story [2021 Motion Picture Soundtrack]*
3/8 – Hamilton [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/13 – Brigadoon [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/15 – No Strings [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/16 – Assassins [The 2022 Off-Broadway Cast Recording]*
3/17 – A Strange Loop [Original Cast Recording]*
3/19 – A Chorus Line [Original Spanish Cast Recording]*
3/20 – A Chorus Line [Original Spanish Cast Recording]
3/22 – The Sound of Music [1999 Australian Cast Recording]*
3/24 – The Sound of Music [Original Salzburg Cast Recording]*
3/28 – Camelot [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
4/1 – Ragtime [Original Broadway Cast Recording – LP Edition]
4/3 – The Sound of Music [1983 Australian Cast Recording – LP Edition]*
4/3 – A Family Affair [Original Broadway Cast Recording – LP Edition]
4/3 – Matilda [Original Broadway Cast Recording – LP Edition]
4/4 – Six [Studio Cast Recording – LP Edition]
4/4 – My Fair Lady [Original London Cast Recording – LP Edition]
4/5 – Christine Andreas: Piaf: No Regrets [LP Edition]
4/6 – The Color Purple [New Broadway Cast Recording – LP Edition]
4/8 – 42nd Street [First Complete Recording]*
4/9 – Sugar [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
4/18 – Thoroughly Modern Millie [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
4/18 – Marilyn Maye: Meet Marvelous Marilyn Maye [LP Edition]
4/24 – Funny Girl [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
4/26 – A Strange Loop [Original Cast Recording]
5/2 – Caroline, or Change [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
5/6 – Six [Original Broadway Cast Recording]*
5/6 – Six [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/7 – Spring Awakening [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/8 – The Drifters Girl [Original London Cast Recording]*
5/8 – A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/9 – Nine [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/14 – Carnival [Original Broadway Cast Recording – Deluxe Edition]
5/14 – No, No, Nanette [1971 Broadway Cast Recording]
5/16 – Into the Woods [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/16 – High Society [Original London Cast Recording]
5/24 – A Chorus Line [Original Spanish Cast Recording]
6/3 – Fanny Und Alexander [Original Cast Recording]*
6/12 – A Strange Loop [Original Broadway Cast Recording]*
6/15 – Matilda [Original Stratford Cast Recording]
6/19 – Stars in Your Eyes [Original Studio Cast Recording]*
6/21 – Irma La Douce [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
6/22 – Hair [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
6/23 – Mame [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
7/25 – The Baker’s Wife [Original Cast Recording]
7/26 – The Unsinkable Molly Brown [The New Off-Broadway Cast Recording]*
8/11 – Once Upon a Mattress [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
8/14 – Brigadoon [1991 Studio Cast Recording]
8/15 – Hairspray [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
8/19 – A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet [Original Cast Recording]*
9/4 – The Secret Garden [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
9/12 – A Tree Grows in Brooklyn [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
9/21 – Donnybrook! [Original Broadway Cast Recording – Deluxe Edition]
9/22 – Dreamgirls [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
9/23 – The Music Man [The 2022 Broadway Cast Recording]
9/23 – 1776 [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
9/30 – Into the Woods [2022 Broadway Cast Recording]*
9/30 – Into the Woods [2022 Broadway Cast Recording]
10/4 – Kismet [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/7 – Cats [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/11 – Anyone Can Whistle [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/12 – Mame [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/12 – Dear World [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/12 – Gypsy [Original London Cast Recording]
10/12 – Sweeney Todd [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/12 – Prettybelle [Studio Cast Recording]
10/12 – A Little Night Music [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
10/13 – Bedknobs and Broomsticks [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]*
10/13 – Beauty and the Beast [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
10/13 – Mrs. Santa Claus [Television Cast Recording]
10/21 – Knoxville [World Premiere Cast Recording]*
10/23 – Pippin [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/24 – Fiddler on the Roof [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/28 – Company [Original Spanish Cast Recording]*
10/28 – Company [Original Spanish Cast Recording]
11/3 – Robert and Elizabeth [Original London Cast Recording]
11/4 – Barbra Streisand Live at the Bon Soir*
11/11 – December Songs [For Voice and Orchestra]*
11/11 – To Steve with Love: Liz Callaway Celebrates Sondheim*
11/17 – Little Me [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/21 – Funny Girl [New Broadway Cast Recording]*
11/29 – Matilda [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]*
12/8 – The Light in the Piazza [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/11 – The Girl Who Came to Supper [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/13 – Chess [Concept Cast Recording]
12/13 – Chess [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/17 – Cabaret [2021 London Cast Recording]*
12/24 – She Loves Me [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/26 – Bye Bye Birdie [Original Broadway Cast Recording]


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.

*Yentl (1983) 1/3
The Birds (1963) 1/5
Waiting for Guffman (1996) 1/8
*Beauty and the Beast (2017) 1/9
*84 Charing Cross Road (1987) 1/15
Down Argentine Way (1940) 1/15
*Vacation from Marriage (1945) 1/17
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) 1/19
Roman Holiday (1953) 1/19
*Every Little Step (2008) 1/21
*The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996) 1/24
*The Canterville Ghost (1945) 1/25
Moonstruck (1987) 1/26
*The Pumpkin Eater (1964) 1/26
The Pajama Game (1957) 1/27
*Moulin Rouge (1952) 1/27
*Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) 1/28
Pat and Mike (1952) 1/30
Good News (1947) 2/1
*Hold Back the Dawn (1941) 2/1
*Murder at the Gallop (1963) 2/2
*That Thing You Do (1996) 2/8
*Support Your Local Sheriff (1969) 3/1
On Golden Pond (1981) 3/2
*The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) 3/3
*Coming 2 America (2021) 3/5
Show Boat (1951) 3/6
Saved! (2004) 3/6
*DuBarry Was a Lady (1943) 3/17
Tender Mercies (1983) 3/21
*Tina (2021) 3/31
The Harvey Girls (1946) 4/22
Mister Roberts (1955) 4/22
The Farmer’s Daughter (1947) 4/24
Lover Come Back (1961) 4/26
Moonstruck (1987) 5/1
*Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) 5/4
A Little Night Music (1977) 5/4
Clue (1985) 5/11
Secrets & Lies (1996) 5/11
On Golden Pond (1981) 5/12
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) 5/13
One, Two, Three (1961) 5/14
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1943) 5/20
*Christmas in July (1940) 5/24
*Little Women (1994) 5/27
*The Great McGinty (1940) 5/28
*A New Leaf (1971) 5/30
Twister (1996) 5/30
Summertime (1955) 5/31
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 6/12
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) 6/12
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) 6/12
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) 6/13
*In the Heights (2021) 6/15
San Francisco (1936) 6/16
*A Face in the Crowd (1957) 6/20
On the Town (1949) 6/22
Topkapi (1964) 6/26
*Don’t Bother to Knock (1952) 6/27
Father of the Bride (1950) 6/28
*Knives Out (2019) 6/29
*The Preacher’s Wife (1996) 7/5
Bringing Up Baby (1938) 7/11
Pickup on South Street (1953) 7/12
Bell Book and Candle (1958) 8/8
*The Immortal Story (1968) 8/30
*Full of Life (1956) 9/1
Moonstruck (1987) 9/1
A Letter to Three Wives (1949) 9/8
*The Cat and the Fiddle (1934) 9/8
*Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (2021) 9/22
The Sound of Music (1965) 9/28
Summertime (1955) 9/28
An Affair to Remember (1957) 9/30
Mary Poppins (1964) 10/16
Howards End (1992) 10/16
The King and I (1956) 10/24
Titanic (1997) 10/26
*Carnival of Souls (1962) 10/29
Moonstruck (1987) 11/4
Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967) 11/10
*Tick, Tick…BOOM (2021) 11/20
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) 11/21
Gosford Park (2001) 11/23
Death on the Nile (1978) 11/28
The Shop Around the Corner (1940) 11/29
Reds (1981) 11/30
*The Power of the Dog (2021) 12/3
Moonstruck (1987) 12/5
The Bishop’s Wife (1947) 12/7
Scrooged (1988) 12/13
Christmas in Connecticut (1945) 12/15
Holiday Inn (1942) 12/15
Elf (2003) 12/16
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) 12/19
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) 12/22
Desk Set (1957) 12/23
Fitzwilly (1967) 12/24
*Fatman (2020) 12/25
Miracle on 34th Street (1947) 12/25
Christmas Vacation (1989) 12/26
Damn Yankees (1958) 12/28
*Merrily We Go to Hell (1932) 12/30
*The Thrill of It All (1963) 12/30

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.

1/9 – Kiss Me, Kate [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
1/26 – Big [Original Broadway Cast Recording]*
1/27 – The Pajama Game [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/28 – The Light in the Piazza [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/29 – Baby [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/31 – Les Miserables [10th Anniversary Concert Cast Recording]
2/3 – Gentlemen Prefer Blondes [Encores! Cast Recording]
2/5 – Chrysanthemum [Original London Cast Recording]
2/5 – Cyrano [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
2/5 – The Band’s Visit [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
2/7 – The Sound of Music [Original London Cast Recording]
2/11 – Saturday Night [Original Cast Recording]
2/21 – Carnival [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
2/22 – Chess [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
2/25 – Wonderful Town [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
2/25 – A Little Night Music [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/9 – Show Boat [1971 London Revival Cast Recording]
3/10 – Hello, Dolly! [1967 Broadway Cast Recording]
3/11 – Sondheim: A Musical Tribute [Concert Cast Recording]
3/19 – Merrily We Roll Along [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/21 – Funny Girl [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/29 – The King and I [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/29 – The King and I [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]
4/11 – The Grass Harp [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
4/13 – Carnival [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
4/14 – Gypsy [1989 Broadway Revival Cast Recording]
4/19 – The Producers [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
4/22 – My Fair Lady [Original London Cast Recording]
4/23 – Judy at Carnegie Hall
5/3 – The Most Happy Fella [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/5 – Cinderella [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/5 – The Mystery of Edwin Drood [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/6 – Six [Studio Cast Recording]
5/31 – Do I Hear a Waltz? [Pasadena Playhouse Cast Recording]
6/11 – The Light in the Piazza [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
6/16 – Dreamgirls [Concert Cast Recording]
6/17 – Guys and Dolls [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
6/23 – Li’l Abner [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
6/27 – Anything Goes [1988 Studio Cast Recording]*
7/1 – Very Good Eddie [Broadway Revival Cast Recording]*
7/26 – Sunset Boulevard [Kim Criswell EP]*
8/8 – Mame [London Studio Cast Recording]
8/9 – Sweet Charity [London Studio Cast Recording]*
8/10 – Sunday in the Park with George [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
8/11 – Funny Girl [2016 London Cast Recording]
8/18 – Applause [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
8/18 – A Little Night Music [Original London Cast Recording]
8/20 – Girl From the North Country [Original Broadway Cast Recording]*
8/25 – On the Level [Original London Cast Recording]
9/6 – Miss Liberty [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
9/6 – The Most Happy Fella [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
9/14 – Barbara Cook: It’s Better With a Band
9/19 – Six [Studio Cast Recording]
9/20 – Kismet [1964 Studio Cast Recording – Mantovani]
9/20 – Naughty Marietta [1981 Studio Cast Recording]
10/5 – Little Women [Original Television Cast Recording]*
10/9 – Caroline, or Change [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/11 – Diana [Original Broadway Cast Recording]*
10/14 – How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/28 – Caroline, or Change [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/30 – Tina [Original London Cast Recording]
11/1 – Half a Sixpence [London Studio Cast Recording]*
11/6 – Tina [Original Hamburg Cast Recording]*
11/7 – Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat [1991 London Revival Cast Recording]*
11/14 – The Bridges of Madison County [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/16 – Merrily We Roll Along [Original Broadway Cast Recording [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/17 – Diana [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/18 – They’re Playing Our Song [Original London Cast Recording]*
11/24 – Cabaret [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/26 – West Side Story [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/26 – Gypsy [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/26 – A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/27 – Anyone Can Whistle [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/27 – Do I Hear a Waltz? [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/27 – Company [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/27 – Follies [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/27 – A Little Night Music [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/27 – Pacific Overtures [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/27 – Sweeney Todd [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/27 – Merrily We Roll Along [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/28 – Sunday in the Park with George [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/28 – Into the Woods [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/28 – Assassins [Original Cast Recording]
11/28 – Passion [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/30 – Brigadoon [Encores! Cast Recording]
`12/1 – Candide [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/3 – Annie Live! [Television Cast Recording]*
12/5 – Barbara Cook Sings Mostly Sondheim
12/9 – Caroline, or Change [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
12/10 – Fiddler on the Roof [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack – 50th Anniversary Edition]
12/12 – Caroline, or Change [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
12/14 – Caroline, or Change [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
12/17 – Caroline, or Change [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
12/18 – Caroline, or Change [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
12/21 – Bye Bye Birdie [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/23 – Caroline, or Change [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
12/24 – She Loves Me [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/25 – Ballroom [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/31 – Mame [Original Broadway Cast Recording]

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]

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.

East of Eden (1955) 1/5
*Blossoms in the Dust (1941) 1/6
*It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947) 1/7
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) 1/16
The Apartment (1960) 1/17
S.O.B. (1981) 1/20
All About Eve (1950) 1/21
Swing Time (1936) 1/25
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) 2/26
*I Know Where I’m Going (1945) 4/11
*Our Betters (1933) 5/3
*Carefree (1938) 5/6
*There Goes My Heart (1938) 5/11
*Wine Country (2019) 5/11
*Keeper of the Flame (1943) 5/16
*The Bank Dick
(1940) 5/17
The Pajama Game (1957) 5/18
*Summer Holiday (1948) 5/21
*Room Service (1938) 5/25
*Hobson’s Choice (1954) 5/26
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) 5/28
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) 5/29
*The Old Maid (1939) 5/30
*Enchanted April (1991) 5/30
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 5/30
*Sylvia Scarlett (1935) 5/31
*The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936) 6/1
*Coquette (1929) 6/1
That Night in Rio (1941) 6/3
*Quality Street (1937) 6/4
*Portrait of Jennie (1948) 6/5
*The Most Dangerous Game (1932) 6/5
*You Can’t Have Everything (1937) 6/5
*Kismet (1944) 6/12
*Johnny Eager (1941) 6/12
*Three Daring Daughters (1948) 6/12
*Luxury Liner (1948) 6/13
*Holiday in Mexico (1946) 6/13
Summertime (1955) 6/14
Pillow Talk (1959) 6/16
On Moonlight Bay (1951) 6/16
Clue (1985) 6/18
*Nancy Goes to Rio (1950) 6/20
Steel Magnolias (1989) 6/21
*The Reluctant Debutante (1958) 6/21
Stage Door (1937) 6/22
*Pickup on South Street (1953) 6/22
*Let’s Make Love (1960) 6/25
Cactus Flower (1969) 6/26
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) 6/27
*I Dream Too Much (1935) 7/9
Camille (1936) 7/20
*Two-Faced Woman (1941) 7/21
The Gay Divorcee (1934) 7/21
*Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974) 7/23
Yours, Mine, and Ours (1968) 7/25
*Dangerous (1935) 7/27
*Bathtubs Over Broadway (2018) 7/27
The Women (1939) 7/28
*The Favourite (2018) 8/5
The Heiress (1949) 8/7
*Klute (1971) 8/12
*Die Trapp Familie (1956) 8/13
I Confess (1953) 8/14
*The World According to Garp (1982) 8/14
*Joy of Living (1938) 8/16
*The Barefoot Contessa (1954) 8/20
*Sweet Adeline (1934) 8/20
High Noon (1952) 8/26
*Christopher Strong (1933) 8/27
The Sound of Music (1965) 8/29
*The Great Lie (1941) 9/2
*The Westerner (1940) 9/2
*Late Night (2019) 9/7
*The Happiest Millionaire (1967) 9/10
*Dodsworth (1936) 9/11
*Too Many Girls (1940) 9/11
*The Subject Was Roses (1968) 9/12
*Quo Vadis (1951) 9/13
*Gaslight (1940) 9/17
*Porgy and Bess (1959) 9/19
Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) 9/28
*Johnny Belinda (1948) 9/28
*Notting Hill (1999) 10/1
*Star! (1968) 10/21
The Uninvited (1944) 10/22
Dolemite Is My Name (2019) 10/26
*The Gang’s All Here (1943) 11/2
*Leonard Soloway’s Broadway (2019) 11/6
The Addams Family (1991) 11/15
Addams Family Values (1993) 11/15
*The Letter (1940) 12/6
The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) 12/14
*Lady on a Train (1945) 12/15
The Shop Around the Corner (1940) 12/16
*The Holly and the Ivy (1952) 12/16
Remember the Night (1940) 12/17
The Bishop’s Wife (1947) 12/20
A Christmas Carol (1938) 12/22
Christmas Vacation (1989) 12/24
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) 12/26
*Booksmart (2019) 12/30
The Thin Man (1934) 12/31