The Best Of Broadway : The American Musical

Artists

Album Info

Release Date: 2004

Label: Decca Broadway

Track info:

1: from 'Annie Get Your Gun', recorded May 26, 1946.
2: from 'Sinbad', recorded January 9, 1920.
3: from 'Show Boat', recorded July 21, 1932.
4: from 'Anything Goes', recorded December 4, 1934.
5: from 'Oklahoma!', recorded October 20, 1943.
6: from 'Guys And Dolls', recorded December 3, 1950.
7: from 'My Fair Lady', recorded March 25, 1956.
8: from 'West Side Story', recorded September 29, 1957.
9: from 'The Sound Of Music', recorded November 22, 1959.
10: from 'Funny Girl', recorded April 5, 1964.
11: from 'Fiddler On The Roof', recorded September 27, 1964.
12: from 'Man Of La Mancha', recorded December 6, 1965.
13: from 'Cabaret', recorded November 27, 1966.
14: from 'Hair', recorded May 6, 1968.
15: from 'A Little Night Music', recorded March 18, 1973.
16: from 'A Chorus Line', recorded June 2, 1975.
17: from 'Annie', recorded April 25, 1977.
18: from 'Cats', recorded October, 1982.
19: from 'The Phantom Of The Opera', recorded October, 1986.
20: from 'Hairspray', recorded June 29, 2002.
21: from 'Wicked', recorded November 10, 2003.

The CD accompanied the PBS TV series 'Broadway : The American Musical', a 5 CD box set with booklet was also released. The CD & back of the case show four logos, Decca Broadway, Columbia Broadway Masterworks, Thirteen WNET NEW YORK, PBS.

Photos: Booklet: Getty Images: p. 3, 6, tray card; Philip Greenberg: back of booklet; Joan Marcus: p. 20-21, cover (Wicked); Photofest: pp. 5, 9, 10-11, 18, cover (Fiddler On The Roof, Cats); Paul Kolnik: p. 19, cover (Hairspray); Corbis: p. 4; Martha Swope: p. 14-15, 16, cover (A Chorus Line, Annie).

Performers on Cover (left-right): Zero Mostel (Fiddler On The Roof); (A Chorus Line); (Cats); Andrea McArdle & Reid Shelton (Annie); Marissa Jaret Winokur & Harvey Fierstein (Hairspray); Idina Menzel (Wicked).

This compilation (P) 2004 Universal Classics Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Inc., (C) 2004 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc., 825 8th Avenue, New York, NY 10019. Distributed by Universal Music & Video Distribution, Corp.