This truly is the “essential” Broadway collection – the perfect primer of the Broadway musical and a dream line-up of hit songs from Broadway’s greatest shows, performed by its most legendary stars. Drawing on Masterwork Broadway’s incomparable catalogue, this collection takes the listener through the golden age right up to today’s hits.
Artists
Laurence Guittard (vocal), Oklahoma! Orchestra, Show Boat Ensemble, William Warfield (vocal), Show Boat Orchestra, Jerry Orbach (vocal), Ethel Merman (vocal), Rufus Smith (vocal), Bruce Yarnell (vocal), Annie Get Your Gun Orchestra, Marion Bell (vocal), David Brooks (vocal), Brigadoon Orchestra, Patricia Morison (vocal), Alfred Drake (vocal), Ezio Pinza (baritone), Carol Channing (vocal), Guys and Dolls Ensemble, J.K. Simmons (vocal), Walter Bobbie (vocal), Nathan Lane (vocal), Guys and Dolls Orchestra, Edward Strauss (director), Barbara Cook (vocal), Theodore Bikel, The King and I Orchestra (1964) (Studio), Alfred Drake Henry Calvin, Richard Banke & Lee Venora, Lee Venora, Richard Banke, Henry Calvin, John Raitt (vocal), Robert Harrington (vocal), Joseph Stafford (vocal), Mary Martin (vocal), Kathy Nolan (vocal), Peter Pan Orchestra, Nathaniel Frey (vocal), Albert Linville (vocal), Russ Brown (vocal), Jimmie Komack (vocal), Damn Yankees Orchestra, Julie Andrews (vocal), John Henson (vocal), Alan Gilbert (vocal), Shorty Long (vocal), Candide Orchestra, Marilyn Cooper (vocal), West Side Story Ensemble (vocal), Chita Rivera (vocal), Max Goberman (director), West Side Story Orchestra, Frederick Dvonch (director), Robert Goulet (vocal), Hello, Dolly! Ensemble (vocal), Dolly! Orchestra, Bert Convy (vocal), Julia Migenes (vocal), Zero Mostel (vocal), Maria Karnilova (vocal), Fiddler on the Roof Orchestra, Brian Stokes Mitchell (vocal), Man of La Mancha Orchestra, Alan Cumming (vocal), Natasha Richardson (vocal), Sam Mendes (director), Patrick Vaccariello (director), Cabaret Orchestra, Hair Ensemble (vocal), Lynn Kellogg (vocal), Melba Moore (vocal), James Rado (vocal), Hair Band, Pamela Myers (vocal), Follies Ensemble, Glynis Johns (vocal), Original Broadway Cast Recording, Company, Orchestra, Peter Howard (director), Andrea McArdle, Mandy Patinkin (vocal), Sunday in the Park with George Original Broadway Cast Ensemble (vocal), Michele Rigan, Sunday in the Park with George Original Off-Broadway Cast, Sue Anne Gershenson, John Jellison, Kurt Knudson, Sunday in the Park with George Original Broadway Cast Orchestra, Melanie Vaughan, Mary D'Arcy, Judith Moore, Brent Jay Spiner, Barbara Bryne, Bernadette Peters, Charles Kimbrough, Dana Ivey, Nancy Opel, Cris Groenendaal, William Parry, Robert Westenberg, Danielle Ferland, Colm Wilkinson (vocal), John Borstelmann (vocal), D. Sabella (vocal), Bebe Neuwirth (vocal), Ann Reinking (vocal), Matthew Broderick (vocal), The Producers Orchestra, Original Broadway Cast of The Producers, Linda Hart, Laura Bell Bundy, Matthew Morrison, 42nd Street Ensemble (vocal), 42nd Street Orchestra
Cleveland Pops Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Original Broadway Cast Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Jay Blackton, Franz Allers, Lehman Engel, Louis Adrian, Harold Hastings, Samuel Krachmalnick, Leonard Bernstein, Shepard Coleman, Milton Greene, Robert Billig, Paul Gemignani, Mike Batt, Rob Fisher, Patrick S. Brady, Lon Hoyt, John Lesko
