Now Broadway
Various
CD Rel Date: 1986-04-29
600753680278
NOW That's What I Call Music!, the world's best-selling multi-artist album series, is pleased to announce the first ever NOW That's What I Call Broadway!. The album features 18 music tracks from the original cast recordings of some of the Great White Way's most legendary shows. The album features liner notes by David Cote, theater editor for Time Out New York as well as a playwright and librettist/lyricist.
NOW That's What I Call Broadway! features hit songs from the hit shows Annie, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Cats, Chicago, A Chorus Line, Evita, Dreamgirls, Hairspray, Into the Woods, Jersey Boys, Les Misérables, The Lion King, Mamma Mia!, Matilda The Musical, The Phantom of the Opera, Rent, Wicked and The Wiz.
Tracklist:
- 'Seasons of Love' from Rent featuring the original Broadway cast
- 'Defying Gravity' from Wicked featuring Kristen Chenoweth & Idina Menzel
- 'All That Jazz' from Chicago featuring Chita Rivera and cast
- 'On the Balcony' of the Casa Rosada/Don t Cry For Me Argentina from Evita featuring Bob Gunton, Patti LuPone & Mandy Patinkin
- 'The Music of the Night' from The Phantom of the Opera featuring Michael Crawford
- 'Memory' from Cats featuring Betty Buckley
- 'I Dreamed A Dream' from Les Misérables featuring Randy Graff
- 'And I'm Telling You I'm Not Going' from Dreamgirls featuring Jennifer Holliday
- 'Ease On Down the Road' from The Wiz featuring Stephanie Mills and cast
- 'Sherry' from Jersey Boys featuring Christian Hoff, Daniel Reichard, J. Robert Spencer and John Lloyd Young
- 'Mama, I'm a Big Girl Now' from Hairspray featuring Laura Bell Bundy, Kerry Butler, Harvey Fierstein, Linda Hart, Jackie Hoff
- 'Mamma Mia' from Mamma Mia! featuring Siobhan McCarthy, Nicolas Colicos, Paul Clarkson, Hilton McRae and the original London
- 'Will You Love Me Tomorrow' from Beautiful: The Carole King Musical featuring Jessie Mueller
- 'Tomorrow' from Annie featuring Andrea McArdle
- 'When I Grow Up' from Matilda featuring Lauren Ward, Bailey Ryon and the original Broadway cast
- 'Circle of Life' from The Lion King featuring Tsidii Le Loka and the original Broadway cast
- 'Finale: Children will Listen' from Into the Woods featuring Bernadette Peters
- 'One' from A Chorus Line featuring the original Broadway cast