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
Month: December 2019
My Year in Show Music
A few years ago, I decided to keep a log of the musical theatre-related albums I listened to in their entirety throughout the calendar year. Every recording 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.
1/1 – Bye Bye Birdie [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/1 – Woman of the Year [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/2 – Bajour [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/4 – The Roar of the Greasepaint—The Smell of the Crowd [Original Broadway Cast Recording]*
1/5 – Wildcat [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/9 – Kean [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/11 – Pacific Overtures [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/12 – A Little Night Music [National Theatre Cast Recording]
1/15 – Gentlemen Prefer Blondes [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/15 – Hello, Dolly! [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/15 – Hello, Dolly! [The New 1994 Cast Recording]
1/15 – Jerry’s Girls [Original Cast Recording]*
1/18 – Follies [National Theatre Cast Recording]*
1/18 – Follies [Original London Cast Recording]
1/23 – Songs for a New World [Encores! Cast Recording]*
1/24 – First Impressions [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/25 – Songs for a New World [Encores! Cast Recording]
1/27 – Rent [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
1/29 – Giant [Original Cast Recording]
1/29 – Gigi [New Broadway Cast Recording]
2/1 – Company [2018 London Cast Recording]*
2/2 – Six [Studio Cast Recording]*
2/3 – Six [Studio Cast Recording]
2/3 – Hadestown [Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording]*
2/3 – Shirley Jones & Jack Cassidy: Marriage Type Love*
2/4 – The Scarlet Pimpernel [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
2/10 – Six [Studio Cast Recording]
2/27 – Follies [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
2/28 – Coco [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
2/28 – Six [Studio Cast Recording]
3/1 – Sweeney Todd [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/1 – Six [Studio Cast Recording]
3/4 – Wonderful Town [1999 London Studio Cast Recording]
3/7 – Six [Studio Cast Recording]
3/7 – The Boy Friend [1984 London Cast Recording]*
3/11 – Cyrille Aimée: Move On, A Sondheim Adventure*
3/11 – Six [Studio Cast Recording]
3/16 – Six [Studio Cast Recording]
3/16 – 1776 [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/22 – Anne of Green Gables [Original London Cast Recording]
3/22 – Pacific Overtures [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/25 – The Music Man [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/27 – Blood Brothers [1988 London Revival Cast Recording]*
3/28 – Bloomer Girl [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/28 – How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
3/29 – Pippin [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
3/29 – Nine [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
3/29 – Two Gentlemen of Verona [Original London Cast Recording]*
4/1 – Six [Studio Cast Recording]
4/1 – The Bridges of Madison County [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
4/3 – A Time for Singing [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
4/5 – Tina [Original London Cast Recording]*
4/7 – The Band’s Visit [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
4/11 – Six [Studio Cast Recording]
4/16 – Alfred Drake: Lucky to Be Me*
4/18 – The Light in the Piazza [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
4/19 – The Cher Show [Original Broadway Cast Recording]*
4/20 – La Cage Aux Folles [Original Australian Cast Recording]
4/29 – The Most Happy Fella [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
4/30 – The Streets of New York [Original Cast Recording]*
5/1 – Ben Bagley’s Kurt Weill Revisited*
5/3 – The Threepenny Opera [1930 German Studio Cast Recording]*
5/5 – The Most Happy Fella [The New Broadway Cast Recording]
5/10 – Sweet Charity [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/11 – Six [Studio Cast Recording]
5/12 – High Button Shoes [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/15 – Gypsy [The 2008 Broadway Cast Recording – LP Edition]
5/16 – Goodtime Charley [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/21 – Gypsy [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/28 – On a Clear Day You Can See Forever [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
5/31 – Walking Happy [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
6/1 – Six [Studio Cast Recording]
6/3 – Laura Benanti: Songs from My Fair Lady*
6/7 – Kiss Me, Kate [2019 Broadway Cast Recording]*
6/29 – Oklahoma! [2019 Broadway Cast Recording]*
6/30 – Crazy for You [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
7/4 – Regina [1958 NYCO Cast Recording]
7/7 – Six [Studio Cast Recording]
7/9 – Laura Benanti: Songs from My Fair Lady
7/15 – Into the Woods [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
7/25 – Bravo Giovanni [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
8/9 – Fiddler on the Roof [2018 Off-Broadway Cast Recording]*
8/12 – The Dancing Years [1968 London Cast Recording]*
8/12 – South Pacific [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
8/17 – State Fair [1945 Motion Picture Soundtrack]
8/24 – She Loves Me [Original London Cast Recording]
8/28 – Irma La Douce [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
8/29 – Jan Clayton Sings Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel*
8/29 – Ella Logan Sings Finian’s Rainbow*
8/31 – Kean [Original Broadway Cast Recording – Deluxe Edition]
9/2 – Guys and Dolls [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
9/5 – Moulin Rouge [Original Broadway Cast Recording]*
9/6 – Grey Gardens [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
9/12 – The Boy Friend [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
9/13 – Six [Studio Cast Recording]
9/15 – Ragtime [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
9/20 – Porgy and Bess [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack]*
9/20 – Cabaret [Original London Cast Recording]
10/3 – The Dancing Years [First Complete Cast Recording]*
10/4 – No Strings [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/6 – House of Flowers [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/8 – Porgy and Bess [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
10/9 – Marin Mazzie & Jason Danieley: Broadway and Beyond [Live at 54 Below]*
10/19 – Julie Andrews: An Evening with Julie Andrews*
10/25 – Ambassador [Original London Cast Recording]
10/28 – Elaine Stritch At Liberty
10/31 – Aimie Atkinson: Step Inside Love*
11/9 – On the Town [1960 Studio Cast Recording]
11/11 – Six [Studio Cast Recording]
11/16 – The Sound of Music [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
11/18 – Ernest in Love [Original Cast Recording]
12/3 – Six [Studio Cast Recording]
12/6 – The New Yorkers [Encores! Cast Recording]*
12/9 – The Sound of Music [Original Broadway Cast Recording – 60 Anniversary Edition]
12/9 – Man of Magic [Original London Cast Recording]*
12/10 – The Importance [Studio Cast Recording]*
12/21 – Bye Bye Birdie [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/24 – She Loves Me [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/26 – Little Shop of Horrors [The New Off-Broadway Cast Recording]*
12/27 – Parade [Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording]
12/27 – Milk and Honey [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/27 – Hello, Dolly! [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/27 – Mame [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/27 – Hello, Dolly! [1967 Broadway Cast Recording]
12/27 – Dear World [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/27 – Mack & Mabel [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/27 – The Grand Tour [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/27 – La Cage Aux Folles [Original Broadway Cast Recording]
12/28 – The Prom [Original Broadway Cast Recording]*