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]