The Best of Broadway [Angel]

• Artist: Various Artists
• Rating:
• Release Date: January 08, 2002
• Type: Collection (various artists)
• Genre: Soundtrack

Review

The Best of Broadway is exactly that, a collection of some of the biggest songs from Broadway, taken from original cast recordings and revivals. Where many of these Broadway collections fail to get the actual stage cast to perform the music, this gathers some of the best-known cast members from the productions. Highlights include Tom Wopat and Bernadette Peters dueting on "Anything You Can Do" from Annie Get Your Gun, Nathan Lane performing "Comedy Tonight" with the cast of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Carol Lawrence and Larry Kert's rendition of "Tonight" (from West Side Story), and Robert Preston's incredible numbers from The Music Man. Every song here is a triumph and the musicals chosen should be quite familiar to most listeners. Although true fans of these musicals probably have the full cast recording already, this is a wonderful sampler for someone who needs some quality show tunes in their collection. ~ Bradley Torreano, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
There's No Business Like Show Business [From Annie Get Your Gun]	Irving Berlin	Tom Wopat	(5:08)
The Music of the Night [From Phantom of the Opera]	Andrew Lloyd Webber, Charles Hart, Richard Stilgoe	Thomas Hampson	(6:59)
People Will Say We're in Love [From Oklahoma!]	Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II	Shirley Jones, Gordon MacRae	(4:23)
Oklahoma! [From Oklahoma!]	Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II	Gordon MacRae	(3:21)
Comedy Tonight [From a Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Foru]	Stephen Sondheim	Nathan Lane	(6:57)
The Sound of Music [From The Sound of Music]	Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II	Mary Martin	(2:43)
If I Were a Rich Man [From Fiddler on the Roof]	Sheldon Harnick, Jerry Bock	Chaim Topol	(5:26)
Maria [From West Side Story]	Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim	Larry Kert	(2:40)
Tonight [From West Side Story]	Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim	Carol Lawrence, Larry Kert	(3:57)
If I Can't Love Her [From Beauty and the Beast]	Alan Menken, Tim Rice	Thomas Hampson	(4:24)
Seventy-Six Trombones [From The Music Man]	Meredith Willson	Robert Preston	(3:03)
Till There Was You [From The Music Man]	Meredith Willson	Barbara Cook, Robert Preston	(2:47)
Some Enchanted Evening [From South Pacific]	Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II	Samuel Ramey	(3:46)
Bring Him Home [From Les Misérables]	Claude-Michel Schönberg, Herbert Kretzmer	Thomas Hampson	(3:58)
Ol' Man River [From Show Boat]	Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II	Bruce Hubbard	(5:45)
Shall We Dance? [From The King and I]	Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II	Marni Nixon, Yul Brynner, Deborah Kerr	(4:26)
Anything You Can Do [From Annie Get Your Gun]	Irving Berlin	Bernadette Peters, Tom Wopat	(3:18)
You'll Never Walk Alone [From Carousel]	Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein II	Shirley Jones	(1:45)

Credits

Shirley Jones (Performer), Barbara Cook (Performer), Marni Nixon (Performer), Mary Martin (Performer), Bernadette Peters (Performer), Samuel Ramey (Performer), Carol Lawrence (Performer), Gordon MacRae (Performer), Thomas Hampson (Performer), Tom Wopat (Performer), Robert Preston (Performer), Nathan Lane (Performer), Bruce Hubbard (Performer), Larry Kert (Performer), David Foil (Liner Notes), David Foil (Compilation), Gordon Jee (Creative Director), Jessica Novod (Art Direction), Jessica Novod (Design), Yul Brynner (Performer), Chaim Topol (Performer)