The Best Of Broadway : The American Musical

Track info: 1: from 'Annie Get Your Gun', recorded May 26, 1946. 2: from 'Sinbad', recorded January 9, 1920. 3: from 'Show Boat', recorded July 21, 1932. 4: from 'Anything Goes', recorded December 4, 1934. 5: from 'Oklahoma!', recorded October 20, 1943. 6: from 'Guys And Dolls', recorded December 3, 1950. 7: from 'My Fair Lady', recorded March 25, 1956. 8: from 'West Side Story', recorded September 29, 1957. 9: from 'The Sound Of Music', recorded November 22, 1959. 10: from 'Funny Girl', recorded April 5, 1964. 11: from 'Fiddler On The Roof', recorded September 27, 1964. 12: from 'Man Of La Mancha', recorded December 6, 1965. 13: from 'Cabaret', recorded November 27, 1966. 14: from 'Hair', recorded May 6, 1968. 15: from 'A Little Night Music', recorded March 18, 1973. 16: from 'A Chorus Line', recorded June 2, 1975. 17: from 'Annie', recorded April 25, 1977. 18: from 'Cats', recorded October, 1982. 19: from 'The Phantom Of The Opera', recorded October, 1986. 20: from 'Hairspray', recorded June 29, 2002. 21: from 'Wicked', recorded November 10, 2003. The CD accompanied the PBS TV series 'Broadway: The American Musical', a 5 CD box set with booklet was also released. The CD & back of the case show four logos, Decca Broadway, Columbia Broadway Masterworks, Thirteen WNET NEW YORK, PBS. Photos: Booklet: Getty Images: p. 3, 6, tray card; Philip Greenberg: back of booklet; Joan Marcus: p. 20-21, cover (Wicked); Photofest: pp. 5, 9, 10-11, 18, cover (Fiddler On The Roof, Cats); Paul Kolnik: p. 19, cover (Hairspray); Corbis: p. 4; Martha Swope: p. 14-15, 16, cover (A Chorus Line, Annie). Performers on Cover (left-right): Zero Mostel (Fiddler On The Roof); (A Chorus Line); (Cats); Andrea McArdle & Reid Shelton (Annie); Marissa Jaret Winokur & Harvey Fierstein (Hairspray); Idina Menzel (Wicked). This compilation (P) 2004 Universal Classics Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Inc., (C) 2004 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc., 825 8th Avenue, New York, NY 10019. Distributed by Universal Music & Video Distribution, Corp.