 | The Baker's Wife (Members of the 1976 Original Cast)
Buy new: $19.98 / Used from: $8.90 Although PATTI LuPONE was in the original B'way cast of THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM & WORKING, she is not on the recordings. Score for THE BAKER'S WIFE "glitters like the rarest of jewels." (Byron Kolln)
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 | Evita (1978 Original Broadway Cast) by Andrew Lloyd Webber
Buy new: $32.49 / Used from: $12.95 1980 Tony Award winner, Best Actress in a Musical, PATTI LuPONE was born to play Eva Peron ("Don't Cry for Me, Argentina"). She would next play Nancy in a 1984 revival of OLIVER!
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 | Anything Goes - The New Broadway Cast Recording by Cole Porter
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $3.99 PATTI LuPONE . . . in the role of Reno Sweeney grabs the baton from Ethel Merman and never lets go. Her "I Get a Kick Out of You" is one of the great performances of her generation." (David Horiuchi)
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 | Sweeney Todd (2005 Broadway Revival Cast) by Stephen Sondheim
Buy new: $20.99 / Used from: $13.33 Even though Mrs. Lovett plays the tuba in this reinvented SWEENEY TODD, PATTI LuPONE can't make you forget Angela Lansbury. Tony nomination (Best Actress) for this and for ANYTHING GOES.
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 | Annie (1977 Original Broadway Cast)
Buy new: $7.97 / Used from: $2.88 Ever since 1977, pre-teen girls have been belting out "Tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya' tomorrow." ANDREA McARDLE was the first - and best - Annie of them all. "Their one mistake was giving up me."
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 | Jerry's Girls (1984 Original Cast) by Jerry Herman
Buy used from: $20.99 Seven year later, MS. McARDLE was singing grown-up songs like "Wherever He Ain't," "Two-a-Day," "So Long, Dearie," & "Time Heals Everything."
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 | Rodgers & Hammerstein's State Fair (1996 Original Broadway Cast) by Richard Rodgers
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $6.59 After performing in STARLIGHT EXPRESS & replacing Belle in BEAUTY & THE BEAST, MS. McARDLE's next Broadway role was Margy Frake. She sings "It Might As Well Be Spring" & "The Next Time It Happens."
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 | Annie (1999 Television Film) by Charles Strouse
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $3.27 The youngest performer ever to be nominated for a Tony Award as Best Lead Actress in a Musical, 22 years later ANDREA McARDLE struts on stage and knocks the socks off "N.Y.C." Watch it. It's fun.
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 | Miss Liberty (1949 Original Broadway Cast) by Irving Berlin
Buy new: $3.99 / Used from: $3.39 ALLYN ANN McCLERIE starred as Amy in WHERE'S CHARLEY?, No recording - it's a shanda - exists. Here she sings "Paris Wakes Up & Smiles," "You Can Have Him" & "Give Me YourTired, Your Poor."
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 | Show Boat (1966 Lincoln Center Cast) by Jerome Kern
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $4.48 In 1960 MS. McCLERIE played Anita in a revival of WEST SIDE STORY, and is Ellie in this revival. "'Life Upon the Wicked Stage,' one of the score's wittiest numbers, is nailed perfectly." (Byron Kolln)
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 | Of Thee I Sing/Let 'em Eat Cake (1987 Studio Recording)
Buy used from: $43.00 She replaced Mabel in THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE; Luisa Contini in NINE; & played Polly Peachum in 3 PENNY OPERA (1989). MAUREEN McGOVERN is an excellent Mary Turner, Larry Kert's 1st Lady. Great record.
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 | Little Women The Musical (2005 Original Broadway Cast) by Danny Gurwin
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $13.79 Most remembered for singing the theme from "The Poseidon Adventure," Drama Desk Award Nominee MAUREEN McGOVERN as Marmee sings "Here Alone," "Days of Plenty," & "I'd Be Delighted."
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![One Touch Of Venus (1943 Original Cast) / Lute Song (1946 Original Cast) [2 on 1]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/217MA3RA2WL._SL75_.jpg) | One Touch Of Venus (1943 Original Cast) / Lute Song (1946 Original Cast) [2 on 1] by Raymond Scott
Buy used from: $79.90 MARY MARTIN was nicknamed "Audition Mary;" she auditioned so often before landing roles in Cole Porter's LEAVE IT TO ME and these shows. "Speak Low," "Mountain High, Valley Low," "Foolish Heart."
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 | South Pacific (Original 1949 Broadway Cast) by Richard Rodgers
Buy new: $7.97 / Used from: $3.79 The role of Ensign Nellie Forbush brought MS. MARTIN her first Best Actress Tony. Definitive recordings of "A Cockeyed Optimist," "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out of My Hair," "A Wonderful Guy."
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 | Girl Crazy (1951 Studio Cast) by Ira Gershwin
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $6.89 The Gershwin's GIRL CRAZY (1930) featured a young Ethel Merman singing "I Got Rhythm," & "Boy! What Love Has Done to Me." MS. MARTIN sings those songs as well as "Embraceable You" & "But Not For Me."
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 | Peter Pan: Original Broadway Cast Recording (1954 New York Cast) by Moose Charlap
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $7.00 MARY MARTIN won her second Best Actress Tony for playing the boy who wouldn't grow up. Charming score: "I've Got To Crow," "Wendy," "Hook's Waltz." Check out the DVD with Cathy Rigby. Very charming.
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 | Annie Get Your Gun (1957 Television Cast) by Irving Berlin
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $4.46 MARY MARTIN was awarded a Special Tony in 1948 "for spreading ANNIE GET YOUR GUN to the country while the original plays in New York." Hers is not a bad Annie Oakley, but there's only one Merman.
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 | The Sound of Music (1959 Original Broadway Cast) by Richard Rodgers
Buy new: $8.97 / Used from: $4.00 MS. MARTIN walks off with another Best Actress Tony for whipping Captain von Trapp's unruly children into shape. Personally, listening to the score puts me in danger of becoming diabetic, but, hey!
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 | Jennie (1963 Original Broadway Cast) by Arthur Schwartz
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $7.83 This Dietz & Schwartz show ran for only 86 performances, even with MARY MARTIN heading the cast. Charming score: "Waitin' for the Evening Train," "Before I Kiss the World Goodbye," etc.
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 | I Do! I Do! (1966 Original Broadway Cast) by Harvey Schmidt
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $7.96 A Tony nomination for playing Agnes to Robert Preston's Michael, MARTIN croons "What Is a Woman?" and lets her hair down for "Flaming Agnes" & her duets with Preston, like "When the Kids Get Married."
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![Something for the Boys [1943 Radio Cast]](http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/nav2/dp/no-image-no-ciu._SL75_V46836203_.gif) | Something for the Boys [1943 Radio Cast]
Buy new: $19.98 / Used from: $13.24 The mother of all Broadway belters, ETHEL MERMAN appeared in GIRL CRAZY; ANYTHING GOES; RED, HOT & BLUE; & PANAMA HATTIE before BOYS. (Available: a 1997 San Francisco recording of the complete score.)
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 | 12 Songs From Call Me Madam (1950 Studio Cast) With Selections From Panama Hattie (1940 Original Cast Recording) by Ethel Merman
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $3.50 Cole Porter wrote DuBARRY WAS A LADY & PANAMA HATTIE for MERMAN ("Make It Another Old Fashioned, Please") before she played "The Hostess with the Mostes' on the Ball" and won a Best Actress Tony.
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 | Annie Get Your Gun (1946 Original Broadway Cast)
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $11.95 It's great having a young (38) ETHEL MERMAN doing one of her signature roles. From hearing her belt "Doin' What Comes Natur'lly" & "You Can't Get a Man with a Gun," you experience a legend being born.
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 | Happy Hunting (1956 Original Broadway Cast) by Matt Dubey
Buy used from: $43.40 Strangely, MERMAN received a Tony nomination for this show, but not for ANNIE. The only song to live off the stage was 'MUTUAL ADMIRATION SOCIETY,' sung by MERMAN & Virginia Gibson.
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 | Gypsy - A Musical Fable (1959 Original Broadway Cast) by Jule Styne
Buy new: $7.97 / Used from: $4.99 Mama Rose may have been better sung & better acted, but MERMAN's was the most heart-felt. "Some People," "Small World," " Mr. Goldstone," "Everything's Coming Up Roses," "Rose's Turn."
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