[NEWS] [SHOWS] [AUTHORS] [ACTORS] [SONGS] [LABELS] [SEARCH CD] [HELP]

What is this?
Here I do present my own Musical and related music CD collection, with lots informations about the album (cast, track numbers, and so on), mainly because I had trouble to find these informations when looking myself for cast recordings. I also provide easy links to buy them in several online CD shops.

The different pages:

  • "NEWS" for the new items in the recordings list
  • "SHOWS" for the listing of all the shows
  • "ACTORS" for all the actors, the shows they play in and the roles they have in these shows
  • "AUTHORS" with the Musical authors and the shows they participated in, and what they actually did (Book, Lyrics, Music).
  • "SONGS" where I list all the songs of my musical CDs, and the shows they come from.
  • "LABELS" where the labels are listed with all the recording I have from each and links to the labels homepage
  • "SEARCH" which allows you to search a CD in the online CD stores I usually order at.
  • "HELP" which you are reading.
  • For each recording, a page where I list the tracks titles, performers and duration, say what kind of information is included in the CD box, the cast actors and their roles. I also provide links on the World Wide Web if I found some, and links to the lyrics if they exist somewhere. When I have something to say about a musical, it's also written.
Buying CDs:
I try to provide links to the albums to In Association with Amazon.com when possible (I used to provide links to other shops but they disappeared one by one).
    Shops:
    Other Cast Recording Sources
    • All Music Services is an excellent way to get some unusual cast recordings, that I've used a couple of times and the service of which I was very pleased of.
    • DVD Talk is a good source for hard to find DVD
    • Satellite Media Producation holds broadcast DVDs
    • OTRCAT holds cheap mp3 CDs of old time radio shows.
    • holds... Old things
    Coupons
    Buying Tickets:
    Other interesting Musical Theatre Links:

    Sheet Music:

    Lyrics:

    Mailing Lists:

    Other Musical Theatre Links

    Radios, sounds, etc.:

    Other Labels:

    Electronic Services:

    • Emusic.com is a service where one can subscribe to download (legal) mp3 files, and provides a trial offer (2 weeks 50 songs at the time of writing this), and holds some cast recordings. There seems to be selections of DRG and Harbinger CDs
    • www.liquid.com

    Particular Musicals or Authors:

    Cheap NYC area hotel:
    NY International American Youth Hostel-Hostel
    891 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10025-4403 Phone: (212)932-2300 (around 103rd street near Broadway)
    Chelsea International Hostel
    251 W 20th St, New York, NY 10011-3501 Phone: (212)647-0010
    Leo House
    332 W 23rd St, New York, NY 10011-2289 Phone: (212) 929-1010
    Then there are the YMCAs, the first of which is literally a stone's throw away from Lincoln Center:
    YMCA
    5 W 63rd St, New York, NY 10023-7197 Phone: (212)787-1301
    YMCA
    215 W 23rd St, New York, NY 10011-2302 Phone: (212)741-9226
    YMCA
    224 E 47th St, New York, NY 10017-2199 Phone: (212) 756-9600
    London Theatre links:
    Other Links:
    • Box Office Guru
    • MTI Shows
    • http://www.tinfoil.com/archive.htm is a listenable archive of complete two-minute wax cylinder recordings (one assumes long since in public domain), not all musical and not always acknowledging what show (if any) the recordings were drawn from, but it DOES list the performer and year of recording, and more information as you get deeper into the site. Most selections play in either MP3 or Real Player format
    • Finishing the Hat you can find a THE VOICES IN MY HEAD SING SHOWTUNES bumper sticker.
    • http://www.tommylarsen.com features the CD-LIFT, which some find useful for touchless handling of CD's.
    • CD Carousel which holds 150 CDs
    • Disc gear holds 100 CDs
    • CD bags to replace the jewel cases. Search for the SCDDPJ
    Software:
    • Total Recorder is a tool to record whatever is played on your computer (streaming, etc) into WAV, MP3, ... US$11.95 at the time of writing for the standard edition.
    • MP3DirectCut is an excellent editing tool which enables you to cut, fade and join MP3 files. Very simple to use.
    • Wave Corrector is a tool repair digitized files coming from LP or cassettes.
    Comments:
    I'm very happy if you have come to read this page to the end. This site is somehow a little baby of mine, first designed to help myself to keep track of my cd collection, then supporting some sort of advanced features as listing the actors/songs of all my cast recordings. Unfortunately, these lists have become very big, and I hope I soon will have time enough to split them (for technicians, these pages are generated by an AWK script) into more numerous but smaller pages (as I write these lines, the actors.html file is more than 740Ko, which is unbearable), but I need some time for that... unless one praises me to do it faster (it loads fast enough for me locally on my machine).

    This site will soon be one year old. I hope being able to enhance it for that birthday. In nearly one year, my collection has grown from three CDs to *today* potentially 177. I've decided to buy every Jay album as a support for the quality of the recordings they make and the valuable involvement of John Yap in the CASTRECL mailing list.

    I don't exactly know what informations cast recording buyers could require from CDs, so I don't plan to add more informations, but if you feel that, for example, talking of the opening dates of the shows, the number of performances is important, I possibly could add them. As for the music, I never give lots of informations (I'm interested in performers) but I could make an effort if I was asked to (adding the author of the orchestrations for example).

    Many thanks for your visit!

    Contact:
    If you have any comments, do not hesitate to contact me.

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    Jeremie Petit    .

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