Audio CDs

Just came across this:

On Broadway, it isn’t always the star’s 11:00 number that brings the audience to its feet. From Celeste Holm’s “I Cain’t Say No” in Oklahoma! to Lillias White’s “I’m Getting Too Old for the Oldest Profession” in The Life, some of the musical theater’s most exciting numbers have been sung by supporting characters.
Now, Masterworks Broadway, a label born out of the SONY/BMG merger, gathers a collection of these “sleeper” hits sung by some of the theater’s most talented performers in its new release, Broadway Scene Stealers. Masterworks Broadway draws on the combined catalogues of Sony Classical/Columbia Masterworks and RCA Victor, which includes some of the greatest Broadway show albums in history.
Broadway Scene Stealers, created in partnership with Playbill, the world’s leading theater magazine, promises to be the first in a series of thematically connected “Editors’ Choice” compilations from the vast Sony BMG catalogue. All told, the shows selected for Broadway […]

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