Original Casts - Great Broadway Shows, Vol. 2

(4-CD box set) Avid's second installment of "Great Broadway Shows" contains a truly Magnificent 7: "Guys and Dolls," "Carousel," "South Pacific," "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," "Carmen Jones," "Finians Rainbow" and "On the Town" (excerpts). These original Broadway Cast Shows cover a 7-year period from 1943-50 and feature some of the greatest writers in musical history: Rodgers and Hammerstein, Frank Loesser, Leo Robin and Julie Styne, Yip Harburg and Burton Lane, Betty Comden, Adolph Green and Leonard Bernstein. This also features Mary Martin, Met. Opera bass Ezio Pinza and Carol Channing making "Diamonds Are a Girls Best Friend" (from "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes") her own (despite Marilyn's fab film version!)

1) Guys and Dolls/Runyonland Music
2) Guys and Dolls/Fugue for Tin Horns
3) Guys and Dolls/Follow the Fold
4) Guys and Dolls/The Oldest Established
5) Guys and Dolls/I'll Know
6) Guys and Dolls/A Bushel and a Peck
7) Guys and Dolls/Adelaide's Lament
8) Guys and Dolls/Guys and Dolls
9) Guys and Dolls/If I Were a Bell
10) Guys and Dolls/My Time of Day
11) Guys and Dolls/I've Never Been in Love Before
12) Guys and Dolls/Take Back Your Mink
13) Guys and Dolls/More I Cannot Wish You
14) Guys and Dolls/Luck Be a Lady
15) Guys and Dolls/Sue Me
16) Guys and Dolls/Sit Down You're Rockin' the Boat
17) Guys and Dolls/Marry the Man Today
18) Guys and Dolls/Reprise: Guys and Dolls
19) Carousel (First Part)/The Carousel Waltz
20) Carousel (First Part)/You're a Queer One Julie Jordan
21) Carousel (First Part)/Mister Snow: "His Name Is Mister Snow"
22) Carousel (First Part)/Mister Snow: When I Marry Mister Snow"
23) Carousel (First Part)/If I Loved You
24) Carousel (First Part)/June Is Bustin' Out All Over
25) Carousel (First Part)/When the Children Are Asleep: "I Own a..."
26) Carousel (First Part)/When the Children Are Asleep
27) Carousel (Concluded)/Blow High Blow Low
28) Carousel (Concluded)/Soliloquy
29) Carousel (Concluded)/This Was a Real Nice Clambake
30) Carousel (Concluded)/There's Nothin' So Bad for a Woman
31) Carousel (Concluded)/What's the Use of Wond'rin'
32) Carousel (Concluded)/The Highest Judge of All
33) Carousel (Concluded)/You'll Never Walk Alone: "He's Dead Nettie"
34) Carousel (Concluded)/You'll Never Walk Alone
35) South Pacific/Overture
36) South Pacific/Dites-Moi
37) South Pacific/A Cockeyed Optimist
38) South Pacific/Twin Soliloquies
39) South Pacific/Some Enchanted Evening
40) South Pacific/Bloody Mary
41) South Pacific/There Is Nothin' Like a Dame
42) South Pacific/Bali Ha'i
43) South Pacific/I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Outa My Hair
44) South Pacific/A Wonderful Guy: "I Expect Everyone of My Crowd to..."
45) South Pacific/A Wonderful Guy: "I'm As Corny As Kansas in August"
46) South Pacific/Younger Than Springtime
47) South Pacific/Happy Talk
48) South Pacific/Honey Bun
49) South Pacific/You're Got to Be Carefully Taught
50) South Pacific/This Nearly Was Mine
51) South Pacific/Finale
52) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes/Overture
53) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes/It's High Time
54) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes/Bye Bye Baby
55) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes/A Little Girl from Little Rock
56) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes/Just a Kiss Apart
57) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes/I Love What I'm Doing
58) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes/Scherzo
59) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes/It's Delightful Down in Chile
60) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes/You Say You Care
61) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes/I'm A'tingle I'm A'glow
62) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes/Sunshine
63) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes/Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend
64) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes/Mamie Is Mimi
65) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes/Homesick Blues
66) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes/Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
67) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes/Finale: Keeping Cool with Coolidge
68) Carmen Jones (First Part)/Prelude
69) Carmen Jones (First Part)/Lift 'Em Up and Put 'Em Down
70) Carmen Jones (First Part)/Dat's Love
71) Carmen Jones (First Part)/Dere's a Cafn de Corner
72) Carmen Jones (First Part)/Beat Out Dat Rhythm on a Drum
73) Carmen Jones (First Part)/Stan' Up and Fight
74) Carmen Jones (First Part)/Whizzin'
75) Carmen Jones (First Part)/Dis Flower
76) Carmen Jones (First Part)/My Joe
77) Carmen Jones (First Part)/Dat's Our Man
78) Carmen Jones (First Part)/Finale
79) Finian's Rainbow/Overture
80) Finian's Rainbow/This Time of Year
81) Finian's Rainbow/How Are Things in Cloccca Morra?
82) Finian's Rainbow/If This Isn't Love
83) Finian's Rainbow/Look to the Rainbow
84) Finian's Rainbow/Old Devil Moon
85) Finian's Rainbow/Something Sort of Grandish
86) Finian's Rainbow/Necessity
87) Finian's Rainbow/When the Idle Poor Become the Idle Rich
88) Finian's Rainbow/The Begat
89) Finian's Rainbow/When I'm Not Near the Girl I Love
90) Finian's Rainbow/That Great Come and Get It Day
91) On the Town (Excerpts)/Opening: I Feel Like I'm Not Out of Bed Yet
92) On the Town (Excerpts)/New York New York
93) On the Town (Excerpts)/I Got Carried Away
94) On the Town (Excerpts)/Lucky to Be Me
95) On the Town (Excerpts)/Lonely Town
96) On the Town (Excerpts)/I Can Cook Too
97) On the Town (Excerpts)/Ya Got Me