thesubtlegatsby:

my list of the greatest broadway openings: [x]

Hold Me Bat Boy - Bat Boy | Can’t Wait - Big | Let There Be - Children of Eden | Doors - Closer Than Ever | Become - Edges | Comedy Tonight - A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum | Tower of Babble - Godspell | Aquarius - Hair | Prologue - Ragtime | Circle of Life - The Lion King | Carrying the Banner - Newsies | Just Another Day - Next to Normal | We Dance - Once on this Island | Come Look at the Freaks - Sideshow | Rooms - Rooms | Untitled Opening Number - [Title of Show] | Who Will Save New Jersey - Toxic Avenger | 30/90 - Tick Tick Boom | Everybody’s Got the Right - Assassins

and for closings

missioncompanions:

it sucks to be me-a collection of broadway showtunes showcasing how much the lives of the characters suck and probably why. (and no, this isn’t just the whole heathers the musical soundtrack even though that would fit)

1. Rent - Rent 2. School Song - Matilda 3. What Do You Do With a B.A. In English?/It Sucks to Be Me - Avenue Q 4. Skid Row(Downtown) - Little Shop of Horrors 5. Betrayed - The Producers 6. Hasa Diga Eebowai - The Book of Mormon 7. Freeze Your Brain - Heathers the Musical 8. One Jump Ahead - Aladdin 9. The Bitch of Living - Spring Awakening 10. Story of My Life - Shrek the Musical 11. Just Another Day - Next to Normal 12. Santa Fe - Newsies 13. Legally Blonde - Legally Blonde 14. I’m Not That Smart - The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee 15. At the Ballet - A Chorus Line 16. Money, Money, Money - Mamma Mia 17. Please Send Me Someone - Young Frankenstein 18. Dream a Little Harder - Twisted 19. Food, Glorious Food/Oliver! - Oliver

LISTEN

(Source: arnoldcuningham)

grey-violet:

Stage Musicals.
The ones filmed on stage are not always the best quality. I tried to include every version I could find. Most of these are the movie versions, if a version was available. Enjoy!
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• [title of show] 1 2
• 9 to 5 - 1980 
• 13 on Broadway 1  2  3  4  5  6 
  
• 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee Original Broadway Cast
• 42nd Street - 1933 
• A Gentlemen’s Guide to Love and Murder
• A Little Night Music - 1990 Act 1  Act 2 
• A Very Potter Musical
• A Very Potter Sequel
• A Very Potter Senior Year
• Aida with Idina Menzel, Maya Days, and Matt Bogart
• Annie - 1982 
• Annie - 1999 
• Annie on stage with Jane Lynch 1 2
• Annie Get Your Gun - 1950 
• Anything Goes - Sutton Foster, Joel Grey, Laura Osnes
• American Idiot (password: greenday)
• Assassins
• bare Part 1 Part 2
• Billy Elliot
• Bonnie & Clyde with Laura Osnes and Jeremy Jordan Act 1 Act 2
• Brigadoon - 1954 
• Bring It On Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5
• Broadway: The American Musical 1  2 
• Broadway’s Lost Treasures 1 
• Broadway’s Lost Treasures 2 
• Broadway’s Lost Treasures 3 
• Bye Bye Birdie - 1963 
• Cabaret - 1972 
• Cabaret on stage with Alan Cummings
• Camelot - 1981 
• Caroline, or Change
• Carousel - 1956 
• Carrie - 2012 Off-Broadway Revival 1  2  3  4  5  6 
• Catch Me If You Can
• Cats - 1988
• Chaplin
• Chess
• Chicago - 2002 
• Children of Eden
• Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - 1968 
• Cinderella - 1997 
• Cinderella - 2013
• Company - 2006
• Company - 2011 with Neil Patrick Harris
• Cry-Baby - 1990 
• Dogfight
• Dracula - German
• Dreamgirls Original Broadway Cast - very poor quality
• Dreamgirls - 2006 
• Evita - 1996
• Evita - 2012 Revival Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4
• Fame - 1980 
• Fame - 2009 
• Fiddler on the Roof - 1971 
• Finian’s Rainbow - 1968 
• First Date
• Flashdance - 1983 
• Flower Drum Song - 1961 
• Follies
• Footloose - 1984 
• Footloose - 2011 
• Funny Girl - 1968 
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes - 1953 
• Grease - 1978 
• Grease on Broadway
• Grey Gardens
• Grey Gardens, different version
• Guys and Dolls - 1955 Part 1 Part 2
• Gypsy - 1962 
• Gypsy - 2008 Revival
• Hair - 1979 
• Hair 1 2 3 4
• Hairspray - 2006 with Aaron Tveit
• Hairspray - 2007 
• Hallelujah Broadway
• Hedwig and the Angry Inch Original Cast
• Hedwig and the Angry Inch - 2001 
• Hello, Dolly! - 1969 
• High Fidelity
• High Society - 1956 
• Holy Musical B@man!
• How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying - 1967 
• How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying - Darren Criss
• If/Then
• In the Heights Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4
• Into the Woods - 1991 
• Jekyll & Hyde Act 1  Act 2 
• Jesus Christ Superstar - 1973 
• Jesus Christ Superstar - 2012 Revival
• Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat - 2000 
• Kismet - 1955 
• Kiss Me Kate - 1953 
• Legally Blonde Sing-a-long
• Les Miserables 10th Anniversary Dream Cast
• Les Miserables 25th Anniversary Part 1 Part 2
• Les Miserables - 2000 with Sutton Foster
• Les Miserables - 2012 
• Lestat
• Little Shop of Horrors - 1986 
• Little Women
• Mamma Mia! - 2008 
• Man of La Mancha - 1972 
• Mary Poppins: The Broadway Musical
• Matilda the Musical
• Matilda - another recording
• Miss Saigon Broadway
• Miss Saigon - National Tour
• Miss Saigon - 2008
• Monty Python’s Spamalot Part 1 Part 2
• My Fair Lady - 1964 
• My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies - 1999 
• Never Forget
• Newsies - 1992 
• Newsies - Live 2012
• Next to Normal
• Next to Normal - Alice Ripley & JenniferDamiano’s last performance
• Next to Normal with Jessica Phillips and Kyle Dean Massey
• Nine - 2009 
• No, No Nanette - 1940 
• Oklahoma! - 1955 
• Oliver! - 1968 
• On A Clear Day You Can See Forever - 1970 
• On the Town - 1949 
• Once - 2006 
• Once - Broadway
• Once Upon a Mattress - 2005 
• Paint Your Wagon - 1969 
• Pal Joey - 1957 
• Passing Strange - 2009
• Passion - Original Broadway Cast
• Peter and the Star Catcher
• Peter Pan - 1960 
• Peter Pan Tour 2012 Act 1 2
• Pipe Dream (password: suzy)
• Pippin, Live in Toronto - 1972 
• Porgy and Bess
• Ragtime - poor quality
• Rent - 2005 Part 1  Part 2 
• Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway - 2008 
• Rent - Hollywood Bowl (password: tango maureen)
• Riverdance: The Show - 1995 
• Riverdance at Radio City Music Hall
• Rock of Ages - 2012
• Saturday Night Fever - 1977 
• Saved!
• Show Boat - 1936
• Shrek: The Musical - 2013
• South Pacific 1  2  3  4  5 
• Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall
• Song & Dance - 1984
• Spring Awakening with Lea Michele
• Starship
• Sunday in the Park with George
• Sunset Boulevard Act 1  Act 2 
• Sweeney Todd Broadway - 1982 
• Sweeney Todd: Live in Concert
• Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street - 2007 
• The Addams Family
• The Addams Family obc
• The Apple Tree Part 1 Part 2
• The Book of Mormon
• The Bridges of Madison County - 2014
• The Drowsy Chaperone
• The Full Monty - 1997 
• The King and I - 1956 
• The Light in the Piazza
• The Little Mermaid - Sierra Boggess
• The Music Man - 1962 
• The Mystery of Edwin Drood
• The Phantom of the Opera - 1989 
• The Phantom of the Opera - 1990 
• The Phantom of the Opera - 2004 
• The Phantom of the Opera at the Albert Hall - 2011 
• The Pirate Queen Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4
• The Producers - 1968 
• The Producers - 2005 
• The Rocky Horror Picture Show - 1975 
• The Sound of Music - 1965 
• The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown
• The Wedding Singer
• The Wiz - 1978 
• Thoroughly Modern Millie Original Broadway Cast Act 1  Act 2 
• Thoroughly Modern Millie
• Three Musketeers with Aaron Tveit
• Titanic: The Musical - Peace Players Production 1  2  3  4  5 
• Tommy - 1975 
• Twisted
• Urinetown Original Broadway Cast
• Victor/Victoria - 1982 
• West Side Story - 1961 
• White Christmas - 1954 
• Wicked 
• Wicked Kristin Chenoweth’s Last Performance
• Wicked with Aaron Tveit (password: swankified)
• Wicked with Annaleigh Asford and Stephanie J. Block Part 1 Part 2
• Wonderland Act 1 Act 2
• Xanadu Original Broadway Cast
• Xanadu - 1980 
• You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown
• Young Frankenstein

(Source: brav3andwild)

satomobiles:

since the other soundtrack masterlists i’ve seen on here have a lot of broken links, i decided to make my own! under the cut are 150+ different musicals and 170+ different download links all in alphabetical order. if you encounter any problems please message me so i can update the list. there are also some notes listed below the cut regarding the download links. please like/reblog! [last updated: 21 august 2014]

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cutejolras:

catch me if you can

bare (part 2)

next to normal 

les miserables

newsies

bonnie and clyde

how to succeed in business without really trying

once

warhorse

book of mormon (part 2)

untilyounameme:

literalgrantaire:

I have a test tomorrow I haven’t studied for, so naturally I’m looking for something to procrastinate with. Does anyone have a link to a place where I can watch Next to Normal? (Preferable decent quality or something ‘official’)

Here is a lovely masterlist of n2n videos/audios. The Original Broadway Cast bootlegs are pretty bad, but I’m sure there’s a few others that are decent.

Thank you so much!

(Source: ace-enjolras-blog)

officialbabet:

aarontveeit:

wow. okay. so,i realised tumblr is missing a musical soundtrack masterpost so HERE IT IS. 

You will find a collection of a mazillion musical soundtrack downloads below the cut and i really hope you enjoy them as much as i do.

also, you’re welcome.

and also like/reblog to pass it on to fellow musical enthusiasts

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(Source: marymrstn)

hopewithoutstardust:

yes i do omg hold on let me find it

• Legally Blonde the Musical
• Wicked
• Next to Normal (Also here, here, here, and here)
• Les Miserables
• Phantom of the Opera
• Pippin (Also here)
• Hairspray
• Rent (Also here)
• Sweeney Todd: Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Also here)
• Company
• The Addams Family Musical (Also here)
• Hedwig and the Angry Inch
• Bonnie and Clyde
• Urinetown
• Hallelujah
• Anything Goes
• Catch Me If You Can
• Spring Awakening
• Grease
• Thoroughly Modern Millie
• 13 (Also here)
• The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
• Avenue Q
• Our House
• The Little Mermaid
• Taboo
• Little Women
• Jekyll and Hyde
• Love Never Dies
• Evil Dead
• Cats
• Wonderland
• Bare
• Passion
• Sunday in the Park with George
• First Date the Musical

You know you love an actor when you can pick out their voice from the ensemble numbers.

OKAY
SO I JUST WATCHED WEST SIDE STORY AND IT BROKE MY HEART
BUT
IT OUT ME INTO A MUSICAL-WATCHING MOOD
SO
I NEED A RECCOMENDATION OF A MUSICAL TO WATCH THAT IS EITHER AVAILABLE ON NETFLIX OR EASY TO FIND FOR FREE ONLINE
PLEASE