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[[vertical box]] CDs * CDs * CDs * CDs * CDs * CDs * CDs * CDs * CDs * CDs * CDs * CDs * CDs [[/vertical box]] For your friends who dote on theatre recordings, there is a dazzling array of CD releases to choose from Broadway's Best ... The first release on the Decca Broadway label from the newly established Universal Classics Group is the original London cast recording of Saturday Night Fever (the Broadway production is currently at the Minskoff). The CD includes all of the Bee Gees hits from the 1977 movie, including the platinum singles "Stayin' Alive" and "Night Fever." [[image: color photo of Saturday Night Fever CD cover]] Other shows now on CD include Annie Get Your Gun with a cast led by Bernadette Peters and Tom Wopat (Angel Records); Smokey Joe's Cafe/The Songs of Leiber and Stoller (Atlantic); Kat and the Kings with the original London cast and Siân Phillips in Marlene (both on First Night); Cabaret, Fosse, Parade and David Hare's Via Dolorosa (all on RCA Victor); Footloose (Q Records); and the original London cast of Martin Guerre, the Boublil-Schönberg musical due on Broadway in the spring (Dreamworks Records). [[box]] Wild about Wildhorn... Frank Wildhorn's The Civil War: The Complete Work is a two-CD, all-star "concept" album featuring performers from the worlds of pop, rock, R&B, country, gospel and theatre. Wildhorn and his collaborators, Gregory Boyd and Jack Murphy, have packed this recording with a star-studded cast, including Betty Buckley, Linda Eder, Danny Glover, James Garner, Patti LaBelle and Hootie & the Blowfish. The Scarlet Pimpernel: Encore with music by Wildhorn and lyrics by Nan Knighton is an amalgam of recordings from the previously released concept album and additional recordings from the original and second B'way casts. Wildhorn's Jekyll & Hyde (now in its third year on Broadway), with lyrics by Leslie Bricusse, is available on a single CD with the original Broadway cast (Linda Eder, Robert Cuccioli and Christiane Noll) and in a two-CD set - The Complete Work - with some of the cast that appeared in the musical's premiere production at the Alley Theatre in Houston. Linda Eder heads this J&H recording, which also includes Anthony Warlow, Carolee Carmello and guest appearances by Brenda Russell and John Raitt. All on Atlantic Theatre Records. [[/box]] Special Treats . . . My Favorite Broadway - The Leading Ladies is the companion CD to the highly acclaimed show produced by Metropolitan Entertainment and Continental Airlines last year at Carnegie Hall, starring such great ladies of the theatre as Liza Minnelli, Bebe Neuwirth, Julie Andrews, Audra McDonald, Jennifer Holliday and Dorothy Loudon (Hybrid Recordings). ■ Three of the popular Encores! series at City Center have been recorded: Do Re Mi and Babes in Arms are now in stores (both on DRG), and Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 is awaiting a distributor. ■ For Comden and Green lovers there's a sparkling new recording of Wonderful Town with Leonard Bernstein's music, starring Audra McDonald, Kim Criswell and Thomas Hampson (EMI Classics) and the rare Billion Dollar Baby with Morton Gould's music (Original Cast Records). ■ Last season's revival of the 1933 revue As Thousands Cheer by Irving Berlin and Moss Hart has been recorded by Varèse Sarabande. ■ And finally, if you want a preview of Disney's stage musical AIDA, by Elton John and Tim Rice, Rocket/Island Records has issued a concept album featuring Elton John and other top pop artists. 66 www.playbill.com PURE THEATRE ONLINE [[end page]] [[start page]] [[advertisement]] LAUREN BACALL ROSEMARY HARRIS [[horizontal border represented by a pattern that mimics the light bulbs for theatrical makeup mirrors]] [[image: black and white headshot photos of Lauren Bacall and Rosemary Harris]] NOEL COWARD'S Comedy WAITING IN THE WINGS Directed by MICHAEL LANGHAM PREVIEWS BEGIN DECEMBER 3 OPENS DECEMBER 16 IN CELEBRATION OF THE COWARD CENTENARY CALL TELE-CHARGE NOW: 212-239-6200 SORRY, NO DISCOUNT TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM ANY SOURCE DURING THIS ENGAGEMENT. [[image: J logo]] WALTER KERR THEATRE 219 WEST 48TH STREET [[/advertisement]]
