tracks

There's No Business Like Show Business
Swanee
Ol' Man River
You're The Top
Oklahoma
Luck Be A Lady
I Could Have Danced All Night
America
My Favorite Things
People
If I Were A Rich Man
The Impossible Dream
Cabaret
Let The Sunshine In
Send In The Clowns
One
Tomorrow
Memory
The Music Of The Night
Good Morning Baltimore
Defying Gravity

notes

Track info:

1: from 'Annie Get Your Gun', recorded May 26, 1946.
2: from 'Sinbad', recorded January 9, 1920.
3: from 'Show Boat', recorded July 21, 1932.
4: from 'Anything Goes', recorded December 4, 1934.
5: from 'Oklahoma!', recorded October 20, 1943.
6: from 'Guys And Dolls', recorded December 3, 1950.
7: from 'My Fair Lady', recorded March 25, 1956.
8: from 'West Side Story', recorded September 29, 1957.
9: from 'The Sound Of Music', recorded November 22, 1959.
10: from 'Funny Girl', recorded April 5, 1964.
11: from 'Fiddler On The Roof', recorded September 27, 1964.
12: from 'Man Of La Mancha', recorded December 6, 1965.
13: from 'Cabaret', recorded November 27, 1966.
14: from 'Hair', recorded May 6, 1968.
15: from 'A Little Night Music', recorded March 18, 1973.
16: from 'A Chorus Line', recorded June 2, 1975.
17: from 'Annie', recorded April 25, 1977.
18: from 'Cats', recorded October, 1982.
19: from 'The Phantom Of The Opera', recorded October, 1986.
20: from 'Hairspray', recorded June 29, 2002.
21: from 'Wicked', recorded November 10, 2003.

The CD accompanied the PBS TV series 'Broadway : The American Musical', a 5 CD box set with booklet was also released. The CD & back of the case show four logos, Decca Broadway, Columbia Broadway Masterworks, Thirteen WNET NEW YORK, PBS.

Photos: Booklet: Getty Images: p. 3, 6, tray card; Philip Greenberg: back of booklet; Joan Marcus: p. 20-21, cover (Wicked); Photofest: pp. 5, 9, 10-11, 18, cover (Fiddler On The Roof, Cats); Paul Kolnik: p. 19, cover (Hairspray); Corbis: p. 4; Martha Swope: p. 14-15, 16, cover (A Chorus Line, Annie).

Performers on Cover (left-right): Zero Mostel (Fiddler On The Roof); (A Chorus Line); (Cats); Andrea McArdle & Reid Shelton (Annie); Marissa Jaret Winokur & Harvey Fierstein (Hairspray); Idina Menzel (Wicked).

This compilation (P) 2004 Universal Classics Group, Sony Music Entertainment, Inc., (C) 2004 Universal Classics Group, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc., 825 8th Avenue, New York, NY 10019. Distributed by Universal Music & Video Distribution, Corp. This 5 CD box set with booklet accompanied the PBS TV series 'Broadway : The American Musical'

There is also a single disc sampler version of this set Various - The Best Of Broadway : The American Musical
Which contains three tracks not found on this full box set. They are as follows:
5 Oklahoma from Oklahoma
8 America from West Side Story
13 Cabaret from Cabaret

Of course this five disc version has many many more tracks than the sampler but the above three are only on the sampler.

credits

A&R – James Orofino, Patti Matheny
Compilation Producer – Brian Drutman, Darcy Proper, Didier C. Deutsch, Michael Kantor, Steve Berkowitz
Design – Ken Fredette, Lisa Sparagano
Liner Notes – Laurence Maslon, Michael Kantor
Management [Project Director] – Jeffrey Peisch, Joy Monfried, Nicole Dean-Taubert, Randy Dry
Mastered By – Darcy Proper
Mixed By – Darcy Proper
Photography By – Corbis, Getty Images, Joan Marcus, Martha Swope, Paul Kolnik, Philip Greenberg, Photofest
Production Manager [Packaging Manager] – Peter Kszan
Transferred By [Acetate Transfers] – Ken Robertson
A&R – Darren Salmieri, James Orofino, Patti Matheny, Stacey Boyle
Art Direction, Design – Lisa Sparagano
Compilation Producer – Brian Drutman, Didier C. Deutsch, Michael Kantor, Steve Berkowitz
Compilation Producer, Mixed By, Mastered By – Darcy Proper
Management [Project Director] – Jeffrey Peisch, Joy Monfried

companies

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Sony BMG Music Entertainment
Copyright (c) – Sony BMG Music Entertainment
Manufactured By – Columbia Records

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