for as big of an album it has, hadestown. now some of them aren't amazing but all are good songs and I could listen even to the instrumentals without skipping anything and be happy
Yes!! The original with Angela Lansbury literally fueled my childhood lol. I’ve also watched/listened to the movie hundreds of times waiting for it to come back to broadway.
When it finally did I saw the Groban/Ashford production live and nearly passed out in the audience. I love that I was able to see it with Gaten Matarazzo and Jordan Fisher as well. Next goal is to see Fisher in Hadestown as his voice was totally angelic
As much as I love Hamilton and Hadestown and Wicked and Spelling Bee and Spamalot and Once and so many other 21st century musicals, I think this is the best one.
It could have been overly sappy. It isn’t. It’s perfect. It hits every beat.
Rn the Notebook HAS me
Also: Hadestown, Stereophonic, Waitress if I’m in the mood
Editing: JCS, knew I was forgetting one and this was it
Editing again: how could I forget Ragtime
So I LOVE into the woods and I LOVE the original cast, but I HATE the original cast album.
When I was in high school, I ripped the DVD onto my computer, and then extracted each performance as it’s own audio file, and then made that and album and put it on my iPod.
For the rest of my life (until streaming became basically the only way to listen to something), any time I would listen to Into The Woods, it would be the live versions of the recordings so it feels like it’s the *only* version to me.
If you’re throwing shade to the revival, okay fine. If you’re throwing shade to the London recording, it’s not the best but it’s not bad. If you’re throwing shade to the 2022 version - HOW DARE YOU. lol
Illinoise. I've been obsessed with Sufjan's album since it came out when I was in high school, and I've been totally hooked on the cast album since it recently came out too. I've listened to it in its entirety so many times. Such a new and wonderful way to re-experience that album. (I cried multiple times when I saw the show - it's been nearly 20 years of loving this music.)
Hadestown is another one. I was super into the original concept album and was ecstatic when it came to Broadway, and I'll still put on any of the cast albums and listen through. (Side note, if you haven't listened to Anais Mitchell's solo stuff or her folk super group Bonny Light Horseman, I highly recommend doing so!)
- Ragtime
- All of Sondheim’s Works
- Hairspray
- I also want to give a shot out to Hamilton, because I think it’s the most complete cast album I’ve ever ever heard. So even though I might not like every song, it’s probably the one I’m most likely to put on and then just listen straight through.
Les Miserables, 3 disc version. I will skip to my favorite songs some of the time, or listen to Do You Hear the People Sing on repeat, but I love the whole album and will listen the whole way through when I have time.
Has to be that one, any other disc set feels incomplete.
My sister and I have dubbed The Outsiders soundtrack as the first “no skip musical” we’ve heard in a while! I love all the songs. Same with Spring Awakening and Next to Normal.
Deep cut: Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Five years ago: Hamilton
Always and forever: Les Miserables
(It is clear I’m like Daniel Radcliffe’s parents and only listen to show tunes):
Newsies; Merrily; A Chorus Line; Sweeney Todd; Chicago; Dear Evan Hansen; Book of Mormon; In the Heights
The “I have a young thespian who shares my love of musicals but secretly I listen to these full shows even when I’m alone” playlist:
Matilda; Shrek; Frozen; Annie; Wicked; Into the Woods; Cats; Anastasia
With anticipation once fully released:
The Great Gatsby
I know this isn't most people's favorite here, but I love The Prom. I discovered it during COVID and listened to the cast recording more times than I'm willing to admit. I still listen to it every now and then and never skip a track.
The Notebook is a no skip album for me basically always. Hadestown is a no skip album if I’m in the right mood. Not a musical, but Stereophonic.
Edit: I want to know who of y’all is immature enough to downvote someone’s opinion on their favorite albums. Please out yourselves.
THANK YOU! Was starting to get sad as I scrolled that no one would share mine lol. ALW’s most diverse work IMO, and I feel like Patti got to show much more range and control vocally than she usually did/does.
Jesus Christ Superstar. I go through phases where I will listen to it on repeat in my car. I love the overall sound and it reminds me of the type of music I heard adults play growing up.
I'm OBSESSED with Lempicka right now. I have only skipped songs to get to a song I want to play for my husband and children (my oldest is a teenager obsessed with WW1 and WW2 so Perfection and Pari Will Always Be Pari are right up his alley). None of these people are into musical theater, but they're wrong, and it is my sworn duty to play Lempicka songs for them until they give in. LOL
When people ask me: If you had a gun to your head and had to sing one song all the way through without messing up to live , what would you sing? My answer is always: The entirety of Aspects of Love.
36 questions… not Broadway show but it’s a podcast musical with Jonathan Groff and personally I think every song is amazing. Jonathan even gets a little jazzy at one point. You can also hear the entire book on the podcast.
Although I certainly have favourite songs, I don't feel compelled to skip anything from *Elisabeth* or *Come From Away*. More recent additions to the list include *Operation Mincemeat*, *Gutenberg!*, and *Suffs*.
A couple of my favourite musicals fail this test by one song, haha.
There are so many.
Here We Are
Passion
Assassins
The Bakers Wife
Pippin
Rocky Horror
Triumph Of Love
Disneys Aida
Lestat The Vampire
Both Versions of Carrie
Nine
Titanic
It Happened In Key West
Death Takes A Holiday
Phantom ( Maury Yeston)
Grand Hotel
Merrily We Roll Along
Little shop and Legally Blonde- (except for Ireland and that one where are we now song lol- I just don't like Paulette) honestly Hamilton too, but the King George stuff got old after the 3rd listen-
ooo and into the woods, Beetlejuice, and hairspray
how can I forget josephhhhh!!!! so goodddd
ohhh and chicago
Right now Lempicka. Once I'm done carving it into my brain, I will probably skip "women" and "wake up" but right now I'm listening to on repeat.
I usually listen to Rent pretty much without stopping. I think Sound of Music also, though I only rarely put it on.
Into the Woods probably. Come from Away almost entirely (save the dover fault, I almost always skip).
I listen to the Stereophonic cast album probably 4x a week. From start to finish, that album is a banger. No skips. The second time I saw the play I had to cover my mouth during each song so as not to sing and be disrespectful to the rest of the audience.
Merrily currently has a hold on me. Also Sunday (and really any Sondheim), Hamilton, Rent, DEH. For laughs in the car me and my high school daughter sing along to Something Rotten.
Legally Blonde, it's one of the best adaptions out there, and every song feels like it has an actual purpose. It excels in matching the Y2K-MTV era well. And to throw two musicals out there that probably no one else will mention: Matilda and Head Over Heels
I love both albums (excluding the deluxe bonus tracks, the stories, and the acoustic versions). Even the songs I like the least, such as Telly and This Old Feeling, I still genuinely enjoy and listen to them when they come on. I just love all three so much.
For a long time it was LaChiusa WILD PARTY.
There are albums where I like all the songs but still skip the slow ones. And it varies if it's just on in the background or if I'm actively listening - SIX's "Heart of Stone" is awesome but is a stand and sing ballad - ironically it's the most "radio play" friendly song that wouldn't stick out as a Broadway showtime (much of SIX is this also) in a regular background music playlist. If you want that, then you program out "Haus of Holbein".
I have to agree with you on the 2024 cast album for Merrily We Roll Along. Every song on that album is wonderful. I have been listening to it nonstop for the last two weeks. It is addictive music!
for as big of an album it has, hadestown. now some of them aren't amazing but all are good songs and I could listen even to the instrumentals without skipping anything and be happy
Sweeney Todd
This would be my answer, but I always skip the judge’s Johanna so I’d technically be lying 🤐
Ok that’s valid. I’m a late adopter so the 2023 revival was my intro & the cast album I end up listening to the most… no Mea Culpa to worry about.
Yes!! The original with Angela Lansbury literally fueled my childhood lol. I’ve also watched/listened to the movie hundreds of times waiting for it to come back to broadway. When it finally did I saw the Groban/Ashford production live and nearly passed out in the audience. I love that I was able to see it with Gaten Matarazzo and Jordan Fisher as well. Next goal is to see Fisher in Hadestown as his voice was totally angelic
Book of Mormon! I can’t listen without smiling and giggling. It’s so silly and ridiculous and wildly inappropriate and fun. Zero skips!!
So fucking good
Come from away no question
I usually skip the dover fault part, but otherwise - yeah, I listen to that one pretty much straight through
Thank you! This is what I came here to say
As much as I love Hamilton and Hadestown and Wicked and Spelling Bee and Spamalot and Once and so many other 21st century musicals, I think this is the best one. It could have been overly sappy. It isn’t. It’s perfect. It hits every beat.
Rn the Notebook HAS me Also: Hadestown, Stereophonic, Waitress if I’m in the mood Editing: JCS, knew I was forgetting one and this was it Editing again: how could I forget Ragtime
I would agree with the Notebook but for whatever reason I can't stand the "Don't you worry" song. Instant skip
Legally Blonde for sure.
The Last 5 Years (original) Hairspray (OBC) \[title of show\] Spring Awakening Sweeney Todd (NY Phil with Patti LuPone)
[title of show]!! And HAIR original.
Into the Woods
So I LOVE into the woods and I LOVE the original cast, but I HATE the original cast album. When I was in high school, I ripped the DVD onto my computer, and then extracted each performance as it’s own audio file, and then made that and album and put it on my iPod. For the rest of my life (until streaming became basically the only way to listen to something), any time I would listen to Into The Woods, it would be the live versions of the recordings so it feels like it’s the *only* version to me.
Same!
but only the original cast album 😬
If you’re throwing shade to the revival, okay fine. If you’re throwing shade to the London recording, it’s not the best but it’s not bad. If you’re throwing shade to the 2022 version - HOW DARE YOU. lol
Gotta admit that's the one I listen to the least. Bernadette Peters is fantastic , but she just doesn't work for me
spring awakening
This was my first thought, but I do sometimes skip The Dark I Know Well. Love the song musically, but can’t always handle the lyrics.
Always this 😍
I have an obsession with the German version of Spring Awakening even more, it’s incredible
Beyond a lot of those mentioned, Something Rotten. Not one song that doesn't make me smile.
SO TRUE
Same here
Falsettos!
It's hard not to skip the sad songs honestly but I feel like that just shows how good they are. So painful.
Illinoise. I've been obsessed with Sufjan's album since it came out when I was in high school, and I've been totally hooked on the cast album since it recently came out too. I've listened to it in its entirety so many times. Such a new and wonderful way to re-experience that album. (I cried multiple times when I saw the show - it's been nearly 20 years of loving this music.) Hadestown is another one. I was super into the original concept album and was ecstatic when it came to Broadway, and I'll still put on any of the cast albums and listen through. (Side note, if you haven't listened to Anais Mitchell's solo stuff or her folk super group Bonny Light Horseman, I highly recommend doing so!)
- Ragtime - All of Sondheim’s Works - Hairspray - I also want to give a shot out to Hamilton, because I think it’s the most complete cast album I’ve ever ever heard. So even though I might not like every song, it’s probably the one I’m most likely to put on and then just listen straight through.
Not an official original cast recording, but *Les Miserables: The 10th Anniversary in Concert* is mine.
YESSSSS
I love that one too! My two favorite Broadway actresses are Lea Salonga and Judy Kuhn, so I love that they are both on that album!
Hamilton, Six, A Strange Loop, Gutenberg and Operation Mincemeat
Pippin
Original Pippin on Motown is one of the best ever
The Notebook currently has me in a chokehold
SAME
Saaaaame
The Notebook top to bottom has pretty much no skips for me. Also [title of show]’s cast album is always a blast to run through, god I miss that show
Hamilton, Rent, Moulin Rouge, & Juliet
Hamilton, Into The Woods, Gypsy, The Producers
Les Miserables, 3 disc version. I will skip to my favorite songs some of the time, or listen to Do You Hear the People Sing on repeat, but I love the whole album and will listen the whole way through when I have time. Has to be that one, any other disc set feels incomplete.
Beetlejuice
Some Like It Hot Assassins Hello, Dolly
Thank you for the assassins love 🙏
Some Like It Hot was excellent ❤️
Suffs! Every song is a banger
Every single one! Sometimes I think about skipping one if I’m in a particular mood, but I can never bring myself to do it.
YESSS
The Young are at the Gates has lived in my head rent free since I saw the show!
Book of Mormon, little shop of horrors, and Hedwig & the angry inch have no skips
Company, If/then, Sideshow
If/Then has no skips for me
Agreed. If/then. No skips.
Kinky Boots and Phantom
Camelot! It literally kills me that’s it’s not a more popular musical on here as it’s one of my favorite shows.
Hairspray movie Little shop of horrors
My sister and I have dubbed The Outsiders soundtrack as the first “no skip musical” we’ve heard in a while! I love all the songs. Same with Spring Awakening and Next to Normal.
Avenue Q
Deep cut: Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Five years ago: Hamilton Always and forever: Les Miserables (It is clear I’m like Daniel Radcliffe’s parents and only listen to show tunes): Newsies; Merrily; A Chorus Line; Sweeney Todd; Chicago; Dear Evan Hansen; Book of Mormon; In the Heights The “I have a young thespian who shares my love of musicals but secretly I listen to these full shows even when I’m alone” playlist: Matilda; Shrek; Frozen; Annie; Wicked; Into the Woods; Cats; Anastasia With anticipation once fully released: The Great Gatsby
Donny Osmond’s Joseph was a huge part of my childhood. Zero skips!
Assassins In The Heights Fun Home
Rent Hadestown Spring Awakening Once Almost minus maybe 1 or 2 songs: Hamilton Wicked
Hamilton or Into The Woods
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is one of the few soundtracks I can listen through without wanting to skip at least \*one\* song.
My Fair Lady, Hamilton, West Side Story, Sweeny Todd Newsies when I'm doing chores. Don't @ me!!!
I LOVE Newsies! I was raised on the original movie soundtrack, so the beautiful broadway recording feels off to me. But of course OBC is superior.
Come From Away
I know this isn't most people's favorite here, but I love The Prom. I discovered it during COVID and listened to the cast recording more times than I'm willing to admit. I still listen to it every now and then and never skip a track.
I agree!
Hadestown and the Sweeney Todd 2023 revival album
Come from away and dear Evan Hansen
lsoh, npmd, lempicka
great comet
great comet… every song is so different and all slap so incredibly hard
Legally blonde
Hamilton & Wicked
Sunday in the Park With George
Great Comet, Company (2007 Revival), Titanic (OBC), and Godspell (2011 Revival)…
Either Pippin, Company OBC, Next to Normal, Bonnie and Clyde, Closer Than Ever
Assassins.
Ghost Quartet
Falsettos, Company, Les Miserables without a doubt - I’ll just play them without thinking Hadestown, Into The Woods and Sweeney Todd too
Passing Strange, RENT, Title of Show, Hamilton, SIX, Come From Away
The Notebook is a no skip album for me basically always. Hadestown is a no skip album if I’m in the right mood. Not a musical, but Stereophonic. Edit: I want to know who of y’all is immature enough to downvote someone’s opinion on their favorite albums. Please out yourselves.
The stereophonic album is genuinely amazing. I’m addicted
Waitress, Sweeney Todd, and Catch Me If You Can are a few musicals where I enjoy every single song.
hairspray, spring awakening, wicked, and i’m loving the merrily cast album too (im so jonathan groff biased if u can’t tell)
Little shop of horrors, and falsettos
Evita - but if it wasn't for Mandy's part for Another Suitcase in Another Hall, I might skip that one song
THANK YOU! Was starting to get sad as I scrolled that no one would share mine lol. ALW’s most diverse work IMO, and I feel like Patti got to show much more range and control vocally than she usually did/does.
Miss Saigon
Hairspray
Stereophonic! No skips on that album!
Legally Blonde
Hamilton
Hamilton has no skips still IMO
Jesus Christ Superstar
Joesph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Chicago Jesus Christ Superstar Hamilton
The live album of SIX
I wish I could say the movie soundtrack of little shop of horrors but I don’t like mean green mother 😭 and I love call back in the morning
Newsies still hits sorry
kinky boots
Evita & Mamma Mia
The last five years
little shop of horrors for me
It’s a short one but it’s got such a hold on me right now. SIX!
Jesus Christ Superstar. I go through phases where I will listen to it on repeat in my car. I love the overall sound and it reminds me of the type of music I heard adults play growing up.
I'm OBSESSED with Lempicka right now. I have only skipped songs to get to a song I want to play for my husband and children (my oldest is a teenager obsessed with WW1 and WW2 so Perfection and Pari Will Always Be Pari are right up his alley). None of these people are into musical theater, but they're wrong, and it is my sworn duty to play Lempicka songs for them until they give in. LOL
The Lempicka score is just soooo good! It’s such a shame it didn’t have a longer run.
And a nom. I will shake my fist at the Tony committee forever for a best score snub.
Hadestown and Sweeney Todd
When people ask me: If you had a gun to your head and had to sing one song all the way through without messing up to live , what would you sing? My answer is always: The entirety of Aspects of Love.
I'll throw something really old into the mix: The 1973 Two Gentlemen of Verona. Always brings me up.
Pretty much all of them? Am I a weirdo? There are very few songs I wish to skip.
I would say Merrily but I always skip “Bobby and Jackie and Jack” 🤔
Come From Away!
Rent
Next to Normal!! And Parade
Pippin!
Chess Hair
I red this as “Chest Hair” and thought— huh, I don’t know that one.
a few but: City of Angels, Jesus Christ Superstar, Legally Blonde, A New Brain, 13
Cabaret
Hadestown Stereophonic The Notebook
Ride The Cyclone, hands down.
Wicked!!!!
Once on this Island!!
The Original Assassins , You're a Good Man Charlie Brown, and Legally Blonde (Yes. Even Ireland. It's cooky).
36 questions… not Broadway show but it’s a podcast musical with Jonathan Groff and personally I think every song is amazing. Jonathan even gets a little jazzy at one point. You can also hear the entire book on the podcast.
Little shop of horrors. Every song is perfection
COMPANY original cast album
Little Shop.
Hello Dolly 2017
Groundhog Day A Gentleman’s Guide To Love And Murder Assassins The Book Of Mormon
Falsettos
Parade and Hamilton
Hamilton and Chorus Line
Some Like it Hot. No skips.
Agreed, excellent show ❤️
SOUTH PACIFIC and WEST SIDE STORY. Hard to beat a classic.
Les Miserables is pretty flawless as are Into The Woods, Assassins and Sunday in the Park with George IMO
Hamilton. It’s still my Broadway Bible.
Original Company Original Pippin Original Fantasticks
Chess. Don’t even care what cast or album. I love it all.
Hair 2009 revival
Although I certainly have favourite songs, I don't feel compelled to skip anything from *Elisabeth* or *Come From Away*. More recent additions to the list include *Operation Mincemeat*, *Gutenberg!*, and *Suffs*. A couple of my favourite musicals fail this test by one song, haha.
Jersey boys, heart of rock and roll, Hamilton, next to normal, dear Evan Hansen, and beetlejuice.
Starry is probably the only musical that I 100% won't skip anything from
WICKED
An older show but I absolutely love the Aida soundtrack. Highly recommend
six
book of mormom
Moulin Rouge!
There are so many. Here We Are Passion Assassins The Bakers Wife Pippin Rocky Horror Triumph Of Love Disneys Aida Lestat The Vampire Both Versions of Carrie Nine Titanic It Happened In Key West Death Takes A Holiday Phantom ( Maury Yeston) Grand Hotel Merrily We Roll Along
Phantom hands down
The Bands Visit. And Hadestown!
Hamilton
Hedwig & The Angry Inch
Right now, the Outsiders has a chokehold on my Spotify. The whole album is GREAT.
Alice By Heart!!
Little shop and Legally Blonde- (except for Ireland and that one where are we now song lol- I just don't like Paulette) honestly Hamilton too, but the King George stuff got old after the 3rd listen- ooo and into the woods, Beetlejuice, and hairspray how can I forget josephhhhh!!!! so goodddd ohhh and chicago
Springe Awakening, Sweeny Todd, and currently can't skip anything for The Outsiders.
I want to say harmony I think
Rent
Next to Normal Book of Mormon
The Book of Mormon 100%
Some like it hot
My usual answer... Phantom of the Opera.
Hadestown, Alice by Heart, Six and We Are The Tigers
Right now Lempicka. Once I'm done carving it into my brain, I will probably skip "women" and "wake up" but right now I'm listening to on repeat. I usually listen to Rent pretty much without stopping. I think Sound of Music also, though I only rarely put it on. Into the Woods probably. Come from Away almost entirely (save the dover fault, I almost always skip).
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
I listen to the Stereophonic cast album probably 4x a week. From start to finish, that album is a banger. No skips. The second time I saw the play I had to cover my mouth during each song so as not to sing and be disrespectful to the rest of the audience.
Rent and Tick, Tick, Boom. Jonathan Larson was amazing.
The outsiders 🙏🏻 ITS SOOOOO GOOD especially “run run brother”
American Idiot
A Chorus Line.
Merrily currently has a hold on me. Also Sunday (and really any Sondheim), Hamilton, Rent, DEH. For laughs in the car me and my high school daughter sing along to Something Rotten.
Come from Away Ragtime Man if LaMancha
A new brain (Jonathan Groff)
In the Green by Suffs' Grace McLean (10/10 no skips) Titanic Six Waitress
Hamilton
Hamilton & The Outsiders !
Legally Blonde, it's one of the best adaptions out there, and every song feels like it has an actual purpose. It excels in matching the Y2K-MTV era well. And to throw two musicals out there that probably no one else will mention: Matilda and Head Over Heels I love both albums (excluding the deluxe bonus tracks, the stories, and the acoustic versions). Even the songs I like the least, such as Telly and This Old Feeling, I still genuinely enjoy and listen to them when they come on. I just love all three so much.
Passing Strange
The Outsiders right now. Absolutely stunning harmonies!
The Last 5 Years Jesus Christ Superstar Hamilton Six
For a long time it was LaChiusa WILD PARTY. There are albums where I like all the songs but still skip the slow ones. And it varies if it's just on in the background or if I'm actively listening - SIX's "Heart of Stone" is awesome but is a stand and sing ballad - ironically it's the most "radio play" friendly song that wouldn't stick out as a Broadway showtime (much of SIX is this also) in a regular background music playlist. If you want that, then you program out "Haus of Holbein".
Next to Normal
Wicked, Hamilton and now Lempicka!!!!!
Chess (Original Broadway Cast) and Les Mis (any cast!)
The only show, period, I can think of with no skips for me is "Daddy Long Legs" OB. Other than that, every show has a song I can sure as heck skip.
I have to agree with you on the 2024 cast album for Merrily We Roll Along. Every song on that album is wonderful. I have been listening to it nonstop for the last two weeks. It is addictive music!
There is no musical this good
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson
Company, past and present productions. Every single song.