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Ultimate Broadway II: The Very Best of Broadway Now

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Artist: Various Artists
Label: RCA Victor Broadway
Category: Music

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Rating: 2.5 out of 5 stars

3 reviews
Sales Rank: 54285

Format: Cast Recording
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5

UPC: 828765129022
EAN: 0828765129022
ASIN: B000092Q7E

Release Date: May 20, 2003
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Tracks:

•	Overture (from Gypsy) - London Cast Recording
•	Man of La Mancha (I, Don Quixote) - Brian Stokes Mitchell, Ernie Sabella
•	Run, Freedom, Run! - Hunter Foster
•	Your Daddy's Son - Ted Sperling, Ragtime Orchestra
•	Music Of The Night (From The Phantom Of The Opera) - Colm Wilkinson
•	All That Jazz (from "Chicago") - Bebe Neuwirth
•	Gimme Gimme - Michael Rafter
•	La boheme; Act I; O soave fanciulla - Placido Domingo, Sherrill Milnes, Montserrat Caballe
•	Next Best Thing To Love - Randy Graff
•	Cabaret - Natasha Richardson
•	Springtime For Hitler (From "The Producers") - John Morris, Mel Brooks
•	Losing My Mind - Barbara Cook
•	Time Warp - Raul Esparza
•	Oklahoma!; Oklahoma - Finale: Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' (Reprise) - Musical Cast Recording
•	Breeze Off the River - Patrick Wilson
•	Big Spender - Jane Lanier, Valarie Pettiford, Shannon Lewis, Kim Greene, Kim Morgan, Dana Moore, Rachelle Rak, Elizbeth Parkinson, Dede LaBarre, Mary Ann Lamb, Mary McLeod
•	Gee Officer Krupke - Cast
•	Agony - Paul Gemignani
•	Bring Him Home (from Les Miserables) - Colm Wilkinson, Colm
•	Lullaby of Broadway (from "42nd Street") - John Lesko, Jerry Orbach

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Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars

redux July 5, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful

Four of the songs on this CD (Oklahoma, Music of the Night, Cabaret, and All That Jazz) were on the earlier Ultimate Broadway. Of all the shows that have been on Broadway over the past 70+ years, including the ones that are currently running, there is no excuse for repeats!

3 out of 5 stars

Moderate Quality June 19, 2003
15 out of 18 found this review helpful

I believe that the show selection for this CD was excellent. However the song selection and song order were not. Why pick "Your Daddy's Son" from Ragtime when you can have the amazing and fantastic "Prologue" from the same show. Also I believe that a mistake was made by slecting "I Don Quixote" from Man of La Mancha instead of the much more listenable "Impossible Dream." Also the overture from Gypsy is not the proper song to start out a CD. Perhaps the "Overture" from The Phantom of the Opera.

This is however an excellent example of showtunes for inexperienced members of the theatrical world.

2 out of 5 stars POOR EXCUSE FOR SOME GOOD THEATER MUSIC May 20, 2003
25 out of 30 found this review helpful

The best of Broadway? Sure, if you consider the best of Broadway only those songs taken only from RCA Victor cast recordings. Expect the expected: Tracks from "Ragtime," "Chicago," "42nd Street" and "Man of La Mancha," sung by the likes of Audra
McDonald, Bebe Neuwirth, Jerry Orbach and Brian Stokes Mitchell. Including a live recording of Barbara Cook warbling "Losing My Mind" from her "Mostly Sondheim" CD isn't exactly kosher. But then again, neither is this gimmick-riddled release. Curtain up?
Half-way, maybe. Light the lights? Dim them, please.