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A plea to all you musical theater types on my flist:

I am woefully musical theater illiterate. Woefully. And for one of my classes I'm supposed to have been listening to four shows a week I've never heard before, then writing responses. Needless to say, this has not been done, and the responses are due a week from today so I'm in for a busy week. I write this entry to humbly request cast recordings from you lot--the library has a decent collection of Rogers and Hammerstein type shows, but I do want some variety here, and they don't have many recent ones. So. A Grand List of Shows Marianne Has Never Heard But Really Should. I entertain no hope of being sent all of these, so I'll mark the ones I really want with asterisks. And I know this list is absolutely shameful and I have no excuse.

Rent *
Wicked *
The Last 5 Years *
Assassins *
The Producers
~~Spamalot~~
A Chorus Line
Into The Woods *
A Little Night Music
West Side Story *
~~Ragtime~~
~~Godspell~~
~~1776~~
La Cage aux Folles
Chicago
Victor/Victoria
~~Chess~~
Pirates of Penzance * [Shhh, it counts as musical theater. G&S = ♥]
HMS Pinafore

Also, a shorter list of Shows Marianne Has Heard But Does Not Own Recordings Of And Wants To.
~~Phantom [The Yeston one. I had this at some point and lost it, and if you send it to me you win the internet.]~~ [Annnnd

mrandal wins the internet. Here, have a shiny new internet.]
Little Shop of Horrors [I was in a production of this once. I forget half the music but remember it's a riot.]
~~Sweeney Todd [Sondheim = ♥. I have a decent-quality amateur recording lying around, but a professional one would be nice.]~~
My Fair Lady [For nostalgia purposes. I was practically raised on this show.]
~~Cabaret [WHERE DID MY CD OF THIS GO OMG.]~~ [Never mind, I found it.]

I'd also love to get recordings of any odd, slightly obscure little shows you happen to really like. Or anything that's not R&H that isn't on the list and you think it should be. [Off the top of my head, I have recordings of The Secret Garden, Company, Camelot, Miss Saigon, Jekyll & Hyde, Scarlet Pimpernel, Elisabeth, Notre-Dame de Paris, Romeo et Juliette, and of course Les Mis and ALW!Phantom lying around. So no need for those.]

YouSendIt is fine. Email is fine. AIM is fine; my screen name is Combeferret.

Oh, and how many of you have played Humiliation? I think it's usually done with books: you name a book that practically everyone has read and you haven't, and get points when you're the only one in the game who hasn't. I think there was a legendary game among university professors once where one of the literature profs yelled out "Hamlet!" and the room went dead silent. XD That's what this reminds me of. "My musical theater illiteracy is worse than yoooouuuuurs, neener neener."

(ETA: *facepalm* How did I forget Assassins and The Producers? I lose at life.)

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Damn you for asking for these when my lappy isn't working. Otherwise I could totally supply YK Phantom, RENT, Wicked, Spamalot, Into the Woods, and Little Shop of Horrors.

...Who, me, musical whore?

I have Wicked, L5Y and Into the Woods, if you want them.

That'd be great!

I've sent the last two, but yousendit died on me while I was uploading Wicked so I'm not sure if it got through. Just drop me a line if you don't get it.

I'm glad I at least have something to trade for the LM PRC :)

Nope, doesn't appear to have gone through. *downloading L5Y as we speak*

Never mind, someone else is sending me Wicked. XD I've been flooded with cast recordings!

I've got YK Phantom, Wicked and Spamalot -- if you still need any of those in a coupla days, give me a poke, eh? My wireless isn't the most reliable thing in the world so it's a bit annoying trying to upload stuff.)

I've got Wicked, the Chicago movie soundtrack and Cabaret, but all as AACs. I don't know if that presents a problem at all because I know next to nothing about audio file types and the like, but if you want them I'll upload them for you.

And you've nevar heard Pirates? Zomg, it's love like you wouldn't believe.

I might be getting Wicked from someone else, but fire away with Chicago and Cabaret! I think iTunes plays AACs, so that works. *squees*

Yeah, AAC is the iTunes type file.

I shall upload as soon as my dad is away for an extended amount of time, as he has "grounded" me off the computer.

Yay!

If you told me you'd wanted those I could've sent Wicked, West Side Story, Chess, Sweeny Todd, My Fair Lady, Chicago and possibly a DVD of Anthony Warlow as the Captain in HMS Pinafore! But alas it would take an effing age to get there now and it will take me a year to upload or email them. Nonetheless I'm happy to give it a shot tomorrow night and try to send one of the ones I listed, just tell me what you still need.

Also, I reckon another good show to do would be The Last Five Years- it's very different to anything I've heard so it would add some variety. Have you heard of it?

What an awesome project! :D

*headdesk* I didn't read the crossed out one so ignore all that stuff about The Last Five Years.

Ack, I didn't know I was going to be listening to so many shows this semester or I'd have asked. XD But I most definitely plan to include the ones you sent me in the assignment. And... try West Side Story? Don't sweat it if it doesn't work though.

*bounces up and down*

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Ahhhh, I love that site. XD Not much new there, but I got reminded of a couple shows I totally forgot about and was intending to put on the list.

I will get you Ragtime (the entire thing), Spamalot and the Actors Fund version of Chess :D I'm actually uploading music right now, so this is the best time to happen upon this on my f-list. Hope you don't mind sendspace.

Wheee, thanks! And I have no experience with Sendspace. At all. So I don't know if I mind yet. :D

*surreptitiously pops by at 4am* my internet died, so I'm restarting the uploads before I go back to sleep. I'll send you the links tomorrow.

Your icon pretty *dribble*

Adrien Brody makes me lose the ability to form coherent sentences.

:D Visit my lj: there's a much larger version of him on my layout. He is pretty. Mmm yes.

I have Pippin and Jesus Christ Superstar and The Wiz.
Also "Your a Good Man Charlie Brown" and The buffy Musical if need be!

I can get you The Producers and Spamalot no problem, and if I can bug my mom to rent them from the library I can get you Pirates of Penzance (LOVE!), Chess, Chicago, La Cage aux Folles and West Side Story. I don't want to promise you any of those except Producers and Spamalot, though.

*_* That'd be wonderful. I really want to hear Pirates and WSS.

Can do West Side Story (unless it's already been claimed?), Sweeney Todd, and Assassins (which is so twisted yet somehow respectable and sooo macabre oh god how I love it so). Are mp4s okay?

Mp4s are fine. Yay Sondheim.

Sondheim > ALW x1000, yo.

Here!

Totally.

Gack, why must MegaUpload be so slooooooow?

Arg. I could send you Little Shop of Horrors if my internet connection weren’t so prone to screwing up every time I tried. Sorry. ;_;

I've got Ragtime and Assassins. For what are you looking for of Assassins? I've got the Cast of 1990 and 2004.

Whichever you think is better. And I'll get the Dutch Les Mis to you soon, promise.

Okay :)

w00t w00t!! I win ^_~