Ultimate Broadway

Disc 1
1	Oklahoma! / Alfred Drake 2:32
2	If I Loved You / Jan Clayton From Carousel 4:23
3	You'll Never Walk Alone / Jan Clayton From Carousel 2:42
4	There's No Business Like Show Business / Ethel Merman From Annie Get Your Gun 3:11
5	Once in Love with Amy (Where's Charley?) / Ray Bolger 4:23
6	Some Enchanted Evening / Ezio Pinza South Pacific 3:03
7	Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend / Carol Channing Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 2:59
8	Getting to Know You / Gertrude Lawrence From The King and I 3:30
9	Shall We Dance? / Gertrude Lawrence From The King and I 2:53
10	I Could Have Danced All Night / Julie Andrews From My Fair Lady 3:30
11	I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face / Rex Harrison From My Fair Lady 5:17
12	The Party's Over (Bells Are Ringing) / Judy Holliday 3:15
13	Maria / Larry Kert From West Side Story 2:39
14	Tonight / Larry Kert From West Side Story 3:55
15	Seventy Six Trombones / Robert Preston 3:02
16	Everything's Coming up Roses / Ethel Merman From Gypsy 3:08
17	The Sound of Music / Mary Martin 2:47
18	Try to Remember / Jerry Orbach The Fantasticks 2:48
19	Camelot / Richard Burton 2:31
20	If Ever I Would Leave You / Robert Goulet From Camelot 3:13
21	Hello, Dolly! / Carol Channing 5:42
22	If I Were a Rich Man / Zero Mostel From Fiddler on the Roof 4:57
Disc 2
1	People / Barbra Streisand From Funny Girl 3:28
2	On a Clear Day (You Can See Forever) / John Cullum 2:51
3	The Impossible Dream / Richard Kiley From Man of La Mancha 2:24
4	Mame / Charles Braswell 6:17
5	Cabaret / Liza Minnelli 3:35
6	Aquarius / Ronald Dyson Hair 2:55
7	Send in the Clowns / Judy Collins From A Little Night Music 4:05
8	All That Jazz / Chita Rivera From Chicago 3:14
9	One From A Chorus Line 4:47
10	Tomorrow / Andrea McArdle From Annie 2:08
11	Don't Cry for Me Argentina / Patti LuPone From Evita 4:38
12	And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going / Jennifer Holliday Dreamgirls 4:08
13	Memory / Elaine Paige From Cats 4:13
14	The Best of Times / George Hearn La Cage Aux Folles 5:34
15	I Dreamed a Dream / Aretha Franklin Les Misérables 4:23
16	The Music of the Night / Michael Crawford From The Phantom of the Opera 5:50
17	As If We Never Said Goodbye / Elaine Paige Sunset Blvd. 5:24
18	Seasons of Love Rent 2:52

Barnes & Noble

Clive Davis's Arista label enters the burgeoning show music compilation sweepstakes with Ultimate Broadway, a 40-song, double-disc grab bag culled from the last six decades of magical musical memories. Rather than pursue a purely legitimate theatrical pedigree, Ultimate Broadway mixes cast album classics like Alfred Drake's stirring "Oklahoma!," Judy Holliday's oh-so-sad "The Party's Over" from Bells Are Ringing, and Carol Channing's shimmering "Hello, Dolly!" with Judy Collins's pop single hit "Send in the Clowns" from A Little Night Musicand "I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Misérables as sung by Aretha Franklin at President Clinton's inauguration gala. Recent Great White Way hits are represented by the Rent anthem, "Seasons of Love," and "As If We Never Said Goodbye" from Andrew Lloyd Webber's Sunset Boulevard. This collection might be just what you need to start on the path to show-tune heaven. David Elliot Cohen

All Music Guide

Following in the footsteps of other installments in Arista's Ultimate series, Ultimate Broadway is an excellent sampler of some of the greatest songs and performances in the history of the Great White Way. Almost all of the 40 songs on the two discs in this collection are performed by the original Broadway casts, which makes it an excellent choice for casual fans. The Judy Collins and Aretha Franklin covers do sound a little out of place, but those are only two numbers on a generous compilation filled with great moments. The set runs from Oklahoma! to Rent, hitting such seminal performances as Carol Channing's "Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend," Gertrude Lawrence's "Getting to Know You," Julie Andrews' "I Could Have Danced All Night," Rex Harrison's "I've Grown Accustomed to Her Face," Mary Martin's "The Sound of Music," Carol Channing's "Hello, Dolly!," Zero Mostel's "If I Were a Rich Man," Barbra Streisand's "People," Liza Minnelli's "Cabaret," Andrea McArdle's "Tomorrow,"and Michael Crawford's "The Music of the Night," among many, many others. It may not be a definitive show tune collection, but it's certainly tremendously entertaining. Stephen Thomas Erlewine