Great Broadway Shows, Vol. 2 on CD

(4-CD box set) Avid's second installment of "Great Broadway Shows" contains a truly Magnificent 7: "Guys and Dolls," "Carousel," "South Pacific," "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," "Carmen Jones," "Finians Rainbow" and "On the Town" (excerpts). These original Broadway Cast Shows cover a 7-year period from 1943-50 and feature some of the greatest writers in musical history: Rodgers and Hammerstein, Frank Loesser, Leo Robin and Julie Styne, Yip Harburg and Burton Lane, Betty Comden, Adolph Green and Leonard Bernstein. This also features Mary Martin, Met. Opera bass Ezio Pinza and Carol Channing making "Diamonds Are a Girls Best Friend" (from "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes") her own (despite Marilyn's fab film version!)