Cast Albums of Producers, Full Monty, Mamma Mia! Get 2002 Grammy Noms | Playbill

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News Cast Albums of Producers, Full Monty, Mamma Mia! Get 2002 Grammy Noms As if The Producers didn't have enough awards and plaudits, a 2002 Grammy Award nomination for the cast album was announced Jan. 4 by The Recording Academy, which celebrates the best of the recording industry.
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CD covers for Mamma Mia! and Seussical.

As if The Producers didn't have enough awards and plaudits, a 2002 Grammy Award nomination for the cast album was announced Jan. 4 by The Recording Academy, which celebrates the best of the recording industry.

Others albums in the Best Musical Show Album category for the 2002 Grammy Awards are Seussical the Musical, Mamma Mia!, The Full Monty and Sweeney Todd: Live at the New York Philharmonic.

The 44th Annual Grammy Awards will originate from the Staples Center in Los Angeles, and the show will be broadcast live on CBS 8 PM (ET) Feb. 27.

The awards are presented to the album's producer(s) and to the composers and lyricist of 51 percent of a new score.

Billy Straus, David Yazbek & Ted Sperling produced the Broadway cast album of The Full Monty on the RCA Victor label (music and lyrics by David Yazbek); Nicholas Gilpin & Martin Koch produced the Broadway cast album of Mamma Mia! on the Decca Broadway label (music and lyrics by Benny Andersson & Bjorn Ulvaeus); Hugh Fordin produced the Broadway cast album of The Producers on the Sony Classical label (music and lyrics by Mel Brooks); Phil Ramone produced the Broadway cast album of Seussical the Musical on the Decca Broadway label (music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens); and Tommy Krasker & Lawrence L. Rock produced the concert cast album of Sweeney Todd: Live at the New York Philharmonic on the New York Philharmonic Special Editions label (music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim). *

Other theatre-related Grammy noms this year include Betty Buckley for "Stars And the Moon: Live at the Donmar" and Michael Feinstein for "Romance on Film, Romance on Broadway" (both in the category of Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album), Margaret Cho for "I'm the One I Want," her standup act seen Off-Broadway and on tour (in the category of Best Spoken Comedy Album), Vanessa Redgrave & Stephen Fry for "Oscar Wilde: The Selish Giant & The Nightingale and the Rose" (in the category of Best Spoken Word Album for Children).

 
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