Christmas is never complete for us in queerguru’s HQ without the latest volume of Broadway Carols for A Cure album blasting out.  For the past 18 years Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS has been pairing the casts from famous Broadway musicals with songs that are both classic and new to make the ultimate holiday music CD which they sell to raise much needed funds to continue their vital work in the community.

Producer Lynn Pinto allows each production company of all musicals currently playing on Broadway the creative freedom to choose their own contribution. Then she plumps them in an intimate studio that allows for vocal and instrumental isolations, and the result, thanks in part to engineer Andros Rodriguez, is this unique album with its very infectious happy tracks that you cannot but help play over and over again.

The two discs feature :-

Disc 1:
HOLIDAY MELODY- Chicago
I CAN SEE THE LIGHT- Hamilton
LOVE IS CHRISTMAS- Waitress
THIS TIME OF YEAR- Jersey Boys
NEROTAI HAZEIRIM- Fiddler on the Roof
THE CHRISTMAS WISH- Something Rotten!
O COME, O COME EMMANUEL- The Color Purple
SILENT NIGHT- Wicked
ONCE IN A ROYAL DAVID’S CITY- A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder
A JELLICLE CHRISTMAS- Cats
ODE TO JOY- The Phantom of the Opera

Disc 2:
ANGELS WE HAVE HEARD ON HIGH- Aladdin
CHRISTMAS THROUGH YOUR EYES- On Your Feet!
LITTLE DRUMMER BOY/PEACE ON EARTH- School of Rock
CHRISTMAS OF NEW YORK- Cagney
WHAT WONDROUS LOVE- The Lion King
MY LOVE BROUGHT ME SUMMER- Beautiful-The Carole King Musical
GOD REST YE MERRY GENTLEMEN- Holiday Inn  

STOWIN’ AWAY (IN SANTA’S SLEIGH)- Jersey Boys National Tour
AWAY IN A MANGER- At This Performance
CHRISTMAS IS TONIGHT- Kinky Boots
AULD LANG SYNE- Matilda the Musical

We shouldn’t have favorites (but of course we do) and we particularly love the tracks from Jersey Boys National Tour, On Your Feet and Cagney.

The album can be downloaded from Itunes or bought direct from BC/EFA and you can also buy some of the previous 17 albums .

Here meanwhile here is the current cast of Chicago, the longest running American musical on Broadway with their ‘Holiday Melody’.