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Original Cast (record label)
Original Cast Records is a record label based in Georgetown, Connecticut, that specialises in obscure theatre recordings, primarily cast albums from little-known Broadway, off-Broadway, off-off-Broadway and other stage productions, but also theatre-related film scores, cabaret, concert and solo artist recordings. It traces its origins back to 1975, when husband-and-wife theatre enthusiasts Bruce and Doris Yeko embarked on a venture "dedicated to the preserving of musicals that would not otherwise be recorded".〔Sleeve notes for cast LP ''Beauty & the Beast/Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'', THT775 (1977)〕
==Bruce and Doris Yeko==
Born in Milwaukee, Bruce Yeko was fascinated by theatre from an early age. As he once told a journalist: “I had a friend who was an usher at the only theater in Milwaukee – he would let me in to see all the plays and musicals”.〔'Broadway's obscurities hobby for collectors', ''Park City Daily News'', 10 Jan 1982, p 15b〕 Later, he travelled to theaters in Chicago to see shows before they came to Milwaukee, and then, inevitably, moved on to New York. Yeko made his first pilgrimage to the city in 1962, when, after asking a policeman directions to Broadway, he saw a matinee of ''I Can Get It for You Wholesale'' and then an evening performance of ''Subways Are For Sleeping''. After their marriage, Bruce and his wife Doris would travel from their home in Connecticut to New York (and beyond) to see four or five new musicals each week; by 1977, the couple could modestly claim that, over the previous twelve years, they had seen more musicals that anyone else in the world.〔Sleeve notes for cast LP ''18 Interesting Songs fpor Unfortunate Musicals'' THT777 (1977)〕
Bruce Yeko not only acquired Broadway cast albums but was, from the age of eight years, a keen collector of trading cards. He began selling them at age sixteen and then, after graduating from the University of Milwaukee and working as an accountant, he commenced full-time business as a trading card dealer at the age of 22 years.〔'Collector of Hobby Cards makes it a Big Business', ''The Milwaukee Journal'', 16 August 1976, pp 1,3〕 By the mid-1970s, Yeko claimed to have the largest collection of trading cards in the world, with twenty million items. His wife Doris became involved in the business, specialising in current trading cards while Bruce concentrated on the vintage ones.〔'Baseball cards: Collector Yeko has them all', ''The Lakeland Ledger'', 8 June 1977, p 6c〕 Their mail-order service, based in their home in Georgetown, also dealt in out-of-print recordings of stage musicals and film scores.
In 1975, the Yekos turned their attention to producing their own theatre recordings, concentrating on little-known or short-lived Broadway and off-Broadway productions that had little hope of gaining a mainstream record contract to produce an original cast album. Within only five years, it could be said of the couple that "their dedication to preserving musicals is so complete that Ben Bagley aptly calls them 'the musical theatre experts'."〔Sleeve notes for cast LP ''Carmelina'' OC8019 (1980)〕
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