One of the sadder flops in recent musical-theater history was 2008’s hapless Glory Days, which closed on opening night. We can’t honestly say it deserved a longer run; in fact, as we suggested in our review, the unfortunate thing about Glory Days was that it had been staged on Broadway at all. (”The producers do a disservice not only to audiences, but also to this unready show’s young creators and stars,” we wrote. “Sometimes it is cruel to be kind.”) Still, we’re pleased to see that the valiant Ghostlight Records—which we wrote about in this 2007 article—has recorded the show for posterity. As Ghostlight’s menschy Kurt Deutsch points out on the press release: “Just because it may not have worked on Broadway doesn’t mean it won’t work in colleges, regional theatres, high schools, or pretty much anywhere there are young actors who are looking for fresh, new musical theatre works.” (The CD will be released on November 24, and can be preordered here.)

So now, dear reader, we put the question to you: What unrecorded musical from the past ten years would you most like to see get a cast album? My vote goes to the Public’s 2006 Central Park production of Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children, with a score by the Caroline, or Change team of Tony Kushner and Jeanine Tesori. We recently had a chance to hear the music again, at the Joe’s Pub simulcast of a benefit concert featuring original cast members Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Jennifer Lewis, Will Swenson and Austin Pendleton. The songs were as good as we had remembered them, especially Steep’s darkly carnivalesque “The Song of the Great Capitulation” and the stirring opening number (which sounds a bit like—aptly enough—”The Wages of Sin,” from Rupert Holmes’s The Mystery of Edwin Drood). The incidental music from this summer’s Central Park Twelfth Night is now on CD; surely a collaboration among artists on the order of Streep, Kline, Brecht, Kushner and Tesori deserves the same treatment.