It wasn't until the 1950s, however, that the label began bidding for cast album rights. Louis Woman in 1946, mainly because lyricist Johnny Mercer was one of the label's founders. Although some of the slower-selling catalog titles have been deleted, many remain available as downloads. Although they are being selective about what they record, Decca Broadway plans to continue making cast albums, including the Mel Brooks musical Young Frankenstein and Andrew Lippa's The Addams Family: A New Musical. Wicked, in particular has been a big seller for the label and continues to sell well. It has not, however, released the London cast album of Man of La Mancha on CD, perhaps because it contains most of the dialogue from the show, and the film version is readily available on DVD. Decca Broadway has also recorded recent hits including: Wicked, Monty Python's Spamalot, Seussical, and Spring Awakening. Decca Broadway has re-mastered and reissued virtually every cast album in the old Decca catalogue including many rare titles that had not been available in almost 50 years. When MCA and Polygram were merged into the new Universal Music Group, a new label, Decca Broadway, was born. MCA released many of their classic shows on CD in the 1990s, going back to original master discs and tapes to generate excellent sounding (and complete) remasters of the originals.
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