I like it, too, but mainly because I remember it in the theater even though I missed the roadshow engagement.
Re the album -- my family wasn't familiar with any Bernstein at all, but we liked musicals and I guess we knew the movie was getting really popular, so we got it ... and I wore that fucker out. I, too, played it for months before finally seeing the movie. Drove the family, and everyone else, nuts...which turned out to be nothing compared to how nuts I was to drive them after seeing the film.
Re the album -- my family wasn't familiar with any Bernstein at all, but we liked musicals and I guess we knew the movie was getting really popular, so we got it ... and I wore that fucker out. I, too, played it for months before finally seeing the movie. Drove the family, and everyone else, nuts...which turned out to be nothing compared to how nuts I was to drive them after seeing the film.