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Books Now Available:
The Routledge Companion to Musical Theatre (Routledge Companions)
(Routledge - new Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition)
Laura MacDonald, Ryan Donovan, editors. Comprehensive guide expands the study of musical theatre to include the ways we practice and experience musicals, their engagement with technology, and their navigation of international commercial marketplaces. The first collection to include global musical theatre in each chapter, reflecting the musical's status as the world's most popular theatrical form. Brings together practice and scholarship, featuring essays by leading and emerging scholars alongside luminaries such as Chinese musical theatre composer San Bao, Tony Award-winning star André De Shields, and Tony Award-winning director Diane Paulus. 602 pages. Released 12/30/22.
Music to Be Released This Friday:
Once: A New Musical
(Masterworks Broadway - new 2-disc vinyl set)
Score by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová. Stars Steve Kazee and Cristin Milioti. 12-inch marigold-shaded vinyl including 12-inch insert.
West Side Story
(Masterworks Broadway - new 2-disc vinyl album)
1957 OBC album of Leonard Bernstein/Stephen Sondheim score. Cast includes Carol Lawrence, Larry Kert and Chita Rivera.
The Unsinkable Molly Brown original demo recordings and more
(Stage Door Records - new 2-CD set)
Score by Meredith Willson. Original demo recordings, including fully orchestrated studio demo album featuring Sandy Stewart and Bernie Knee alongside the Elliot Lawrence Orchestra and Chorus; selections from the score performed by Willson with his wife Rini and the show's original male lead Harve Presnell (several cut songs including "Read the Label on the Bottle," "One Day at a Time" and "Colorado, My Home"). Also, a bonus disc of cover recordings: a full length instrumental album performed by Andre Kostelanetz and His Orchestra (remastered from stereo reel tape), and a comprehensive selection of pop vocal cover recordings including songs performed by Aretha Franklin, Nat "King" Cole, Gordon MacRae, Dinah Shore, The Four Aces and more. Detailed sleeve notes by George Dansker. Limited edition release of 500 units only. StageDoorRecords.com.
Newly Listed Recordings:
January 20, 2023:
Cabaret 2021 West End cast
(Decca UK - new on CD)
Score by John Kander and Fred Ebb. Eddie Redmayne, Jessie Buckley, Anna-Jane Casey, Stewart Clarke, Omari Douglas, Sally Frith, Elliot Levey, Liza Sadovy, Sophie Maria Wojna. "Willkommen," "So What?," "Don't Tell Mama," "Mein Herr," "Perfectly Marvelous," "Two Ladies," "It Couldn't Please Me More," "Tomorrow Belongs to Me," "Maybe This Time," "Money," "Married," "Tomorrow Belongs to Me (Reprise)," "Kickline," "If You Could See Her," "What Would You Do?," "I Don't Care Much," "Cabaret," "Finale." Previously released in the U.K.
