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CDs Now Available:
Judy Garland - The Lost Vegas Show - New Frontier Hotel - July 16, 1956
(High Definition Tape Transfers - new album)
Previously unissued performance taped on opening night, also Garland's nightclub debut. Transferred by HDTT chief engineer Robert Witrak. High resolution format directly from the original tape. Offered in hi-def download formats DSD256, DSD128, DSD64, PCM Flac 24/352.8, PCM Flac 24/192, PCM Flac 24/96, as well as on regular CD. "A Hot Time in the Old Town," "This Is a Party," Dialog,"Judy'S Olio: You Made Me Love You/For Me and My Gal/The Boy Next Door/The Trolley Song," Dialog,"Come Rain or Come Shine," "This Is Our Spot," "Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home," Dialog,"A Pretty Girl Milking Her Cow," Dialog,"Happiness Is a Thing Called Joe," "Rock-A-Bye Your Baby with a Dixie Melody," "What Next? What'll She Do Now?," "Lucky Day," "Interlude: The Trolley Song Orchestral," "Over the Rainbow," "Over the Rainbow Orchestral." Bonus Tracks: "Dialog, Introducing Encores," "Opening Notes of Liza." HighDefinitionTapeTransfers.ca
Books Now Available:
I'm No Philosopher, But I Got Thoughts: Mini-Meditations for Saints, Sinners, and the Rest of Us
(Harper Celebrate - new Hardcover/Kindle Edition/Audible Audiobook)
By Kristin Chenoweth. Features " ... philosophical-ish musings on connection, creativity, loss, love, faith, and closure." In each chapter: behind-the-scenes stories from Kristin's personal life; high-design, colorful pages of inspirational quotes; engaging prompts, prayers, and inspiring quotes. Bible verses and f-bombs. 224 pages.
DVD/Blu-Ray Now Available:
Voodoo Macbeth
(Lightyear Video - new on Blu-ray/DVD)
2021 film that chronicles the creation of the 1936 Federal Theatre Project the first all-Black cast production of Macbeth, adapted and directed by Orson Welles. Cast includes Inger Tudor, Jewell Wilson Bridges, June Schreiner. Bonuses: audio commentary; actual 1936 footage from National Archives of the play that toured the country.
Newly Listed Recordings:
January 27:
The Big One-Oh! (Ultimate Cast Recording)
(Broadway Records - new album)
Score by Doug Besterman (music) and Dean Pitchford (lyrics) for the musical based on the novel of the same name by Pitchford. (Book for the musical is by Timothy Allen McDonald.) Cast includes Christian Borle, Derek Klena, Patti Murin, Brittney Mack, Michael James Scott, Jaxon Daniel and Emmy Woodard. The show appeared at Atlantic for Kids in 2019.
March 14:
Regretting Almost Everything
(new album)
Concept album for new musical score by Danny Ursetti and Lauren Taslitz. Beth Leavel and Jeff Blumenkrantz. 15 songs plus one bonus track.
March 24:
Some Like It Hot OBC
(Concord Theatricals Recordings - new digital album)
2022 original Broadway cast recording of score by Marc Shaiman (music/lyrics) and Scott Wittman (lyrics). Cast includes Christian Borle, J. Harrison Ghee, Adrianna Hicks, and Kevin Del Aguila. "What Are You Thirsty For?," "You Can't Have Me (If You Don't Have Him)," "Vamp!," "I'm California Bound," "A Darker Shade of Blue," "Take It Up a Step," "Zee Bap," "At the Old Majestic Nickel Matinee," "Poor Little Millionaire!," "Some Like It Hot," "Let's Be Bad," "Dance the World Away," "Fly, Mariposa, Fly," "You Coulda Knocked Me Over with a Feather," "He Lied When He Said Hello," "Ride Out the Storm," "Baby, Let's Get Good." Produced by Scott M. Riesett and Marc Shaiman.
Newly Listed Books:
January 31:
Try Not to Hold It Against Me
(Beaufort Books - Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition)
Memoir by motion picture, television, and Broadway producer Julian Schlossberg. Foreword by Elaine May. 374 pages.
February 17:
Broadway Bodies: A Critical History of Conformity
(Oxford Univ Press - Hardcover book/Paperback Book)
By Ryan Donovan. Explores how ability, sexuality, and size intersect with gender, race, and ethnicity in casting and performance. Asks/answers "Why did A Chorus Line, a show that sought to individuate dancers, inevitably make them indistinguishable? How does the use of fat suits in musicals like Dreamgirls and Hairspray stigmatize fatness? What were the political implications of casting two straight actors as the gay couple in La Cage aux Folles in 1983? How did deaf actors change the sound of musicals in Deaf West Theatre's Broadway revivals? Whose bodies does Broadway cast and whose does it cast aside?" 336 pages.
February 23:
The Wanderers
(Methuen Drama - Paperback Book/Kindle Edition)
Anna Ziegler play opening next month at Roundabout Theatre Company. 80 pages.
March 8:
Indie Theater Guy
(new Kindle Edition)
By Martin Denton. Story of Denton's nytheatre.com website, which began in 1997. A journey of one man remaking himself, following his heart and his passion, and along the way helping to forge a new and stronger identity for the indie theater community that he loved.
March 9:
Anna Ziegler Plays Two: The Great Moment; Another Way Home; The Wanderers; Actually
(Methuen Drama - Paperback Book/Kindle Edition)
Collection of play by Anna Ziegler. The Wanderers (opening February 2022 for Roundabout Theatre Company), The Great Moment, Another Way Home, Actually. 224 pages.
August 29:
Kimberly Akimbo
(Theatre Communications Group - Paperback Book)
Libretto for 2022 musical version of David Lindsay-Abaire's Kimberly Akimbo, with score by Jeanine Tesori. 120 pages.
Other New Announcements:
Details added, for February 14:
Kimberly Akimbo
(Ghostlight Records - new digital album)
2022 original Broadway cast recording of score by Jeanine Tesori and David Lindsay-Abaire. Victoria Clark, Steven Boyer, Justin Cooley, Alli Mauzey, Bonnie Milligan, Olivia Elease Hardy, Fernell Hogan, Michael Iskander, Nina White. "Skater Planet," "Hello, Darling," "Make a Wish," "Anagram," "Better," "Father Time," "Happy for Her," "This Time," "How to Wash a Check," "Good Kid," "Hello, Baby," "Skater Planet (Reprise)," "Our Disease," "The Inevitable Turn," "Now," "How to Wash a Check (Reprise)," "Before I Go," "Hello, Sister," "Great Adventure." GhostlightRecords.com.
