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CDs Now Available:
Alice Faye & Co-Stars: The 20th Century Fox Years Volume 2: 1940-1945
(Sepia Records - new on 2 CDs)
Vol. 2 of rare recordings from Alice Faye movies never commercially released. Remastered from studio discs, and including songs performed by her co-stars such as Don Ameche, Betty Grable, John Payne and the Carmen Miranda. 63 tracks. Released 12/14/22.
Betty Grable: The 20th Century Fox Years Volume 2: 1945-1948
(Sepia Records - new on CD)
Rare recordings from Betty Grable 1940s movie musicals never commercially released before. Remastered from studio discs, and including songs performed by her co-stars such as June Haver, John Payne, Dick Haymes and Dan Dailey. 51 tracks. Released
Digital Music Now Available:
Baby
(Yellow Sound Label - new digital album)
New Off-Broadway Out of the Box Theatrics cast recording of score by David Shire and Richard Maltby, Jr. Also features never-before-recorded material (including "Patterns"). Christina Sajous, Gabrielle McClinton, Julia Murney, Robert H. Fowler, Elizabeth Flemming, and Johnny Link with Jorge Donoso, Marisa Kirby, Jewell Noel, and Ethan Paulini. Produced by Michael Croiter, Richard Maltby, Jr., and Geoffrey Ko, who also serves as music supervisor.
Eric Goletz: Standard-ized
(new digital album)
Trombonist Eric Goletz e-imagines modern jazz standards. With Henry Heinitsh (guitar), Jim Ridl (piano), Brian Glassman (acoustic and electric bass), Marco Panascia (electric bass), Steve Johns (drums), and Joe Mowatt (percussion), plus saxophonist Don Braden and vocalist Lajuan Carter. "Now's the Time," "Just in Time," "Caravan," "Nutville," "Nature Boy," "Train Shuffle," "Jungle Juice," "Mayreh," "The Summer Knows," "Summertime," "Sugar," "Windmills of Your Mind," "Overjoyed," "Now's the Time (outro)."
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. Two released tracks can be listened to on this page.
Books Now Available:
The Abbott Touch: Pal Joey, Damn Yankees, and the Theatre of George Abbott
(Methuen Drama - Hardcover/Paperback/Kindle Edition)
By Thomas Hischak. In-depth and original study of actor, playwright, director, librettist, play doctor, and producer George Abbott, examining 100 productions. Each chapter examines a period of creativity in his life. 272 pages.
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.
The Taylor Mac Book: Ritual, Realness and Radical Performance
(Univ of Michigan Press - Hardcover Book/Paperback)
David Román and Sean Edgecomb, editors. "Featuring essays, interviews, and commentaries by noted critics and artists, the volume examines the vastness of Mac's theatrical imagination, the singularity of their voice, the inclusiveness of their cultural insights and critiques, and the creativity they display through stylistic and formal qualities and the unorthodoxies of their personal and professional trajectories. Contributors consider the range of Mac's career as a playwright, performer, actor, and singer, expanding and enriching the conversation on this much-celebrated and deeply resonant body of work." 304 pages.
Up With the Sun: A Novel
(Knopf - Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition/Audible Audiobook)
By Thomas Mallon. Novel that fictionalizes the career and tabloid murder of Broadway and TV actor Dick Kallman. "Re-creates the brassy, sometimes brutal world that shaped Kallman, capturing his collisions with not only Lucille Ball, but an array of stars from Sophie Tucker to Judy Garland and Johnny Carson. Part crime story, part showbiz history, and part love story ... that spans thirty years of gay life - the whole tumultuous era from the Kinsey Report through Stonewall and, finally, AIDS." 352 pages.
Newly Listed Recordings:
February 24:
Mary Foster Conklin: Precious Days
(Mock Turtle Music - new digital album)
Mary Foster Conklin's fifth album. Features mostly women writers in a mix of lesser-known jazz and pop tunes. "Summertime" (Leonard Cohen and Sharon Robinson), "Some Cats Know," "Just a Little Lovin," "Come in From the Rain," "Scars," "Just for Now," "A Little White Ship," "Heart's Desire," "Rainbow," "Until It's Time for You to Go," "September Song." With pianist John Di Martino, who also wrote arrangements, violinist Sara Caswell, bassist Ed Howard, drummer Vince Cherico, guitarist Guilherme Monteiro, and percussionist Samuel Torres.
Newly Listed Books:
April 1:
The Great American Songbook: 201 Favorites You Ought to Know (& Love)
(Backbeat - Paperback Book/Kindle Edition)
By Steven Suskin. Foreword by John Pizzarelli. Surveys 201 of the most significant selections from the Great American Songbook, ranging from celebrated masterpieces to forgotten gems. Year by year, Suskin puts songwriters and their contributions in their context, and explains what makes each song such a distinctive treat - whether felicitous melody, colorful harmony, compositional originality, or merely the sheer, irreducible joy of listening to it. 200 black & white and 96 full-color illustrations. 296 pages.
