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CDs Now Available:
Bob Levy: While I'm Still Here
(new album on CD/digital)
Songwriter Bob Levy. Benny Benack III, Nicolas King, Laurie Krauz, Jennifer Roberts, Jinny Sagorin, Marcus Simeone, Dane Vannatter, Nicole Zuraitis. "Twenty-Two," "Don't Follow Me," "That's You & I," "He Met Me," "Winter's Flight," "Someone Falls in Love with You," "Let There Be Peace," "I Fell in Love," "Live, Love and Laugh," "While I'm Still Here," "Tell Her Now," "When We Sing Again," "I Won't Sing a Song About Love," "The Best Part of Me," "If Your Heart Could Fly," "Christmas Eve Is Here Again," "Say Goodnight."
David Sabella: Time Heals
(new album on CD/digital)
Live album from actor/singer David Sabella (Chicago). "Take Me to the World," "Nowhere with Love," "A Moment with Me," "Losing My Mind," "Lover - Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year," "No Moon at All," "Wondering," "Accentuate the Positive - Glory of Love," "How Did We Come to This," "Children Will Listen - Sorry Grateful," "Change Partners," "The Show Must Go On," "Time Heals Everything - Time After Time," "I'll Be Seeing You." Released 12/2/21.
DIGITAL MUSIC Now Available:
16 Stories - New American Musicals
(Broadway Records - new digital album)
Collection of 16 previously unrecorded songs written by award-winning musical theatre creators from around the world and recorded by The Australian Discovery Orchestra, conducted by Kevin Purcell. Writers (unconfirmed): Nikko Benson, Andre Catrini, Joe Chindamo, Craig Christie, Christopher Dimond, Scott Dreier, Joel Evans, Michael J. Farina, Anne Gasko, Adam Gwon, Oliver Houser, Victor Kazan, Peter Kellogg, Michael Kooman, Drew Lane, Greg Nabours, Jess Newman, Alan Schmuckler, Marcus Stevens, Clayton Walker, Stephen Weiner, Sam Willmott. Performers: Stephanie Adams, Mariana Bravo, Chris Dwan, Claire DeJean, Michael DÂ’Elia, Scott Dreier, Michael J. Farina, Madeleine Featherby, Sarah Krauss, Adrian Li Donni, Jenni Little, Marc Mackinnon, Michael McCorry Rose, Anouska Taylor. Released 3/4/22. BroadwayRecords.com.
Barbara Bleier: A Thousand Kisses Deep
(digital single)
Debut single. Song by Leonard Cohen, recorded at Pangea. Released 2/25/22.
"An Evening at the Theater"
(digital single)
Baritone Michael Kelly. From new opera cabaret work The Pleasing Recollection (music by Martin Hennessy, libretto by Stephen Kitsakos). Released 3/4/22.
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel: Season 4
(Legacy Recordings - new digital album)
Songs from the Amazon Prime series. "Darn That Dream" (Ella Fitzgerald), "Coney Island" (The Barry Sisters), "The Pajama Game/Racing with the Clock" (Eddie Foy, Jr., Ensemble), "Always True To You In My Fashion" (Blossom Dearie), "They Came, They Danced" (Orville Mendoza and OBC cast of They Came, They Danced, "A Couple of Swells" (Judy Garland and Fred Astaire), "Christopher Street" (OBC of Wonderful Town), "Nice Work If You Can Get It" (Doris Day), "City Lights" (Darius de Haas), "Maybe Monica" (Josh ADawson), "I'm Nobody's Baby" (Miss Beverly Shaw), "The Money Tree" (Patience & Prudence), "Que Sera, Sera" (Paulina Yeung), "Femininity" (cast of Oh! Captain), "Friday Afternoons, Op7: Cuckoo!" (Alexander Wells, New London Children's Choir, Ronald Corp). Released 3/4/22.
Tina Burner: Maybe This Time
(new digital album)
Singer/actor/drag queen performer Kristian Seeber. With Blake Allen. "Ladies Who Lunch," "Proud of Your Boy," "Sweet Transvestite," "Maybe This Time," "Go The Distance," "What I Did for Love," "Somewhere That's Green," "I Am What I Am," "Confrontation," "Intro to Rose's Turn," "Rose's Turn," "My Way." Released 6/25/21.
MUSIC to be released this Friday, March 11:
Betty Buckley Sings Sondheim
(Palmetto Records - new digital album)
Compilation album of selections from Betty Buckley's previous albums and two new live recordings. "Children Will Listen," "Not While I'm Around," "I Remember," "Children and Art/ Stay With Me," No One Is Alone," Sorry-Grateful," Not A Day Goes By," "Move On," "Pretty Woman," "Old Friends," "Finishing The Hat," "Marry Me A Little," "Send in the Clowns," "Every Day A Little Death," "Now You Know," "Something's Coming," "Rose's Turn," "Anyone Can Whistle," "Another Hundred People" (new live concert recording), "I Know Things Now" (new live concert recording), "Jet Song," "Maria," "Sweeney Todd Suite: Not While I'm Around/Johanna/My Friends," "I'm Still Here."
RECORDINGS newly listed:
March 22:
Sondheim Unplugged - The NYC Sessions Volume Two
(Yellow Sound Label - new 2 CDs)
Second volume of the New York revue. Disc One: "Marry Me a Little" (Nicholas Rodriguez), "Can That Boy Foxtrot!" (Sally Mayes), "Anyone Can Whistle" (Telly Leung), "Smile, Girls" (Lucia Spina), "Our Time" (Jim Walton), "You Could Drive a Person Crazy" (Jacob Hoffman), "Could I Leave You?" (Dee Hoty), "Happiness" (Ereni Sevasti), "If You Can Find Me, I'm Here" (Courter Simmons), "Dawn" (Lisa Sabin), "Buddy's Blues" (Rob Maitner), "Green Finch & Linnet Bird" (Sarah Rice), "There's Always a Woman" (Natalie Arneson & Donna Vivino), "With So Little to Be Sure Of" (TOliver Reid), "Some People" (Teri Ralston), "Losing My Mind" (Natalie Douglas), "Lovely" (Natalie Arneson), "Every Day a Little Death" (Victoria Cook & Erica Spyres), "Giants in the Sky" (Hunter Ryan Herdlicka), "Everybody Loves Louis" (Julie Reyburn), "Sand" (Leenya Rideout), "Finishing the Hat" (Evan Harrington), "Being Alive" (Karen Mason). Disc Two: "Sunday in the Park with George" (Christina Bianco), "More" (Courter Simmons), "Little Lamb" (Alexa Green), "Johanna" (Evan Harrington), "Agony II" (Jeff Kready & Tally Sessions), "Not a Day Goes By" (Leenya Rideout), "Pirelli's Miracle Elixir" (Jacob Hoffman), "Too Many Mornings / All Things Bright and Beautiful" (Eric Michael Gillett & Melanie Vaughan), "Pretty Lady" (Rob Maitner, Julie Reyburn & Lucia Spina), "Franklin Shepard, Inc." (Manu Narayan), "Children Will Listen" (Emily Skinner), "Hello, Little Girl" (Danielle Ferland), "Another Hundred People" (Marquee Five), "I Wish I Could Forget You" (George Dvorsky), "Silly People" (George Lee Andrews), "Moments in the Woods" (Kelli Rabke), "It Wasn't Meant to Happen" (Stearns Matthews), "The Last Midnight" (Kristy Cates), "The Miller's Son" (Gabrielle Stravelli), "Take Me to the World" (Julie Reyburn), "Goodbye For Now" (Sarah Rice).
April 1:
Lorna Dallas: Rainbows (Deluxe Expanded Edition)
(Stage Door Records - new on CD)
Originally issued on LP and tape in 1987. 47-piece orchestra musical direction by Harry Rabinowitz. Vocal arrangements by Ronnie Cass. Orchestral arrangements by John Cameron, Bernard Ebbinghouse, Robert Farnon, Laurie Holloway, Dave Lindup and Gordon Langford. Remastered CD includes four previously unreleased tracks from the album sessions, including "Moonfall" from The Mystery of Edwin Drood and "Yentl Suite." Other highlights include "Time Heals Everything," "Dance a Little Closer," "Summer Me, Winter Me," and "You and I." StageDoorRecords.com.
BOOKS newly listed:
March 22:
Lord Knows, At Least I Was There: Working with Stephen Sondheim
(Moreclacke Publishing - Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition)
By pianist Paul Ford, whom Stephen Sondheim called the "indefatigable master of the musical theatre." Foreword by Mandy Patinkin. Ford looks back on the performances and personalities that defined the American musical theatre in the waning years of the twentieth century. Patti LuPone, Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Donna Murphy, Elaine Stritch, Victor Garber, Bob Fosse, Gwen Verdon, Stockard Channing, Donna McKechnie, Lauren Bacall, Chita Rivera, Liza Minnelli, Martin Charnin, Liv Ullman, Teresa Stratas, Charles Strouse, Harve Presnell, Nancy Walker, James Lapine, Madonna, Mario Cantone, Warren Beatty, Julie Harris, Michael Cerveris, Debra Monk, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, and more are recalled in this account of his life and work both on and off-Broadway. He also provides a portrait of his conflicted childhood in Atlanta, Georgia, followed by a self-destructive period of alcoholism. 234 pages.
March 29:
Hold, Please: Stage Managing a Pandemic
(Sordelet Ink - Kindle Edition)
By Broadway stage manager Richard Hester. Foreword by Rick Elice. A journey through one of the most fascinating periods in both our cultural and our personal histories. Written with humor and compassion ... provides a unique perspective on this time and delivers the most important lesson of all - Hope.
Compiled by Talkin' Broadway Staff.
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