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CDs Now Available:
Chip Deffaa's My Man: Songs of gay love, lust, loss, and longing
(Garret Mountain Records - CD/Digital)
I Love My Baby" (Seth Sikes), "Everybody Loves My Baby" (Jon Peterson, "A Good Man to Have Around" (Barrett Foa), "The Extra Man" (Alec Deland), "The Man I Love" ( Jon Peterson and Magnus Tonning Riis), "My Man" (Seth Sikes), "Werent We Fools?" (Alec Deland), "Leading Lady Valentine" (Jay Rogers), "Im a Bad Bad Man" (Sidney Myer), "I Wonder Where My Sweet Sweet Daddys Gone" (Michael Kasper), "Ah Ha!" (Chip Deffaa), "Medley: Lets Misbehave / Anything Goes / LetS Do It" (Keith Anderson, Suzanne Dressler, Adam Barta), "The One That I Love Loves Me" (Dylan Adams), "I Like You Best of All" (Chip Deffaa, Keith Anderson), "Just Some Guy" (Luka Fric), "Paul" (Chad Anthony Miller), "Julian" (Bobby Belfry), "Everything in the Whole Wide World" (Jarrod Cafaro), "The Only [Straight] Boy in the Room" (Santa Claire Hirsch), "Love For Sale" (Jon Peterson, Luis Villabon, Keith Anderson, Will Alvarado), "Happy Birthday to Me" (Barrett Foa and A.J Irvin), "Marys Bar" (Keith Anderson), "I Am What I Am" (Lee Roy Reams), "The Best of Times" (Lee Roy Reams). Music director/pianist Richard Danley and violinist Andy Stein. Produced by Chip Deffaa. Recording engineer: Slau Halatyn. Graphic design by Frank Avellino.
Books Now Available:
Best of Enemies
(Methuen Drama - new Paperback Book)
Play by James Graham, inspired by the documentary by Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon. This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at London's Young Vic, December 2021. 128 pages.
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.
Screen plays: Theatre plays on British television
(Manchester Univ Press - Hardcover Book)
Amanda Wrigley and John Wyver, editors. Chronicles the history of stage plays produced for the small screen between 1930 and the present. Includes: historical outline of how plays originally written for the theatre have been presented by the BBC and ITV, as well as independent producers and cultural organizations; a variety of critical methodologies to analyse a wide range of outside broadcasts from theatres, screen adaptations of existing stage productions, along with original television productions of classic and contemporary drama. 352 pages.
MUSIC to be released this Friday, 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.
Ragtime: The Musical
(Masterworks Broadway - new 3-disc vinyl set)
On vinyl for the first time. Original Broadway cast recording of the score by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens. 180-Gram red, white and blue vinyl in individual jackets, along with a 20-page stitched booklet. The oversized booklet includes a new essay and track-by-track commentary from Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, a new interview with Brian Stokes Mitchell, recording session and production photos, and the complete recording libretto. Cast includes Brian Stokes Mitchell, Marin Mazzie, Peter Friedman, Audra McDonald, Judy Kaye, Mark Jacoby, Lea Michele. Two hours and one minute.
RECORDINGS Newly Added:
April 8:
Carol Sloane: Live at Birdland
(Club44 Records - new on CD/digital)
Marks the veteran vocalist's 60th anniversary as a recording artist, and her first album in over a decade. Accompanied by all-star jazz trio Mike Renzi on piano, Jay Leonhart on bass, and Scott Hamilton on sax. "Havin' Myself a Time," "Blue Turning Grey Over You," "I Don't Want to Walk Without You," "As Long As I Live," "Glad to Be Unhappy/ I Got a Right to Sing the Blues," "If I Should Lose You," "You Were Meant for Me," "The Very Thought of You," "You're Driving Me Crazy," "Two for the Road," "Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams," "I'll Always Leave the Door a Little Open." Recorded in 2019. Produced by Joel Moss and Mark D. Sendroff. Liner notes by James Gavin. Sloane: A Jazz Singer, the documentary feature film profiling Carol Sloane's remarkable career and the creation of this album, is currently in production.
Late Bloomin' Jazzman
(Café Pacific Music - new on CD/digital)
Vocalist and songwriter Mark Winkler with David Benoit, Jamieson Trotter, Rich Eames and Jon Mayer on piano, John Clayton and Gabe Davis on bass, Christian Euman on drums, Grant Geissman on guitar, Bob Sheppard on sax, Brian Swartz and Nolan Shaheed on trumpet, and Kevin Winard on percussion. "It Ain't Necessarily So," "Don't Be Blue," "When All the Lights in the Sign Worked," "Late Bloomin' Jazzman," "In Another Way," "Bossa Nova Days," "Old Devil Moon," "I Always Had a Thing For You," "Before You Leave," "Old Enough," "Marlena's Memories," "If Gershwin Had Lived." Produced by Barbara Brighton.
April 22:
Anya Turner & Robert Grusecki: In this Raggedy Time
(new album)New songs written during and around the pandemic. Anya Turner and Robert Grusecki with John Putnam (guitar) Tod Hedrick (bass), and John Redsecker (drums). "In This Raggedy Time," "Never Let It Go," "What I Miss," "So Much More," "The Alibi," "I Am Such A Dreamer," "Stay Home," "Second Wave," "Dude Gotta Go," "Come November 2020," "Elizabeth 1918," "Glittering Prizes," "Don't Worry," "That's Why I Love You," "Something New (in the New Year)." AnyaRobertMusic.com.
April 23:
Maureen Taylor: Cosmic Connections - The Lyrics of Michael Colby
(Brainstorm Records - new album)
Singer Maureen Taylor performs 19 songs by Michael Colby (Charlotte Sweet) collaborations with Artie Bressler, Ned Paul Ginsburg, John C. Introcaso, Paul Katz, Sheldon Levin, Gerald Jay Markoe, Peter Millrose, Steven Silverstein, Joseph Thalken, and Jack Urbont.
Compiled by Talkin' Broadway Staff.
Corrections and questions may be directed to SoundAdvice@talkinbroadway.com
