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CDs Now Available:
Knoxville
(Broadway Records - new on CD)
Asolo Repertory Theatre cast recording of score by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens. Based on James Agee's "A Death in the Family." Cast includes Jason Danieley, Hannah Elless, Paul Alexander Nolan, Ellen Harvey, Nathan Salstone, and Joel Waggoner. Released 11/11/22. Digital released 10/21/22.
Digital Music Now Available:
Ballad of Dreams the Musical
(new digital album)
Concept album for musical by Allyson Hernandez. With Elizabeth Bedley, Randall Scott Carpenter, Amanda Ferguson, Olivia Gjurich, Jeremy Konopka, John Jeffrey Martin, Fiona McArthur, Devon Perry, Nicholas Rodriguez, Robb Sapp. Released 11/11/22.
Christmas At Birdland (Deluxe Edition)
(Club44 Records - new digital album)
Previously released album with four more tracks. Billy Stritch, Jim Caruso, and Klea Blackhurst. New tracks: newly recorded "Jingles the Christmas Cat," "Old Days, Old Times, Old Friends," and "We Need a Little Christmas"; plus an "Orchestra Mix" of the original album track "It's the Holiday Season," with special guest Donny Osmond. Steve Doyle on bass, Daniel Glass on drums, and Dave Koz on saxophone. Released 11/11/22.
Books Now Available:
The American Theatre as seen by Hirschfeld 1962-2002
(The Al Hirschfeld Foundation / Stuart Ng Books - new book)
Edited by David Leopold. Showcases 300 Hirschfeld drawings: his greatest theater work from five decades, including some of the most important productions from the last sixty years, plus portraits of Stephen Sondheim, Neil Simon, Edward Albee, Wendy Wasserstein, Tom Stoppard, and Hal Prince, and more. forward by Michael Kimmelman, and chapter introductions by Brooks Atkinson, Brendan Gill, Maureen Dowd, Terrence McNally and Jules Feiffer. Follow-up to The American Theatre As Seen by Hirschfeld, published in 1961. 250 pages. Available at AlHirschfeldFoundationshop.org.
Jack in the Box: or, How to Goddamn Direct
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux - Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition)
By Jack O'Brien. In a follow-up to his memoir, Jack Be Nimble, the director collects stories from the many productions he has worked on; the great talents he encountered and collaborated with; and the choices that he made, on the stage and off, that have come to define his career. He tells his readers how to become a director–or, at the very least, relates an unfailingly honest story of how he did. 272 pages.
Music to Be Released This Friday, November 18:
The Bestest Office Christmas Party Ever
(new EP)
Selections from new holiday musical with score by Billy Recce (music and lyrics) and Drew Larimore (lyrics). Mary Testa, Paige Turner, Deb Radloff, Jamen Nanthakumar, Bryan Munar, DeAnne Stewart, and Ryan McCurdy. "Opening: Bestest Office Christmas Party Ever," "Santa for Me," "Bitch Face David," and "Sex Machine Reindeer."
Colin Donnell & Patti Murin: Something Stupid
(Broadway Records - new on CD/digital)
"House of the Rising Sun," "And I Will Follow," "Jackson," "The Next Right Thing," "Because the Night," "Meadowlark," "I See the Light," "Finishing the Hat," "How Do You Keep the Music Playing / My Funny Valentine," "America," "Everything Changes," "Something Stupid." Produced by Robbie Rozelle, and co-produced by Yasuhiko Fukuoka. Arrangements and orchestrations by Luke Williams.
Los Fantastikos
(Stage Door Records - new on CD)
CD debut of the 1961 Mexico City Cast Recording of Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt's The Fantasticks. Adapted by Luis de Llano and Martha Fischer. Armando Calvo, Maria Rivas, Antonio Gama, Ortiz de Pinedo and Guillermo Orea. Includes: includes two songs recorded by Christian Bratt (original 1962 Stockholm production); three Swedish cover recordings from the score; four pop cover recordings as sung by Harry Belafonte (in English). 25 tracks. Limited pressing of 500 units only. StageDoorRecords.com.
Northern Star
(new digital album)
Concept album of score by Jared Alexander. With Lorna Baxter, Rhian Ferrigan, Feifei Xiang. Orchestrations and arrangements by Eoin Corcoran. northernstarmusical.com.
Roald Dahl's Matilda The Musical
(Masterworks - new digital album)
Soundtrack from Netflix film inspired by the musical. Music and lyrics By Tim Minchin. Original score music by Christopher Nightingale. The film stars Alisha Weir, Emma Thompson, Lashana Lynch, Andrea Riseborough and Stephen Graham. CD to be released 12/9/22.
Sondheim Unplugged: Volume Three
(Yellow Sound Label - new 2-CD set/digital)
Third in series. 42 tracks. More than 40 performers, including Harris Doran, Rob Maitner, Jim Walton, Sally Mayes, Karen Mason, T. Oliver Reid, Ken Jennings, Sarah Rice, Claybourne Elder, Telly Leung, among others. Produced by Phil Geoffrey Bond. Music direction and piano, Joseph Goodrich. SondheimUnplugged.com.
Spirited
(Republic Records - new on CD)
Soundtrack from the Apple Original Film. Original songs by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul performed by Will Ferrell, Ryan Reynolds, Octavia Spencer, Patrick Page, Sunita Mani, Andrea Anders, Marlow Barkley. "Christmas Morning Feelin'," "Present's Lament," "Bringin' Back Christmas," "The View From Here," "The Story of Your Life (Marley's Haunt)," "Good Afternoon," "The Story of Your Life (Clint's Pitch)," "Unredeemable," "The View From Here (Riverwalk)," "Do A Little Good," "That Christmas Morning Feelin' (Curtain Call)," "Ripple (Cut Song)."
A Strange Loop
(Hal Leonard - new paperback book)
Vocal selections songbook for Broadway musical by Michael R. Jackson. Arranged for vocal line with piano accompaniment. "Boundaries," "Didn't Want Nothin'," "Exile in Gayville," "Inner White Girl," "Intermission Song," "Inwood Daddy," "Memory Song," "Periodically," "Precious Little Dream / AIDS Is God's Punishment," "Second Wave," "A Strange Loop," "A Sympathetic Ear," "Today," "Tyler Perry Writes Real Life," "We Wanna Know." 136 pages.
Newly Listed Recordings:
November 25:
Footballers' Wives the Musical
(new digital album)
Studio cast album of score by Kath Gotts.
Newly Listed Books:
February 7, 2023:
The Critic's Daughter: A Memoir
(W.W. Norton & Company - Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition)
By Priscilla Gilman, daughter of writer, theater critic, and Yale School of Drama professor Richard Gilman. 304 pages.
February 9, 2023:
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.
