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CDs Now Available:
Jane Monheit: The Merriest
(Provident Music Group - new on CD/digital)
New holiday album from jazz/pop vocalist Jane Monheit. "Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!," "The Christmas Song," "That Holiday Feeling," "(Christmas) Stay With Me," "The Merriest" (duet with John Pizzarelli), "What Are You Doing New Years Eve?," "Winter Wonderland," "Christmas Time is Here," "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year." Released 11/4/22.
Digital Music Now Available:
Darling Grenadine
(new digital album)
Studio recording featuring the 2020 Off-Broadway (Roundabout Under the Radar) cast. Musical by Daniel Zaitchik. Adam Kantor, Emily Walton, Jay Armstrong Johnson, Aury Krebs, Matt Dallal, Mike Nappi. "Prologue," "Swell," "Every Time a Waitress Calls Me Honey," "Party Hat," "I Only See Louise," "Manhattan," "Bottle of Wine," "Suspended," "No Good For Me," "Grenadine," "Every Moon," "Say Something, Paul," "Paradise," "New Year's Eve," "Three Years," "The Kettle Song," "Epilogue." Orchestrations by Matt Moisey. Music direction and additional arrangements by David Gardos. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Dean Sharenow. Recorded at Reservoir Studios, NY and Steel Cut Audio, NYC. Released 11/18/22. BandCamp.com
Footballers' Wives the Musical
(new digital album)
Studio cast album of score by Kath Gotts. Simon Bailey, Liam Doyle, Alice Fearn, Kath Gotts, Chelsea Halfpenny, Emma Hatton, Julie Legrand, Ben Richards, Ashley Samuels, Ivano Turco. "Prologue," "Who, Who, Who?," "Kath Gotts, Alice Fearn & FW Studio Cast Ensemble," "Shrödinger's Frank - Part One," "Shrödinger's Frank - Part Two," "Never Say Die," "Don't Lose It," "Sparks In The House," "Om With Me Now," "Just a Girl Who Loved a Boy," "Shrödinger's Frank - Part Three," "Fairy Tales Aren't Just For Fairies," "Lonely Moon," "Game On!," "Ready to Ride Again," "Shrödinger's Frank - Part Four," "Nurse Nightingale," "Unbelievable."
Funny Girl
(Sony Masterworks Broadway - digital album)
New Broadway cast recording. Based on 2022 revival, with some replacements. Lea Michele, Tovah Feldshuh, Ramin Karimloo, Toni DiBuono, Debra Cadona, Martin Moran, Jared Grimes, Kurt Csolak, Justin Prescott, Daniel Beeman. "Overture," "Who Are You Now?," "If a Girl Isn't Pretty," "I'm the Greatest Star," "Eddie's Tap," "Cornet Man," "His Love Makes Me Beautiful," "I Want to Be Seen with You," "Henry Street," "People," "You Are Woman, I Am Man," "Don't Rain on My Parade," "Sadie, Sadie," "Who Taught Her Everything She Knows?," "Temporary Arrangement," "Rat-Tat-Tat-Tat," "Who Are You Now? (Reprise)," "You're a Funny Girl / Beekman Call," "What Do Happy People Do?," "The Music That Makes Me Dance," "Dream Ballet," "Finale Act 2." Released 11/18/22.
Ramin Karimloo: The Road to Find Out - North
(Westway Music - new EP CD)
Third in the series. "Driftwood," "Music of the Night," "I Vow to Thee My Country," "When Does It Go Away," "Once Upon a December," "Androgynous."
Vinyl Albums Now Available:
Joe Stilgoe: Theatre
(Westway - 2-disc vinyl set)
Deluxe double vinyl version of singer/pianist/songwriter Joe Stilgoe's album, with the Metropole Orchestra. "Overture," "Take Me Back To The Theatre," "Cabaret," "Lost In The Stars," "Does Anybody Have A Map?," "On Broadway," "Mr Matcham," "The King's New Clothes," "Gonna Build A Mountain," "No More/ Nothing's Gonna Harm You/Children Will Listen," "Bring Down The Curtain," "Dad's Lullaby."
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.
Designing Broadway: How Derek McLane and Other Acclaimed Set Designers Create the Visual World of Theatre
(Running Press - Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition)
By Derek McLane and Eila Mell. Foreword by Ethan Hawke. Richly illustrated and information-packed celebration of Broadway set design. Many contributors, including John Lee Beatty, Danny Burstein, Cameron Crowe, Ethan Hawke, Moisés Kaufman, Carole King, Kenny Leon, Santo Loquasto, Kathleen Marshall, Lynn Nottage, David Rabe, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Wallace Shawn, John Leguizamo, and Robin Wagner. With personal sketches and photographs from the artists' archives. 272 pages.
Finale: Late Conversations with Stephen Sondheim
(Harper - Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition/Audible Audiobook/Audiobook on CD)
By D.T. Max (The New Yorker). Personal collection of interviews with the late Stephen Sondheim, conducted in the last years of the artist's life (unedited from the February 22 New Yorker article). Audio versions narrated by Christopher Grove and Keith Sellon-Wright. 240 pages.
A Front Row Seat: An Intimate Look at Broadway, Hollywood, and the Age of Glamour
(Univ Press of Kentucky - Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition)
By Nancy Olson Livingston. In this memoir, Nancy Olson Livingston treats readers to an intimate, charming chronicle of her life as an actress, wife, and mother, and her memories of many of the most notable figures and moments of her time, including reminiscences of her marriages to lyricist and librettist Alan Jay Lerner and to Alan Wendell Livingston. Interweaves Livingston's life with her observations of the artists, celebrities, and luminaries with whom she came in contact. 408 pages.
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.
María Martínez Sierra: A Great Playwright Hidden in Plain Sight
(Methuen Drama - Hardcover Book/Paperback/Kindle Edition)
Richard Nelson and Colin Chambers, editors (also contribute an essay on the translation work of the Granville-Barkers). Harley Granville Barker and Helen Granville Barker, translators. The introduction by Patricia O'Connor examines María's extraordinary life and work, and the battle for her authorship to be recognized in both the Spanish-speaking and anglophone world. Edited collection of three plays by María Martínez Sierra: The Kingdom of God (1928); The Romantic Young Lady (1920) and Take Two From One (1931). 248 pages.
One Public: New York's Public Theater in the Era of Oskar Eustis
(Methuen Drama - Hardcover Book)
By Kevin Landis. Presents the broader organization, its creative methodology, and its enormous growth over the past 20 years. Tells the contemporary story, recorded over many interviews with iconic practitioners and performers ranging from Diane Paulus, Tony Kushner and Lynn Nottage to Kevin Kline, Chelsea Clinton and Lin-Manuel Miranda. Case-study driven, One Public uses oral history accounts and authorial experience to illuminate The Public Theater, Eustis and their cultural influence on the city of New York and the greater United States. 336 pages.
Streisand: The Mirror of Difference
(Wayne State Univ Press - Hardcover Book/Paperback)
By Garrett Stewart. The author "notes the gender and ethnic stereotypes that Streisand shattered as the first openly Jewish superstar, while concentrating not just on the cultural difference she made but on the internal differentials of her unholy vocal gift-whose kinetic volatility shapes a kind of cinematic terrain all its own." 252 pages.
Music to Be Released This Friday, December 2:
A Beautiful Noise OBC
(UMe - new on CD)
Cast includes Will Swenson, Mark Jacoby and Robyn Hurder. "Opening Montage," "A Beautiful Noise," "Neil Pitches Songs: I'll Come Running / I Got The Feelin' (Oh No, No) / I'm A Believer (Medley)," "I'm A Believer," "Demo Medley: The Boat That I Row / Red Red Wine / Kentucky Woman (Medley)," "Kentucky Woman," "Into The Bitter End," "Solitary Man," "Cracklin' Rosie," "Song Sung Blue," "Cherry, Cherry / September Morn' (Medley)," "Love On The Rocks," "Hello Again," "A Heavenly Progression," "Sweet Caroline," "Entr'acte," "Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show," "Play Me," "Forever In Blue Jeans," "Stadium Medley: Soolaimon / Thank The Lord for the Night Time / Crunchy Granola Suite (Medley)," "You Don't Bring Me Flowers," "Brooklyn Roads / America (Medley)," "Shilo," "I Am... I Said," "Holly Holy." Produced by Bob Gaudio. Released earlier digitally.
December Songs for Voice and Orchestra
(P.S. Classics - new on CD)
Maury Yeston's December Songs, sung by Victoria Clark. 37-piece orchestra conducted by Ted Sperling and scored by Larry Hochman. The booklet features complete lyrics, in addition to liner notes by Matthew Gurewitsch. Produced by Bart Migal, Ted Sperling, and Maury Yeston. Digital version released 11/11/22.
Penelope, or How The Odyssey Was Really Written
(JAY Records - new digital album)
York Theatre original cast recording of score by Peter Kellogg and Stephen Weiner. Britney Nicole Simpson, Philippe Arroyo, Leah Hocking, Cooper Howell, Ben Jacoby, David LaMarr, Jacob Alexander Simon, George Slotin, Sean Thompson, and Maria Wirries. "Prologue," "She's Gonna Be Mine," "The Letter from Aeolia," "The Man That I Married," "Pigs!," "Faint," "Penelope #1," "When I'm King," "No One Will Ever Know," "Penelope #2," "The Letter from Hell," "She's Gonna Be Mine (Reprise)," "Penelope #3," "Home Again," "We Need a Plan," "The Mills of the Gods," "Something in His Touch," "This Moment Is All," "Penelope #4," "Until You Shine," "I'm Not Sure I Remember How," "All Along," "Finale." Orchestrations and musical direction by David Hancock Turner. CD to be released December 9.
Newly Listed Recordings:
December:
Carols for a Cure 2022: Volume 22
(Broadway Cares - new digital/on CD)
A welcome return of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS' seasonal salute to Broadway. Holiday songs performed by the casts of The Music Man, The Lion King, A Strange Loop, Funny Girl and Into the Woods and more. Volumes 1-21 are also still available: Each CD comes with a download of the album. BroadwayCares.org
December 9:
Disenchanted soundtrack
(Walt Disney Records - new on CD/digital)
Soundtrack from 2022 film. Songs by Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz. Griffin Newman, Amy Adams, James Marsden, Gabriella Baldacchino, Patrick Dempsey, Ann Harada, James Monroe Iglehart, Michael McCorry Rose, Maya Rudolph, Idina Menzel, Alan Menken, Kolton Stewart. "Andalasia," "Even More Enchanted," "The Magic of Andalasia," "Fairytale Life (The Wish)," "Fairytale Life (After the Spell)," "Perfect," "Badder," "Love Power," "Love Power (Reprise)," "Even More Enchanted (Finale)," "Disenchanted Score Suite," "Hard Times for Heroes (Demo)," "Something Different This Year (Demo)," "Love Power (End Credit Version)."
December 16:
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
(Columbia Records Group - new on CD)
From the 2022 stop-motion musical film from Netflix. Original songs and score from Alexandre Desplat with lyrics by Guillermo Del Toro. The characters are voiced by Ewan McGregor, Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Cristoph Waltz, and more. Digital version released 12/9/22.
January 6:
The Unsinkable Molly Brown original demo recordings and more
(Stage Door Records - new 2-CD set)
Score by Meredith Willson. Original demo recordings, including fully orchestrated studio demo album featuring Sandy Stewart and Bernie Knee alongside the Elliot Lawrence Orchestra and Chorus; selections from the score performed by Willson with his wife Rini and the show's original male lead Harve Presnell (several cut songs including "Read the Label on the Bottle," "One Day at a Time" and "Colorado, My Home"). Also, a bonus disc of cover recordings: a full length instrumental album performed by Andre Kostelanetz and His Orchestra (remastered from stereo reel tape), and a comprehensive selection of pop vocal cover recordings including songs performed by Aretha Franklin, Nat "King" Cole, Gordon MacRae, Dinah Shore, The Four Aces and more. Detailed sleeve notes by George Dansker. Limited edition release of 500 units only. StageDoorRecords.com.
January 13:
Between The Lines
(Ghostlight Records - new digital album)
Original cast album, based on the recent new Off-Broadway production. Score by Elyssa Samsel and Kate Anderson. Arielle Jacobs, Jake David Smith, Vicki Lewis, Hillary Fisher, Jerusha Cavazos, Sean Stack, Will Burton, Julia Murney, John Rapson, Wren Rivera. "Another Chapter," "Between the Lines," "Happily Ever After Hour," "Talkin' to Oliver," "Mr. Darcy and Me," "Inner Thoughts," "Start Again Tomorrow," "In My Perfect World," "Crazy Chemistry," "Butterflies," "I'm Not Through," "A Whole New Story," "Best Day Ever," "Do It For You," "Something to Hold On To," "Leaps and Bounds," "Out of Character," "Allie McAndrews," "Can't Get 'Em Out," "Between the Lines (Reprise)," "Say It in Other Words," "Inner Thoughts (Reprise)." Produced by Michael Croiter and Greg Anthony Rassen. GhostlightRecords.com.
Newly Listed Books:
February 13:
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.
Other New Announcements:
Moved to January 6, 2023:
Into the Woods
(Concord Theatricals/Craft Recordings - new on CD)
Recording of the 2022 Broadway / New York City Center Encores! cast. Score by Stephen Sondheim. Sara Bareilles, Brian dArcy James, Patina Miller, Phillipa Soo, Joshua Henry, Aymee Garcia, TaNika Gibson, Annie Golden, Albert Guerzon, Brooke Ishibashi, Kennedy Kanagawa, David Patrick Kelly, Julia Lester, Nancy Opel, Cole Thompson, David Turner, Alysia Velez. "Prologue: Into the Woods," "Cinderella at the Grave," "Hello, Little Girl," "I Guess This Is Goodbye," "Maybe They're Magic," "I Know Things Now," "A Very Nice Prince," "First Midnight," "Giants in the Sky," "Agony," "It Takes Two," "Second Midnight," "Stay with Me," "On the Steps of the Palace," "Ever After," "Prologue: So Happy," "Agony (Reprise)," "Witch's Lament," "Any Moment," "Moments in the Woods," "Your Fault," "Last Midnight," "No More," "No One Is Alone," "Finale: Children Will Listen." Music direction by Rob Berman with The Encores! Orchestra. Digital released 9/30/22, vinyl will be released 3/17/23.
