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CDs Now Available:
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
The Music Man 2022 Broadway revival cast
(Accidental Jacket Entertainment/Time-Life - new on CD)
Score by Meredith Willson. Cast includes Hugh Jackman, Sutton Foster, Shuler Hensley, Jefferson Mays, Jayne Houdyshell, Marie Mullen, Remy Auberjonois, Gino Cosculluela, Emma Crow, Benjamin Pajak, Kayla Teruel, Garrett Long, Linda Mugleston. "Overture," "Rock Island," "Iowa Stubborn," "Ya Got Trouble," "Piano Lesson / If You Don't Mind My Saying So," "Goodnight My Someone," "Columbia, The Gem of the Ocean," "Seventy-Six Trombones," "Sincere," "The Sadder But Wiser Girl for Me," "Pick-A-Little Scene," "Pick-A-Little, Talk-A-Little / Goodnight Ladies," "Marian the Librarian," "My White Knight," "The Wells Fargo Wagon," "Entr'acte," "Shipoopi," "After Shipoopi Scene," "Pick-A-Little, Talk-A-Little" (Reprise), "Lida Rose / Will I Ever Tell You," "Gary, Indiana," "Lida Rose" (Reprise), "Footbridge Ballet," "Till There Was You," "Goodnight My Someone / Seventy-Six Trombones" (Double Reprise), "Minuet in G" (Curtain), "Finale," "Exit Music," "It's You," "The Sadder But Wiser Girl" (Extended Version). Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick. Includes digital booklet. Digital released 9/23/22. Released 12/9/22.
The Musicality of Bart
(JAY Records - new on CD/digital)
Collection of songs by Lionel Bart. "Consider Yourself," "Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'be" (Diane Langton and Derek James), "Mums and Dads," "The Land of Promise" (Katrina Murphy), "Maggie, Maggie May" (Graham Bickley and Company), "As Long As He Needs Me" (Josephine Barstow), "Who Is This Geezer Hitler?" (Diane Langton and Company), "Unseen Hands" (Long John Baldry), "The Day After Tomorrow: (Helen Hobson), "So Tell Me Jack" (Josephine Blake), "It's Yourself" (Diane Langton and Graham Bickley), "Oom-Pah-Pah" (Sally Ann Triplett and Company." JAYRecords.com.
Digital Music Now Available:
As You Like It
(Concord Theatricals Recordings - new digital album)
Cast album recording of 2022 Public Works production of As You Like It. Adapted by Shaina Taub and Director of Public Works Laurie Woolery, and featuring music and lyrics by Taub. Ato Blankson-Wood, Brianna Cabrera, Darius de Haas, Bianca Edwards, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Jonathan Jordan, Renrick Palmer, Eric Pierre, Idania Quezada, Christopher M. Ramirez, Shaina Taub. "Prologue: All the World's a Stage," "The Man I'm Supposed to Be," "Rosalind, Be Merry," "The Wrestling Match," "After the Match," "In Arden," "Under the Greenwood Tree," "Will U Be My Bride," "Imagine I'm Your Lover," "You Phoebe Me," "Oh Deer," "When I'm Your Wife," "The Lion & the Snake," "Will U Be My Groom," "For Real," "Getting Married Tomorrow," "Rosalind, Be Merry (Reprise)," "For Real (Reprise)," "You Phoebe Me (Reprise)," "Under the Greenwood Tree (Reprise)," "Still I Will Love," "Epilogue: All the World's a Stage." Released 12/9/22.
Canceling Christmas - A Musical
(new digital album)
Score by Bruce Greer (music) and Keith Ferguson (lyrics) from musical that recounts the story of A.C. Gilbert, (1884-1961) America's greatest toy-maker and the inventor of the Gilbert Erector Set. Arranged and orchestrated by Bruce Greer. 17 tracks. Released 5/31/22.
Maxine Linehan: Christmas Candy
(new digital single)
Holiday mash-up of Sia's 2017 hit "Candy Cane Lane" and "It's a Marshmallow World." Released 12/2/22.
Regina Zona & Sean Harkness: It Must Have Been the Mistletoe
(new digital album)
Opera singer Regina Zona and guitarist Sean Harkness. "Sleigh Ride," "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen," "Welcome Christmas / Christmas Time Is Here / My Favorite Things," "The First Noel / Silent Night," "Angels We Have Heard on High," "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)," "Home (When Shadows Fall) / I'll Be Home for Christmas," "A Christmas Love Song," "What Child Is This / O Holy Night," "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve," "It Must Have Been the Mistletoe," "Christmas Time of Year." Released 11/1/22.
Books Now Available:
Oz and the Musical: Performing the American Fairy Tale
(Oxford Univ Press - Hardcover/Paperback book)
By Ryan Bunch. "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" (1900) by Frank L. Baum has served as the basis for some of the most popular musicals on stage and screen. Show by show, Bunch highlights the forms and conventions of musical work as practiced in its time and context–such as the turn-of-the-century extravaganza, the classical Hollywood film musical, the Black Broadway musical of the 1970s, and the twenty-first-century mega-musical. He then shows how the journey of each show teaches participants and audiences something about how to act American within contested frameworks of race, gender, sexuality, age, and embodiment. Also explores home theatricals, make-believe play, school musicals, Oz-themed environments, and community events as sites where the performance of the American fairy tale brings home and utopia into contact through the conventions of the musical. 232 pages.
Music to Be Released This Friday, December 16:
Chicago The Musical
(Masterworks Broadway - 2-LP vinyl set)
Score by John Kander and Fred Ebb. Deep red marble vinyl with a 4-panel (folded) insert. Cast includes Ann Reinking, Bebe Neuwirth, James Naughton and Joel Grey.
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. "Better Tomorrows" (Ewan McGregor), "Carlo's Theme," "Going to Town," "The Pine Cone," "My Son" (David Bradley), "Spazzatura," "Geppetto's Creature," "Sebastian J Cricket," "A Wooden Boy," "Everything Is New to Me" (Gregory Mann & David Bradley), "Pinocchio," "We Were a King Once" (Christoph Waltz), "Paint Battle," "The Sphinx," "Memory of Carlo," "Fatherland March" (Gregory Mann), "The Circus," "Pinocchio Has Left," "Ciao Papa" (Gregory Mann), "To Catania," "Pinocchio Soldier," "The Late Lamented" (Tim Blake Nelson), "Big Lies," "The Dogfish," "Shoot the Puppet," "Big Baby Il Duce March" (Gregory Mann), "The Mine," "My Bubblegum" (Gregory Mann), "Saving Geppetto," "Pinocchio's Choice." Digital released 12/9/22.
Newly Listed Recordings:
Coming Soon:
The Skivvies: Sleigh My Name
(new digital album)
The Skivvies with Randy Harrison, Nick Adams, Leslie McDonel, Nathan Lee Graham, Lindsay Nicole Chambers, and Lesli Margherita. Songs include "Joyful to the World", "Santa's Baby", "Sleigh My Name", "Little Drummer Boy Got The Beat", "Bells Bells Bells!", "Your Body is a Walkin' in a Winter Wonderland", "Fuckin Hannukah", "Toxic", "Christmas Time is Somewhere in my Memory" (available now), "Alcomedley" (featuring Lesli Margherita), "I Touch My Elf" (featuring Nick Adams), "Like a Virgin Proud Mary" (featuring Lindsay Nicole Chambers), "Christmas with a Twist" (featuring Nathan Lee Graham) and Frosty the Snowman" (featuring Leslie McDonel). Joshua Roberts on the drums, Andrew Gutauskas on the woodwinds, Debbie Tjong on bass, keys, background vox, Rob Morrison on guitar, Cearley on vocals, ukulele, bells, glockenspiel and boomwhackers, and Molina on vocals, cello, bells, glockenspiel, and boomwhackers.
January 27:
Cryer & Ford: Hidden Treasures 1967-2020
(Harbinger Records / Musical Theater Project - 3-CD set)
Tribute to the writing team of Gretchen Cryer and Nancy Ford. One or several cuts from many of their musicals, plus the complete scores of Shelter, the sequel Still Getting My Act Together and Eleanor. More than 30 vocalists, including Karen Ziemba, Gregg Edelman, Austin Pendleton, Marcia Rodd, Heather Mac Rae, David Cryer, Jeff Kready, and Gretchen Cryer herself. Produced by Mark Logies and Bill Rudman. Liner notes by Cryer & Ford. Foreword by Austin Pendleton. 66 tracks. 56-page booklet.
