Sound Advice
Schedule of New & Upcoming CD, DVD & Book Releases
Updated 12/9/25
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Teeth: A Coming-of-Rage Musical Comedy
(Theatre Communications Group - Paperback Book)
Libretto for musical by Michael R. Jackson and Anna K. Jacobs. 120 pages.
December 12, 2025
Cat Kid Comic Club: The Musical
(Center Stage Records - new digital album)
Original cast recording of show based on the book series by Dav Pilkey, with a book and lyrics by Kevin Del Aguila and music by Brad Alexander. L.R. Davidson, Jeremy Fuentes, Michael Thomas Holmes, Jamie LaVerdiere, Brian Owen, Sonia Roman, Dan Rosales, Malynne Smith and Markia Nicole Smith. Music direction by Matt Castle. Vocal arrangements by Brad Alexander and Matt Castle. Orchestrations by Brad Alexander. CD to be released 1/23/26. CenterStageRecords.com
December 15, 2025
Eggs I Have Laid
(Univ of Minnesota Press - Paperback Book/Kindle Edition)
Back in print; first published in 1955. By Meredith Willson. Foreword by Mark Cabaniss. Willson chronicles the failures that he faced as he made his place in show business during the pivotal early 1950s, when radio was being overtaken by television, bringing to life his encounters with zeitgeist stars, from collaborators Tallulah Bankhead and Fred Allen to Orson Welles and Carmen Miranda. Includes such curiosities as an eight-page "platonic dialogue" about quitting smoking and the lyrics to a love song with the occupancy limits of the New York Fire Code as its central metaphor. 192 pages.
December 16, 2025
The Reason to Sing: A Guide to Acting While Singing 2nd Edition
(Routledge - Hardcover Book/Paperback/Kindle Edition)
Composer-lyricist and teacher Craig Carnelia provides musical actors with a step-by-step guide to making their sung performances more truthful, vivid, and full of life. Using a technique developed over decades of teaching the professional community of Broadway actors and students alike, The Reason to Sing lays out a new and proven approach,to help you build your skills, your confidence, and your career. This second edition includes two new chapters: "Writers," in which Stephen Sondheim, Jason Robert Brown and Lin-Manuel Miranda join with the author to examine how they make their songs actable. and "Actors," where nine of the authors former students share their wisdom and experience from their years in class to their bustling careers. This group includes Tony Award winners Annaleigh Ashford, Sutton Foster, Aaron Tveit, and Brandon Uranowitz. 200 pages.
What We Did Before Our Moth Days
(Faber & Faber - Paperback Book)
New play by Wallace Shawn. Scheduled to run at Greenwich House Theater in early 2026. 96 pages.
December 18, 2025
Al Jolson--Wondrous Rarities Curated By Chip Deffaa
(Garret Mountain Records - new on CD)
Never-before-released performances of songs, both famous and obscure, that Jolson introduced on Broadway and in his early films, including "Who Cares?'," "California Here I Come," "Swanee," "April Showers," " "Don't Let it Get You Down," "My Mammy," "Back in Your Own Back Yard," with a few surprise guests (Humphrey Bogart, Eddie Cantor, Dorothy Kiirsten, Martha Raye).
January 9, 2026
Ragtime
(Concord - new digital album)
2025 Broadway revival cast recording of score by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty. Cast includes Joshua Henry, Caissie Levy, Brandon Uranowitz, Colin Donnell, Nichelle Lewis, Ben Levi Ross, Tony Award-winner Shaina Taub, Anna Grace Barlow, John Clay III, Rodd Cyrus, Nick Barrington and Tabitha Lawing. "Prologue: Ragtime," "Goodbye, My Love," "Journey On," "The Crime of the Century," "What Kind of Woman," "A Shtetl Iz Amereke," "Success," "His Name Was Coalhouse Walker," "Gettin' Ready Rag," "Henry Ford," "Nothing Like The City," "Your Daddy's Son," "New Music," "Wheels of a Dream," "The Night That Goldman Spoke at Union Square," "Gliding," "Justice," "President," "Till We Reach That Day," "Coalhouse's Soliloquy," "Coalhouse Demands," "What a Game," "Buffalo Nickel Photoplay, Inc," "Our Children," "Sarah Brown Eyes," "He Wanted to Say," "Back to Before," "Look What You've Done," "Make Them Hear You," "Epilogue: Ragtime (Reprise) / Wheels of a Dream (Reprise)." Orchestrations by William David Brohn. Recorded, edited, and mixed by Ian Kagey and mastered by Oscar Zambrano. 2-CD release 2/6/26. 2-LP vinyl will be released 4/3/26 in three color variants: "Lady Liberty Green" for wide release; "America," available exclusively at Barnes & Noble; and "Ragtime Red," available exclusively at Lincoln Center Theater and Creative Goods.
January 13, 2026
Making Rent: The Story Behind the Music that Changed Broadway
(Apollo Publishers - Hardcover Book)
By Tim Weil, with contributors Neil Patrick Harris and Jennifer Ashley Tepper. Rent audition accompanist, music director, and collaborator Tim Weil shares previously untold stories about some of the shows most iconic moments, accompanied by behind-the-scenes photos. 256 pages.
January 16, 2026
Evita
(The Other Songs Records - new on CD/blue marble vinyl)
2025 UK revival production cast recording of score by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. Rachel Zegler, Diego Andres Rodriguez, James Olivas, Aaron Lee Lambert , and Bella Brown. Digital released 10/24/25.
January 22, 2026
Opening Doors: Reimagining the American Musical
(Methuen Drama - Hardcover Book)
By John Doyle. Through anecdotes, industry insight and practical advice, Doyle reflects on his 50-year theatrical journey from the Highlands of Scotland to prestigious regional theatres and Broadway. 248 pages.
January 23, 2026
Cat Kid Comic Club: The Musical
(Center Stage Records - new on CD)
Original cast recording of show based on the book series by Dav Pilkey, with a book and lyrics by Kevin Del Aguila and music by Brad Alexander. L.R. Davidson, Jeremy Fuentes, Michael Thomas Holmes, Jamie LaVerdiere, Brian Owen, Sonia Roman, Dan Rosales, Malynne Smith and Markia Nicole Smith. Music direction by Matt Castle. Vocal arrangements by Brad Alexander and Matt Castle. Orchestrations by Brad Alexander. Digital released 12/12/25. CenterStageRecords.com
January 27, 2026
Never Mind the Happy: Showbiz Stories from a Sore Winner
(Regalo Press - Hardcover Book)
By Marc Shaiman, who looks back on five decades of Broadway triumphs, Hollywood hijinks, and unforgettable collaborations. Spending his teenage years in community theater, starting a decades-long collaboration with Bette Midler in the '70s, surviving the AIDS crisis of the '80s, his award-winning film music career in the Hollywood of the '90s, right up to the highs (and lows) of creating Broadway musicals from 2000 on. 288 pages.
January 30, 2026
Melissa Errico with Tedd Firth: I Can Dream Can't I?
(new album)
"When in Rome (I Do As The Romans Do)" (available now), "I Can Dream, Cant I?," "I Didnt Know About You," "Therell Be Another Spring," "But Beautiful," "Dancing on the Ceiling," "Remind Me," "Like a Lover," "Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year," "All in Fun," "Listen Here," "Both Sides Now," "After You, Who?." New track released every other week, and a special three-song holiday bundle prior to the complete release.
February 6, 2026
Ragtime
(Concord - new on 2 CDs)
2025 Broadway revival cast recording of score by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty. Cast includes Joshua Henry, Caissie Levy, Brandon Uranowitz, Colin Donnell, Nichelle Lewis, Ben Levi Ross, Tony Award-winner Shaina Taub, Anna Grace Barlow, John Clay III, Rodd Cyrus, Nick Barrington and Tabitha Lawing. "Prologue: Ragtime," "Goodbye, My Love," "Journey On," "The Crime of the Century," "What Kind of Woman," "A Shtetl Iz Amereke," "Success," "His Name Was Coalhouse Walker," "Gettin' Ready Rag," "Henry Ford," "Nothing Like The City," "Your Daddy's Son," "New Music," "Wheels of a Dream," "The Night That Goldman Spoke at Union Square," "Gliding," "Justice," "President," "Till We Reach That Day," "Coalhouse's Soliloquy," "Coalhouse Demands," "What a Game," "Buffalo Nickel Photoplay, Inc," "Our Children," "Sarah Brown Eyes," "He Wanted to Say," "Back to Before," "Look What You've Done," "Make Them Hear You," "Epilogue: Ragtime (Reprise) / Wheels of a Dream (Reprise)." Orchestrations by William David Brohn. Recorded, edited, and mixed by Ian Kagey and mastered by Oscar Zambrano. Digital released earlier. 2-LP vinyl will be released 4/3/26 in three color variants: "Lady Liberty Green" for wide release; "America," available exclusively at Barnes & Noble; and "Ragtime Red," available exclusively at Lincoln Center Theater and Creative Goods.
March 10, 2026
Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!
(Grand Central Publishing - Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition/Audiobook)
Autobiography by Liza Minnelli, as told to Michael Feinstein, in which she " opens her heart, mind and memories, sharing secrets we never knew." 320 pages.
March 17, 2026
Stephen Sondheim: Art Isnt Easy
(Yale Univ Press - Hardcover Book)
By Daniel Okrent. Shines new light on Sondheims tormented emotional life, wavering self-confidence, and alcoholism, drawing on the artists intimate correspondence with such notable figures as Hal Prince, Leonard Bernstein, and Arthur Laurents; exclusive interviews with close friends and collaborators, including James Lapine and John Weidman; and Sondheims own oral history, which remained closed until his death. 320 pages.
April 3, 2026
Ragtime
(Concord - double LP vinyl)
Three color variants: "Lady Liberty Green" for wide release; "America," available exclusively at Barnes & Noble; and "Ragtime Red," available exclusively at Lincoln Center Theater and Creative Goods. 2025 Broadway revival cast recording of score by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty. Cast includes Joshua Henry, Caissie Levy, Brandon Uranowitz, Colin Donnell, Nichelle Lewis, Ben Levi Ross, Tony Award-winner Shaina Taub, Anna Grace Barlow, John Clay III, Rodd Cyrus, Nick Barrington and Tabitha Lawing. "Prologue: Ragtime," "Goodbye, My Love," "Journey On," "The Crime of the Century," "What Kind of Woman," "A Shtetl Iz Amereke," "Success," "His Name Was Coalhouse Walker," "Gettin' Ready Rag," "Henry Ford," "Nothing Like The City," "Your Daddy's Son," "New Music," "Wheels of a Dream," "The Night That Goldman Spoke at Union Square," "Gliding," "Justice," "President," "Till We Reach That Day," "Coalhouse's Soliloquy," "Coalhouse Demands," "What a Game," "Buffalo Nickel Photoplay, Inc," "Our Children," "Sarah Brown Eyes," "He Wanted to Say," "Back to Before," "Look What You've Done," "Make Them Hear You," "Epilogue: Ragtime (Reprise) / Wheels of a Dream (Reprise)." Orchestrations by William David Brohn. Recorded, edited, and mixed by Ian Kagey and mastered by Oscar Zambrano. Digital and 2-CD release
April 7, 2026
The Book of Joel
(powerHouse Books - Hardcover Book)
By Joel Grey. The visual life story of Joel Grey: actor, singer, dancer, director, and photographer. This sprawling yet intimate scrapbook-style volume uncovers a kaleidoscope of both famous and previously unseen photographs, family snapshots, playbills, posters, and ephemera from Grey's personal archive, revealing an encyclopedic and all-absorbing visual romp through one of the last living greats of American entertainment. Excavated from Grey's personal archives and the treasure trove of his New York Public Library collection. Also included: intimate essays contributed by Eddie Redmayne Tony Kushner. 176 pages.
June 18, 2026
Mexodus
(Audible Originals - Audible Audiobook)
Musical originally performed at the Minetta Lane Theatre. Created and performed by Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson, and directed by David Mendizábal.
Release date unknown
All the World's a Stage
(Joy Machine Records - new album)
Keen Company cast recording of musical by Adam Gwon. Eliza Pagelle, Jon-Michael Reese, Matt Rodin, and Elizabeth Stanley. Produced by Neal Avron, Andrea Grody, Gwon, and Michelle Noh. Andrea Grody is music directing and leading the band. Orchestrations by Michael Starobin. Recorded October 7-8. Early 2026 release expected.
Charlie Rosen's Broadway Big Band
(new double album)
First recording from this band, which "puts both modern and classic showtunes on display, sung by the best and brightest of Broadway's young generation of leading performers, in the timeless tradition of Big Band. A full sized Jazz orchestra composed of 17 musicians play Rosen's re-imagined arrangements of an eclectic mix of tunes from Broadway's past, present, and beyond."
Complete Lyrics of Sheldon Harnick
(new book)
Empire: The Musical
(Yellow Sound Label - new album)
Original Off-Broadway cast recording of score by Caroline Sherman and Robert Hull. Produced by Michael Croiter. Recorded at PowerStation at BerkleeNYC. Release date TBA.
The Fantasticks
(JAY Records - new album)
Studio album recording of score by Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones. Brad Oscar, Telly Leung, Elizabeth Teeter, Lewis Cleale, and Ron Raines.
Harbinger Records upcoming releases: material from Eubie Blake; download only demos of Hugh Martin and Sheldon Harnick; Steve Ross' back catalog for download;
Lizard Boy
(new album)
Live recording of 2023 Prospect Theatre cast. Score by Justin Huertas. Cast features Huertas, Kiki deLohr, and William A. Williams. Release date TBA.
Love Life
(Capriccio - new album)
Live recording of Opera North of Leeds concert recording of score by Kurt Weill (music), Alan Jay Lerner (lyrics). Book by Lerner. The first "complete" recording. To be broadcast on BBC Radio 3, and subsequently released on CD. James Holmes, conductor. Quirijn de Lang, Stephanie Corley, Justin Hopkins, Themba Mvula, Will Hopkins, Joshua Da Costa, Andrew Randall, Masimba Ushe, Holly Saw, Max Westwell, Tilly Baker, Louie Stow, Felicity Moore, Amber Midgley, and Lottie Gray. Release date TBA
Next to Normal
(Ghostlight Records - new on CD)
OLC recording of score by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey. Caissie Levy, Jamie Parker, Jack Wolfe, and Eleanor Worthington-Cox. "Prelude," "Just Another Day," "Everything Else," "Who's Crazy / My Psychopharmacologist and I," "Perfect For You," "I Miss the Mountains," "It's Gonna Be Good," "He's Not Here," "You Don't Know," "I Am the One," "Superboy and the Invisible Girl," "I'm Alive," "Make Up Your Mind / Catch Me I'm Falling," "I Dreamed a Dance," "There's a World," "I've Been," "Didn't I See This Movie?," "A Light in the Dark," "Entr'acte," "Wish I Was Here," "Song of Forgetting," "Hey #1," "Seconds and Years," "Better Than Before," "Aftershocks," "Hey #2," "You Don't Know," "How Could I Ever Forget?," "It's Gonna Be Good (Reprise)," "Why Stay?/ A Promise," "I'm Alive (Reprise)," "The Break," "Make Up Your Mind / Catch Me I'm Falling (Reprise)," "Maybe (Next to Normal)," "Hey #3 / Perfect for You (Reprise)," "So Anyway," "I Am the One (Reprise)," "Light." Production was shown on PBS Great Performances and will be shown in U.K. cinemas Fall 2025. Digital released earlier.
The Nutty Professor
(new album)
Studio recording of score by Marvin Hamlisch and Rupert Holmes. Based on the recent Ogunquit Playhouse staging of the musical based on the Jerry Lewis movie.. Cast TBA. 2024 release expected.
Paradise Square OBC
(new on CD/digital)
Broadway cast recording of score Jason Howland (music), Nathan Tysen and Masi Asare (lyrics), with additional music by Larry Kirwan, inspired by the songs of Stephen Foster. Joaquina Kalukango, Chilina Kennedy, John Dossett, Sidney DuPont, A.J. Shively, Nathaniel Stampley, Gabrielle McClinton, Jacob Fishel, Kevin Dennis and Matt Bogart. Produced by Jason Howland and Billy Jay Stein. Recorded at Power Station at BerkleeNYC during the weeks of April 18 and April 25.
Penelope
(Joy Machine Records - new digital album)
Musical by Alex Bechtel, starring Grace McLean, who is also a co-creator. Recorded live at Joe's Pub in October 2025.
The Queen of Versailles
(Sony Masterworks Broadway - new album)
OBC cast recording of score by Stephen Schwartz (book by Lindsey Ferrentino). Cast includes Kristin Chenoweth, F. Murray Abraham, Stephen DeRosa, Greg Hildreth, Tatum Grace Hopkins, Isabelle Keating, and Nina White. "Caviar Dreams" track available now.
Romeo & Bernadette: A Musical Tale of Verona and Brooklyn
(Yellow Sound Label - new album)
Off-Broadway cast recording. Nikita Burshteyn (Newsies), Anna Kostakis, Carlos Lopez (Man of La Mancha), Michael Marotta (Tenderly: The Rosemary Clooney Musical), Judy McLane (Mamma Mia!), Michael Notardonato, Ari Raskin, Troy Valjean Rucker (August Rush), Zach Schanne (Pippin), and Viet Vo (Viet Gone). Lyrics by Mark Saltzman and music adapted from classic Italian melodies. Recorded 2/18/20. Late March release expected.
The Sound of Music
(Disney - new in 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray)
For its 60th anniversary, a newly restored and remastered version of the 1965 musical film, score by Rodgers & Hammerstein. Screenplay by Ernest Lehman based on Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse's book. Directed by Robert Wise. Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer lead the cast. Screenings of the restored version will also be presented globally.
Tammy Faye
(new album)
Music by Elton John; lyrics by Jake Shears. Cast from Almeida Theatre debut production. Details TBA.
This Side of the World
(new album)
East West Players cast recording of score by Paulo K Tiról.