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CDs Now Available:

My Favorite Things: The Rodgers & Hammerstein 80th Anniversary Concert
(Concord Recordings - new on 2 CDs/Digital)
Live Concert recording. Released at the time of the condensed version of the filmed concert premiere on PBS "Great Performances." Cast includes Joanna Ampil, Michael Ball, Daniel Dae Kim, Maria Friedman, Audra McDonald, Julian Ovenden, Lucy St. Louis, Aaron Tveit, Marisha Wallace, Patrick Wilson. 40-piece Rodgers & Hammerstein Concert Orchestra conducted by music supervisor Simon Lee. 42 tracks. Released 5/31/24.

DIGITAL MUSIC Now Available:

Ben Platt: Honeymind
(Interscope - new on CD/digital/vinyl)
To include songs written with songwriters Hillary Lindsey, Natalie Hemby, and Alex Hope. "Right Kind Of Reckless," "All American Queen," "Andrew," "Before I Knew You," "Cherry On Top," "Treehouse," "Fear Of Missing Out," "Shoe To Drop," "Honeymind," "Home Of The Terrified," "Need You Like This," "Boy Who Hung The Moon," "Monsters." Executive producer Dave Cobb. Released 5/31/24.

Illinoise: A New Musical
(Nonesuch - new digital album)
Original cast recording of score by Sufjan Stevens (book by Justin Peck & Jackie Sibblies Drury). Arrangements and orchestrations by Timo Andres. 14-piece on-stage band: Elijah Lyons, Shara Nova, Tasha Viets-VanLear, Christina Courtin, Sean Peter Forte, Domenica Fossati, Daniel Freedman, Kathy Halvorson, Nathan Koci, Eleonore Oppenheim, Brett Parnell, Brandon Ridenour, Kyra Sims, and Jessica Tsang. "Chicago (Reprise)" and "The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades is Out to Get Us!" now available. Produced by Dean Sharenow, Timo Andres, Nathan Koci, Garth MacAleavey, and executive produced by Orin Wolf and Nate Koch. Edited, mixed, and mastered by Dean Sharenow at Steel Cut Audio and Garth MacAleavey served as recording engineer. Released 5/31/24.

Texas Annie: The Legend of the Moan Ranger
(new digital album)

Concept album for Cincinnati, Ohio, Fringe Festival award winning musical with score by John Woods, Stephen Goers, Roz Mihalko, and Jenn Howd. "Sex Toys & Texas," "Dildos Are the Devil's Tools," "Swallow Your Destiny," "The Moan Ranger," "Learn to Love Yourself," "The Power of Pleasure," "Every BODY Is Divine," "The Second Coming."

BLU-RAY/DVD Now Available:

My Favorite Things: The Rodgers & Hammerstein 80th Anniversary Concert
(Liberator Films - new on Blu-ray/DVD)
Concert filmed at Theatre Royal Drury Lane, with songs from The Sound of Music, Carousel, South Pacific, and Oklahoma! Starring Joanna Ampil, Michael Ball, Maria Friedman, Daniel Dae Kim, Audra McDonald, Julian Ovenden, Lucy St. Louis, Aaron Tveit, Marisha Wallace and Patrick Wilson and featuring a 40-piece orchestra. Two hours.

BOOKS Now Available:

Jocelyn Bioh: Three Plays: Merry Wives; Nollywood Dreams; School Girls, Or, The African Mean Girls Play
(Methuen Drama - Paperback Book/Kindle Edition)
First collection of plays from American contemporary playwright Jocelyn Bioh. 216 pages. Released 5/30/24.

Mike Bartlett
(Routledge - Hardcover/Paperback/Kindle Edition)
By William C. Boles. Routledge Modern and Contemporary Dramatists series editors Maggie Gale and Graham Saunders. Includes Barlett's plays Cock, Doctor Foster, King Charles III, and Albion, a biographical introductory chapter, and new interviews with Bartlett and some of his closest and oft relied upon collaborators. 186 pages.

MUSIC to be released this Friday, June 7:

Antonio Adolfo: Love Cole Porter
(AAM Music - new digital album)
Brazilian pianist and composer Antonio Adolfo. Accompanied by Lula Galvao (guitar), Jorge Helder (double bass), Rafael Barata (drums), Dada Costa And Rafael Barata (percussion), Jesse Sadoc (trumpet, flugelhorn), Danilo Sinna (alto sax), Marcelo Martins (tenor and soprano sax, flute), And Rafael Rocha (trombone). "Easy to Love," "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye," "I Concentrate on You," "I Love You," "I've Got You Under My Skin," "Easy to Love," "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye," "I Concentrate on You," "I Love You," "I've Got You Under My Skin," "Just One of Those Things," "Love for Sale," "Night and Day," "So in Love," "You Do Something to Me.

The Colors of My Life: A Cy Coleman Songbook
(Club44 - new on CD/digial)
Vocalist Janis Siegel and pianist, arranger, and composer Yaron Gershovsky. "I've Got Your Number," "With Every Breath I Take," "Playboy's Theme," "Witchcraft," "That's My Style," "Being Without You," "The Best Is Yet to Come," "I'm Gonna Laugh You Right Out of My Life," "Why Try to Change Me Now," "The Colors of My Life."

Closer than Ever: The Unique Six-Decade Songwriting Partnership of Richard Maltby Jr. and David Shire
(Oxford Univ Press - Hardcover Book)
By Joshua Rosenblum. Chronicles the sixty-six-year (and counting) partnership of Richard Maltby Jr. and David Shire, with behind-the-scenes accounts of their musicals interspersed with analyses of standout individual numbers. 304 pages.

The Gospel According to Heather
(JAY Records - new on CD)
2023 Off-Broadway cast recording of score by Paul Gordon. Cast includes Lauren Elder, Badia Farha, Maria Habeeb, Jeremy Kushnier, Maya Lagerstam, Zach Rand, Katey Sagal, Carson Stewart, Brittany Nicole Williams, and Wayne Wilson. "My Name Is Heather Krebs," "The Weight of My Burden," "Wait," "Risen," "Conventional," "Don't Go Spreading Rumours," "The Healing," "Reckoning," "St Heather," "Just a GirlBreaking News," "She Has on Sneakers," "Up All Night," "Spread a Little Light," "Don't Tell Mom," "My Name is Heather Kreb (Reprise)," "Penny In My Pocket," "Raise Your Hand," "Raise Your Hand (reprise)." Produced by John Yap. Digital released 2/16/24.

Hell's Kitchen
(Alicia Keys Records - new digital album)
OBC recording of score by Alicia Keys (book by Kristoffer Diaz). Cast includes Maleah Joi Moon, Shoshana Bean, Brandon Victor Dixon, Chris Lee, Kecia Lewis.

Rarities from the Hollywood Studios 1933-1958
(Sepia Records - new on 2 CDs)
Previously unavailable tracks taken from studio playback and movie exploitation discs or alternative versions from 1933 to 1958, spanning 25 years of Bing Crosby's career. 30 tracks.

Suffs
(Atlantic Records - new digital album)
2022 Public Theater cast recording of score by Shaina Taub. Jenna Bainbridge, Ally Bonino, Tsilala Brock, Jenn Colella, Hannah Cruz, Nadia Dandashi, Aisha de Haas, Amina Faye, Holly Gould, Cassondra James, Nikki M. James, Jaygee Macapugay, Grace McLean, Susan Oliveras, Mia Pak, J. Riley Jr, Phillipa Soo, Shaina Taub, and Ada Westfall. "Let Mother Vote," "Finish the Fight," "Find a Way," "Wait My Turn," "Find a Way Coda," "Terrell's Theme," "The March (We Demand Equality)," "Great American Bitch," "Ladies," "A Meeting with President Wilson," "Worth It," "If We Were Married," "The Convention, Part I," "This Girl," "The Convention, Part II," "Alva Belmont," "Show Them Who You Are," "The Campaign," "How Long," "The Young Are at the Gates," "Respectfully Yours, Dudley Malone," "Hold It Together," "Wait My Turn (Reprise)," "The Report," "Show Them Who You Are (Reprise)," "Insane," "Fire & Tea," "Let Mother Vote (Reprise)," "She and I," "Down at the State House," "A Letter From Harry's Mother," "I Was Here," "If We Were Married (Reprise)," "August 26th, 1920," "Lucy's Song," "Ally Bonino," "Finish the Fight (Reprise)," "Keep Marching."

RECORDINGS newly listed:

June 21:

Parting Gift: The Songs of Gerald Ginsburg
(PS Classics - new on CD/digital)
World Premiere recordings of lost treasures by composer Gerald Ginsburg (1932-2019). Two dozen musical settings of poetry by such luminaries as W. B. Yeats, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and E. E. Cummings. Shereen Ahmed, Mikaela Bennett, Philip Chaffin, Will Chase, Victoria Clark, Jason Danieley, Adrienne Danrich, Jordan Donica, Colin Donnell, Telly Leung, Paul Lincoln, Patti Murin, Kelli O'Hara, Elena Shaddow, Nathaniel Stampley, Elizabeth Stanley, and Lauren Worsham. Orchestrated by Jonathan Tunick, Doug Besterman, Larry Hochman, Michael Starobin, Chris Jahnke, and John Baxindine, among others, and performed by an orchestra of 17 under the baton of Richard Carsey. Produced by Tommy Krasker and Bart Migal. PSClassics.com.

Compiled by Talkin' Broadway Staff.