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Note: The next udpate will be published on Tuesday, July 30

Digital Music Now Available:

Teeth
(Yellow Sound Label - new digital album)
Playwrights Horizons cast recording of score by Anna K. Jacobs and Michael R. Jackson. Courtney Bassett, Phoenix Best, Will Connolly, Jason Gotay, Jenna Rose Husli, Jared Loftin, Alyse Alan Louise, Steven Pasquale, Lexi Rhoades, Wren Rivera, Helen J Shen. Released 7/12/24.

Books Now Available:

Appropriate/An Octoroon: Plays
(Theatre Communications Group - Paperback Book)
Two plays by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. Revised edition. 260 pages.

Say It with a Beautiful Song: The Art and Craft of the Great American Songbook
(Roman & Littlefield - Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition)
By Michael Lasser and Harmon Greenblatt. Looks at the Great American Songbook's craft and its mastery through essential elements of the beloved songs, investigating the qualities that make the songbook a unique staple of American culture. With anecdotes, each chapter looks at a variety of songs thematically and dives into the lives of songwriters. 210 pages.

Music to Be Released This Friday, July 19:

The Notebook
(Atlantic Records - new on CD)
OBC recording of score by Ingrid Michaelson. Cast includes Maryann Plunkett, Dorian Harewood, Joy Woods, Ryan Vasquez, Jordan Tyson, John Cardoza, Andréa Burns, and Carson Stewart. "Time," "Dance With Me," "Carry You Home," "Blue Shutters," "I Paint," "Sadness and Joy," "Leave The Light On," "What Happens," "I Wanna Go Back," "If This Is Love," "Kiss Me," "Home," "We Have To Try," "Forever," "Iron In The Fridge," "Don't You Worry," "It's Not Easy," "My Days," "I Love You More," "I Know," "Coda." Digital released 4/19/24.

Newly Listed Recordings:

August 16:

Water for Elephants
(Ghostlight Records - new on CD)
OBC recording of score by PigPen Theatre Co. (book by Rick Elice). Two singles, "Wild" and "Silver Stars," now available. Cast includes Grant Gustin, Isabelle McCalla, Gregg Edelman, Paul Alexander Nolan, Stan Brown, Joe De Paul, Sara Gettelfinger, and Wade McCollum. Produced by Mary-Mitchell Campbell and Ian Kagey. "Anywhere/Another Train," "The Road Don't Make You Young," "Easy," "The Lion Has Got No Teeth," "I Choose The Ride," "Ode To An Elephant," "Just Our Luck," "I Shouldn't Be Surprised," "Silver Stars," "The Grand Spec," "Funny Angel," "Zostan," "Squeaky Wheel," "You've Got Nothing, Pt. 1," "You've Got Nothing, Pt. 2," "What Do You Do?," "Wild," "Go Home," "Finale (I Choose The Ride)." Digital version released earlier.

September 6:

Rodgers & Hammerstein's Carousel
(Chandos - new digital/SACD)
Studio recording of score by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein. Nathaniel Hackmann, Sierra Boggess, Francesca Chiejina, Mikaela Bennett, Julian Ovenden, David Seadon-Young. "Prologue (The Carousel Waltz)," Change of Scene, Opening Act I, Scene 2, "Mister Snow," "If I Loved You," Opening Act I, Scene 3, "June Is Bustin' Out All Over," "June Is Bustin' Out All Over" (Encore), Girls' Dance: June Is Bustin' Out All Over, Julie's Entrance, "Mister Snow," "When the Children Are Asleep," "Blow High, Blow Low," Hornpipe with Ensemble, Hornpipe Exit, "Soliloquy," Finale Act I, Entr'acte, Opening Act II, "A Real Nice Clambake," "Geraniums in the Winder" / "Stonecutters Cut It on Stone,""What's the Use of Wond'rin'," Change of Scene, "You'll Never Walk Alone," Incidental (Entrance of Heavenly Friends), "The Highest Judge of All," Exit of Billy and Heavenly Friends, Ballet, Music under Scene (My Little Girl), Carrie's Incidental, "If I Loved You," "You'll Never Walk Alone" (Reprise), Exit Music (If I Loved You). Sinfonia of London conducted by John Wilson. Produced by Jonathan Allen. Recorded 4/23/24 at Susie Sainsbury Theatre, Royal Academy of Music, London. Chandos.net

Newly Listed Books:

August 14:

Fishamble Tiny Plays
(New Island Books - Paperback Book/Kindle Edition)
All 70 tiny plays commissioned by Fishamble for Tiny Plays for Ireland, Tiny Plays 24/7, and Tiny Plays for a Brighter Future performed in Dublin, New York City, and Washington DC. 320 pages.

September 24:

The Play's the Thing: Fifty Years of Yale Repertory Theatre (1966-2016)
(Yale Univ Press - Hardcover Book)
By James Magruder. Foreword by Marguerite Elliott and Rocco Landesman. Each of four chapters is dedicated to one of the Yale Rep's artistic directors to date: Robert Brustein, Lloyd Richards, Stan Wojewodski Jr., and James Bundy. Numerous sidebars are dedicated to the spaces used by the theater, the playwrights produced most often, casting, the prop shop, the costume shop, artist housing, and other topics. Illustrated. Based in part on interviews with some of America’s most respected actors about their experiences at the Rep. 400 pages.

Compiled by Talkin' Broadway Staff.