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CDs Now Available:
 Jeff Harnar Sings Sammy Cahn: The Second Time Around
(PS Classics - new on CD/digital)
Jeff Harner updates his out-of-print 2001 release with six new tracks and guest vocalists Clint Holmes, MOIPEI and Nicole Zuraitis. "All the Way," "I'll Only Miss Him When I Think of Him," "Come Fly with Me" (with Nicole Zuraitis), "Love Is a Bore," "Teach Me Tonight," "The Second Time Around," "Bei Mir Bist du Schön," (with MOIPEI), "I Fall in Love Too Easily," "Come Dance with Me/I Like to Lead When I Dance" (Clint Holmes), "Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night in the Week) / I'll Walk Alone / It's Been a Long, Long Time," "Call Me Irresponsible," "My Kind of Town," "Blame My Absent-Minded Heart," "Be My Love," "I Should Care," "Time After Time." PSClassics.com. Released 7/26/24.
 Nick Cartell: A Thousand Spotlights
(Club44 Records - new on CD/digital)
Broadway actor-singer Nick Cartell (Jesus Christ Superstar, Scandalous: The Musical, Paramour, The Phantom of the Opera and Les Miserables national tours). "Blue Skies," "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes," "It All Fades Away," "On the Street Where You Live," "Why Should I Worry?," "Never Enough," "You'll Be In My Heart," "Music of the Night," "Bring Him Home." Produced and orchestrated by Brian Eads and Wayne Haun. Released 7/26/24
 The Wiz
(Immersive/Interscope - on CD)
2024 Broadway revival cast recording of score by Charlie Smalls (and others). Cast includes Nichelle Lewis, Wayne Brady, Deborah Cox, Melody A. Betts, Kyle Ramar Freeman, Phillip Johnson Richardson, and Avery Wilson. "Overture/Soon as I Get Home (Preprise)," "The Feeling We Once Had," "The Tornado," "He's the Wizard," "Soon as I Get Home," "You Can't Win," "Slide Some Oil to Me," "Mean Ole Lion," "Ease on Down the Road," "Be a Lion," "Meet the Wizard," "What Would I Do If I Could Feel," "We're Gonna Make It," "Don't Nobody Bring Me No Bad News," "Wonder, Wonder Why," "Everybody Rejoice/Brand New Day," "Y'All Got It," "Ease on Down the Road (Reprise)," "Believe in Yourself," "Home." Digital version released previously. Released 7/26/24.
Digital Music Now Available:
 Alice Down the Rabbit Hole
(Center Stage Records - new digital album)
Recording of score of new Metta Theatre (UK) musical; P Burton-Morgan (book and lyrics) and Pippa Cleary (music and lyrics). Rob Madge, Lara Denning, Lem Knights, Dan Buckley, Grace Mouat, Alastair Brookshaw, Grace Davey, Parisa Shahmir, and Darcey Fryer. "Down the Rabbit Hole," "Running Out Of Time," "Paint It Red," "Find Your Wings," "What Next?," "Mad," "Off With His Head," "Delivery," "I Can't Do It All," "The Space In Between," "Pull Together," "Paint It Green," "Lara Denning, Grace Davey & Alistair Brookshaw," "Join the Dance." Mixed and mastered by Joe and Nikki Davision for Auburn Jam. Musical director Natalie Pound. Joe Davison plays keys, accordion, percussion, and additional programming; Nikki Davison plays electric guitar, bass guitar, saxophone, oboe, whistle and additional programming; Jessie May Sharp plays violin; John Gregson plays acoustic guitar and mandolin. Released 7/19/24. CenterStageRecords.com.
 Allyson Briggs Sings Burt Bacharach
(Fleur Seule - new digital album)
"Do You Know the Way to San Jose," "I'll Never Fall in Love Again," "Trop'ns Fin Regen Oif Mein Kop (Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head)" (with Julie Benko), "What the World Needs Now Is Love," "One Less Bell to Answer," "Anyone Who Had a Heart," "Uninvited Dream," "My Rock and Foundation," "(There's) Always Something There to Remind Me," "Wenn Ich Mir Was Wünschen Dürfte," "Casino Royale," "This Girl's In Love with You," "Promises, Promises," "Walk on By," "Alfie," "(They Long to Be) Close to You," "I Say a Little Prayer," "The Look of Love," "Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)," "That's What Friends Are For." Released 7/26/24.
 I'm on My Way: Melinda Rose & Pianist Frenchy Romero
(new digital album)
Melinda Rose (vocals) and Frenchy Romero (piano), members of the Army Blues. "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off," "Once Upon a Summertime," "If It's Magic," "It Could Happen to You," "Don't Come Back," "I'd Do It All Again," "In My Own Little Corner (feat. Summer Camargo)," "I'm on My Way," "You Can Have Him," "It's Not You, It's Me." With bassist Vince Dupont, drummer Matt Wilson, and trumpeter Summer Camargo. Released 7/19/24.
 Lifeline
(Center Stage Records - new digital album)
Concept album for score by Robin Hiley (Becky Hope-Palmer wrote the book for this musical about Alexander Fleming, the Scottish scientist whose discovery of penicillin revolutionized medicine). Cast includes Aaron Lazar, Arielle Jacobs, Nathan Salstone, Jay Armstrong Johnson, Mia Gerachis. Released 7/26/24. CenterStageRecords.com Released 7/26/24.
 Patti Lupone: A Life In Notes
(Center Stage Records - new digital album)
"A Song for You," "Come On-a My House," "Summertime, Summertime," "Ebb Tide," "We Kiss in a Shadow / Teen Angel / Town Without Pity," "I Wish It So," "Some People," "Lilac Wine," "Alfie," "Saratoga Summer Song," "The Man That Got Away," "Those Were the Days," "On Broadway," "Don’t Cry for Me Argentina," "I Dreamed a Dream," "The Ladies Who Lunch," "Stars," "Anything Goes," "I Didn’t Know What Time it Was," "Make You Feel My Love," "Ready to Begin Again (Manya’s Song)," "Forever Young," "In My Life / Those Were the Days." Music director Joseph Thalken on piano, Brad Phillips on strings. Conceived and directed by Scott Wittman. Produced by Michael Croiter. Executive produced by Patti LuPone, Van Dean and Staci Levine. Released 7/19/24. 2-CD set to be released 8/30/24.
 The Stationmaster
(Auburn Jam Records - new digital album)
Score by Tim Connor (book by Susannah Pearse). Orchestrations by Jason Carr. Cast includes Nigel Richards, Alex Young, Jessica Sherman, Nicola Sloane, John Coates as Martin Cartwright, Kailun Dennie as Davey, Abiona Omonua as Mrs. Teasley, Rhys Jennings as Inspector/Joe/Judge/Ghost, and Adam Stickler. The musical debuted at Tristan Bates Theatre in 2015. Released 7/26/24.
 Two Strangers (Carry A Cake Across New York)
(new EP)
Score by Jim Barne and Kit Buchan (book by Kit Buchan). Eight tracks. The show was first produced first produced in 2019 in Ipswich and Northampton in 2019 and is playing now on the West End at the Criterion Theatre. Dujonna Gift and Sam Tutty.
Books Now Available:
 My First Book–Part 2
(New Paperback Book/Kindle Edition/Audible Audiobook)
Second memoir by veteran motion picture, television and Broadway producer Julian Schlossberg. Je shares stories from his 60 years in show business including new profiles of working with Peter Falk, Elaine May, Mike Nichols, George C. Scott, John Cassavetes and many others. Released 6/4/24.
To Be Released This Friday, August 2:
 Brian Friel: Beginnings
(Four Courts Press - Paperback Book)
By Kelly Matthews. Based on newly discovered documents in the BBC and New Yorker archives, the book reveals Friel's youthful personality and his struggles to get noticed as a young writer. His correspondence with his first mentors - Belfast BBC radio producer Ronald Mason, New Yorker editor Roger Angell, and theatre director Tyrone Guthrie - shows how he shaped his early work, how he chose to write for the theatre, and how the patterns that became so memorable in his later plays were set in motion by his beginnings. 256 pages.
 The Great Gatsby
(Sony Masterworks Broadway - new on CD)
OBC recording of score by Jason Howland and Nathan Tysen (book by Kait Kerrigan). Cast includes Jeremy Jordan, Eva Noblezada, Noah J. Ricketts, Samantha Pauly, Sara Chase, John Zdrojeski, Paul Whitty, and Eric Anderson. Digital released 6/21/24.
 Natalie Jacob: Sooner or Later
(new digital album)
Jazz vocalist Natalie Jacob sings songs from The Great American Songbook and three bossa nova standards by Jobim. Scotty Barnhart on Trumpet, pianist Tamir Hendelman, guitarist Anthony Wilson, bassist Carlitos Del Puerto, drummer Clayton Cameron, and percussionist Kevin Winard. "Exactly Like You," "Wave," "I Could Write a Book," "Smile," "East of the Sun," "What a Little Moonlight Can Do," "Corcovado," "I've Got You Under My Skin," "Sooner or Later," "Chega de Saudade (No More Blues)." Arrangements by Barnhart and Hendelman. Produced by Scotty Barnhart.
Newly Listed Recordings:
August 23:
 Aaron Lazar: Impossible Dream
(new album)
Lazar sings with Neil Patrick Harris, Josh Groban, Kristin Chenoweth, Kelli O'Hara, Leslie Odom, Jr., Kate Baldwin, Norm Lewis, Loren Allred, the late Rebecca Luker, National Children's Chorus, and the Broadway Inspirational Voices. The album finale is group performance of "The Impossible Dream" with the aforementioned celebrities plus Lin-Manuel Miranda, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Liz Callaway, Joanna Gleason, Brian d'Arcy James, Adrienne Warren, Shoshana Bean, Christy Altomare, Christiane Noll, Adam Jacobs, and more. Album sales benefit ALS Network. Special preorder link.
 Ingrid Michaelson: For the Dreamers
(Cabin 24 - new digital album/CD/cloudy-clear vinyl LP)
Ingrid Michaelson (The Notebook) with Juan Ariza. "Wait There for Me," "Love Is," "We Belong," "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes," "If This Is Love (For the Dreamers version)," "What a Wonderful World," "Grow Up," "Only You," "You Make Me Feel So Young," "Hallelujah," "It Never Ends," "Backyard."
September 27:
September 27, 2024
 Suffs
(Atlantic Records - new on CD)
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." Digital version previously released.
Compiled by Talkin' Broadway Staff.
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