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Digital Music Now Available:

Asad Mecci and Rufus Wainwright: An Exploration of Hypnotic Sound
(Rialto Records - digital album)
New age album by master hypnotist Asad Mecci and musician Rufus Wainwright (HYPROV: Improv Under Hypnosis. Produced by Sarah Power.

Lisa Dawn Miller: "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"
(digital single)
Singer/songwriter Lisa Dawn Miller.

Straight Forward
(new EP)
Score by by Billy Aberle and Chris Sabol. Mike Ferlita and Thomas McFerran. Orchestrations by Michael Starobin.

Books Now Available:

Ira Gershwin: A Life in Words
(Liveright - Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition)
By Michael Owen. First full-length biography devoted to the life of Ira Gershwin. Draws on extensive archival sources and often using Ira's own words. 30 illustrations. 400 pages.

The Show Goes On: Broadway Hirings, Firings and Replacements
(STCK Books - new Paperback book)
By Ron Fassler. Conducting more than a hundred interviews, Fassler has drawn from a wide range of the New York theatre community gathering dozens of stories that border on the heroic. How is a suitable replacement chosen to take over on Broadway? What goes into an actor making a role their own in the shadow of another's highly lauded performance? What happens when someone hops on the moving train that is a multi-million dollar production and replaces a flailing actor during an out of town tryout? 462 pages.

Suffs
(Theatre Communications Group - Paperback Book)
Libretto for musical by Shaina Taub. 144 pages.

Newly Listed Recordings:

December 6:

Eight Immortals
(new digital album)
Sam Tsui and Casey Breves' new song cycle based on a series of popular Chinese myths. Jon Jon Briones, Samantha Williams, Justin David Sullivan, Ashley Chiu, Megan Loughran, Casey Breves, Sam Tsui, Ben Jones.

Tommy Steele: On Air
(Stage Door Records - new on CD)
recordings made by Tommy Steele from his popular 1964 radio series 'The Tommy Steele Show'. All of the performances featured on this collection have gone unheard since their original transmission. 31 tracks. Limited edition of 500 units. StageDoorRecords.com

2025, release date TBA:

Death Becomes Her
(Concord Recordings - new album)
Original Broadway cast recording of score by Julia Mattison and Noel Carey (book by Marco Pennette). Megan Hilty, Jennifer Simard, Christopher Sieber, Michelle Williams, Taurean Everett, and Josh Lamon. Four tracks available now.

Newly Listed Books:

December 13:

The Gershwins Abroad
(SCHOTT - Hardcover Book)
By Ira Gershwin. Michael Owen, editor. Ira Gershwin's account of the 1928 European trip. Vivid – oftentimes humorous – descriptions of the numerous parties given for the Gershwins; the concerts of George's compositions, and his work on the tone poem "An American in Paris"; meetings with such artistic luminaries as Sergei Prokofiev and Alban Berg; encounters with members of high society; Ira's wide-ranging choice of reading material; and entertaining anecdotes about the food and drink consumed along the way. First time in print. 256 pages.

Compiled by Talkin' Broadway Staff.