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Digital Music Now Available:

Zachary James Live at Crazy Coqs, London
(new digital album)
Broadway (The Addams Family, West End (Hadestown), and opera singer/actor Zachary James with George Francis on piano. "There's No Business Like Show Business," "Why We Build The Wall," "Pure Imagination," "A New Town Is A Blue Town," "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams," "Sixteen Tons," "I Feel Like I'm Not Out Of Bed Yet," "Some Enchanted Evening," "This Nearly Was Mine," "Stars," "Move Toward the Darkness," "You'll Never Walk Alone," "No One Is Alone," "You'll Never Walk Alone Reprise," "Over The Rainbow," "What A Wonderful World," "Over The Rainbow Reprise," "The Impossible Dream," "Thank You Crazy Coqs," "Flowers." Recorded before live audiences in London in July of 2024. Released 12/31/24.

Books Now Available:

In Gad We Trust: A Tell-Some
(Gallery Books - Hardcover Book/Audible Audiobook/Audiobook on CD)
Collection personal stories by Josh Gad (The Book of Mormon, Guttenberg! The Musical!). 272 pages.

Music to Be Released This Friday, January 17:

The Shape of Things: Songs from Joy The Musical
(Joy Machine Records - new digital album)
Concept album for musical about Joy Mangano, with a score by and performed by Annmarie Milazzo. Piano: Andy Einhorn and Sonny Paladino; guitars: Ben Butler; bass: Jeffery Allen; drums and percussion: Rich Mercurio; cello: Yair Evnine. Music supervision by Andy Einhorn. Recorded and mixed at Renaissance Studio, NYC. JoytheMusical.com. Produced by Sonny Paladino.

Ari Axelrod: A Place For Us: A Celebration of Jewish Broadway
(PS Classics - new on CD/digital)
Singer Ari Axelrod with 13-piece orchestra arranged and conducted by Mike Stapleton. "Migratory V," "Hatikvah," "Hope," "Everybody Says Don’t," "You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To / Papirosn," "So in Love," "Shalom / Milk and Honey / I Will Follow You," "You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught / Children Will Listen," "Some Enchanted Evening," "Shy," "Corner of the Sky," "God Knows Where," "Miracle of Miracles," "It Ain’t Necessarily So," "Lost in the Stars," "Cool," "Somewhere," "Bring Him Home," "Adrift on a Star." Additional arrangements by Larry Yurman. 0Produced by Tommy Krasker and Bart Migal, with Ron Thomas serving as executive producer. Special album release concert at New York’s 54 Below on Saturday, January 18 at 7:00 PM.

Newly Listed Recordings:

March 28:

Once Upon a Mattress
(Center Stage Records / Shout! Broadway - new on CD/digital)
2024 Broadway revival cast recording of score by Mary Rodgers (music) and Marshall Barer (lyrics). The cast includes Sutton Foster, Michael Urie, Nikki Renée Daniels, David Patrick Kelly, Ana Gasteyer, Will Chase, Daniel Breaker, and Brooks Ashmanskas. Produced by Amy Sherman-Palladino, Adam Guettel, Lawrence Manchester, and Jenny Gersten. Executive produced by Van Dean for Center Stage Records and Douglas Denoff for Shout! Broadway.

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

New details for February 7 release:

Swept Away
(Joy Machine Records - new digital album)
OBC recording of score by The Avett Brothers (book by John Logan). Cast includes John Gallagher, Jr., Stark Sands, Adrian Blake Enscoe, Wayne Duvall. "Prelude," "The Charnel House," "Go to Sleep," "Hard Worker (Part 1)," "Nothing Short of Thankful," "Hard Worker (Part 2)," "Swept Away," "Lord Lay Your Hand on My Shoulder," "Ain't No Man," "May It Last," "Murder in the City," "The Shipwreck," "A Gift for Melody Anne," "Through My Prayers," "Two Tableaux," "Satan Pulls the Strings," "No Hard Feelings" (now available), "Go to Sleep (Reprise)," "Finale." Produced by Brian Usifer, Chris Miller, Will Van Dyke, and Madison Wells Live. CD format expected in early 2025.

Compiled by Talkin' Broadway Staff.