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Blu-ray/DVDs Now Available:

Wicked
(Studio Dist Services - new Blu-ray/DVD/4k)
2024 musical film based on the Broadway musical. Score by Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman. Screenplay by Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox. Directed by Jon M. Chu. Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Bowen Yang, Marissa Bode, Peter Dinklage, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum. Two hours, forty minutes. Extras: sing along - alternate feature-length version; deleted and extended scenes; "Making Wicked"; "Welcome to Shiz"; "A Wicked Legacy"; "The Wonderful Wizard"; feature commentary with Jon M. Chu; feature commentary with Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande.

To Be Released by this Friday, February 7:

Hadley Fraser: Things that Come and Go
(Westway Music - new on CD/digital)
West End actor singer Hadley Fraser (Les Misérables, Chess concert) "In the Wee Small Hours," "I Get Along without You," "World on a String," "Accustomed to Her Face," "Fly Me to the Moon" (available now), "How Are You Fixed for Love" (with Maiya Quansah-Breed, "How Glory Goes," "Goodbye" (with Maiya Quansah-Breed, "I'm a Fool to Want You," "You Must Believe in Spring." Produced by Donald L Anderson for Palm Haven Studios and Hadley Fraser with arrangement and co-production by Sam Young.

If the Song Doesn't Work, Change the Dress: The Illustrated Memoirs of Broadway Costume Designer Patricia Zipprodt
(Methuen Drama - Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition)
Broadway costume designer Patricia Zipprodt (1925-99) tells her own colorful story, with Arnold Wengrow. Foreword by Joel Grey. From plunging into the developing Off-Broadway movement to charting her personal and professional failures and successes collaborating with the biggest artists of the day - Jerome Robbins, Hal Prince, and Bob Fosse, and more. Includes pictures from Zipprodt's own archive including sketches, drawings, and photographs of her work from some of the most significant shows of the 20th century, including Cabaret, Fiddler on the Roof, Chicago, and Pippin. Wengrow provides a vivid epilogue about her final battle with cancer. Drawing from her archive at the New York Public Library and Museum of the Performing Arts, he amplifies her recollections with letters, oral histories, and interviews she gave over the years to offer a portrait of an artist consistently working against the grain. 216 pages.

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.

Newly Listed Recordings:

February 10:

Three Houses
(new digital album)
Concept album for Dave Malloy musical. Margo Seibert, Mia Pak, J.D. Mollison, Ching Valdes-Aran, Henry Stram, Scott Stangland. Matias (conductor/piano), Blair Hamrick (french horn), Maria Bella Jeffers (cello), Dave Malloy (beats/organ), Yuko Naito-Gotay (violin), Scott Stangland (guitar). Music direction and supervision by Or Matias. Recorded at Sear Sound. davemalloy.bandcamp.com/album/three-houses.

February 14:

Romantics Anonymous
(Wise Children and Plush Theatricals - new digital album)
Live cast recording of score by Michael Kooman and Christopher Dimond (book by Emma Rice). Captured live during its 2020 run at Bristol Old Vic. Marc Antolin, Carly Bawden, Brett Brown, Me'sha Bryan, Harry Hepple, Laura Jane Matthewson, Sandra Marvin, Craig Pinder, and Gareth Snook.

Compiled by Talkin' Broadway Staff.