Talkin' Broadway Sound Advice Recap Week of 1/2/24
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CDs Now Available:
Wonka
(Watertower Music - new on CD/digital)
Soundtrack for live action 2023 film. Songs by Neil Hannon; original score by Joby Talbot. Cast includes Timothée Chalamet, Calah Lane, Keegan-Michael Key, Paterson Joseph, Matt Lucas, Mathew Baynton, Jim Carter, Olivia Colman and Hugh Grant. "Pure Imagination" (Opening Titles Version), "A Hatful of Dreams," "Welcome to Scrubbit's," "You've Never Had Chocolate Like This" (Hoverchocs), "Flying Chocolatiers," "Scrub Scrub," "Wonka's Case," "Sweet Tooth," "Willy and Noodle at the Zoo," "For a Moment," "The Letter 'A'," "Clock Tower," "You've Never Had Chocolate Like This," "Oompa Loompa," "A World of Your Own," "Sorry, Noodle," "Mamma's Secret," "Pure Imagination," "Oompa Loompa" (Reprise), "500 Monks, 1 Giraffe," "Death By Chocolate," "The Oompa Loompa to the Rescue," "Noodle Gives Affable the Ledger," "Chocolate Fountain." Released 12/5/23.
Digital Music Now Available:
The Color Purple
(Watertower Music - new digital album)
Soundtrack from 2023 musical film. Songs from the stage musical by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis, and Stephen Bray; and songs by Alicia Keys, Usher, Mary J. Blige, Megan Thee Stallion, Jennifer Hudson, Tamela Mann, Mörda, Brenden Praise, Keyshia Cole, Ludmilla, Jorja Smith, Coco Jones, Mary Mary, Missy Elliott, H.E.R, Fantasia, and Ciara. Cast includes Fantasia, Colman Domingo, Corey Hawkins, Danielle Brooks, Taraji P. Henson, H.E.R. "Workin'," "Hell No!," "Shug Avery," "Dear God - Shug," "Push Da Button," "What About Love?," "Agoo," "Hell No! (Reprise)," "Miss Celie's Blues (Sister)," "Miss Celie's Pants," "I'm Here," "Maybe God Is Tryin' To Tell You Somethin'," "The Color Purple," "Superpower." Released 12/15/23. CD and vinyl versions to be released 3/8/24. Also available, the 2-CD set Music From and Inspired by The Color Purple.
"Fly Away"
(4 Times Entertainment - new digital single)
Song from Jo - The Little Women Musical (music by Dan Redfeld and lyrics by Christina Harding and John Gabriel Koladziej) performed by Jenna Lea Rose and members of the Hollywood Studio Symphony.
Books Now Available:
The Final Curtain: Obituaries of Fifty Great Actors
(Unicorn Publishing Group - Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition)
By Michael Coveney. Fifty articles (from the the Guardian, the Observer, the Financial Times, and the Evening Standard) arranged in chronological order of each actors demise, constituting a vivid history of postwar theatre through the lives of the actors. There are happy/sad juxtapositions of shooting stars Robert Stephens and Alan Bates; tragic niece and aunt, Natasha Richardson and Lynn Redgrave; classical queens Diana Rigg and Barbara Jefford; and versatile showtime hoofers Una Stubbs and Lionel Blair. 256 pages. Released 12/28/23.
Newly Listed Recordings:
February 6:
Waitress musical
(Bleecker Street Media/Decal - new on DVD/Blu-ray)
Filmed live capture (at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre) of the Broadway musical, music and lyrics by Sara Bareilles, book by Jessie Nelson. Cast includes Sara Bareilles, Charity Angél Dawson, Caitlin Houlahan, Drew Gehling, Dakin Matthews, Eric Anderson, Joe Tippett, and Christopher Fitzgerald. Show directed by Diane Paulus. Brett Sullivan directed the live filming and Nelson served as a film creative advisor. Dolby Digital 5.1 track with an aspect ratio of 1.85. 144 minutes. Also to be available for streaming in January 2024.
February 16:
Melissa Errico: Sondheim in the City
(Concord Theatricals Recordings - new on CD/digital)
"Dawn," "Another Hundred People," "Opening Doors / What More Do I Need?," "Take Me To The World," "Can That Boy Foxtrot!," "Anyone Can Whistle," "Everybody Says Dont," "Good Thing Going," "Broadway Baby," "Uptown, Downtown," "It Wasnt Meant To Happen," "Little Things You Do Together," "Sorry-Grateful," "Being Alive." Musicians include Tedd Firth on piano, David Finck on bass, Lewis Nash on drums and Matt Munisteri on guitar. Arrangements by Tedd Firth. Recorded, edited and mixed by Alex Venguer and mastered by Scott Hull.
Release date in February 2024:
Titanic
(Stage2View)
Filmed musical, with a score by Maury Yeston, that was shown in cinemas. Now streaming at BroadwayHD, to be available for global streaming 8/1/24, and released in physical format sometime in 2024 with Liberator Films and MVD Entertainment Group.
