Talkin' Broadway Sound Advice Recap Week of 1/9/24
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CDs Now Available:
Brent Carver: Walk Me to the Corner
(Mirvish - new on CD)
Solo recording by Brent Carver, released posthumously. "The Falling In Love With You Part," "I'll Change," "When the Red, Red Robin"/"Great Expectations," "Running Out of Heroes," "A Lover's Concerto," "Don't Let Me See You Cry," "Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)," "Changing the Guards"/"When the Idle Poor Become the Idle Rich," "My Land," "Si Les BateauxIf All the Ships," "The World Is Changing," "The Man Who Wrote Danny Boy."Mirvish-Productions-New.com
Maestro: Music By Leonard Bernstein
(Verve/Deutsche Grammophon - new on CD/digital/2-disc vinyl set)
Soundtrack for the 2023 film. London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. 21 tracks. Released in November/December 2023.
Digital Music Now Available:
Hugh Panaro: Man without a Mask
(new digital album)
Recorded live over two nights in October 2022 at 54 Below. "Live with Somebody You Love," "Why God, Why?," "Make Believe / You Are Love," "You Dont Bring Me Flowers," "Bring Him Home," "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables," "One Plus One," "You Have Never Failed Me," "The Music of the Night," "Encore: It Only Takes a Moment," "Encore: Moon River." Directed by Richard Jay-Alexander. Music direction by Joseph Thalken. CD version expected with a booklet. Released 12/30/23.
Myths and Hymns
(new digital album)
Guitarist Garrett Gleason's re-working of Adam Guettel's song cycle, with Artie Sadtler on bass and Olaolu Ajibade on drums. The closing song, "Saturn Returns (Reprise)," was reimagined by Gleason and Guettel.
Books Now Available:
Behind The Curtain: My Life And Rocky Horror
(Grosvenor House Publishing - new Paperback book)
By Martin Fitzgibbon. The drummer in the original London cast of The Rocky Horror Show gives his insight into how the show and its participants became an overnight success and created a cultural phenomenon which fifty years on still reverberates around the world. 174 pages. Released 11/3/23.
Music to Be Released This Friday, January 12:
Kimberly Akimbo
(Ghostlight Records - 2-disc vinyl set)
2022 original Broadway cast recording of score by Jeanine Tesori and David Lindsay-Abaire. Victoria Clark, Steven Boyer, Justin Cooley, Alli Mauzey, Bonnie Milligan, Olivia Elease Hardy, Fernell Hogan, Michael Iskander, Nina White. DISC 1: "Skater Planet," "Hello, Darling," "Make a Wish," "Anagram," "Better," "Hello, Darling #2," "Father Time," "Happy for Her," "This Time"; DISC 2: "How to Wash a Check," "Good Kid," "Hello, Baby," "Skater Planet (Reprise)," "Our Disease," "The Inevitable Turn," "Now," "How to Wash a Check (Reprise)," "Before I Go," "Great Adventure." If booklet is the same as the CD, it features complete lyrics, color photography and liner notes by Washington Post theater writer Peter Marks. GhostlightRecords.com. Released earlier in digital format.
Mark Winkler: The Rules Don't Apply
(Café Pacific Records - new album)
Vocalist/songwriter Mark Winkler's 21st album. With 16 top musicians who play in various combinations. "Sunday in L.A.," "I.G.Y (What a Wonderful World)," "The Joy of Singing," "In Love in New York," "Got to Get You into My Life," "The Rules Don't Apply," "Something So Right," "Just Around the Corner," "If These Walls Could Talk," "Jazz Swings," "Mama Told Me Not to Come," "Lessons I've Learned," "Here's to Jazz."
Mean Girls (Music from the Motion Picture)
(Interscope - digital album)
2024 musical film based on the stage musical. Songs by Jeff Richmond (music) and Nell Benjamin (lyrics) and score by Richmond. Album cast includes Avantika, Auli'i Cravalho, Tim Meadows, Reneé Rapp, Angourie Rice, Jaquel Spivey, Bebe Wood. "A Cautionary Tale," "What Ifs," "Meet the Plastics," "Stupid With Love," "Apex Predator," "What's Wrong With Me?," "Sexy," "Someone Gets Hurt," "Revenge Party," "World Burn," "I'd Rather Be Me," "I See Stars," "Not My Fault."
Merrily We Roll Along
(Masterworks Broadway - new on CD)
2023 Broadway revival cast recording of Score by Stephen Sondheim (book by George Furth). Jonathan Groff, Lindsay Mendez, and Daniel Radcliffe with Krystal Joy Brown, Katie Rose Clarke, and Reg Rogers. "Overture," "Merrily We Roll Along," "That Frank," "First Transition," "Old Friends -- Like It Was," "Franklin Shepard, Inc.," "Second Transition," "Old Friends," "Growing Up," "Third Transition," "Not a Day Goes By," "Not a Day Goes By," "Now You Know," "Gussie's Opening Number," "It's a Hit!," "Fourth Transition," "The Blob - Part I," "Growing Up," "Good Thing Going," "The Blob - Part II," "Fifth Transition," "Bobby and Jackie and Jack," "Not a Day Goes By," "Sixth Transition," "Opening Doors," "Seventh Transition," "Our Time." Released digitally 11/15/23.
Newly Listed Recordings:
February 12:
The Prince of Egypt: The Musical
(Dazzler Media/Universal Pictures - new Blu-ray/PAL DVD)
Stage musical based on the 1998 animated film. Original London cast. Score by Stephen Schwartz; book by Philip LaZebnik. Filmed live at the Dominion Theatre in London. Choreography by Sean Cheesman. Set designs by Kevin Depinet. Costume designs by Ann Hould-Ward. Lighting design by Mike Billings. Sound design by Gareth Owen. Shown in cinemas in 2023 and is now streaming. 2 hours and 24 minutes.
Release date TBA:
Here We Are
(new album)
Score by Stephen Sondheim (book by David Ives). Cast includes Francois Battiste, Tracie Bennett, Bobby Cannavale, Micaela Diamond, Amber Gray, Jin Ha, Rachel Bay Jones, Denis O'Hare, Steven Pasquale, David Hyde Pierce, and Jeremy Shamos. Details and release date TBA.
Newly Listed Books:
March 5:
Letters from an Actor: Anniversary Edition
(Applause - revised edition in Paperback)
By William Redfield. Foreword by Sam Mendes. Afterword by Adam Redfield. William Redfield's (Guildenstern) series of letters describing the daily happenings and his impressions of them during the three months of preparation for the 1964 Hamlet, from rehearsals through out-of-town tryouts to the gala opening night on Broadway. New edition brings Redfield's classic back into print, as The Motive and the Cue, the Sam Mendes-directed play about the Gielgud production that is based in part on the book, continues its run in the West End. 264 pages.
March 31:
The Great Gatsby: The 1926 Broadway Script
(Cambridge Univ Press - new Hardcover Book)
James L. W. West III and Anne Margaret Daniel, editors. Script for Owen Davis' adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel. The show played the Ambassador Theatre in 1926. Photographs of the original sets and actors, reviews. 150 pages.
April 2:
Broadway Melody
(Benzinger & Frank - new Kindle Edition)
Novel by Jack Viertel. "A show business romance crossing 7000 miles and 70 years..."
