Talkin' Broadway Sound Advice Recap Week of 2/13/24
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Digital Music Now Available:
Mandela - A New Musical
(Center Stage Records - new digital album)
Original London cast recording of score by Greg Dean Borowsky and Shaun Borowsky, with additional music and lyrics by Bongi Duma. Live from the Young Vic. (Book by Laiona Michelle). Starring Michael Luwoye and Danielle Fiamanya.
Books Now Available:
Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
(Bloomsbury - Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition)
By Philip Gefter. The author traces Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? from its origins in Greenwich Village's bohemian enclave, through its tormented production process, to its explosion onto screens across America and a permanent place in the canon of cinematic marriages. 368 pages.
Music to Be Released This Friday:
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 Don't," "Good Thing Going," "Broadway Baby," "Uptown, Downtown," "It Wasn't 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.
Newly Listed Books:
April 5:
To Repair the World: Zelda Fichandler and the Transformation of American Theater
(Routledge - Hardcover/Paperback/Kindle Edition)
By Mary B. Robinson. Biography in the form of an oral history about Zelda Fichandler, whose founding of Arena Stage in Washington, DC in 1950 shifted live professional theater away from Broadway and inspired the creation of non-profit theaters around the country. Dianne Wiest, James Earl Jones, Stacy Keach, and Jane Alexander, among many others, share their memories of this intrepid pioneering woman during Arena Stages early years. Fichandler was Head of New York Universitys Graduate Acting Program for 25 years. 368 pages.
May 6:
The Irish Repertory Theatre: Celebrating Thirty-Five Years Off-Broadway
(Palgrave Macmillan - Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition)
By Maria Szasz. History of the multi-award winning Off-Broadway Irish Repertory Theatre Company, from its beginning in 1988 to its thirty-fifth season in 2023. Considers how the Irish Rep's plays and musicals reflect the Irish diaspora, the relationship between Ireland and America, and what it means to be Irish and Irish American, both historically, and in the twenty-first century. 185 pages.
