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Complete information on all known upcoming releases of theatre related audio and video recordings can be found on our Upcoming Releases page. Recordings released last week and earlier can be viewed here.
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CDs Now Available:
Chip Deffaa's Say It with Music: The Irving Berlin Saga
(Garret Mountain Music - new on CD and digital)
Cast album of biographical show with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. Written and arranged by Chip Deffaa. Cast includes Michael Townsend Wright, Jed Peterson, Santa Claire Hirsch, Katherine Paulsen, Keith Anderson, Danielle Tolep, Dee Julien, Caroline McFee, Jon Peterson, Ryan Muska, Analise Scarpaci as soloist , Chip Deffaa as Eddie Cantor, Jacqueline Parker. Musical director/pianist: Richard Danley. Released 4/30/21.
Petula Clark: In Copenhagen 1958-1960
(Stage Door Records - new import CD)
From the archives of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, dating from 1958 to 1960. A part of Petula Clark's career that to date has remained relatively unknown and unreported outside of Scandinavia. This specially compiled album features 23 recordings all of which are previously unissued on CD and unheard since their original broadcasts. Digitally remastered from the original master tapes. Selections from four Petula Clark television specials recorded and broadcast exclusively in Denmark over a two-year period. Musical accompaniment by Bent Fabric and His Quartet. Highlights include "The Folks Who Live on the Hill," "Over the Rainbow," "I"ll Be Seeing You" and "Among My Souvenirs". Strictly limited to 500 units only.
DIGITAL MUSIC Now Available:
Stone Crossed, A New Musical
(Broadway Records - new digital album)
Studio concept recording of score by Philip David Stern. Cast includes Krystina Alabado, Alex Boniello, Gabi Campo, Antonio Cipriano, Will Connolly, Telly Leung, Elle McLemore, Celia Rose Gooding, Jon Rua, Samantha Williams. At BroadwayRecords.com.
BOOKs Now Available:
Anna Held and the Birth of Ziegfeld's Broadway
(Univ Press of Kentucky - Paperback Book/Kindle Edition)
Updated edition of 2000 book by Eve Golden about the most popular musical comedy star during the two decades preceding World War I. The first wife of legendary producer Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., Held was the brains and inspiration behind his Follies. Together, they brought the Paris scene to New York, complete with lavish costumes and sets and a chorus of stunningly beautiful women, dubbed "The Anna Held Girls." She concealed her Jewish background and her daughter from a previous marriage, and suffered through her two husbands' gambling problems and Ziegfeld's conspicuous affairs with showgirls. She entertained troops and delivered medical supplies, and was once briefly captured by the German army. Through access to previously unseen family records and photographs. 244 pages.
MUSIC to be released this Friday, May 28:
J. Breckenridge: Monotony
(Red Card Records - new digital album)
Original songs by John Breckinridge. Carl Carter on bass, Alec Berlin on guitars, and David Paarlberg on keyboard. James Frazee provides drum programming. Breckenridge supplies all lead and background vocals.
Recordings NEWLY LISTED:
June 4, 2021:
Judy Wexler: Back to the Garden
(Jewel City Jazz - new on CD/digital)
Judy Wexler recasts iconic songs of the 1960s as jazz/pop anthems. "Get Together," "Up on the Roof," "American Tune," "Big Yellow Taxi," "The Times They are A'Changin'," "Since You've Asked," "For What It's Worth" (available now), "Everybody's Talkin'," "Forever Young," "Who Knows Where the Times Goes."
June 15, 2021:
Ziegfeld Follies
(Warner Archive - new Blu-ray)
1946 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer musical comedy film. Featuring many MGM stars.
June 25, 2021:
Naughty Marietta
(Harbinger Records/Musical Theater Project - new on CD)
Reissue of the Smithsonian Institution's 1981 recording of Victor Herbert/Rida Johnson Young score. First time on CD. Featuring Judith Blazer and Leslie Harrington. Conducted by James R. Morris. "Overture," "Opening Chorus," "Mysterious Melody," "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp," "Taisez-Vous," "Song From the Fountain," "Naughty Marietta," "It Never, Never Can Be Love," "If I Were Anybody Else but Me," "Neath the Southern Moon," "Italian Street Song," "Act I Finale," "Dance of the Marionettes," "You Marry a Marionette," "Loves of New Orleans," "The Sweet Bye and Bye," "Prelude to Live for Today," "Live for Today," "Im Falling in Love With Someone," "Its Pretty Soft for Simon," "Finale Ultimo." At MusicalTheaterProject.org.
July 2, 2021:
Show Time Series EP Collection Vol. 2
(Stage Door Records - on CD)
Compiles all 16 EPs which formed the "Show Time" Series as recorded and released by RCA Victor in 1953. Most of the tracks have never been released on CD. comprehensive sleeve note by Broadway historian George Dansker, including a complete sessionography of recording dates. Limited series of 500 units only. Order, see track list, and more at StageDoorRecords.com.
Tonight's the Night
(Kritzerland - new CD/Blu-ray/folio)
World premiere musical written and directed by Bruce Kimmel. Starring Eric Petersen and Hartley Powers. Blu-ray extras: audio commentary with writer/director Bruce Kimmel, actress Hartley Powers, and editor Marshall Harvey; Outside the Box all twelve episodes of the critically acclaimed musical web series; Revenge original streaming thriller; The Annual Kimmel Movie Marathon Trailer faux movie trailer for the Kimmel Movie Marathon unseen for forty-one years; Dirty Harry Strikes Back faux trailer made for The Creature Wasn't Nice. Cast recording also includes incidental music for Bruce Kimmel's online streaming thriller Revenge and his scores for Doug Haverty' plays In My Minds Eye and Top of the Tree, and more. At Kritzerland.com/.
August 24, 2021:
Thoroughly Modern Millie
(Kino Lorber - new Blu-ray)
1967 musical film. Directed by George Roy Hill. Starring Julie Andrews, James Fox, Mary Tyler Moore, Carol Channing, John Gavin, Beatrice Lillie. New 4k restoration of the roadshow edition of the film completed by Universal Pictures; New audio commentary by author/critic Lee Gambin and art historian Ian McAnally; two theatrical trailers (newly restored in 2K); optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature. 138 minutes.
Books NEWLY LISTED:
Rags: Revised Vocal Selections
(Hal Leonard - Paperback Book)
Vocal selections for Charles Strouse / Stephen Schwartz score. "Bella's Song (Pretty Girl)," "Blame It on the Summer Night," "Brand New World," "Children of the Wind," "Edge of a Knife," "If We Never Meet Again," "Little Lady," "Meet an Italian," "Rags," "Three Sunny Rooms," "Uptown," "Wanting," "Yankee Boy." 80 pages.
