2021: July 27, 20, 13, 6 | June 29, 22, 15, 8, 1 | May 25, 18, 4-11 | April 27, 20, 13, 6 | March 30, 23, 16, 9, 2 | February 23, 16, 9, 2 | January 26, 19, 12, 5
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DIGITAL MUSIC Now Available:
For Tonight, a New Musical
(new digital album)
Original U.K. concept album. Score by Shenelle Salcido and Spencer Williams. Simon Gordon, Amy Di Bartolomeo, Dale Evans, Erin Caldwell, Jade Davies, Luke McCall, Jake Halsey-Jones, Soophia Foroughi, Glain Rhys, and John Ieuan Jones. Orchestrations by Shenelle Salcido and Joseph Purdue. Released 7/30/21. www.fortonightmusical.com. Released 7/20/21.
BOOKS Now Available:
Simon Stephens Plays 5: Wastwater; Birdland; Blindsided; Song From Far Away; Heisenberg
(Methuen Drama - Paperback Book/Kindle Edition)
Wastwater, Birdland, Blindsided, Song From Far Away, and Heisenberg. 408 pages. Released 7/29/21.
MUSIC to be released this Friday:
Barbra Streisand: Release Me 2
(Sony Legacy - new on CD/digital/vinyl)
Follow-up to Barbra Streisand's 2012 album, Release Me. Previously unreleased tracks from Barbras vault, including duets with Willie Nelson and Kermit the Frog. With songs by Burt Bacharach, Hal David, Barry Gibb, Paul Williams, Randy Newman, Michel Legrand and Alan & Marilyn Bergman, Harold Arlen, and Carole King. "Be Aware," "You Light Up My Life," "I'd Want It To Be You," "Sweet Forgiveness," "Living Without You," "One Day" (A Prayer)," "Rainbow Connection" (with Kermit the Frog)," "Right As The Rain," "If Only You Were Mine" (with Barry Gibb)," "Once You've Been In Love." Bonus track "When The Lovin Goes Out of the Lovin'" available only at Target.
Edge Of The World
(Broadway Records - new digital album)
Concept album for score by Ethan Slater and Nick Blaemire. Norbert Leo Butz, Lilli Cooper, Ethan Slater and Nick Blaemire. "Edge of the World (Prelude)," "Alaska, Here We Come!," "Wolfpack," "Make a Fire," "laemire," "Every Day," "Rocks and Things," "Real and Simple," "Olivia's Song," "Alaska, Here We Come! (Flashback)," "Gripping It," "Passage," "Edge of the World," "Raised by Wolves." Produced by Bonnie Comley and Stewart Lane. Mastered by Hans Dekline. Ethan Slater on guitar, Marco Paguia on piano, Michael Dobson on drums, Christian Ankrum on bass, and Ankrum, horns, strings and more.BroadwayRecords.com.
RECORDINGS newly listed:
No release date:
Kalevala: The Musical
(new digital album)
Concept album. Score by Johanna Telander. Ramin Karimloo, Alice Ripley, Jewelle Blackman, Marina Pires, Natalie Toro, and Kay Trinidad. www.kalevalamusical.com/. August 2021 release expected.
Love in Hate Nation
(Ghostlight Records - new album)
Original cast recording of score by Joe Iconis. Cast includes Sydney Farley, Amina Faye, Jasmine Forsberg, Lauren Marcus, Kelly McIntyre, Lena Skeele, Emerson Mae Smith, Ryan Vona, and Tatiana Wechsler. Music direction and vocal arrangements by Annastasia Victory. Music supervision and orchestrations by Charlie Rosen. Produced by Joe Iconis, Ian Kagey, and Charlie Rosen. Two River Theater and Kurt Deutsch are executive producers. Recorded August 2, 2021, for a fall release. The musical had its world premiere production at the Two River Theater in 2019.
Books/Plays RECENTLY MADE AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER:
September 1:
Confessions of an Actress: From Chorus Girl to Broadway Star
(Merle, Inc. - Kindle Edition)
Meredith Patterson (42nd Street, White Christmas) takes you through intimate, personal, joyous and often painful stories of her rise to Broadway ... whatever it took to support herself while battling self doubt, cut-throat competition while trying to stay as human as possible in an often-vicious industry. It is the story of her rise to Broadway, but also how tragedy made her come back down to earth and place her life's work.
October 26:
Noël Coward on (and in) Theatre
(Knopf - Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition)
By Noel Coward. Edited with commentary by Barry Day. "The book Noël Coward wanted, promised, threatened to write--and never did." Shows how Coward's opinions were as sharp and entertaining as his plays and his lyrics. Including essays, interviews, diary entries, verse showing his views on his fellow playwrights, critics, producers, acting methods, and actors. Compiled, edited, and annotated by Barry Day, Coward authority and editor of The Noel Coward Reader and The Letters of Noel Coward. 480 pages.
Compiled by Talkin' Broadway Staff.
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