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Digital Music Now Available:
The Little Big Things
(new EP)
Studio recording of score by Nick Butcher (music/lyrics) and Tom Ling (lyrics). "Miles and Miles," "Guide You," "The Little Big Things." The musical, based on the memoir by Henry Fraser, starts a run next week at Soho Place in the West End.
The New Peggy
(new digital album)
Studio cast recording of score by Drew Larimore (book and lyrics) and J. Oconer Navarro (music and lyrics). Ann Harada, Daniel Marcus, Devin Ilaw, Deb Radloff, and Rachel Hardin. "If It Wasn't for Me," "I Coulda," "Closer / Higher / Thicker," "Gone," "Goat Song," "Now or Never," "The Perfect Cup," "The New Peggy," "This Morning," "Clocking Out," "Finale." Released 8/25/23.
Sideways The Musical
(Lakeshore Records/Broadway Records - new digital album)
Original cast recording of score by Anthony Leigh Adams and Rex Pickett. Devin Archer, Ruby Lewis, Ryan Quinn, Emily Goglia, James Byous, Juliette Goglia, Britton Sparkman and Rebecca Jade. "God of the Grape," "There Is Hope," "Hittin' the Road," "Cheap Champagne," "The Life of Wine," "Stomping the Grapes," "No Matter How Low We Go," "Alone," "Infidelity," "Drink a Memory," "New Day," "You're Not the One," "Locked and Loaded," "The Joke's on You," "Without a Man," "On the Ropes," "Drink a Memory / The Life of Wine," "Bacchanal." Released 8/18/23. CD version to be released 10/13/23.
Vinyl LP Now Available:
Barbra Streisand: Live at Bon Soir
(Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings - new vinyl LP)
Live album recorded over three nights, November 4-6, 1962. What was to be a debut album was ultimately shelved in favor of the 1963 studio effort, The Barbra Streisand Album. Introduction by David Kapralik/"My Name Is Barbra," "Much More," "Napoleon," "I Hate Music," "Right as the Rain," "Cry Me a River," "Value," "Lover, Come Back to Me," Band Introductions, "Soon It's Gonna Rain," "Come to the Supermarket (In Old Peking)," "When the Sun Comes Out," "Happy Days Are Here Again," "Keepin' Out of Mischief Now," "A Sleepin' Bee," "I Had Myself a True Love," "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered," "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?," "I'll Tell the Man In the Street," "A Taste of Honey," "Never Will I Marry," "Nobody's Heart Belongs to Me," "My Honey's Lovin' Arms," "I Stayed Too Long at the Fair." Remastered from original master tapes. Produced by Streisand with Martin Erlichman and Jay Landers. New liner notes written by Barbra Streisand. Previously released on CD/digital.
Books Now Available:
Fixing the Musical: How Technologies Shaped the Broadway Repertory
(Oxford Univ Press - Hardcover Book/Paperback)
By Douglas L. Reside (curator of the Billy Rose Theatre Division of the NYPL). The author shows that it is no accident that the serious book musical with a fixed score developed in the 1940s, when commercially pressed and marketed record albums made it possible to record most of the score of a new musical in a fixed medium ... and Hamilton, a musical with dense lyrics and revolutionary musical style, would not have been as easily accessible to world audiences if most hadn't already had the opportunity to learn the score by listening to free digital streams of the original cast recording. He argues that the musicals we most remember are those which most effectively used their era's best recording and distribution technologies to document and share the work with those who would never see the original production on Broadway. 192 pages.
Music to Be Released This Friday:
Mary Bridget Davies: Freedom of My Mind
(LOML/ TJ Armand Music LLC - new digital album)
Acoustic blues rock album from Mary Bridget Davies (A Night with Janis Joplin), recorded live at Power Station NYC. Accompanied by Clint DeGanon on drums, Mark Berman on piano, Alex Prezzano on guitar, and Dave Richards on bass. Concert video release expected in the future.
Some Like It Hot OBC
(Concord Theatricals Recordings - new double vinyl LP)
2022 original Broadway cast recording of score by Marc Shaiman (music/lyrics) and Scott Wittman (lyrics). Cast includes Christian Borle, J. Harrison Ghee, Adrianna Hicks, and Kevin Del Aguila. "What Are You Thirsty For?," "You Can't Have Me (If You Don't Have Him)," "Vamp!," "I'm California Bound," "A Darker Shade of Blue," "Take It Up a Step," "Zee Bap," "At the Old Majestic Nickel Matinee," "Poor Little Millionaire!," "Some Like It Hot," "Let's Be Bad," "Dance the World Away," "Fly, Mariposa, Fly," "You Coulda Knocked Me Over with a Feather," "He Lied When He Said Hello," "Ride Out the Storm," "Baby, Let's Get Good." Produced by Scott M. Riesett and Marc Shaiman.
Sylvia McNair and Kevin Cole: You Are Tomorrow
(Harbinger Records - new on CD/digital)
Rare songs by Harold Arlen and Martin Charnin. "I Could Be Good for You," "Little Travelbug," "Summer in Brooklyn," "Spring Has Me Out on a Limb," "Shoulda Stood in Bed," "Come On, Midnight," "This Ol' World"; Songs written for never-produced Softly (196567): "Happy Any Day," "We Were Always to Be Married," "The Brush-Off," "Once I Wore Ribbons Here," "Works Both Ways," "Why Do You Make Me Like You?," "You're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile," "You Are Tomorrow"; Performed by Harold Arlen, vocals and piano (also written for Softly)," "Studio talk/Fish Go Higher Than Tigers (with Martin Charnin)," "Suddenly the Sunrise," "Don't Say "Love" - I've Been There and Back"; Performed by Arlen; arranged and conducted by Peter Matz: "That's a Fine Kind o' Freedom (1965)." Dedicated to the memory of Edward Jablonski (19222004), Harold Arlen's esteemed biographer, who recognized the importance of the "late Arlen" songs on this album more than 30 years ago. As he put it, "They deserve a hearing." 24-page booklet: interview with McNair and Cole; article by Walter Frisch.
Newly Listed Recordings:
September 6:
How to Dance in Ohio
(new EP)
OBC recording of score by Jacob Yandura and Rebekah Greer Melocik. Recorded at Flux Studios. Cast includes Desmond Edwards, Amelia Fei, Madison Kopec, Liam Pearce, Imani Russell, Conor Tague, and Ashley Wool. Previews begin 11/15/23 at the Belasco Theatre. Orchestrations by Bruce Coughlin.
Release date TBA:
This Side of the World
(new album)
East West Players cast recording of score by Paulo K Tiról.
Other New Announcements:
Track list added:
Sweeney Todd 2023 revival cast
(Reprise Records - new digital album)
Score by Stephen Sondheim. Josh Groban, Annaleigh Ashford, Jordan Fisher, Gaten Matarazzo, Ruthie Ann Miles, Maria Bilbao, Jamie Jackson, John Rapson, Nicholas Christopher And Jeanna De Waal. "Prelude," "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd," "No Place Like London," "The Barber and His Wife," "The Worst Pies in London," "Poor Thing," "My Friends," "Green Finch and Linnet Bird," "Ah, Miss," "Johanna," "Pirelli's Miracle Elixir," "The Contest," "Wait," "Kiss Me (Pt. 1)," "Ladies in Their Sensitivities," "Kiss Me (Pt. 2)," "Pretty Women (Pt. 1)," "Pretty Women (Pt. 2)," "Epiphany," "A Little Priest," "God, That's Good!," "Johanna (Act 2 Sequence)," "By the Sea," "The Letter," "Not While I'm Around," "Parlor Song," "City on Fire!," "Searching," "The Judge's Return," "Final Scene," "The Barber and His Wife (Reprise)," "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd (Finale)." Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick. Music supervision by Alex Lacamoire.
