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Digital Music Now Available:
Blue Man Group: Overjoy to the World
(Rhino Records - new EP)
"Above the Halls," "Carol of the Pipes," "Nutcracker Medley," "Attention in the Halls Please," "PVC Dreidel Mashup," "Feliz Navidad," "Jingle Bones," "Hall Chant," "Overjoy to the World." Composed and arranged by Jeff Turlik.
Books Now Available:
Failure, Fascism, and Teachers in American Theatre: Pedagogy of the Oppressors
(Palgrave Macmillan - Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition)
By James F. Wilson. Explores the shifting representations of schoolteachers and professors in plays and performances primarily from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the United States. Examining various historical and recurring types, such as spinsters, schoolmarms, presumed sexual deviants, radicals and communists, fascists, and emasculated men teachers, the author shines the spotlight on both well-known and nearly-forgotten plays. 230 pages.
Music to Be Released This Friday, November 3:
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes soundtrack with rare bonus tracks
(Sepia Records - new on CD)
"As complete as possible" soundtrack release from the 1953 film. Songs by Jule Styne
and Leo Robin. Includes rare bonus tracks such as demos and outtakes. Also included are the movie songs recorded in French for the French market. 23 tracks. SepiaRecords.com.
Stephanie J. Block: Merry Christmas, Darling
(Club44 Records - new on CD/digital)
Featuring both secular and sacred seasonal classics, including a new song written for her by Club44 co-founder Wayne Haun and David Zippel, a duet with her husband Sebastian Arcelus, and a duet with their daughter Vivienne Arcelus. "Sleigh Ride," "And Snow," "Merry Christmas, Darling" (available now), "Little Drummer Girl" (with Vivienne Arcelus), "Count Your Blessings Instead of Sheep / My Favorite Things," "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," "When You Hold Me in Your Arms (It's Christmas)" (with Sebastian Arcelus), "Winter White," "O Holy Night," "Manhattan in December." Produced by Wayne Haun and Stephanie J. Block, with Joel Lindsey and Sharon Terrell serving as executive producers.
Newly Listed Recordings:
November 24:
Sweeney Todd 2023 revival cast
(Reprise Records - new on CD)
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. Digital released earlier.
No release date:
Merrily We Roll Along
(new album)
2023 Broadway cast recording of score by Stephen Sondheim (book by George Furth). Jonathan Groff, Lindsay Mendez, Daniel Radcliffe, Krystal Joy Brown, Katie Rose Clarke, Reg Rogers. Details TBA.
Newly Listed Books:
January 23, 2024:
Clyde's
(Theatre Communications Group - Paperback book/Kindle)
Play by Lynn Nottage. 96 pages.
