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CDs Now Available:
The 20th Century Fox Years Volume 2 1939-1943
(Sepia Records - on 2 CDs)
Compilation of rarities taken from studio discs produced in conjunction with films produced between 1939 and 1943. Featured are performances by Jane Withers, John Payne, Basil Rathbone, Al Jolson, Don Ameche, Vivian Blaine, Carole Landis, Rudy Vallee, Charlotte Greenwood etc. 60 tracks total. SepiaRecords.com. Released 11/19/21.
Bing Crosby: Guest Star Time 1935-1953
(Sepia Records - on 2 CDs)
Some of Bing Crosby's guest appearances over a 20-year period, including Armed Forces Radio Service, Allied Expeditionary Forces broadcast in London with Glenn Miller, and his American Band of the AEF in 1944. 66 tracks total. Remastered from a "very battered" 16" transcription disc. SepiaRecords.com. Released 11/19/21.
Encanto
(Disney - new on CD/digital)
Soundtrack from 2021 animated film with original songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda an score by Germaine Franco. Cast includes Adassa, Stephanie Beatriz, Stephanie Beatriz, Mauro Castillo, Jessica Darrow, Rhenzy Feliz, Carolina Gaitán, Diane Guerrero, John Leguizamo, Maluma, Olga Merediz, Sebastián Yatra. Released 11/19/21. CD is Target exclusive.
DIGITAL MUSIC Now Available:
Freedom Riders - The Civil Rights Musical
(Broadway Records/Theatre Barn Records - digital album)
World premiere recording of
Richard Allen and Taran Gray's score for award-winning NYMF musical. Cast includes Brynn Williams, Anthony Chatmon II, Deonte Goodman, Payson Lewis, Jennifer Sun Bell, Kevin Blax Burroughs, Aja Downing, Eboni Muse, Patrick Ortiz, Scott Redmond, Erin Vaderhyde, Joy Yandell. Released 11/19/21. BroadwayRecords.com.
A Jazzy Interlude with Josie Falbo
(JF Records - new 4-song EP)
Josie Falbo's new holiday EP. New arrangements by Marshall Vente and Carey Deadman ("The Christmas Song," "A Child Is Born" and "The Christmas Waltz"), and a new cover version of "Christmas Eve Is Coming Soon," by Chicago based composer/songwriter, Richard Knight, Jr. Musicians: Scott Mason, Bob Rummage, Carey Deadman, Kirk Garrison, Jim Gailoretto, Steve Eisen, Andy Baker, Alejo Poveda, Jeremy Kahn, Chuck Webb, Carey Deadman, Mark Lekas, Rich Trelease, Chris Sargent and Marshall Vente. JosieFalbo.net.
Lisa Howard: The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
(Fatlab Music - new digital album)
Collection of holiday favorites performed by Lisa Howard (It Shoulda Been You, Escape to Margaritaville, ... Spelling Bee. Arrangements by Michael Shaieb. "It's the Most Wonderful Time Of the Year," "Santa Tell Me," "Sleigh Ride" (with Derrick Baskin), "The House Where I Grew Up at Christmas," "All I Want for Christmas Is You," "I'll Be Home for Christmas/Home for the Holidays," "Christmas Wrapping" (with Derrick Baskin), "We Need a Little Christmas," "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas," "Last Christmas," "River," "Under the Mistletoe" (with Derrick Baskin), "What Christmas Means to Me," "Holly Jolly Christmas/Here Comes Santa Claus." Produced by Michael Shaieb and Brent Lord. Released 11/20/21.
Sierra Boggess & Julian Ovenden: Together at a Distance
(Craft Recordings - new digital album)
Classic and contemporary broadway duets recorded remotely during the pandemic. "Make Believe," "All I Ask Of You," "Stranger In Paradise," "The Heather On The Hill," "Too Many Mornings," "Tonight," "All The Wasted Time," "Too Much In Love To Care," "How Could I Ever Know," "Till There Was You," "I Have Dreamed," "With One Look," "They Were You," "A Heart Full Of Love." Orchestrations by Nigel Wright, Julian Ovenden and Pete Letanka. Produced by Nigel Wright and Nick Pugh, with engineering by Pugh. Mixed at Chiltern Music Studios, Buckinghamshire, UK. Released 11/19/21.
Stephanie J. Block: "O Holy Night"
(Club44 Records - new digital single)
Produced by Christian Hushaw, Jace Fay, Kayla Johnston, and Stephanie J. Block. Arranged by Corbin Phillips, Jace Fay, and Christian Hushaw. Music by Adolphe Adam and English lyrics by John Sullivan Dwight. Released 11/12/21.
tick, tick... BOOM!
(Masterworks - new digital album)
Soundtrack from 2021 Netflix film adaptation of Jonathan Larson's autobiographical musical. Andrew Garfield, Alexandra Shipp, Robin de Jesús, Joshua Henry, Mj Rodriguez, Bradley Whitford, Tariq Trotter, Judith Light, and Vanessa Hudgens. "30/90," "Boho Days," "Green Green Dress," "No More," "Johnny Can't Decide," "Sunday," "Play Game," "Therapy," "Swimming," "Come to Your Senses," "Real Life," "Why," "Louder Than Words," "Come to Your Senses" (end credit version); Bonus tracks: "Green Green Dress" (Garfield & Shipp), "Out Of My Dreams" (Veronica Jackson cover), "Only Takes a Few" (The Mountain Goats). CD to be released 12/3/21. 180 gram vinyl LP to be released 6/22/22.
Todd Almond: A Pony for Christmas
(Ghostlight Records - new digital album)
New folk-pop holiday album by songwriter and performer Todd Almond (Girl from the North Country). Weaves personal original compositions with new versions of traditional carols and reworkings of pop songs. "Maybe This Christmas," "Ponies," "O Holy Night," "Welcome Home," "A Pony for Christmas," "Hounds of Love / Cloudbusting / Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)," "Little Drummer Boy," "Kind and Generous," "Moon Over Nebraska," "The First Noel / Angels We Have Heard on High," "River," "Christmas Eve," "I'll Be Home for Christmas." Produced by Todd Almond and Peter Sachon. Released 11/19/21.
VINYL Now Available:
The Wizard of Oz soundtrack
(Mondo - new 3-LP vinyl)
Expanded, deluxe edition of the 1956 soundtrack for the 1939 film. Packaging designed and constructed by Alan Hynes. Pop-up, accordion style jacket creates a rainbow diorama of the titular Oz, complete with subtle easter eggs littered throughout. Remastered for vinyl, featuring 53 tracks from the film itself (including the full original soundtrack, outtakes, extended versions, and alternate versions never before released on vinyl) and pressed on 3x 180 gram colored vinyl from RTI. Limited to 3,000 copies. Produced in conjunction with WaterTower Music. Mondoshop.com. Released date may be 11/24/21.
BOOKS Now Available:
The Art of Bob Mackie
(Simon & Schuster - Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition)
By Frank Vlastnik, Laura Ross. Foreword by Carol Burnett. Afterword by Cher. Comprehensive and authorized showcase of legendary fashion designer Bob Mackies fabulous life and work, featuring hundreds of photos and dozens of never-before-seen sketches from his personal collection. 304 pages. Released 11/16/21.
The Best New Ten-Minute Plays, 2021
(Applause - Paperback Book/Kindle Edition)
By Lawrence Harbison. Thirty new ten-minute plays. This volume is ideal for theatre enthusiasts looking for new and compelling short pieces from some of the finest playwrights of our time. 304 pages. Released 11/15/21.
Everything is Choreography: The Musical Theater of Tommy Tune
(Oxford Univ Press - Hardcover Book)
By Kevin Winkler (Big Deal: Bob Fosse and Dance in the American Musical). Broadway Legacies series. First full scale book about the career of the director-choreographer Tommy Tune (Grand Hotel, My One and Only, Nine, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine, The Will Rogers Follies). "Celebrates and examines with a critical eye his major projects, and summons for readers a glorious period of dance, performance, and theatrical imagination." 288 pages. Released 11/15/21.
Hadestown songbook
(Hal Leonard - Paperback Book)
Vocal selections for score by Anais Mitchell. "All I've Ever Known," "Epic III," "Flowers," "Hey, Little Songbird," "Livin' It up on Top," "Our Lady of the Underground," "Wait for Me," "Way down Hadestown I," "We Raise Our Cups," "Wedding Song," "When the Chips Are Down," "Why We Build the Wall."
West Side Story, Gypsy, and the Art of Broadway Orchestration
(Routledge - Hardcover Book)
By Paul Laird. Routledge Research in Music series. Draws on extensive archival research with original manuscripts to provide a detailed account of the process of orchestration for West Side Story and Gypsy, and their context in the history of Broadway orchestration. Breaking down how the two composers, Leonard Bernstein and Jules Styne, collaborated with orchestrators Sid Ramin, Irwin Kostal, and Robert Ginzler to better understand both these two iconic shows and the importance of orchestration within musical theatre in general. 248 pages. Released 11/19/21.
West Side Story: The Making of the Steven Spielberg Film
(Abrams - Hardcover Book)
By Laurent Bouzereau. Featuring never-before-seen unit photography, storyboards, costume and concept designs, and behind-the-scenes photos. The author was embedded with the film's cast and crew and conducted original interviews with director and producer Steven Spielberg, screenwriter and executive producer Tony Kushner, Tony Awardwinning choreographer Justin Peck, and the cast to bring together a firsthand oral history documenting every stage of the film's production. 256 pages. Released 11/16/21.
West Side Story A Novelization
(Gallery Books - re-released book)
By Irving Shulman. 19960s novelization of West Side Story (musical based on a conception by Jerome Robbins, book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, directed and choreographed by Jerome Robbins), Updated version with a new cover to coincide with 2021 film version. 160 pages.
DVD/BLU-RAY Now Available:
Lullaby of Broadway
(Warner Archive - Blu-ray)
1951 musical comedy film. Directed by David Butler. Doris Day, Gene Nelson, S.Z. Sakall, Billy De Wolfe, Gladys George, Florence Bates, Anne Triola. "Lullaby of Broadway," "You're Getting to Be a Habit with Me," "Just One of Those Things," "Somebody Loves Me," "I Love the Way You Say Goodnight," "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone," "In a Shanty in Old Shanty Town," "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart," "You're Dependable," "We'd Like to Go on a Trip."
M. Butterfly
(Shout! Factory - new Blu-ray)
1993 film with screenplay by David Henry Hwang based on his play. Directed by David Cronenberg. Jeremy Irons, John Lone, Barbara Sukowa, Ian Richardson. Bonus content: audio commentary by William Beard, author of The Artist As Monster: The Cinema of David Cronenberg; interview with David Cronenberg; theatrical trailer. 101 minutes. Released 11/16/21
MUSIC to be released this Friday, November 26:
Lee Mead: In Concert, Recorded at the London Palladium
(Westway - new DVD/CD)
Concert performance by British actor/singer Lee Mead (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
Mary Martin on Air 1939-1950
(Stage Door Records - new on 2-CD set)
Collection representing a landmark archival discovery of Mary Martin broadcast recordings from 1939-1950. Almost all of the performances featured on this collection have gone unheard since their original transmission. Includes selections from Mary's many broadcasts for the "Good News" and "Kraft Music Hall" shows for which she was resident vocalist; Mary's first radio broadcast of her signature song "My Heart Belongs to Daddy," introduced by Rudy Vallee; popular standards of the era; songs from Mary's own back catalogue of stage and film productions; and her unique interpretations of operatic arias in the style of swing. collaboration with The Mary Martin Collection & Archive at The Doss Heritage and Culture Center in Weatherford, Texas and uses Mary's own private 78rpm transcription records housed at the Center. Extensive sleeve notes by George Dansker, plus a complete listing of broadcast dates for the featured performances. 51 tracks. SstageDoorRecords.com.
Ramin Karimloo & The Broadgrass Band: The Road To Find Out
(Westway - new DVD)
Staged as a live stream after lockdown rules were relaxed in December 2020. "On The Road To Find Out," "Traveller's Eyes," "Bring Him Home," "Cathedrals," "Brothers," "Once Upon A December," "Music Of The Night," "Fantine," "I Vow To Thee My Country," "Better," "Still," "Losing," "Broken," "Empty Chairs At Empty Tables," "Driftwood"; Bonus Tracks: "Silent Night," "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing," "Oh Come All Ye Faithful,"
Some Lovers
(Broadway Records - new on CD)
World premiere recording of score by Burt Bacharach (music) and Steven Sater (lyrics/book). Colton Ryan/Molly Gordon, Betsy Wolfe/Tracie Thoms, Ethan Slater/Lilli Cooper, Jonathan Groff/Lea Michele, Katrina Lenk/Ariel Stachel, Conrad Ricamora/Ashley Park, Christy Altomare/Derek Klena, Ramin Karimloo, Jennifer Holliday, Kristin Chenoweth, Santino Fontana/Laura Osnes, and Graham Phillips/Auli'i Cravalho. Produced by Michael Croiter and Ben Hartman. "Molly," "Some Lovers," "Aren't We? / Another Start," "Love Me for an Hour," "Living with a Ghost," "Hold Me," "A Thousand Things That Were You," "Ready to be Done with You / A Thousand Things That Were You (Reprise)," "Welcome to My World," "Every Other Hour," "Just Walk Away," "Hush," "This Christmas." Co-producers Burt Bacharach, Steven Sater, Cody Lassen. Co-executive producers Maxwell Beer, Brad Blume, Louis Hobson, Elisabeth Siegel, John Styles, Jr., Joanna Topetzes, and Deena Zucker. Released earlier digitallyBroadwayRecords.com.
RECORDINGS Newly Listed:
December 1:
Kimberly Hawkey: A New Noel
(new digital album)
Vocalist Kimberly Hawkey sings songs by Morris & River. "Coming Home," "Deep Snow," "Our Small Traditions," "Slushy Mushy Christmas," "Through the Ruins," "A New Noel," "Grandpa's Chair," "Shopping Mall Santa," "A Secret Reason," "The Loving Voices," "In My Pocket."
December 7:
Dear Evan Hansen
(Universal - new on DVD/Blu-ray)
2021 film version of the Broadway musical. Score by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul. Screenplay by Steven Levenson. Directed by Stephen Chbosky. Blu-ray bonus content: digital copy; Songs to Be Seen; Looking Through the Lens: The Making of Dear Evan Hansen; Sincerely, Ben Platt; Stars In Our Eyes. 138 minutes.
December 10:
Dawn Derow: My Ship: Songs from 1941
(Zoho Music - new on CD)
From Dawn Derow's MAC Award-winning cabaret show. "Lover Man (Oh, Where Can You Be?)," "Let's Get Away from It All," "Skylark," "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy/Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree/Hut Sut Song," "Why Don't We Do This More Often?," "Chattanooga Choo Choo," "Just Squeeze Me (But Please Don't Tease Me)/I Got It Bad (and That Ain't Good)," "Blues in the Night," "Baby Mine," "The Saga of Jenny," "My Ship," "At Last," "White Christmas," "(There Will Bluebirds Over) The White Cliffs of Dover."
Tom Solomon: Musicals, Vol. 1
(digital album)
New album from West End actor and "BBC Voice of Musical Theatre" Tom Solomon. "Anthem" (from Chess), "Maria," "The Music of the Night," "Love Changes Everything," "Some Enchanted Evening," "Bring Him Home," "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables," "I Am What I Am
December 17:
Caroline, or Change
(Broadway Records/Roundabout Records - new digital album)
New Broadway (Roundabout Theatre Company) cast recording of score by Jeanine Tesori (music) and Tony Kushner (lyrics). Produced by Elliot Scheiner, Nigel Lilley, Jeanine Tesori, and Van Dean. Edited and mixed by Lawrence Manchester. Sharon D Clarke, Gabriel Amoroso, Alexander Bello, John Cariani, Joy Hermalyn, Arica Jackson, Tamika Lawrence, Caissie Levy, Adam Makké, Kevin S. McAllister, Harper Miles, NKenge, Nya, Richard Alexander Phillips, Jayden Theophile, Nasia Thomas, Jaden Myles Waldman, Samantha Williams, Stuart Zagnit, and Chip Zien. 2-CD format to be released 1/14/22. BroadwayRecords.com.
January 4, 2022:
Ben Bagley's Hold on to Your Hats
(Kritzerland - new on CD)
Music by Burton Lane Lyrics by E.Y. Harburg. Helen Gallagher, Carleton Carpenter, Nancy Grennan Hillner, Arthur Siegel, and an ensemble. Plus some other Harburg songs, rarities, with music by Harold Arlen, Vernon Duke, Sammy Fain, Burton Lane, and Dana Suesse sung by Tammy Grimes, Patrice Munsel, Blossom Dearie, Arthur Siegel, Ann Hampton Callaway and others, plus Harburg himself. Remastered. Cover art by Harvey Schmidt. Limited to 500 copies only and expected in the first week of January 2022. Kritzerland.com.
Ben Bagley's Make Mine Manhattan + Great Revues Revisited
(Kritzerland - new on CD)
1948 Broadway musical Make Mine Manhattan music Richard Lewine and lyrics by Arnold B. Horwitt. Great Revues Revisited music and lyrics by Baldwin Bergerson, Lyn Duddy, Joan Edwards, Edward Eliscu, Ted Fetter, Charles Gaynor, Jay Gorney, Alec Grahame, Bob Hilliard, Arnold B. Horwitt, Jean and Walter Kerr, Richard Lewine, Phyllis McGinley, Henry Myers, Peter Myers, John Pritchett, Harold Rome, Albert Selden, Carl Sigman. Cast includes Nancy Andrews, Carleton Carpenter, Helen Gallagher, Dolores Gray, Estelle Parsons, Lynn Redgrave, Arthur Siegel, and Elaine Stritch. Arrangements by Dennis Deal and Judd Woldin. Remastered. Cover art by Harvey Schmidt. Limited to 500 copies only. Expected first week of January 2022. Kritzerland.com.
January 21, 2022:
Annie Live!
(Sony Masterworks - new on CD)
Soundtrack for televised event on NBC. Harry Connick, Jr., Nicole Scherzinger, Tituss Burgess and Megan Hilty, with Celina Smith as Annie and Taraji P. Henson.
January 28, 2022;
From Rags to Riches: 100 Years of American Song
(NYFOS Records - new digital album)
Debut album from NYFOS own label, featuring mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe and tenor William Burden with NYFOS Artistic Director and pianist Steven Blier. From a live concert recording at the Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College in New York on March 23, 2000. "Pineapple Rag," "My Lady Frog," "Evening Song," "Oh Gee! - Oh Joy!," "Nickel Under My Foot," "Stay in My Arms," "Hit the Road," "Nocturne," "Thousands of Miles," "Wrong Note Rag," "Take the Moment," "'Round Midnight," "The Ballad of Booth," "Hosing the Furniture," "New York Lights," "Walt Whitman in 1989," "How Can I Keep From Singing?"
February 11:
Witness Uganda: An American Musical
(Masterworks Broadway - new digital album)
Studio album of score by Griffin Matthews and Matt Gould. Performed by Griffin Matthews, Cynthia Erivo, Ledisi, Nicolette Robinson, Emma Hunton, Kristolyn Lloyd, Tyrone Davis Jr., Jamar Williams, Kameron Richardson, JaiLen Josey, Amber Iman, India Carney, Jamard Richardson, Kevin Curtis, ShaLeah Nikole, Naarai, Loren Smith, and Antwone Barnes. Single "Bricks" now available. 24 tracks.
No release date:
A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet
(Time-Life Records - new album)
Original Off-Broadway cast recording for score by Alex Wyse and Ben Fankhauser. Produced by Rob Sher and Cody Lassen with executive producers Huck Walton and Brian Gillet of InOvation Multimedia. Early 2022 release expected. ReginaComet.com.
BOOKS Newly Listed:
March 31, 2022:
Fifty Key Stage Musicals
(Routledge - new Hardcover/Paperback Book)
Robert W Schneider and Shannon Agnew, editors. This volume in the Routledge Key Guides series provides a round-up of the fifty musicals whose creations were seminal in altering the landscape of musical theater discourse in the English-speaking world. Chapters: 1. The Black Crook by Sebastian Trainor; 2. HMS Pinafore by Rupert Holmes; 3. The Merry Widow by Andrew Child; 4. Shuffle Along by Jerrell L. Henderson; 5. Show Boat by Benjamin Nissen; 6. Of Thee I Sing by Laura Frankos; 7. Anything Goes by Scott Miller; 8. Porgy and Bess by Isaiah Wooden; 9. The Cradle Will Rock by Johanna Pinzler; 10. Pal Joey by Laurence Maslon. 304 pages.
Compiled by Talkin' Broadway Staff.
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