2021: November 30, 16-23, 9, 2 | October 26, 19, 12 | 5 | September 28, 21, 14, 7 | August 31, 17-24, 10, 3 | 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
2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015
CDs Now Available:
Ride the Cyclone
(Ghostlight Records - new on CD)
World premiere cast recording of score by Jacob Richmond and Brooke Maxwell. Cast includes Lillian Castillo, Chaz Duffy, Scott Redmond, Jacob Richmond, Emily Rohm, Tiffany Tatreau, Kholby Wardell, and Brooke Maxwell. Kevin McCollum and Morris Berchard, executive producers. "Karnak's Dream of Life," "Welcome
," "The Uranium Suite," "Jane Doe's Entrance," "What the World Needs," "Meet Noel Gruber," "Noel's Lament [Explicit]," "Every Story's Got a Lesson," "This Song Is Awesome," "Meet Ricky Potts," "Space Age Bachelor Man," "Meet Jane Doe," "The Ballad of Jane Doe," "The New Birthday Song," "Jawbreaker," "Sugar Cloud," "It's Not a Game/It's Just a Ride," "Still Here?," "Be Safe, Be Good (for Rachel)," "A World Inside," "Karnak's Theme," "Noel's Lament." Digital version released 4/28/21.
DIGITAL MUSIC Now Available:
Annie Live!
(Sony Masterworks - new digital album)
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. Digital booklet included. "Overture," "Maybe," "It's the Hard-Knock Life," "Tomorrow," "We'd Like to Thank You Herbert Hoover," "Little Girls," "I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here," "N.Y.C.," "Sign," "Easy Street," "We Got Annie," "You're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile," "Tomorrow (Cabinet Reprise)," "Something Was Missing," "I Don't Need Anything But You," "Maybe (Warbucks' Reprise)," "A New Deal for Christmas," "Tomorrow (Finale)." Released 12/3/21. CD version to be released 1/21/21.
Place & Time: Songs by EllaRose Chary & Brandon James Gwinn
(new digital album)
Songs by Richard Rodgers award-winning songwriting team EllaRose Chary and Brandon James Gwinn. Features Broadway artists from under-represented segments of the community singing about emotions that all can relate to. The songs are fun, flirty, emotional and nostalgic; sung by characters who are revved-up, spiced-up and sometimes fed up. Tituss Burgess, Amber Gray, Telly Leung, Daisy Eagan, and more. Recorded in New York City, at John Kilgore Sound and Recording, with engineers M.P. Kuo and Jabbath Roa and at MPK Recording and Teddy Kitty Studios. Co-produced by Kimberly Hyacinthe. 13 tracks. Released 11/28/21.
DVD/BLU-RAYs Now Available:
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.
BOOKS Now Available:
All About Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business
(Ballantine Books - new Hardcover Book/Paperback/Kindle Edition/Audible Audiobook)
Autobiography by Mel Brooks. "... offers fans insight into the inspiration behind the ideas for his outstanding collection of boundary-breaking work, and offers details about the many close friendships and collaborations Brooks had, including those with Sid Caesar, Carl Reiner, Gene Wilder, Madeleine Kahn, Alfred Hitchcock, and the great love of his life, Anne Bancroft. Filled with tales of struggle, achievement, and camaraderie (and dozens of photographs), readers will gain a more personal and deeper understanding of the incredible body of work behind one of the most accomplished and beloved entertainers in history." Audiobook is narrated by the author. 480 pages. Released 11/30/21.
Bette Davis Black and White
(Univ of Chicago Press - Hardcover Book/Paperback/Kindle Edition)
By Julia A. Stern. Analyzes four of Daviss best-known pictures— Jezebel (1938), The Little Foxes (1941), In This Our Life (1942), and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)—against the history of American race relations. Stern also weaves in memories of her own experiences as a young viewer, coming into racial consciousness watching Davis's films on television in an all-white suburb of Chicago.
Broadway Revival: What If Gershwin Had Lived?
(new Kindle Edition)
By Laura Frankos (showtunetriva). "David Greenbaum ... hijacks his brother Nates time machine, the SlingShot, and jumps to 1934 to save George Gershwin from the brain tumor that killed him at age thirty-eight ... How much influence can one actor-songwriter have on the Great White Way, armed with a suitcase of modern medicine and advance knowledge of nearly 150 years of musical theatre history?" Physical format to be released in February 2022.
MISCELLANEOUS Now Available:
The Lights of Broadway Showcards™
(collectable trading cards)
2021 sets available, as well as previous sets. TheLightsofBroadway.nyc.
MUSIC to be released this Friday, December 10:
Marie Osmond: Unexpected
(BFD - new on CD/digital)
"Nessun Dorma," "Unexpected Song," "What a Wonderful World," "Lascia Chio Pianga," "Children Will Listen," "The Flower Duet," "Somewhere," "The Prayer," "On My Own," "Pie Jesu," "Climb Every Mountain," "Nella Fantasia," "Over the Rainbow," "Ombra Mai Fu," "If I Loved You," "Song to the Moon," "But the World Goes 'Round."
Samantha Barks: Into the Unknown
(Westway - new album)
Studio album featuring Samantha Barks (Pretty Woman: The Musical, Frozen West End cast, Les Misérables film. "Into the Unknown," "Heart of Stone," "Never Enough," "How Far I'll Go," "Reflection," "Waving Through a Window," "Only Us" (with Ramin Karimloo), "I'd Rather Be Me," "With You," "Let Me Be Your Star" (with Stephanie McKeon), "Falling Slowly," "Mary Jane." Digital format released 11/12/21.
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
West Side Story new soundtrack
(Hollywood Records - new on CD)
Soundtrack for 2021 musical film based on the 1957 musical. Score by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim. Film cast includes Ansel Elgort, Ariana DeBose, David Alvarez, Mike Faist, Rita Moreno, Rachel Zegler, Rita Moreno, Brian d'Arcy James, Corey Stoll, Josh Andrés Rivera, Iris Menas, Mike Iveson, Jamila Velazquez, Annelise Cepero, Yassmin Alers, Jamie Harris, Curtiss Cook. "Prologue," "La Borinqueña" (Sharks Version), "Jet Song," "Somethings Coming," "The Dance at the Gym: Blues, Promenade," "The Dance at the Gym: Mambo," "The Dance at the Gym: Cha-Cha, Meeting Scene, Jump," "Maria," "Balcony Scene (Tonight)," "Transition to Scherzo / Scherzo," "America," "Gee, Officer Krupke," "One Hand, One Heart," "Cool," "Tonight (Quintet)", "The Rumble," "I Feel Pretty," "Somewhere" (performed by Rita Moreno), "A Boy Like That / I Have a Love," "Finale," "End Credits." Digital release 12/3/21.
Recordings NEWLY LISTED:
January 28, 2022:
Space Dogs
(Ghostlight Records - new digital album)
Original cast album. Score by Van Hughes and Nick Blaemire, who also perform. "The Space Dogs of the Cosmodrome " (now available), "If I Start a Race," "A Brief History of Dogs," "Getting Me High," "Blessed By Two Great Oceans," "Fill the Void I," "A Russian Canine Beauty Pageant," "Werner Von Braun," "Babies To Time," "Ahead In the Van," "Fuzziest Loneliest," "Progress," "Byelka Strelka," "Fill the Void II," "Space Opera." Produced by Van Hughes and Nick Blaemire, with Kurt Deutsch serving as executive producer. The show is expected to debut at MCC Theater in January 2022. GhostlightRecords.com.
February 22, 2022:
West Side Story: Breaking Barriers
(Wownow Entertainment - new DVD)
2021 documentary. Part of Literary Heroes Documentary Series. 72 minutes.
Books/Plays NEWLY LISTED:
December 16:
1984: A New Play Created by Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan
(Methuen Drama - Paperback Book/Kindle Edition)
Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan's stage adaptation of George Orwell's book, which played the Hudson Theatre in 2017.
Actors' and Performers' Yearbook 2022: Essential Contacts for Stage, Screen and Radio
(Methuen Drama - Paperback Book/Kindle Edition)
Foreword by Joan Iyiola and Polly Bennett. New version of this annual book includes newly commissioned interviews conducted by Polly Bennett and Joan Iyiola (co-founders of The Mono Box) with theatre industry professionals including Cherrelle Skeete, Hazel Holder, Ned Bennett and Tom Ross Williams; a new foreword by Polly Bennett; updated listings covering training and working in theatre, film, radio, TV and comedy, it contains invaluable resources such as a casting calendar and articles on a range of topics from your social media profile to what drama schools are looking for to financial and tax issues. 488 pages.
December 24:
Morning Sun
(Methuen Drama - Paperback Book/Kindle Edition)
Play by Simon Stephens. Currently in production at Manhattan Theatre Club. 104 pages. Kindle Edition released 11/16/21.
January 11, 2022:
Damn Shame: A Memoir of Desire, Defiance, and Show Tunes
(Random House Canada - new Paperback Book/Kindle Edition/Audible audiobook)
Memoir by Broadway/Off-Broadway/TV/fim performer David Pevsner. 368 pages.
January 27:
Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.
(Methuen Drama - Paperback Book/Kindle Edition)
Play by Alice Birch. 80 pages.
February 24, 2022:
Best of Enemies
(Methuen Drama - new Paperback Book)
Play by James Graham, inspired by the documentary by Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon.
This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at London's Young Vic, December 2021. 128 pages.
Pinter and Stoppard: A Director's View
(Methuen Drama - Hardcover Book/Paperback/Kindle Edition)
Carey Perloff examines these contemporary playwrights alongside one another and in the context of the rehearsal room, to glean new insights and connections, including the impact of their Jewish background on their work and their passion for the details of stagecraft. The author draws upon her first-hand experience of working with both writers, creating case studies of particular plays in production to provide new ways of positioning the work today. 240 pages.
April 1, 2022:
This Time for Me: A Memoir
(TOPPLE Books & Little A - Hardcover Book/Paperback/Kindle Edition/Audible Audiobook/Audiobook on CD)
By Alexandra Billings with Joanne Gordon. Introduction by Joey Soloway. "An emotional, funny, and fabulous memoir by trailblazing and award-winning Trans actor and activist Alexandra Billings. Spanning five decades, from profound lows to exhilarating highs ... captures the events of a pioneering life ... award-winning actor and history-making LGBTQ and HIV/AIDS activist shares not only her own ever-evolving story but also the parallel ways in which queer identity has dramatically changed since the Stonewall riots of 1969. She weaves a true coming-of-age story of richly imaginative lies, of friends being swept away by a plague that decimated the community, of her determination to establish a career that would break boundaries, and of the recognition of her own power."
Compiled by Talkin' Broadway Staff.
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