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Schedule of New & Upcoming CD, DVD & Book Releases

Updated 1/6/26

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Camelton
(Paperback Books)
By Stephen Cole. Cole tells the humorous story of writing a musical for the Emir of Qatar. 244 pages. Camelton. Released 12/5/25.

Good Night, and Good Luck: Live From Broadway
(Magnolia Home Ent - new Blu-ray)
2025 Broadway production, filmed live and shown on CNN. Written by George Clooney and Grant Heslov, adapted from their 2005 screenplay. Directed by David Cromer. George Clooney, Ilana Glazer, Glenn Fleshler, Clark Gregg, Carter Hudson, Paul Gross, Christopher Denham, Fran Kranz, Mac Brandt, Will Dagger, Georgia Heers. One hour 34 minutes. Released 12/30/25.

The Other Side of Broadway
(Fiver Publications - Paperback Book)
Memoir by Stephen Wells. Subtitled "A young producer's journey through New York theatre in the 1970s and '80s, launching Howard Ashman, learning from Hal ... with the colorful insanity of a bygone era." Released 12/10/25.

The Sound of Music 60th Anniversary
(Disney - 4K Blu-ray 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital 4K)
Newly restored and remastered version of the 1965 musical film, score by Rodgers & Hammerstein. Screenplay by Ernest Lehman based on Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse's book. Directed by Robert Wise. Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer lead the cast. Details and bonus content: new 4k Restoration of the film; Dolby Vision/HDR Presentation of the film; Dolby ATMOS audio track; Sing-Along Version; audio commentary by Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Charmian Carr, Dee Dee Wood & Johannes von Trapp; audio commentary by Robert Wise; Optional English SDH, Spanish, and French subtitles for the main feature; The Sound of a City Documentary – Julie Andrews returns to Salzburg, Austria; A City of Song – Filming locations in Salzburg, Austria; Musical Stages – The songs, the show & the family; Vintage Programs – The Sound of Music, Rodgers and Hammerstein, location interviews, and audio interviews; Rare Treasures – Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall: The Pratt Family Singers, The Julie Andrews Hour: Julie Andrews and Maria Von Trapp, Screen Tests, 40th Anniversary DVD Introduction by Julie Andrews, and galleries; Publicity – Fox Movietone News – Academy Awards, trailers and teasers, TV spots, and radio spots. Released 9/23/25.

Steve Ross Sings Sondheim (with friends)
(Harbinger Records - new on CD/digital)
Studio album Steve Ross sings with Benjamin Weil and Laura LaVelle. Dennis Buck on keyboard. Stephen Sondheim's Old Friends, "Good Thing Going," "Not While I'm Around," "All I Need Is the Girl," "So Many People," "You Could Drive a Person Crazy," "Could I Leave You," "I Never Do Anything Twice," "Everybody Says Don't," "Remember?," "Losing My Mind," "Not a Day Goes By," "I've Got You to Lean On," "Sooner or Later," "Someone Like You - Stay," "Being Alive," "Together, Wherever We Go," "With So Little to Be Sure Of." Arrangements and music direction by Ross and Buck. Released 11/7/25.

January 9, 2026

Ragtime
(Concord - new digital album)
2025 Broadway revival cast recording of score by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty. Cast includes Joshua Henry, Caissie Levy, Brandon Uranowitz, Colin Donnell, Nichelle Lewis, Ben Levi Ross, Tony Award-winner Shaina Taub, Anna Grace Barlow, John Clay III, Rodd Cyrus, Nick Barrington and Tabitha Lawing. "Prologue: Ragtime," "Goodbye, My Love," "Journey On," "The Crime of the Century," "What Kind of Woman," "A Shtetl Iz Amereke," "Success," "His Name Was Coalhouse Walker," "Gettin' Ready Rag," "Henry Ford," "Nothing Like The City," "Your Daddy's Son," "New Music," "Wheels of a Dream," "The Night That Goldman Spoke at Union Square," "Gliding," "Justice," "President," "Till We Reach That Day," "Coalhouse's Soliloquy," "Coalhouse Demands," "What a Game," "Buffalo Nickel Photoplay, Inc," "Our Children," "Sarah Brown Eyes," "He Wanted to Say," "Back to Before," "Look What You've Done," "Make Them Hear You," "Epilogue: Ragtime (Reprise) / Wheels of a Dream (Reprise)." Orchestrations by William David Brohn. Recorded, edited, and mixed by Ian Kagey and mastered by Oscar Zambrano. 2-CD release 2/6/26. 2-LP vinyl will be released 4/3/26 in three color variants: "Lady Liberty Green" for wide release; "America," available exclusively at Barnes & Noble; and "Ragtime Red," available exclusively at Lincoln Center Theater and Creative Goods.

January 13, 2026

Making Rent: The Story Behind the Music that Changed Broadway
(Apollo Publishers - Hardcover Book)
By Tim Weil, with contributors Neil Patrick Harris and Jennifer Ashley Tepper. Rent audition accompanist, music director, and collaborator Tim Weil shares previously untold stories about some of the show's most iconic moments, accompanied by behind-the-scenes photos. 256 pages.

January 16, 2026

Evita
(The Other Songs Records - new on CD/blue marble vinyl)
2025 UK revival production cast recording of score by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice. Rachel Zegler, Diego Andres Rodriguez, James Olivas, Aaron Lee Lambert , and Bella Brown. Digital released 10/24/25.

January 20, 2026

Wicked: For Good
(Universal Pictures - 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital)
2025 musical film. Screenplay by Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox, songs by Stephen Schwartz, directed by John M. Chu. ? Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Jeff Goldblum, Jonathan Bailey, Michelle Yeoh.

January 22, 2026

Opening Doors: Reimagining the American Musical
(Methuen Drama - Hardcover Book)
By John Doyle. Through anecdotes, industry insight and practical advice, Doyle reflects on his 50-year theatrical journey from the Highlands of Scotland to prestigious regional theatres and Broadway. 248 pages.

January 23, 2026

Cat Kid Comic Club: The Musical
(Center Stage Records - new on CD)
Original cast recording of show based on the book series by Dav Pilkey, with a book and lyrics by Kevin Del Aguila and music by Brad Alexander. L.R. Davidson, Jeremy Fuentes, Michael Thomas Holmes, Jamie LaVerdiere, Brian Owen, Sonia Roman, Dan Rosales, Malynne Smith and Markia Nicole Smith. Music direction by Matt Castle. Vocal arrangements by Brad Alexander and Matt Castle. Orchestrations by Brad Alexander. Digital released 12/12/25. CenterStageRecords.com

January 27, 2026

Never Mind the Happy: Showbiz Stories from a Sore Winner
(Regalo Press - Hardcover Book)
By Marc Shaiman, who looks back on five decades of Broadway triumphs, Hollywood hijinks, and unforgettable collaborations. Spending his teenage years in community theater, starting a decades-long collaboration with Bette Midler in the '70s, surviving the AIDS crisis of the '80s, his award-winning film music career in the Hollywood of the '90s, right up to the highs (and lows) of creating Broadway musicals from 2000 on. 288 pages.

January 30, 2026

Melissa Errico with Tedd Firth: I Can Dream Can't I?
(new album)
"When in Rome (I Do As The Romans Do)" (available now), "I Can Dream, Can't I?," "I Didn't Know About You," "There'll Be Another Spring," "But Beautiful," "Dancing on the Ceiling," "Remind Me," "Like a Lover," "Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year," "All in Fun," "Listen Here," "Both Sides Now," "After You, Who?." New track released every other week, and a special three-song holiday bundle prior to the complete release.

February 3, 2026

What We Did Before Our Moth Days
(Faber & Faber - Paperback Book)
New play by Wallace Shawn. Scheduled to run at Greenwich House Theater in early 2026. 96 pages.

February 6, 2026

The Great Gatsby Songbook
(Hal Leonard - Paperback Book)
Vocal selections from Broadway musical score by Jason Howland (music) and Nathan Tysen (lyrics). "Better Hold Tight," "Beautiful Little Fool," "For Better Or Worse," "For Her," "My Green Light," "New Money," "One Way Road," "Past Is Catching Up To Me," "Roaring On," "Second Hand Suit," "Shady." 112 pages.

Ragtime
(Concord - new on 2 CDs)
2025 Broadway revival cast recording of score by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty. Cast includes Joshua Henry, Caissie Levy, Brandon Uranowitz, Colin Donnell, Nichelle Lewis, Ben Levi Ross, Tony Award-winner Shaina Taub, Anna Grace Barlow, John Clay III, Rodd Cyrus, Nick Barrington and Tabitha Lawing. "Prologue: Ragtime," "Goodbye, My Love," "Journey On," "The Crime of the Century," "What Kind of Woman," "A Shtetl Iz Amereke," "Success," "His Name Was Coalhouse Walker," "Gettin' Ready Rag," "Henry Ford," "Nothing Like The City," "Your Daddy's Son," "New Music," "Wheels of a Dream," "The Night That Goldman Spoke at Union Square," "Gliding," "Justice," "President," "Till We Reach That Day," "Coalhouse's Soliloquy," "Coalhouse Demands," "What a Game," "Buffalo Nickel Photoplay, Inc," "Our Children," "Sarah Brown Eyes," "He Wanted to Say," "Back to Before," "Look What You've Done," "Make Them Hear You," "Epilogue: Ragtime (Reprise) / Wheels of a Dream (Reprise)." Orchestrations by William David Brohn. Recorded, edited, and mixed by Ian Kagey and mastered by Oscar Zambrano. Digital released earlier. 2-LP vinyl will be released 4/3/26 in three color variants: "Lady Liberty Green" for wide release; "America," available exclusively at Barnes & Noble; and "Ragtime Red," available exclusively at Lincoln Center Theater and Creative Goods.

February 10, 2026

August Wilson's American Century: Life as Art
(Univ of Pittsburgh Press - Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition)
By Laurence A. Glasco. Draws on Wilson's early poetry, archival material, and original interviews with family members, neighbors, and friends to show how the city of Pittsburgh and its residents shaped the playwright and his work. Uncovers the story of how the people and places of Pittsburgh remained with Wilson after he left his hometown, shining through in a body of work that brought the struggles and triumphs of the Black experience to a wide audience and changed American theater for the better. 360 pages.

March 3, 2026

How to Succeed in Musical Theatre Without Really Dying: The Actor's Guide to Booking Work and Building a Career That Lasts
(BenBella Books - Paperback Book/Kindle Edition/Audible Audiobook)
By Lindsay Mendez and Ryan Scott Oliver. Foreword by Jonathan Groff. Comprehensive guide, featuring time-tested tools, knowledge bombs, wake-up calls, and timely wisdom for professional actors. 432 pages.

March 10, 2026

Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!
(Grand Central Publishing - Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition/Audiobook)
Autobiography by Liza Minnelli, as told to Michael Feinstein, in which she " opens her heart, mind and memories, sharing secrets we never knew." 320 pages.

March 17, 2026

Songbird in the Light: A Picture Book
(Abrams Books for Young Readers - Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition)
By Billy Porter, with Chris Clarkson. Illustrated by Charly Palmer. About a little boy whose classmates make fun of the way he walks and the way he talks - which makes him feel like a songbird too shy to sing. With the help of his choir teacher, he embraces his talent, realizing that his voice is unique and distinct. 40 pages.

Stephen Sondheim: Art Isn't Easy
(Yale Univ Press - Hardcover Book/Audible Audiobook)
By Daniel Okrent. Shines new light on Sondheim's tormented emotional life, wavering self-confidence, and alcoholism, drawing on the artist's intimate correspondence with such notable figures as Hal Prince, Leonard Bernstein, and Arthur Laurents; exclusive interviews with close friends and collaborators, including James Lapine and John Weidman; and Sondheim's own oral history, which remained closed until his death. 320 pages.

March 31, 2026

Cowboys at the Ballet: The Story of Choreographer Agnes de Mille
(Atheneum Books for Young Readers - Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition)
By Claire Wrenn Bobrow. Illustrated by Ilaria Urbinati. Picture book about the epic struggle and dramatic breakthrough of Agnes de Mille, the legendary choreographer whose work changed the course of Broadway history. 48 pages.

April 3, 2026

Ragtime
(Concord - double LP vinyl)
Three color variants: "Lady Liberty Green" for wide release; "America," available exclusively at Barnes & Noble; and "Ragtime Red," available exclusively at Lincoln Center Theater and Creative Goods. 2025 Broadway revival cast recording of score by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty. Cast includes Joshua Henry, Caissie Levy, Brandon Uranowitz, Colin Donnell, Nichelle Lewis, Ben Levi Ross, Tony Award-winner Shaina Taub, Anna Grace Barlow, John Clay III, Rodd Cyrus, Nick Barrington and Tabitha Lawing. "Prologue: Ragtime," "Goodbye, My Love," "Journey On," "The Crime of the Century," "What Kind of Woman," "A Shtetl Iz Amereke," "Success," "His Name Was Coalhouse Walker," "Gettin' Ready Rag," "Henry Ford," "Nothing Like The City," "Your Daddy's Son," "New Music," "Wheels of a Dream," "The Night That Goldman Spoke at Union Square," "Gliding," "Justice," "President," "Till We Reach That Day," "Coalhouse's Soliloquy," "Coalhouse Demands," "What a Game," "Buffalo Nickel Photoplay, Inc," "Our Children," "Sarah Brown Eyes," "He Wanted to Say," "Back to Before," "Look What You've Done," "Make Them Hear You," "Epilogue: Ragtime (Reprise) / Wheels of a Dream (Reprise)." Orchestrations by William David Brohn. Recorded, edited, and mixed by Ian Kagey and mastered by Oscar Zambrano. Digital and 2-CD release

April 7, 2026

The Book of Joel
(powerHouse Books - Hardcover Book)
By Joel Grey. The visual life story of Joel Grey: actor, singer, dancer, director, and photographer. This sprawling yet intimate scrapbook-style volume uncovers a kaleidoscope of both famous and previously unseen photographs, family snapshots, playbills, posters, and ephemera from Grey's personal archive, revealing an encyclopedic and all-absorbing visual romp through one of the last living greats of American entertainment. Excavated from Grey's personal archives and the treasure trove of his New York Public Library collection. Also included: intimate essays contributed by Eddie Redmayne Tony Kushner. 176 pages.

June 18, 2026

Mexodus
(Audible Originals - Audible Audiobook)
Musical originally performed at the Minetta Lane Theatre. Created and performed by Brian Quijada and Nygel D. Robinson, and directed by David Mendizábal.

Release date unknown

All the World's a Stage
(Joy Machine Records - new album)
Keen Company cast recording of musical by Adam Gwon. Eliza Pagelle, Jon-Michael Reese, Matt Rodin, and Elizabeth Stanley. Produced by Neal Avron, Andrea Grody, Gwon, and Michelle Noh. Andrea Grody is music directing and leading the band. Orchestrations by Michael Starobin. Recorded October 7-8. Early 2026 release expected.

Charlie Rosen's Broadway Big Band
(new double album)
First recording from this band, which "puts both modern and classic showtunes on display, sung by the best and brightest of Broadway's young generation of leading performers, in the timeless tradition of Big Band. A full sized Jazz orchestra composed of 17 musicians play Rosen's re-imagined arrangements of an eclectic mix of tunes from Broadway's past, present, and beyond."

Complete Lyrics of Sheldon Harnick
(new book)

Empire: The Musical
(Yellow Sound Label - new album)
Original Off-Broadway cast recording of score by Caroline Sherman and Robert Hull. Produced by Michael Croiter. Recorded at PowerStation at BerkleeNYC. Release date TBA.

The Fantasticks
(JAY Records - new album)
Studio album recording of score by Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones. Brad Oscar, Telly Leung, Elizabeth Teeter, Lewis Cleale, and Ron Raines.

Harbinger Records upcoming releases: material from Eubie Blake; download only demos of Hugh Martin and Sheldon Harnick; Steve Ross' back catalog for download;

Lizard Boy
(new album)
Live recording of 2023 Prospect Theatre cast. Score by Justin Huertas. Cast features Huertas, Kiki deLohr, and William A. Williams. Release date TBA.

Love Life
(Capriccio - new album)
Live recording of Opera North of Leeds concert recording of score by Kurt Weill (music), Alan Jay Lerner (lyrics). Book by Lerner. The first "complete" recording. To be broadcast on BBC Radio 3, and subsequently released on CD. James Holmes, conductor. Quirijn de Lang, Stephanie Corley, Justin Hopkins, Themba Mvula, Will Hopkins, Joshua Da Costa, Andrew Randall, Masimba Ushe, Holly Saw, Max Westwell, Tilly Baker, Louie Stow, Felicity Moore, Amber Midgley, and Lottie Gray. Release date TBA

Next to Normal
(Ghostlight Records - new on CD)
OLC recording of score by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey. Caissie Levy, Jamie Parker, Jack Wolfe, and Eleanor Worthington-Cox. "Prelude," "Just Another Day," "Everything Else," "Who's Crazy / My Psychopharmacologist and I," "Perfect For You," "I Miss the Mountains," "It's Gonna Be Good," "He's Not Here," "You Don't Know," "I Am the One," "Superboy and the Invisible Girl," "I'm Alive," "Make Up Your Mind / Catch Me I'm Falling," "I Dreamed a Dance," "There's a World," "I've Been," "Didn't I See This Movie?," "A Light in the Dark," "Entr'acte," "Wish I Was Here," "Song of Forgetting," "Hey #1," "Seconds and Years," "Better Than Before," "Aftershocks," "Hey #2," "You Don't Know," "How Could I Ever Forget?," "It's Gonna Be Good (Reprise)," "Why Stay?/ A Promise," "I'm Alive (Reprise)," "The Break," "Make Up Your Mind / Catch Me I'm Falling (Reprise)," "Maybe (Next to Normal)," "Hey #3 / Perfect for You (Reprise)," "So Anyway," "I Am the One (Reprise)," "Light." Production was shown on PBS Great Performances and will be shown in U.K. cinemas Fall 2025. Digital released earlier.

The Nutty Professor
(new album)
Studio recording of score by Marvin Hamlisch and Rupert Holmes. Based on the recent Ogunquit Playhouse staging of the musical based on the Jerry Lewis movie.. Cast TBA. 2024 release expected.

Paradise Square OBC
(new on CD/digital)
Broadway cast recording of score Jason Howland (music), Nathan Tysen and Masi Asare (lyrics), with additional music by Larry Kirwan, inspired by the songs of Stephen Foster. Joaquina Kalukango, Chilina Kennedy, John Dossett, Sidney DuPont, A.J. Shively, Nathaniel Stampley, Gabrielle McClinton, Jacob Fishel, Kevin Dennis and Matt Bogart. Produced by Jason Howland and Billy Jay Stein. Recorded at Power Station at BerkleeNYC during the weeks of April 18 and April 25.

Penelope
(Joy Machine Records - new digital album)
Musical by Alex Bechtel, starring Grace McLean, who is also a co-creator. Recorded live at Joe's Pub in October 2025.

The Queen of Versailles
(Sony Masterworks Broadway - new album)
OBC cast recording of score by Stephen Schwartz (book by Lindsey Ferrentino). Cast includes Kristin Chenoweth, F. Murray Abraham, Stephen DeRosa, Greg Hildreth, Tatum Grace Hopkins, Isabelle Keating, and Nina White. "Caviar Dreams" track available now.

Romeo & Bernadette: A Musical Tale of Verona and Brooklyn
(Yellow Sound Label - new album)
Off-Broadway cast recording. Nikita Burshteyn (Newsies), Anna Kostakis, Carlos Lopez (Man of La Mancha), Michael Marotta (Tenderly: The Rosemary Clooney Musical), Judy McLane (Mamma Mia!), Michael Notardonato, Ari Raskin, Troy Valjean Rucker (August Rush), Zach Schanne (Pippin), and Viet Vo (Viet Gone). Lyrics by Mark Saltzman and music adapted from classic Italian melodies. Recorded 2/18/20. Late March release expected.

Signs of Life
(new digital album)
Concept album for score by Christopher DeLair. Shoshana Bean, Jenn Colella, Leif Coomer, Deborah Cox, Bella Coppola, Damon Daunno, Charity Angel Dawson, Alexa Green, Jinkx Monsoon, Aoife O'Donovan, Solea Pfeiffer, Vanessa Williams, Jess Wolfe, and Holly Laessig.

Tammy Faye
(new album)
Music by Elton John; lyrics by Jake Shears. Cast from Almeida Theatre debut production. Details TBA.

This Side of the World
(new album)
East West Players cast recording of score by Paulo K Tiról.