Sound Advice
Schedule of New & Upcoming CD, DVD & Book Releases
Updated 8/30/26
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Bat Boy: The Musical
(Ghostlight Records/Yellow Sound Label - new digital album)
2025 NY City Center Gala cast recording of score by Laurence O'Keefe (book by Keythe Farley and Brian Flemming). Cast includes Kerry Butler, Gabi Carrubba, Andrew Durand, Tom McGowan, Jacob Ming-Trent, Alex Newell, Christopher Sieber, Taylor Trensch, Marissa Jaret Winokur. Features world premiere recordings of three new songs. "Hold Me, Bat Boy," "Christian Charity," "A Home for You," "Fly with Me," "Show You a Thing or Two," "He Is Here," "Christian Charity (Reprise)," "Deer In the Headlights," "A Home for You (Reprise)," "Comfort and Joy," "A Joyful Noise," "Let Me Walk Among You," "A Joyful Noise (Reprise)," "All Hell Breaks Loose," "Stop the Bat Boy!," "Three Bedroom House," "Children, Children," "More Blood/Kill the Bat Boy!," "Mine, All Mine," "Apology to a Cow," "Finale: I Imagine You're Upset," "Finale: I Am Not a Boy," "Finale: Hold Me, Bat Boy (Reprise)." Released 8/28/26. CD expected later in 2026.
"Crush" and "It Couldn't Be"
(Joy Machine Records - single tracks)
Two tracks from upcoming (this fall) Off-Broadway cast recording of score by Douglas Lyons and Ethan D. Pakchar. "Crush," performed by Matt Rodin and Miyuki Miyagi, and "It Couldn't Be," performed by Matt Rodin and Max Sangerman released 8/26/26.
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. Note: it's not clear when this was actually released.
Evita
(The Other Song Records - 3-disc vinyl LP set/digital)
2025 London cast recording. Cast includes Rachel Zegler, Diego Andres Rodriguez, James Olivas, Aaron Lee Lambert, and Bella Brown. Disc 1: "Requiem," "Oh What a Circus," "On This Night of a Thousand Stars," "Eva Beware of The City," "Buenos Aires," "Goodnight and Thank You," "The Art of the Possible," "Charity Concert," "I'd Be Surprisingly Good for You," Disc 2: "Hello and Goodbye," "Another Suitcase in Another Hall," "Peron's Latest Flame," "Dice Are Rolling (Part 1)," "A New Argentina," "On The Balcony of the Casa Rosada (Part 1)," "Don't Cry For Me Argentina," "On The Balcony of the Casa Rosada (Part 2)," "High Flying, Adored," "Rainbow High," "Rainbow Tour," Disc 3: "The Actress Hasn't Learned the Lines (You'd Like to Hear)," "And the Money Kept Rolling In (And Out)," "Santa Evita," "Waltz for Eva and Che," "She is a Diamond," "Dice Are Rolling (Part 2)," "You Must Love Me," "Eva's Final Broadcast," "Montage," "Lament." Released 8/28/26.
Night Side Songs
(Octoverse/Warner Music - new digital album)
In collaboration with Lincoln Center Theater. Cast album of score by The Lazours. Robin de Jesús, Brooke Ishibashi, Jonathan Raviv, Kris Saint-Louis, and Mary Testa. Produced by Mara Isaacs, Todd Sickafoose, and Andy Einhorn, and co-produced by Daniel Lazour and Patrick Lazour. Released 8/21/26. CD and vinyl editions of the album are planned for later this year.
Schmigadoon!
(Joy Machine Records - digital)
2026 OBC recording of score by Cinco Paul. Music director Steven Malone. Alex Brightman, Sara Chase, Max Clayton, Ana Gasteyer, Ann Harada, Brad Oscar, Isabelle McCalla, Maulik Pancholy, Ayaan Diop, Ivan Hernandez, McKenzie Kurtz. CD available for purchase at the Nederlander Theatre and at JoyMachineRecords.com; wide retail release October 16.
Sara Bareilles: Good Grief
(new on CD/digital/vinyl)
14 tracks written and performed by Sara Bareilles. Co-produced by Bareilles, Aaron Dessner, and Jonathan Low. Released 8/28/26.
This Ain't No Disco
(Center Stage Records - new digital album)
World premiere recording of score by Stephen Trask and Peter Yanowitz. The album is produced by Stephen Trask, Peter Yanowitz, and Diane Mayer. Featuring Ryan Cassata, Adam Chanler-Berat, Will Connolly, Eddie Cooper, Lilli Cooper, Austin Crute, Lulu Fall, Lena Hall, Taylor Hanson, Ryan Jarman, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Chilina Kennedy, Sean Ono Lennon, John Cameron Mitchell, Charlotte Kemp Muhl, Robert Schwartzman, Jake Shears, Miriam Shor, Theo Stockman, and Brandon Uranowitz. The show debuted at Atlantic Theater Company in 2018. Released 8/21/26.
August 31, 2026
I Hear Music: The Life of Burton Lane, Composer for Broadway and Hollywood
(McFarland - Paperback Book)
By Tighe E. Zimmers. First full-length book about Burton Lane, covering his early days working on Tin Pan Alley and Broadway while still in his teens, through his compositions of film songs for more than twenty years, working with well-known lyricists including Harold Adamson, Ralph Freed, Frank Loesser, Yip Harburg, Ted Koehler, and Sammy Cahn, and his return to Broadway in 1947 for Finian's Rainbow, with Harburg, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever with Alan Jay Lerner. 120 pages.
September 4, 2026
Bing Crosby: Kraft Music Hall Time Vol 3
(Sepia Records - new on 2 CDs)
Bing Crosby's radio broadcasts from Kraft Music Hall between 1937 and 1946. Performances, introductions, and banter. Digitally remastered. CD 1: The 1930s, 30 tracks. CD 2: The 1940s, 28 Tracks. SepiaRecords.com.
Chess
(Ghostlight Records new on CD/vinyl LP)
2025 Broadway revival cast. Score by Benny Andersson, Tim Rice and Björn Ulvaeus. Nicholas Christopher, Lea Michele, Aaron Tveit, Hannah Cruz, Bradley Dean, Sean Allan Krill, and Bryce Pinkham. "Overture," "Difficult and Dangerous Times," "Where I Want to Be," "Pity the Child #1," "Merano," "What a Scene/What a Joy," "Press Conference," "The Arbiter," "Chess Match #1," "Quartet (A Model of Decorum and Tranquility)," "1956, Budapest is Rising," "Nobody's Side," "Mountain Duet," "Florence Quits," "Pity the Child #2," "Heaven Help My Heart," "Anatoly & the Press," "Anthem," "Golden Bangkok," "One Night In Bangkok," "He Is a Man, He Is a Child," "The Soviet Machine," "The Interview," "You and I," "The Deal (Pt. 1)," "The Deal (Pt. 2)," "Pity the Child," "I Know Him So Well," "Endgame (Pt. 1)," "Endgame (Pt. 2)," "Someone Else's Story," "You and I (Reprise)," "Epilogue." Digital released earlier.
"Wander"
(Single from new musical)
Song from score for in-development Big Man: A New Musical by Billy Recce (music) and Sheryl Berk (lyrics and book). Performed by Kevin Chamberlin. "Wanted to Believe," performed by Ramin Karimloo, was previously released. Proceeds from all downloads will benefit the Alzheimer's Association.
September 15, 2026
Guy Haines - Guy Songs
(Kritzerland - new on CD)
Complete collection of Bruce Kimmel's Guy Haines' solo studio tracks twenty-three from twenty-three different albums. limited to 500 copies and expected to ship third week of September. Kritzerland.com
September 18, 2026
Guys and Dolls
(Chandos Records - new on SACD CD/digital)
Complete recording of score by Frank Loesser. John Wilson and Sinfonia of London. Original orchestrations reconstructed by Larry Moore. Featuring Nathaniel Hackmann, Sierra Boggess, David Seadon-Young, Louise Dearman, Sir Thomas Allen, Nadim Naaman, Damian Humbley, Lucca Chadwick-Patel. Produced by Jonathan Allen. Chandos.net
Heated Rivalry
(Center Stage Records - new album)
Original Off-Broadway cast recording of score by Dylan MarcAurele. Jay Armstrong Johnson and Jimin Moon with Ryann Redmond, Cherry Torres, Ryan Duncan, Shelby Acosta, and Daniel Brackett. Produced by Lloyd Kikoler, co-produced by Dylan MarcAurele and Mateo Chavez Lewis, and executive produced by Alan Kliffer, Christian Palomares and Sean Nyberg. "Gym Song" now available.
Sydnie Christmas
(Westway Music - new on CD/digital)
Songwriter/singer/West End performer Sydnie Christmas performs songs she wrote. Westway.com.
September 25, 2026
The Last Five Years 25th anniversary
(Atlantic Records - new on 2-CDs/2-LP vinyl)
Score by Jason Robert Brown. Rachel Zegler and Ben Platt. Captured live during the London Palladium run from March 24-29, 2026. Digital released earlier.
Rise Up! Hamilton: The Anthology
(Atlantic/Rhino - new on 7 LPs / 5 CD set)
Includes the OBC recording, "The Hamilton Mixtape," and "Hamildrops: The Complete Collection" (first physical release), "The HamilTEN Megamix" (from 2025 Tony Awards). 80-page book featuring unseen photos and new essays from Alex Lacamoire, Jeremy McCarter, Chris Hayes, and Riggs Morales; reflections from the original Broadway cast; insights from cast recording producers Tarik "Black Thought" Trotter, Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson, and Bill Sherman; and notes from Mixtape and Hamildrops artists such as Sia, "Weird Al" Yankovic, and Regina Spektor. Also included, a note from Miranda, the libretto, a poster, and a replica opening-night ticket from The Public Theater. LPs include "Copper Black Ice" vinyl and black seven-inch vinyl single featuring the unreleased "HamilTEN Megamix" and "My Shot (Demo)." Custom slipmat and seven inch wooden adapter.
October 6, 2026
Bountiful: Growing Up with Geraldine Page: A Daughter's Memoir
(Three Rooms Press - Hardcover Book/Paperback)
By Angelica Page. One-of-a-kind look at Geraldine Pages's body of work and private life, with insider stories of her stage and film career, her relationships with other renowned actors, including her husband and Angelica's father Rip Torn and Lee Strasberg, and her interactions with other legends. Includes more than 40 photos from family archives. 340 pages.
October 13, 2026
Bowl EP
(53rd State Press - Paperback Book)
Play by Nazareth Hassan. Pulitzer Prize finalist produced in 2025 at the Vineyard Theatre. 150 pages.
October 15, 2026
Power and Greed: Monopolies, Mergers, and Cartels on the American Stage
(Methuen Drama - Hardcover Book/Audible Audiobook)
By Spencer Weber Waller. "unpacks the shady world of the Syndicate, the Shuberts, the Vaudeville Combine, and their modern-day successors." Includes 18 images.
October 20, 2026
Hadestown
(Bleecker Street - new on Blu-ray/DVD)
Stage musical by Anais Mitchell filmed live across three performances on February 28 and March 1, 2025 at London's Lyric Theatre. Directed by Brett Sullivan. Starring André De Shields, Patrick Page, Eva Noblezada, Reeve Carney, Amber Gray. Two hours, twenty-one minutes.
October 30, 2026
Cats: The Jellicle Ball
(Atlantic - new album)
OBC recording of score by Andrew Lloyd Webber, T. S. Eliot, Trevor Nunn, and Richard Stilgoe. Full company with "Tempress" Chasity Moore as Grizabella.
The Lost Boys
(Atlantic Records - new on CD)
OBC recording of score by Kyler England, Adrianne E. Gonzalez, and Gabriel Mann. Digital version released earlier.
October 2026, no release date
Sound Mind
(new album)
Score for new musical by Ray Anderson and Sheryl Berk.
November 3, 2026
Is It Too Late to Make a Run for It?
(St. Martin's Press - Hardcover/Kindle Edition/Audible Audiobook)
Memoir by Judi Dench, with Brendan O'Hea. Dench tells of her life on the stage, on the screen, and behind the scenes. 400 pages.
November 17, 2026
Women+ on the Edge of Democracy
(TCG - new Paperback Book)
"34 Monologues & Short Plays on Democracy's Past, Present and Future." Features more than 30 new plays by acclaimed women+ playwrights from around the world. The Flynn Center for the Performing Arts in Partnership with The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. 400 pages.
February 2, 2027
Suffs: A Novel Based on the Tony Award-Winning Broadway Musical
(Random House Children's Books - new Hardcover/Kindle Edition/Audiobook)
By Shaina Taub and Betsy Cornwell. Based on Taub's Broadway musical Suffs, this historical novel follows a group of suffragists in the final years of the fight for womens right to vote in America, as they risk everything to demand change and make history. 352 pages.
Release date unknown
About Time
(JAY Records - new on 2 CDs)
2025 Goodspeed Musicals, Chester, cast recording of Maltby & Shire revue. Darius de Haas, Shinnerrie Jackson, Daniel Jenkins, Eddie Korbich, Issy van Randwyck, Lynne Wintersteller. "Show Tune," "About Time At," "Faster," "Little Susan Lawrence," "Keys," "Free At," "No One Will Know," "Only When I Laugh," "All I Want to Do Is to Go Dancing," "Smart People," "Movie Music," "Overripe Fruit," "Show Tune (Reprise)," "And the Singer Sings His Song," "To Be Alive," "Manhattan Skyline," "Kensington Kenny," "Im There," "Just a House," "I Like Jazz," "What Do I Tell the Children," "Done," "Lunch with Linda," "After All These Years," "Saying Goodbye," "About Time (Reprise)." Digital released earlier.
About Time
(Yellow Sound Label - new album)
2026 Off-Broadway cast recording of Maltby & Shire revue. Allyson Kaye Daniel, Darius de Haas, Daniel Jenkins, Eddie Korbich, Sally Wilfert, Lynne Wintersteller. Details TBA.
Bat Boy
(Ghostlight Records/Yellow Sound Label - new album)
2025 NY City Center Gala cast recording of score by Laurence O'Keefe. Cast includes Kerry Butler, Gabi Carrubba, Andrew Durand, Tom McGowan, Jacob Ming-Trent, Alex Newell, Christopher Sieber, Taylor Trensch, Marissa Jaret Winokur. Release date TBA.
Beau the Musical
(Joy Machine Records - new album)
Original Off-Broadway cast recording of score by Douglas Lyons and Ethan D. Pakchar. Matt Rodin, Jeb Brown, Max Sangerman, Miyuki Miyagi, Andrea Goss, Amelia Cormack, Ryan Halsaver, and Derek Stolten. Produced by Ian Kage. Tracks "Crush," performed by Matt Rodin and Miyuki Miyagi, and "It Couldn't Be," performed by Matt Rodin and Max Sangerman released 8/26/26. Album due this fall.
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)
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.
Guys and Dolls
(Chandos Records - new album)
Studio album of score by Frank Loesser. First recording of the entire score in its original orchestration. Sinfonia of London. John Wilson conducts. Orchestration reconstruction by Larry Moore.
Harbinger Records upcoming releases: material from Eubie Blake; download only demos of Hugh Martin and Sheldon Harnick; Steve Ross' back catalog for download;
High Button Shoes
(Stage Door Records - new on CD)
Guildford School of Acting cast album of score by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn. With Institute of Sound Recording and University of Surrey Department of Music and Media. Produced by Stewart Nicholls. Music director Brady Mould and arranger by Rowland Lee accompany on piano, with James Armstrong on bass and Richard Burden on drums/percussion. Sound engineering by Gabe Smith. Expected later in 2026.
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
(new album)
2025 NY City Center Encores! production. Kurt Weill (music), Alan Jay Lerner (lyrics). Cast includes Brian Stokes Mitchell and Kate Baldwin. Further information TBA.
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.
The Rocky Horror Show
(StarVista Music - new album)
2026 Broadway revival cast recording of score by Richard O'Brien. Rachel Dratch, Andrew Durand, Luke Evans, Amber Gray, Harvey Guillén, Stephanie Hsu, Juliette Lewis, Josh Rivera, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez.
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.
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.
That Parenting Musical
(Joy Machine Records - new album)
Studio cast album of score by Graham And Kristina Fuller. Featuring Christopher Jackson, Kara Lindsay, Bonnie Milligan, and more. Recorded in early August 2026. Produced by Ian Kagey, Dan Graeber, Graham Fuller, and Kristina Fuller, with executive production by Blue i Productions LLC and 19K Productions, LLC. Orchestrations are by Dan Graeber, who also acted as music director. Release date TBA.
This Side of the World
(new album)
East West Players cast recording of score by Paulo K Tiról.
Turing
(new EP)
From new musical score by Timothy L. Michuda and Benjamin Ward. Vincent Jamal Hooper, James Olivas, Mason Olshavsky.
West Side Story
(Chandos - new album)
Sinfonia of London.