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Music to be released tomorrow, June 1:
The Phantom of the Opera
(new album)
Score by Andrew Lloyd Webber (music) and Charles Hart (lyrics), with additional lyrics by Richard Stilgoe. Cast includes Killian Donnelly and Lucy St. Louis. Orchestrations by David Cullen and Lloyd Webber, and musical supervision by Simon Lee.
Blu-ray Now Available:
1776 50th Anniversary Director's Cut
(Sony Pictures - new 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital 3-disc set)
1972 film version of the Broadway musical. Score by Sherman Edwards. Screenplay by Peter Stone, from his book. Directed by Peter H. Cast includes William Daniels, Howard Da Silva, Ken Howard, Donald Madden, John Cullum, Ron Holgate, Blythe Danner, William Duell. Hunt 165-minute Director's Cut and the 167-minute Extended Cut. 1972 theatrical version (in HD with original mono audio) and 1992 laserdisc version (in SD with stereo audio). Includes optional archival commentary featuring director Peter H. Hunt, commentary with Peter H. Hunt, William Daniels, and Ken Howard; commentary with Peter H. Hunt and Peter Stone; deleted and alternate scenes with director commentary; nine screen tests; teaser and theatrical trailers.
Newly listed RECORDINGS:
Third week in July:
Ben Bagley's Everyone Else Revisited
(Kritzerland - new on CD)
Music by Baldwin Bergesen, Ralph Blane, Lew Brown, Hoagy Carmichael, Phil Charig, Moose Charlap, Duke Ellington, Jay Gorney, Burton Lane, Milton Pascal, Richard Rodgers, Harry Ruby, Dan Shapiro, Arthur Siegel, Sam H. Stept, Kay Swift, Charles Tobias, Fats Waller, G. Wood. Lyrics by William Archibald, Lew Brown, Phil Charig, Howard Dietz, Edward Eliscu, Lorenz Hart, Paul James, Bert Kalmer, John Latouche, Eddie Lawrence, George Marion, Jr., Hugh Martin, Phyllis McGinley, Johnny Mercer, Henry Myers, Milton Pascal, Dan Shapiro, Sam H. Stept, Charles Tobias, G. Wood. Cast includes Nell Carter, the brilliant Dorothy Loudon, June Carroll, Arthur Siegel, The Populaires, Diane Carnevale and others. Remastered. Limited to 500 copies only. Expected to ship by third week in July 2022. Kritzerland.com.
Ben Bagley's Oscar Hammerstein Revisited
(Kritzerland - new on CD)
The lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein with music by Lewis Alter, Rudolf Friml, Jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers, Sigmund Romberg, Herbert Stothart. Additional lyrics by E.Y. Harburg, Lorenz Hart. Cast includes Cab Calloway, Blossom Dearie, Alfred Drake, E.Y. Harburg, Dorothy Loudon, Patrice Munsel, Elaine Stritch, and Gloria Swanson. Musical Direction and Arrangements by Norman Paris. Cover art by Harvey Schmidt. Remastered. Limited to 500 copies only. Expected to ship by third week in July 2022. Kritzerland.com.
Kaye Ballard in The Ladies Who Wrote the Lyrics
(Kritzerland - new on CD)
From Kaye Ballard's show. Musical arrangements and pianist: Arthur Siegel. Produced by Ben Bagley. Music by Elmer Bernstein, Cy Coleman, Morton Gould, Albert Hague, Morgan Lewis, Jimmy McHugh, Jerome Kern, Johnny Richards, Arthur Schwartz, Jule Styne. Lyrics by Dorothy Fields, Nancy Hamilton, Carolyn Leigh. Cover art by Harvey Schmidt. Remastered. Limited to 500 copies only. Expected to ship by third week in July 2022. Kritzerland.com.
Fall 2022:
Knoxville
(new on CD/digital)
Asolo Repertory Theatre (Florida) cast recording of score by Stephen Flaherty and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens. Jason Danieley, Hannah Elless, Paul Alexander Nolan, Ellen Harvey, Nathan Salstone and Joel Waggoner. Rounding out the cast are Jack Casey, Sarah Aili, Abigail Stephenson, Natalie Venetia Belcon, Dwelvan David, Scott Wakefield, William Parry, and Barbara Marineau. Expected Fall 2022.
OTHER NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Date (June 10) and details added:
Mr. Saturday Night OBC
(Craft Recordings/Concord Theatricals - new digital album)
Score by Jason Robert Brown (music) and Amanda Green (lyrics). Billy Crystal, Randy Graff, David Paymer, Shoshana Bean, Chasten Harmon, Jordan Gelber, Brian Gonzales, Mylinda Hull. "We're Live," "A Little Joy," "There's a Chance," "I Still Got It," "At Farber's," "Buddy's First Act," "Until Now," "Timing," "What If I Said?," "Unbelievable," "What's Playing at the Movies," "Maybe It Starts With Me," "Tahiti," "My Wonderful Pain in the Ass," "Broken," "Any Man But Me," "Stick Around." Produced by Jeffrey Lesser and Brown, co-produced by Sean Patrick Flahaven, and associate produced by Green.
Compiled by Talkin' Broadway Staff.
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