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DIGITAL MUSIC Now Available:
"Everybody's Coming Together"
(Masterworks Broadway - new digital single)
Track from Almost Famous musical. Score by Tom Kitt. Released 6/2/22.
Matt Forbes: "That Face"
(new digital single)
Song by Mel Brooks from The Producers. Arranged by Callum Au. Dedicated in memory of Forbes hero and early mentor, Gary Beach.
To be released this Friday, June 17:
Eleri Ward: "Another Hundred People"
(Ghostlight Records - new digital single)
Song by Stephen Sondheim from upcoming Eleri Ward album.
It Happened in Key West
(Broadway Records - new digital album)
Original cast recording of score by Jill Santoriello, with additional lyrics by Jason Huza. Cast includes Wade McCollum, Alyssa Martyn, Val Adams, Miguel Angel, Alexander Barria, Mary-Jean Caldwell, Guido Garcia Lueches, Sophia Lewis, Hannah McIver, Ross McLaren, Johan Munir, Nuno Queimado, Andrea Golinucci, and Siwan Henderson. "Overture / Radio News," "Prologue / Wrecked In the Keys," "Elena," "What More Could I Wish For?," "Don't Worry About a Thing," "Black Wedding," "At the End of the World," "Black Wedding 2," "At the End of the World Reprise," "Black Wedding 3," "Undying Love," "Everything's Right With the World," "I Feel Loved," "Elena From Town," "If You've Never Felt This Way," "Undying LoveReprise," "Finale: At the End of the World - Reprise." Music director and keys 1, Andrew Hopkins; keys 2 and assistant music director, Tom Turner; double bass and electric bass, Jack Cherry; flute, clarinet and sax, Kristal Hamson; cello, Miriam Wakeling; and drums and percussion, Oliver Pooley. Album produced by Jill Santoriello, Jeremiah James, and Rashad Chambers. Mixed and mastered by Tom Gioia at Visionary Music Group with orchestrations by Robert Felstein. Recorded live at The Charing Cross Theatre.
Jeff Harnar: I Know Things Now: My Life in Sondheim's Words
(PS Classics - new on CD/digital)
Jeff Harner weaves 25 Sondheim songs into an original narrative, reimagining them for an LGBTQ+ audience and creating a self-portrait of a proudly gay New Yorker in the contemporary world. Jon Weber serves as conductor and orchestrator, recasting the songs in a jazz idiom accompanied by a 20-piece orchestra conducted by Weber. "Children Will Listen / I Know Things Now/ More," "Old Friends," "Opening Doors / Live Alone and Like It / You Could Drive a Person Crazy," "Everybody Says Don't," "Loving You / Losing My Mind ," "The God-Why-Don't-You-Love-Me Blues / sorry-grateful," "The Best Thing That Ever Has Happened to Me / What Can You Lose?," "The Little Things You Do Together / Marry Me a Little / I'm Calm / Getting Married Today," "Every Day a Little Death," "Can That Boy Foxtrot!," "Anyone Can Whistle," "Send in the Clowns ," "Could I Leave You? ," "Children Will Listen / the Ballad of Sweeney Todd," "Now You Know/I Know Things Now," "Being Alive." Produced by Bart Migal, with Ronald Thomas serving as executive producer.
Newly listed recordings:
July 15:
MJ the Musical
(Sony Music - new on CD/digital)
Original Broadway cast album of 2022 show. Cast includes Myles Frost Quentin Earl Darrington, Whitney Bashor, Gabriel Ruîz, Christian Wilson/Walter Russell III, Tavon Olds-Sample, Devin Trey Campbell, Antione L. Smith, Joey Sorge, Raymond Baynard, John Edwards, Ayana George, Apollo Levine, Lamont Walker II, Zelig Williams. 20 tracks.
July 19:
Love Quirks
(Krizerland Records - new on CD)
Original Off-Broadway cast recording of score by Seth Bisen-Hersh. "Overture," "It Never Works," "Let's Just Be Friends," "Haven't You Noticed?," "I'd Rather Take a Nap," "Darling, I Love You/Who Knows Why?," "Straight Boys," "I'm Not Interested in You," "Love Quirks," "Waking," "The Circle," "Um, Yeah," "This Is Awkward," "I Saw You Tonight/You Can't Always Choose," "Just Get Over It," "Hey!," "The Circle (reprise)," "In Love." Kritzerland.com.
Newly listed books:
September 1:
Fifty Key Figures in Queer US Theatre
(Routledge - Hardcover Book/Paperback)
Collection of essays. Jimmy A. Noriega and Jordan Schildcrout, editors. iMoving from the era of the Stonewall Riots to today, notable scholars in the field bring a wide variety of queer theatre artists into conversation with each other, exploring connections and differences in race, gender, physical ability, national origin, class, generation, aesthetic modes, and political goals, creating a diverse and inclusive study of 50 years of queer theatre. 280 pages.
