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DIGITAL MUSIC Now Available:
13: The Musical
(Ghostlight Records / Atlantic Records - new digital album)
Soundtrack for 2022 Netflix film based on the Broadway musical. Score by Jason Robert Brown. Khiyla Aynne, Alec Benjamin, Lindsey Blackwell, Kayleigh Cerezo, Nolan Dubuc, Eli Golden, Luke Islam, by Jonathan Lengel, JD McCrary, Frankie McNellis, Ramon Reed, Willow Moss, Shechinah Mpumlwana, Gabriella Uhl. "13," "Lamest Place in the World," "I've Been Waiting," "Opportunity," "The Bloodmaster," "Getting Ready," "Bad Bad News," "It Would Be Funny," "Tell Her," "A Little More Homework," "Brand New You," "Getting Ready (Extended)," "What It Means to Be a Friend," Bonus Track: "Tell Her." Released 8/12/22.
Books Now Available:
Everything Was Possible: The Birth of the Musical Follies (revised and updated)
(Applause Books - Paperback Book)
By Ted Chapin. Foreword by Frank Rich. Insider's view of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's musical, Folies. New afterword brings the history of the show forward, diving into recent productions around the world, new recordings, and the continued promise of a film version.
Opera: The Definitive Illustrated History
(DK - Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition/Audible Audiobook)
By Alan Riding and Leslie Dunton-Downer. Follows the history of opera from Monteverdi's L'Orfeo in 1607, to Cosi fan Tutte, La Bohème, and modern operas such as Brokeback Mountain. Explains musical terminology, traces historical developments, and sets everything in a cultural context. Features include: all of the most important operas from the Renaissance to the 21st century; profiles of the key composers, librettists, performers, and companies, with details of their lives, works, and influence–arranged in chronological order to show the evolution of the genre; explanations of musical terminology and different types of opera. 360 pages.
Scene Shift: U.S. Set Designers in Conversation
(Focal Press - Hardcover Book/Paperback/Kindle Edition)
Maureen Weiss, Sibyl Wickersheimer, editors. Showcases contemporary U.S. set design by engaging designers with one another, pairing dialogue and imagery from varied experiences and practices. The conversations include designers (30 in all) who are commercially successful, artistically successful, and those who have existed on the fringes of the theatre world whose work is not necessarily definable, and therefore not as visible. 268 pages. Released 8/11/22.
Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux - Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition 8/30/22)
By Mary Rodgers (19312014) and Jesse Green. The memoirs of Mary Rodgers—writer, composer, Broadway royalty, and "a woman who tried everything." Her story, with copious annotations, contradictions, and interruptions from coauthor Jesse Green. 480 pages. Released 8/9/22.
Transforming Space Over Time: Set Design and Visual Storytelling with Broadway's Legendary Directors
(Applause Books - Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition)
By theater designer and Tony Award winner Beowulf Boritt. Tells the stories of six diverse productions: five on Broadway and one Off-Broadway ... beginning with the moment he was offered each job, and taking readers through the conceptual development of the set, in collaboration with the director, the challenges of its physical creation, and the intense process of readying it for the stage. Extensive conversations with the directors of the productions ... such as James Lapine, Kenny Leon, Hal Prince, Susan Stroman, Jerry Zaks, and Stephen Sondheim. 304 pages.
Newly listed recordings:
Released date TBA:
Between the Lines
(Ghostlight Records - new album)
Second Stage original cast album of score by Elyssa Samsel and Kate Anderson. (Book by By Timothy Allen Mcdonald, based on the book by Jodi Picoult and Samantha Van Leer). Recorded 8/8/22. Release date TBA.
Books/Plays RECENTLY MADE AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER:
August 25:
Girl from the North Country (2022 edition)
(Nick Hern Books - Kindle Edition)
By Conor McPherson and Bob Dylan. Musical that started at The Old Vic, London, in July 2017, in a production directed by Conor McPherson, and later transferred to the West End, Broadway, Australia, Ireland and toured the UK. 112 pages.
October 1:
Carl Moellenberg's Story: Broadway and Spirituality as a Path to Survival
(Imagine and Wonder - Hardcover Book)
By Carl Moellenberg. John Shableski, editor. The author's "journey of many transformations: from Midwestern boy most interested in music to a fast-paced Wall Street career; from investment banking to a 12 time Tony Award winner on Broadway; from overcoming several death-defying crises by finding healing, inspiration from a higher being, and deeper spirituality." 224 pages.
October 15:
Carefully Taught: American History through Broadway Musicals
(Applause - Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition)
By Cary Ginell. Looks at American history as depicted in forty Broadway musicals. Categories include: biographies of famous Americans, (Andrew Jackson and Fiorello LaGuardia), stories with national conflicts (Hamilton, South Pacific), events that captured the attention of the American public (Floyd Collins, Newsies), and sociological studies or satires of specific eras (The Music Man, Hair). Approaches American history from two vantage points: the point of view of the playwright and composer accompanied with the context of how these events were seen when they were produced versus how they are seen today. 284 pages.
