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Digital Music Now Available:
"Morocco"
(Masterworks Broadway - digital single)
Single from Almost Famous Broadway musical. Music by Tom Kitt with lyrics by Cameron Crowe and Tom Kitt. performed by Solea Pfeiffer and Casey Likes.
Books Now Available:
Attack of the Monster Musical: A Cultural History of Little Shop of Horrors
(Methuen Drama - Hardcover Book/Paperback/Kindle Edition)
By Adam Abraham. Chronicles the unlikely phenomenon of Little Shop of Horrors, the musical by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken. Looks at the creation of the musical and its place in the contemporary musical theatre canon and examines its afterlives and wider cultural context. Told through archival research and eyewitness accounts, with extensive use of Ashman's personal papers, offering a unique and inspiring study of one of musical theatre's greatest talents. 256 pages.
Music to Be Released by This Friday:
Judy Whitmore: Isn't It Romantic?
(new digital album)
Third album from jazz and cabaret performer Judy Whitmore. Arrangements by Tamir Hendelman. Lori Bell (flute), Rickey Woodard (alto and tenor saxes), Mike Rocha (trumpet), Mitchell Long (acoustic guitar), Larry Koonse (electric guitar), Alex Frank (bass), Dean Koba (drums), And Brian Kilgore (percussion). "It Could Happen to You," "I Remember You," "Sunday in New York," "You Go To My Head," "The Nearness of You," "The Birth of the Blues," "Speak Low," "Isn't It Romantic," "In The Wee Small Hours of the Morning," "But Beautiful," "Just a Little Lovin'," "Hallelujah I Love Him So."
Eleri Ward: Keep a Tender Distance
(Ghostlight Records - new digital album)
Folk guitar exploration of Stephen Sondheim's musical theater canon, and follow-up to Ward's A Perfect Little Death album. "Merrily We Roll Along," "Stay with Me," "Unworthy of Your Love," "Johanna," "Agony," "I Remember," "Another Hundred People," "The Miller's Son," "I Know Things Now," "Not a Day Goes By" (released 8/26/22), "Not While I'm Around," "No One Is Alone," "Marry Me a Little," "Move On." Produced by Allen Tate and Eleri Ward, and arranged by Eleri Ward, with string arrangements by Ellis Ludwig-Leone. CD format expected later this year. GhostlightRecords.com.
Newly Listed Recordings:
September 30, 2022:
Christine Ebersole: After the Ball
(Club44 Records - on CD/digital)
"After the Ball," "I'm Old Fashioned," "Yesterdays," "'S Wonderful," "My Baby Just Cares for Me," "Little Green," "Autumn Leaves," "I Stayed Too Long at the Fair," "A Sleepin' Bee," "When I Grow Too Old to Dream." Lawrence Yurman, arranger and co-producer. Single "My Baby Just Cares for Me" now available.
October 25, 2022:
How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying OLC
(Kritzerland Records - new on CD)
Music and lyrics by Frank Loesser. opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre on March 28, 1963. Warren Berlinger, Billy De Wolfe, Patricia Michael, Josephine Blake, David Knight, Eileen Gourlay. Nine bonus tracks: selections from the World Record Club knock-off of the show with the Mike Sammes Singers, full orchestra. Limited to 500 copies. Expected the last week of October. At Kritzerland.com.
Ben Bagley's Oscar Hammerstein Revisited
(Kritzerland Records - new on CD)
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein. 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. Remastered. Limited to 500 copies. Expected the last week in October. At Kritzerland.com.
October 28, 2022:
& Juliet OBC
(Atlantic Records - new album)
Score features pop anthems by Max Martin and his collaborators. Philippe Arroyo, Melanie La Barrie, Lorna Courtney, Nicholas Edwards, Katy Geraghty, Veronica Otim, Stark Sands, Paulo Szot, Justin David Sullivan, Tiernan Tunnicliffe, Ben Jackson Walker, Rachel Webb, Betsy Wolfe perform. "Larger Than Life," "I Want It That Way," "...Baby One More Time," "Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely," "Domino," "Show Me Love," "Blow," "I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman," "Overprotected," "Confident," "Teenage Dream / Break Free," "Oops!...I Did it Again," "I Kissed A Girl," "It's My Life," "Love Me Like You Do," "Since U Been Gone," "Whataya Want from Me," "One More Try," "Problem / Can't Feel My Face," "That's the Way It Is," "Everybody," "As Long as You Love Me," "It's Gonna Be Me," "Shape of My Heart," "Stronger," "Fuckin' Perfect [Explicit]," "Roar," "I Want It That Way (Reprise)," "Can't Stop the Feeling!," "Since U Been Gone (Juliet's Version)." Single "Roar" is now available.
December 16, 2022:
Almost Famous The Musical - 1973 Bootleg EP
(Masterworks Broadway - 12" vinyl disc)
Four songs from Almost Famous the musical. Score by Tom Kitt, with some lyrics by Cameron Crowe. Limited edition package. Chris Wood, Anika Larsen, Solea Pfeiffer, Drew Gehling, Casey Likes, Rob Colletti, Matt Bittner, Chad Burris, Gerard Canonico, Julia Cassandra, Brandon Contreras, Jakeim Hart, Van Hughes, Jana Djenne Jackson, Katie Ladner, Danny Lindgren, Erica Mansfield, Alisa Melendez, Emily Schultheis, Daniel Sovich, Libby Winters, and Matthew C. Yee.
Newly Listed Books:
October 11, 2022
Prima Facie
(Nick Hern Books - Paperback Book/Kindle Edition)
Play by Suzie Miller. European premiere at Harold Pinter Theatre in London's West End in April 2022, starring Jodie Comer. Expected on Broadway in Spring 2023. 104 pages.
April 21, 2023
Confessions of an Actress: Sunday Letters from Moscow
(Merie Productions - Kindle Edition)
By Meredith Patterson. In the winter of 2002, Chechen terrorists entered the Dubrovka Theater in what became known as the Moscow Theater Hostage Crisis ... rebels would storm the stage and take the audience captive in an operation that lasted four days and claimed the lives of over 100 civilians. On that same night, at age 26, Broadway actress Meredith Patterson was less than one mile away at the MDM Theater, starring as Peggy Sawyer in 42nd Street with Boris Yeltsin in attendance. Second in series of books, following Confessions of an Actress: From Chorus Girl to Broadway Star, released in 2021.
