2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015
CDs Now Available:
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.
Chip Deffaa's The George M. Cohan Songbook
(Garret Mountain Records - on CD/digital)
37 Cohan songs. Cast includes Jon Peterson, Stephen Bogardus, Eric William Morris, Seth Sikes, Molly Ryan, Bobby Belfry, Michael Townsend Wright, Jack Corbin, Jeremy Lanuti, Melodie Wolford, Alex Craven, Dea Julien, Keith Anderson, and more. Producer Chip Deffaa has mixed famous Cohan songs with rarities, rediscoveries, and never-before recorded songs (like "I'm a One-Girl Man" and "When New York was New York"). Richard Danley, musical director. Slau Halatyn, recording engineer.
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.
Digital Music Now Available:
Knoxville
(Broadway Records - new digital album)
Asolo Repertory Theatre cast recording of score by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens. Based on James Agee's "A Death in the Family." Cast includes Jason Danieley, Hannah Elless, Paul Alexander Nolan, Ellen Harvey, Nathan Salstone, and Joel Waggoner. Released 10/21/22. CD release date 11/25/22.
Books Now Available:
The Narcissist
(Methuen Drama - Paperback Book)
Play by Christopher Shinn. Premiered at Chichester Festival Theatre in August 2022.
Music to Be Released This Friday, October 28:
& Juliet OBC
(Atlantic Records - new digital 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.
Million Dollar Quartet Christmas
(BFD/The Orchard - new digital album)
2022 national tour cast recording. Jared Freiburg as Jerry Lee Lewis, Kathleen Macari as Dyanne, Bill Scott Sheets as Johnny Cash, Alex Swindle as Elvis Presley, Michael Sinclair as Brother Jay, and Jamie Pittle as W.S. "Fluke Holland" along with Mark Andrew Miller as Carl Perkins and additional musicians: Jonny Baird, Martin Lynds, and Chuck Mead. "Santa Claus is Back in Town," "Blue Christmas," "Cotton Top ," "Go Tell It On The Mountain / I Shall Not Be Moved," "Santa Baby," "Boogie Woogie Santa Claus," "Bad Kid," "Silent Night," "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree / Jingle Bell Rock," "I'll Be Home For Christmas," "Santa Claus is Coming to Town," "Mele Kalikimaka," "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen," "Jingle Bells," "Run Rudolph Run"; Bonus Tracks: "Don't Be Cruel," "Chantilly Lace," "Billboard Medley: Que Sera Sera / Let the Good Times Roll / Hot Diggity / Tutti Fruitti," "Ring of Fire." Produced by Chuck Mead. Recorded and mixed at Inglehood Studios in Nashville, TN by Cowboy Keith Thompson, with mastering by Alex McCollough of True East Mastering. CD to be released 11/11/22.
Paul Marinaro: Not Quite Yet
(new album)
Chicago-based jazz singer Paul Marinaro. "Born to be Blue," "Someone to Light Up My Life," "Make Me Rainbows," "Fitzwilly," "5:15 The Angels Have Gone," "Remind Me," "No One Ever Tells You," "Invitation," "The Island," "On A Wonderful Day Like Today," "That's All," "Searching," "I Remember," and "No Plan."
Newly Listed Recordings:
November 11:
December Songs for Voice and Orchestra
(P.S. Classics - new digital album)
Maury Yeston's December Songs, sung by Victoria Clark. 37-piece orchestra conducted by Ted Sperling and scored by Larry Hochman. The booklet features complete lyrics, in addition to liner notes by Matthew Gurewitsch. Produced by Bart Migal, Ted Sperling, and Maury Yeston. CD release date 11/25/22.
November 18:
Colin Donnell & Patti Murin: Something Stupid
(Broadway Records - new on CD/digital)
"House of the Rising Sun," "And I Will Follow," "Jackson," "The Next Right Thing," "Because the Night," "Meadowlark," "I See the Light," "Finishing the Hat," "How Do You Keep the Music Playing / My Funny Valentine," "America," "Everything Changes," "Something Stupid." Produced by Robbie Rozelle, and co-produced by Yasuhiko Fukuoka. Arrangements and orchestrations by Luke Williams.
Newly Listed Books:
November 2022:
The American Theatre as seen by Hirschfeld 1962-2002
(The Al Hirschfeld Foundation / Stuart Ng Books - new book)
Edited by David Leopold. Showcases 300 Hirschfeld drawings: his greatest theater work from five decades, including some of the most important productions from the last sixty years, plus portraits of Stephen Sondheim, Neil Simon, Edward Albee, Wendy Wasserstein, Tom Stoppard, and Hal Prince, and more. forward by Michael Kimmelman, and chapter introductions by Brooks Atkinson, Brendan Gill, Maureen Dowd, Terrence McNally and Jules Feiffer. Follow-up to The American Theatre As Seen by Hirschfeld, published in 1961. 250 pages. AlHirschfeldFoundationshop.org.
