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Digital Music Now Available:
A(aaagh!)lbum
(Ghostlight Records - new digital album)
Halloween compilation from Joe Iconis. 10 songs from Album album and one new track ("Haddonfield, 15 Years Later (For Judith) Alternative Version"). With performances by Andrew Rannells, Lauren Marcus, George Salazer, Taylor Trensch, and more. Released 10/21/22.
Company
(Concord Theatricals / Craft Recordings - new digital album)
Original Spanish Recording by the 2022 Teatro Del Soho Caixabank cast, featuring Antonio Banderas. Musical direction of Arturo Díez-Boscovich. Score by Stephen Sondheim. Includes live bonus track of Banderas singing "Being Alive" in English. CD will be released in Spain 11/11/22.
Books Now Available:
Arthur Miller: American Witness (Jewish Lives)
(Yale Univ Press - Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition/Audible Audiobook/Audiobook on mp3 CD format)
By John Lahr. An original interpretation of Miller's work and his personality ... Organized around the fault lines of Miller's life–Miller's family, the Great Depression, the rise of fascism, Elia Kazan and the House Committee on Un-American Activities, Marilyn Monroe, Vietnam, and the rise and fall of Miller's role as a public intellectual. Demonstrates the synergy between Arthur Miller's psychology and his plays. Concentrating largely on Miller's most prolific decades of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, Lahr probes Miller's early playwriting failures; his work writing radio plays during World War II after being rejected for military service; his only novel, "Focus"; and his succession of award-winning and canonical plays. 264 pages.
Magic to Do: Pippin's Fantastic, Fraught Journey to Broadway and Beyond
(Applause - Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition)
By Elysa Gardner. Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Pippin. Dives deep into the legendary clashes, backstage drama, and incredible artistic synergy. An examination of the creative struggles between Pippin's director/choreographer, the iconic Bob Fosse, and Stephen Schwartz. 250 pages.
There is No Backstage: An Actor's Life
(BookBaby - Paperback/Kindle Edition)
Memoir by regional/Broadway actress Linda Stephens. The author reveals the struggles, triumphs, dedication, and ultimate grace found in a life in the theatre. 216 pages.
There's a Body in the Window Seat!: The History of Arsenic and Old Lace
(Applause - Paperback Book/Kindle Edition)
By Charles Dennis. Detailed history of one of the most beloved American murder-mysteries and comedies, Joseph Kesselring's Arsenic and Old Lace. Follows the actors, both on the stage and on the screen, as they handle the demands of the roles and behind-the-scenes relationships. 168 pages.
DVD/Blu-Ray Now Available:
Holiday Inn 80th Anniversary Edition
(Universal - new 4K Ultra HD/Blu-ray/Digital set)
1942 musical film. Directed by Mark Sandrich. Score by Irving Berlin. Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds, Virginia Dale, Walter Abel. Bonus content: A Couple of Song and Dance Men; All-Singing All-Dancing; Reassessing "Abraham"; theatrical trailer; feature commentary by Ken Barnes, including archival audio comments from Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, and John Scott Trotter. One hour, 41 minutes.
Music to Be Released by This Friday, November 4:
Barbra Streisand: Live at Bon Soir
(Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings - on CD/digital)
Live album recorded over three nights, November 4-6, 1962. What was to be a debut album was ultimately shelved in favor of the 1963 studio effort, The Barbra Streisand Album. Introduction by David Kapralik/"My Name Is Barbra," "Much More," "Napoleon," "I Hate Music," "Right as the Rain," "Cry Me a River," "Value," "Lover, Come Back to Me," Band Introductions, "Soon It's Gonna Rain," "Come to the Supermarket (In Old Peking)," "When the Sun Comes Out," "Happy Days Are Here Again," "Keepin' Out of Mischief Now," "A Sleepin' Bee," "I Had Myself a True Love," "Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered," "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?," "I'll Tell the Man In the Street," "A Taste of Honey," "Never Will I Marry," "Nobody's Heart Belongs to Me," "My Honey's Lovin' Arms," "I Stayed Too Long at the Fair." Remastered from original master tapes. Produced by Streisand with Martin Erlichman and Jay Landers. New liner notes written by Barbra Streisand. Special vinyl version to be released spring 2023.
A Beautiful Noise OBC
(UMe - new digital album)
Cast includes Will Swenson, Mark Jacoby and Robyn Hurder. "Opening Montage," "A Beautiful Noise," "Neil Pitches Songs: I'll Come Running / I Got The Feelin' (Oh No, No) / I'm A Believer (Medley)," "I'm A Believer," "Demo Medley: The Boat That I Row / Red Red Wine / Kentucky Woman (Medley)," "Kentucky Woman," "Into The Bitter End," "Solitary Man," "Cracklin' Rosie" (now available), "Song Sung Blue," "Cherry, Cherry / September Morn' (Medley)," "Love On The Rocks," "Hello Again," "A Heavenly Progression," "Sweet Caroline," "Entr'acte," "Brother Love's Traveling Salvation Show," "Play Me," "Forever In Blue Jeans," "Stadium Medley: Soolaimon / Thank The Lord for the Night Time / Crunchy Granola Suite (Medley)," "You Don't Bring Me Flowers," "Brooklyn Roads / America (Medley)," "Shilo," "I Am... I Said," "Holly Holy." Produced by Bob Gaudio. CD to be released 12/2/22.
Luke Evans: A Song for You
(BMG - new on CD)
Welsh film and West End (Rent, Miss Saigon, Piaf) actor/singer. "A Song for You," "You Raise Me Up," "Horizons Blue," "Bridge Over Troubled Water," "Say Something" (with Nicole Kidman), "My Way," "Over the Rainbow," "Calon Lân," "I Can't Make You Love Me," "Come What May" (with Charlotte Church), "Busy Breaking Yours," "Everybody Hurts," "Last Christmas," "Silent Night."
Michael Ball and Alfie Boe: Together in Vegas
(Decca UK - new on CD)
Michael Ball and Alfie Boe's fifth studio album together. "Also Sprach Zarathustra," "Viva Las Vegas," "Luck Be A Lady," "Frankie Valli Medley," "The Gambler," "Sway," "Just A Gigolo," "Tom Jones Medley," "A Man Without Love," "That's Life," "Ooh Las Vegas," "American Trilogy," "America," "All Night Long," "Mama Told Me Not to Come." Vinyl version to be released 12/2/22. 10/28/22 release in the U.K.
A Strange Loop OBC
(Ghostlight Records/Yellow Sound Label - new on CD)
2022 Broadway cast recording of score by Michael R. Jackson. Jaquel Spivey, Antwayn Hopper, L Morgan Lee, John-Michael Lyles, James Jackson, Jr., John-Andrew Morrison, and Jason Veasey. "Intermission Song," "Today," "We Wanna Know," "Inner White Girl," "Didn't Want Nothin'," "Exile in Gayville," "Second Wave," "Tyler Perry Writes Real Life," "Writing a Gospel Play," "A Sympathetic Ear," "Inwood Daddy," "Boundaries," "Periodically," "Didn't Want Nothin' Reprise," "Precious Little Dream / AIDS Is God's Punishment," "Memory Song," "A Strange Loop." Produced by Michael Croiter and Michael R. Jackson, with Kurt Deutsch and Barbara Whitman as executive producers. Recorded 4/10/22. Digital version released 6/7/22.
The Violet Hour
(new digital album)
Score by Will Reynolds (music) and Eric Price (lyrics) for musical version of Richard Greenberg's The Violet Hour. Santino Fontana, Erika Henningsen, Brandon Uranowitz, Solea Pfeiffer, Jeremy Jordan. Orchestrations by Charlie Rosen. "Overture," "Know How It Ends," "Walk Me Around," "Sail On, Santa Maria!," "A Machine, Pt. 1," "Soar or Plummet," "Rosamund," "The Violet Hour," "Great Interest," "You Want Time," "Rosamund (Reprise)," "Ease," "Ease (Reprise)," "A Machine, Pt. 2 (End of Act One)," "Entr'acte," "Bright," "A Special Word," "I Know How It Ends (Reprise)," "Dear John," "The Truth Is," "As Fast As I Can," "At the Plaza," "Soar or Plummet (Reprise)," "You In This Light," "Great Interest (Reprise)," "Along for the Ride," "Moment to Moment," "The Violet Hour (Finale)."
New information added:
Date announced: 11/11/22
To Steve With Love: Liz Callaway Celebrates Sondheim
(Working Girl Records - new album)
Based on Liz Callaway's 54 Below show. "Opening Medley," Intro: Welcome, "Broadway Baby," Intro: Merrily We Roll Along, "Old Friends / Like it Was," "What More Do I Need?," "The Miller's Son," Intro: A Little Sondheim Travel, "What Do We Do? We Fly!," Intro: Evening Primrose, "I Remember / Take Me to the World," Intro: A Sondheim Lullaby, "Not While I'm Around / Now You Know," Intro: Follies in Concert, "In Buddy's Eyes," Intro: My Dad and Follies, "The Road You Didn't Take," "Loving You," Intro: A Note from Steve, "Move On (Duet with Nicholas Callaway Foster)," Intro: The Terror of Singing Sondheim, "Another Hundred Lyrics," "Send in the Clowns," Intro: It Always Comes Back to Merrily, "Our Time," Intro: How Lucky Were We?, "With So Little to be Sure Of." Musical direction and arrangements by Alex Rybeck. Guest singer Nicholas Callaway Foster. CD includes a 16 page booklet, with essays by Liz Callaway and Scott Simon. LizCallaway.com.
