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Schedule of New & Upcoming CD, DVD & Book Releases
Updated 10/10/26
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Bountiful: Growing Up with Geraldine Page: A Daughter's Memoir
(Three Rooms Press - Hardcover Book/Paperback)
By Angelica Page. One-of-a-kind look at Geraldine Pages's body of work and private life, with insider stories of her stage and film career, her relationships with other renowned actors, including her husband and Angelica's father Rip Torn and Lee Strasberg, and her interactions with other legends. Includes more than 40 photos from family archives. 340 pages.
Karen Mason: Birthday Bash at Birdland
(King Kozmo/Zevely Records - new on CD/digital)
Digital released 9/25/26. Recorded live at Birdland Jazz Club. "Please Keep the Applause Going," "Seasons of Love," "Something's Coming," "Come On-a My House," "If I Close My Eyes," "Golden Boy/One Boy," "The First Time I Was On A Stage," "Mister Snow," "I'm In Love/There's Nothing Like Love," "Hurry! It's Lovely Up Here," "I Love Spring," "South Of The Coconut Line," "The Reason to Sing the Next Song," "It Had To Be You," "Dance Only With Me/Dance," "Time," "But The World Goes Round," "The Funeral Home After Lockdown," "I'm Gonna Live TilI I Die," "Take Care of Each Other," "Better Days," "Happy Birthday," "I'm Gonna Live Till I Die" (Instrumental Reprise), "Happy Happy Birthday" (Bonus Track). Directed by Barry Kleinbort. Music director and pianist: Christopher Denny. Tom Hubbard on bass. www.karenmason.com
Joanie Pallatto: "A Holiday from Tears"
(new digital single)
Composed and performed by Joanie Pallatto, with Fareed Haque on guitar. Recorded at Sparrow Sound Design, Chicago.
The Phantom of the Opera
(new digital album)
Remastered OLC recording of score by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Richard Stilgoe. From the original analogue master tapes of the 1986 original recording, remixed and restoring previously unreleased sections and uncovering rare material from Lloyd Webber's personal archive. Digital single of title song released on 9/18/26. 2-CD and 3-LP versions to be released 11/6/26. 6-LP limited edition vinyl box set with original motion picture soundtrack 2LP on champagne vinyl and "Masquerade: The Orchestral Score" on clear glass vinyl and bonuses to be released 11/20/26.
Street Scene
(Capriccio - new digital album)
Score by Kurt Weill (music) and Langston Hughes (lyrics). Book by Elmer Rice. Giselle Allen, Robert Hayward, Alex Banfield, and Gillene Butterfield. Orchestra and chorus of Opera North, conductor James Holmes. 2-CD version to be released 10/30/26. Capriccio.at.
Sydnie Christmas
(Westway Music - new on CD/digital)
Songwriter/singer/West End performer Sydnie Christmas performs songs she wrote. Westway.com.
October 13, 2026
Bowl EP
(53rd State Press - Paperback Book)
Play by Nazareth Hassan. Pulitzer Prize finalist produced in 2025 at the Vineyard Theatre. 150 pages.
October 15, 2026
Power and Greed: Monopolies, Mergers, and Cartels on the American Stage
(Methuen Drama - Hardcover Book/Audible Audiobook)
By Spencer Weber Waller. "unpacks the shady world of the Syndicate, the Shuberts, the Vaudeville Combine, and their modern-day successors." Includes 18 images.
October 16, 2026
The TUNEabomber
(Joy Machine Records - new digital album
Original cast recording of score written and performed by John Lampe and Michael Wysong. Physical copies will be available at live shows. First single track released 9/25/26.
October 20, 2026
Hadestown
(Bleecker Street - new on Blu-ray/DVD)
Stage musical by Anais Mitchell filmed live across three performances on February 28 and March 1, 2025 at London's Lyric Theatre. Directed by Brett Sullivan. Starring André De Shields, Patrick Page, Eva Noblezada, Reeve Carney, Amber Gray. Two hours, twenty-one minutes.
Rodgers & Hart Today!
(Kritzerland - new on CD)
Original TV soundtrack for ABC Stage 67 1966 show. Bobby Darin, Petula Clark, The Mamas and the Papas, Count Basie and his band, The Supremes, dancer Peter Genarro, and Doodletown Pipers. Music director: Quincy Jones. Bonus: songs from the musical The Canterville Ghost, score by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick; teleplay by Burt Shevelove. Peter Noone, Michael Redgrave, Natalie Schafer, and Tippy Walker. Music director and orchestrator: John Morris. Mastered by James Nelson. Limited release of 500 copies. Expected third week in October. Kritzerland.com.
Smiling, The Boy Fell Dead
(Kritzerland - new on CD)
Off-Broadway cast recording of score by David Baker and Sheldon Harnick (book by by Ira Wallach). Danny Meehan, Joseph MacCauley, Louise Larabee, Claiborne Cary, Justine Johnston, Phil Leeds, Mastered by James Nelson. Vocal arrangements and musical direction by Julian Stein. Conducted by Jack Easton. Jack Easton and Natalie Charlson, pianists. Charles Birch, drums and percussion. Limited release of 500 copies. Expected third week in October. Kritzerland.com.
October 23, 2026
That Parenting Musical
(Joy Machine Records - new digital album)
Studio cast album of score by Graham And Kristina Fuller. Featuring Christopher Jackson, Kara Lindsay, Bonnie Milligan, and more. Recorded in early August 2026. Produced by Ian Kagey, Dan Graeber, Graham Fuller, and Kristina Fuller, with executive production by Blue i Productions LLC and 19K Productions, LLC. Orchestrations are by Dan Graeber, who also acted as music director.
October 27, 2026
Still, Bill: Gay Adventures from Cowboyland to Broadway
(Tugboat Press - new on Paperback/Kindle Edition)
By Bill Russell. Answers the question, "How does an effeminate boy–raised in Cowboyland with cattle and guns, hunting and trucks, sports and church, jocks and jerks, cruelty and small-mindedness–get from the Black Hills of South Dakota to the thrills and heartbreak of the white-hot lights of Broadway and the West End?" With a a ringside seat for viewing the huge cultural changes from the 1950s to the 2020s. 329 pages. Book reading/signing Thursday, October 29 at 7:30PM at Drama Book Shop, 266 W 39th Street, NYC.
October 30, 2026
Cats: The Jellicle Ball
(Atlantic - new album)
OBC recording of score by Andrew Lloyd Webber, T. S. Eliot, Trevor Nunn, and Richard Stilgoe. Full company with "Tempress" Chasity Moore as Grizabella.
The Lost Boys
(Atlantic Records - new on CD)
OBC recording of score by Kyler England, Adrianne E. Gonzalez, and Gabriel Mann. Digital version released earlier.
Street Scene
(Capriccio - new on 2 CDs)
Score by Kurt Weill (music) and Langston Hughes (lyrics). Book by Elmer Rice. Giselle Allen, Robert Hayward, Alex Banfield, and Gillene Butterfield. Orchestra and chorus of Opera North, conductor James Holmes. Digital version released 10/2/26.
October 2026, no release date
Sound Mind
(new album)
Score for new musical by Ray Anderson and Sheryl Berk.
November 3, 2026
Is It Too Late to Make a Run for It?
(St. Martin's Press - Hardcover/Kindle Edition/Audible Audiobook)
Memoir by Judi Dench, with Brendan O'Hea. Dench tells of her life on the stage, on the screen, and behind the scenes. 400 pages.
Women+ on the Edge of Democracy
(TCG - new Paperback Book)
"34 Monologues & Short Plays on Democracy's Past, Present and Future." Features more than 30 new plays by acclaimed women+ playwrights from around the world. The Flynn Center for the Performing Arts in Partnership with The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. 400 pages.
November 6, 2026
Voices Of The Gilded Age: The Christmas Album
(Concord Theatricals - new on CD/digital)
Cast from the HBO series. First rack, "The World Needs Some Christmas," performed by Ben Ahlers, has been released. Other tracks include "O Holy Night" (Denée Benton and Jordan Donica), "I Remember" (Audra McDonald, Donna Murphy, Kelli OHara, and Carrie Coon), and Morgan Spector reciting Clement Clarke Moores poem 'Twas The Night Before Christmas throughout. Other voices appearing: Christine Baranski, Laura Benanti, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Taylor Richardson, Taylor Trensch, and Adrienne Warren. Produced by Desmond Child, who also wrote a number of songs for the album.
November 13, 2026
Rent
(Verve - new vinyl sets)
30th anniversary releases of score by Jonathan Larson. Created in collaboration with members of the original company. First time on vinyl: 3-LP set on black vinyl and Avenue B Red Brick Vinyl Edition. Extras include custom quad book-style gatefold jacket with a premium rigid cover; archival materials celebrating Larsons life and creative process, with artwork that visually traces the progression of the show; printed poly-lined inner sleeves and a collectible ephemera envelope paying tribute to the Broadway run; a deluxe, stitched 24-page booklet featuring full lyrics and an all-new, nearly 20,000-word oral history of the album and its songs; information from 19 new interviews with members of the original cast and creative team. Mastered for vinyl by Ryan K. Smmith at Sterling Sound.
December 1, 2026
Direction: Making the Most of the Performance of Your Life
(Regalo Press - Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition)
By Kenny Leon. Foreword by Tom Hanks. Twenty essential lessons for anyone who wants to live with courage and determination. Stories from both the stage and life offer practical inspiration for every chapter of the human journey. 200 pages.
November 6, 2026
Scott Fagan: Soon
(Fire Records / Earth Recordings - new album)
Songs revived from Scott Fagan's lost 1971 Broadway rock opera, Soon. Title track and "Please Be Well" available now. Scott Fagan with drummer Terence Clark, guitarist Steve Selvidge, and keyboardist Rick Steff. (The original production featured Richard Gere, Barry Bostwick, Joe Butler, Vicki Sue Robinson, and Peter Allen. Pre-save.
November 8, 2026
I Hear Music: The Life of Burton Lane, Composer for Broadway and Hollywood
(McFarland - Paperback Book)
By Tighe E. Zimmers. First full-length book about Burton Lane, covering his early days working on Tin Pan Alley and Broadway while still in his teens, through his compositions of film songs for more than twenty years, working with well-known lyricists including Harold Adamson, Ralph Freed, Frank Loesser, Yip Harburg, Ted Koehler, and Sammy Cahn, and his return to Broadway in 1947 for Finian's Rainbow, with Harburg, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever with Alan Jay Lerner. 120 pages.
November 20, 2026
Phantom of the Opera - A Collector's Piece Indeed
(6-LP set)
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Richard Stilgoe score. The 2026 remix version of the OLC recording, plus the original motion picture soundtrack 2LP on champagne vinyl, the "Masquerade: The Orchestral Score" (previously only available in-venue at Masquerade in New York) on 1LP glass clear vinyl, a hand-numbered Robert Heindel art print (one of 2,026), a replica annotated early edition scripts and sheet music from Webber's archive; and a fold-out replica poster of the original Broadway production complete with cast signatures.
February 2, 2027
Enough Said
(FSG Originals - Paperback Book/Kindle Edition)
By Alan Bennett. Bennett's fourth collection of diaries and prose, covering the years of 2016 to 2024, through lockdown, Brexit, the reign of Johnson, the rise of Trump, and the death of the Queen. In between, taking the train back and forth to Yorkshire, celebrating the herons, the newts, and the street fairs; and lament the scarcity of curlews, the closure of the last local bank, and the deteriorating welfare state. The premiere of Allelujah!, the revived Talking Heads, the publication of two Sunday Times bestsellers, and the filming of The Choral. 480 pages.
Suffs: A Novel Based on the Tony Award-Winning Broadway Musical
(Random House Children's Books - new Hardcover/Kindle Edition/Audiobook)
By Shaina Taub and Betsy Cornwell. Based on Taub's Broadway musical Suffs, this historical novel follows a group of suffragists in the final years of the fight for womens right to vote in America, as they risk everything to demand change and make history. 352 pages.
February 26, 2027
Electric Spectacle: Designing Color and Light for the Stage
(Routledge - Hardcover Book/Paperback/Kindle Edition)
An intimate look into theatrical lighting design and collaboration through the eyes of four-time Tony Award winner, Kevin Adams. From Texas-born set designer to self-taught Broadway lighting designer, chronicling numerous productions including his 20-year journey with Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Spring Awakening. Emphasizes the art of collaboration with directors, choreographers, designers, and performers across ten significant productions that shaped both his career and the theater industry. Documents how the technology has shifted ... uses detailed examples and extensive visual documentation, including light plots, paperwork, handmade collage and works on paper, scenic models and renderings and production photos from high-profile musicals spanning 1998-2025. 300 pages.
Release date unknown
About Time
(JAY Records - new on 2 CDs)
2025 Goodspeed Musicals, Chester, cast recording of Maltby & Shire revue. Darius de Haas, Shinnerrie Jackson, Daniel Jenkins, Eddie Korbich, Issy van Randwyck, Lynne Wintersteller. "Show Tune," "About Time At," "Faster," "Little Susan Lawrence," "Keys," "Free At," "No One Will Know," "Only When I Laugh," "All I Want to Do Is to Go Dancing," "Smart People," "Movie Music," "Overripe Fruit," "Show Tune (Reprise)," "And the Singer Sings His Song," "To Be Alive," "Manhattan Skyline," "Kensington Kenny," "Im There," "Just a House," "I Like Jazz," "What Do I Tell the Children," "Done," "Lunch with Linda," "After All These Years," "Saying Goodbye," "About Time (Reprise)." Digital released earlier.
About Time
(Yellow Sound Label - new album)
2026 Off-Broadway cast recording of Maltby & Shire revue. Allyson Kaye Daniel, Darius de Haas, Daniel Jenkins, Eddie Korbich, Sally Wilfert, Lynne Wintersteller. Details TBA.
Beau the Musical
(Joy Machine Records - new album)
Original Off-Broadway cast recording of score by Douglas Lyons and Ethan D. Pakchar. Matt Rodin, Jeb Brown, Max Sangerman, Miyuki Miyagi, Andrea Goss, Amelia Cormack, Ryan Halsaver, and Derek Stolten. Produced by Ian Kage. Tracks "Crush," performed by Matt Rodin and Miyuki Miyagi, and "It Couldn't Be," performed by Matt Rodin and Max Sangerman released 8/26/26. Album due this fall.
Charlie Rosen's Broadway Big Band
(new double album)
First recording from this band, which "puts both modern and classic showtunes on display, sung by the best and brightest of Broadway's young generation of leading performers, in the timeless tradition of Big Band. A full sized Jazz orchestra composed of 17 musicians play Rosen's re-imagined arrangements of an eclectic mix of tunes from Broadway's past, present, and beyond."
Complete Lyrics of Sheldon Harnick
(new book)
The Fantasticks
(JAY Records - new album)
Studio album recording of score by Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones. Brad Oscar, Telly Leung, Elizabeth Teeter, Lewis Cleale, and Ron Raines.
Guys and Dolls
(Chandos Records - new album)
Studio album of score by Frank Loesser. First recording of the entire score in its original orchestration. Sinfonia of London. John Wilson conducts. Orchestration reconstruction by Larry Moore.
Harbinger Records upcoming releases: material from Eubie Blake; download only demos of Hugh Martin and Sheldon Harnick; Steve Ross' back catalog for download;
High Button Shoes
(Stage Door Records - new on CD)
Guildford School of Acting cast album of score by Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn. With Institute of Sound Recording and University of Surrey Department of Music and Media. Produced by Stewart Nicholls. Music director Brady Mould and arranger by Rowland Lee accompany on piano, with James Armstrong on bass and Richard Burden on drums/percussion. Sound engineering by Gabe Smith. Expected later in 2026.
Lizard Boy
(new album)
Live recording of 2023 Prospect Theatre cast. Score by Justin Huertas. Cast features Huertas, Kiki deLohr, and William A. Williams. Release date TBA.
Love Life
(new album)
2025 NY City Center Encores! production. Kurt Weill (music), Alan Jay Lerner (lyrics). Cast includes Brian Stokes Mitchell and Kate Baldwin. Further information TBA.
The Nutty Professor
(new album)
Studio recording of score by Marvin Hamlisch and Rupert Holmes. Based on the recent Ogunquit Playhouse staging of the musical based on the Jerry Lewis movie.. Cast TBA. 2024 release expected.
The Rocky Horror Show
(StarVista Music - new album)
2026 Broadway revival cast recording of score by Richard O'Brien. Rachel Dratch, Andrew Durand, Luke Evans, Amber Gray, Harvey Guillén, Stephanie Hsu, Juliette Lewis, Josh Rivera, Michaela Jaé Rodriguez.
Paradise Square OBC
(new on CD/digital)
Broadway cast recording of score Jason Howland (music), Nathan Tysen and Masi Asare (lyrics), with additional music by Larry Kirwan, inspired by the songs of Stephen Foster. Joaquina Kalukango, Chilina Kennedy, John Dossett, Sidney DuPont, A.J. Shively, Nathaniel Stampley, Gabrielle McClinton, Jacob Fishel, Kevin Dennis and Matt Bogart. Produced by Jason Howland and Billy Jay Stein. Recorded at Power Station at BerkleeNYC during the weeks of April 18 and April 25.
Signs of Life
(new digital album)
Concept album for score by Christopher DeLair. Shoshana Bean, Jenn Colella, Leif Coomer, Deborah Cox, Bella Coppola, Damon Daunno, Charity Angel Dawson, Alexa Green, Jinkx Monsoon, Aoife O'Donovan, Solea Pfeiffer, Vanessa Williams, Jess Wolfe, and Holly Laessig.
Tammy Faye
(new album)
Music by Elton John; lyrics by Jake Shears. Cast from Almeida Theatre debut production. Details TBA.
This Side of the World
(new album)
East West Players cast recording of score by Paulo K Tiról.
Turing
(new EP)
From new musical score by Timothy L. Michuda and Benjamin Ward. Vincent Jamal Hooper, James Olivas, Mason Olshavsky.
West Side Story
(Chandos - new album)
Sinfonia of London.