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DIGITAL MUSIC Now Available:

The Book of Merman
(new digital album)
Original Chicago cast recording of a musical by Leo Schwartz. Libby Lane, Sam Button-Harrison, and Dan Gold with pianists Robert Ollis, Justin Harner. "Hello / Salt Lake City," "Most People," "She's Ethel Merman," "Son of a Motherless Goat," "Be a Merman (featuring Dan Gold)," "Crazy," "My Heart's Someplace Else," "They Always Come Back," "If It's Not Hard, I Don't Like It," "You're the Best," "Ethel's Big Come Back," "Because of You," "Everything's Coming up Merman," "Because of You - Reprise." At CDBaby.com.

BOOKs Now Available:

Amélie: A New Musical: Vocal Selections
(Hal Leonard - Paperback Book)
A dozen vocal selections from the 2017 Broadway musical based on the 2001 film of the same, with a score by Nathan Tysen and Daniel Messe. Features vocal line arrangements with piano accompaniment. "A Better Haircut," "The Girl with the Glass," "Goodbye Amelie," "Halfway," "The Late Nino Quincampoix," "Sister's Pickle," "Stay," "Thin Air," "Times Are Hard for Dreamers," "Tour De France," "When the Booth Goes Bright," "Where Do We Go from Here." 100 pages.

The Barter Theatre Story: Love Made Visible
(Appalachian State Univ - Paperback Book)
Paperback version of 1982 book by Mark Dawidziak about the Barter Theatre, opened in 1933 in Abingdon, Virginia, and became the Virginia State Theatre in 1946. The theater where Gregory Peck, Ernest Borgnine, Patricia Neal, Ned Beatty, and Hume Cronyn got their starts. 144 pages.

Create!: How Extraordinary People Live to Create and Create to Live
(Wyatt-MacKenzie Publishing - Paperback Book)
Curated by Ronald Rand. Rare interviews capturing the essence of artistic life—actors, artists, dancers, directors, musicians, composers, mime artists, playwrights, and writers share insight on the importance of the arts for humankind. Edward Albee, Alec Baldwin, Carol Burnett, Ellen Burstyn, Ruby Dee, Katherine Dunham, Eve Ensler, Al Hirschfeld, Everett Raymond Kinstler, Chaka Khan, Robert Lepage, Christopher Plummer, Tony Randall, Roy Scheider, Elie Wiesel and more, with over 150 full-color photos and iconic illustrations and paintings. 304 pages.

CALENDAR Now Available:

Hamilton 2018 Wall Calendar
(Universe Publishing - wall calendar)
Features photos of the Hamilton original cast, by Josh Lehrer, lyrics from the show, and important historical dates.

MUSIC to be released this Friday, August 11:

The Battle of the Boat
(new on digital album on mp3/iTunes)
New musical by Ethan Donnelly and Jenna Maltby. Set during World War I, the musical was first performed by the National Youth Music Theatre, in August 2016 at the Rose, Kingston. Recording produced by John Merriman, with 27 performers and 14 musicians (all age 11-21) at Crown Lane Studios, Morden, London.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Soundtrack Barnes & Noble exclusive
(Varese Sarabande - new vinyl LP)
Newly remastered soundtrack LP. Score by Richard and Robert Sherman. Cast includes Dick Van Dyke and Sally Ann Howes. "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," "You Two," "Toot Sweets," "Hushabye Mountain," "Me Ol' Bam-Boo," "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," "Truly Scrumptious," "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Reprise)," "Lovely Lonely Man," "Posh!," "Hushabye Mountain (Reprise)," "The Roses of Success," "Chu-Chi Face," "Doll On a Music Box/Truly Scrumptious," "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Finale)," "Main Title/Chitty Chitty Bang Bang." Available only at Barnes & Noble.

The View UpStairs
(Broadway Records - new on CD at Amazon/mp3)
Original Off-Broadway cast recording of score by Max Vernon. Jeremy Pope, Taylor Frey, Nathan Lee Graham, Frenchie Davis, Benjamin Howes, Michael Longoria, Ben Mayne, Nancy Ticotin, Randy Redd, Richard E. Waits, Anthony Alfaro, and April Ortiz. "Some Kind of Paradise," "#householdname," "Lost or Found?," "What I Did Today," "Are You Listening, God?," "World Outside These Walls," "Completely Overdone," "The Future Is Great!!!," "Waltz (Endless Night)," "Sex on Legs," "Better Than Silence," "The Most Important Thing," "Crazy Notion," "Theme Song," "The View UpStairs," Bonus Track: "And I Wish," Bonus Track: "Dead Center," Bonus Track: "I Was Meant for More." Also at BroadwayRecords.com.

Recordings RECENTLY MADE AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER:

Judy Garland: Classic Duets
(JSP - new import set on 4 CDs)
Collection of Garland duet tracks from her films, radio and studio recordings. Among the 215 tracks are duets with Mickey Rooney, Johnny Mercer, Danna Durbin, Fanny Brice, Ray Bolger, Gene Kelly, Bing Crosby, Dick Haymes, Frank Sinatra, Fred Astaire, and many more. Complete track list for all four CDs at Amazon.

Books RECENTLY MADE AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER:

August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone (The Fourth Wall)
(Routledge - Paperback Book)
By Ladrica Menson-Furr. Gives readers an overview of the work from its inception through revisions and stagings in regional theatres and Broadway, exploring its use of African American vernacular genres - blues music, folk songs, folk tales, and dance - and 19th Century Southern post-Reconstruction history. Ladrica Menson-Furr presents Joe Turner's Come and Gone as a historical drama, blues drama, American drama, great migration drama, and the finest example of Wilson's gift for re-locating the African American experience in urban southern cities as the beginning and not the end of the African American experience. 160 pages.

The Best American Short Plays 2015-2016
(Applause Books - Paperback Book)
William W. Demastes and John Patrick Bray, editors. 392 pages.

OTHER NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Added, no release date:

The School of Doing: Lessons from Gerald Freedman
(new book)
By Isaac Klein. Comprehensive guide to the craft and teachings of internationally renowned stage director and educator Gerald Freedman, including lessons on acting, directing, text analysis, comedy technique, camera technique, Shakespeare, musical theater, design, pedagogy, and show business. Klein corroborates Freedman's wisdom with quotes from luminaries like Kevin Kline, Patti LuPone, Mandy Patinkin, Chita Rivera, Olympia Dukakis, Debbie Allen, Christine Baranski, Anna Camp, John Cullum, William Daniels, Dane DeHaan, Jules Fisher, Paul Gemignani, Bernard Gersten, Lee Grant, Sheldon Harnick, George Hearn, Desmond Heeley, Hal Holbrook, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Stacy Keach, Carol Lawrence, Ming Cho Lee, Billy Magnussen, Jack O'Brien, Austin Pendleton, Alfred Uhry, Sam Waterston, and many more. Freedman began his career working for Columbia Pictures in Hollywood, and assistant directing Broadway musicals, including the original production of West Side Story; alongside Joseph Papp and Bernard Gersten, he founded The Public Theater, where he directed many productions of both classic and new works, including the world premiere of Hair. Over the course of his six decade career, he directed plays, operas, and musicals on and off Broadway, regionally, and around the world. He won an Obie Award, became the first American to direct at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London, and served as Artistic Director of the New York Shakespeare Festival (now known as Shakespeare in the Park), Stratford's American Shakespeare Theater, Cleveland's Great Lakes Theater, and as co-Artistic Director of the Acting Company. He taught at The Juilliard School, Northwestern University, Yale University, and the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, where he served as Dean of the School of Drama for twenty-one years, becoming Dean Emeritus in 2012. Fall release expected.

Compiled by Talkin' Broadway Staff.