2021: March 2 | February 23, 16, 9, 2 | January 26, 19, 12, 5
2020: December 29, 22, 15, 8, 1 | November 24, 17, 10, 3 | October 27, 20, 13, 6 | September 29, 22, 15, 8, 1, August 25, 18, 11, 4 | July 28, 21, 14, 7 | June 30, 23, 16, 9, 2 | May 26, 19, 12, 5 | April 28, 21, 14, 7 | March 31, 24, 17, 10, 3 | February 25, 18, 11, 4 | January 28, 21, 14, 7
2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015
CDs Now Available:
Jane Monheit: Come What May
(Club44 Records - new on CD/mp3/at iTunes)
All-new collection of songbook classics. Produced by Jane Monheit, Wayne Haun, and Jamey Tate. "I Believe in You," "When a Woman Loves a Man," "Let's Take a Walk Around the Block," "Lush Life," "Let's Face the Music and Dance," "Samba Do Avião," "The Nearness of You," "On the Sunny Side of the Street," "The Man That Got Away," "My Funny Valentine."
DIGITAL/STREAMING MUSIC Now Available:
Joshua Henry: Guarantee
(S-Curve Records - new EP on mp3/at iTunes)
Debut album for Joshua Henry (The Wrong Man, Hamilton, The Scottsboro Boys. "Guarantee," "Hold Me," "Possible," "Stand Up." Released 3/3/21.
Mill Girls
(new interactive EP)
Four songs from new musical by Diana Lawrence, Samantha Beach, and Jess McLeod, plus bonus track of historical context by Lowell National Park Ranger Allison Horrocks and UMass-Lowell Professor Robert Forrant. Nikki Renée Daniels, Alysha Deslorieux, Nikhil Saboo, Bri Sudia, and Lucy Godinez. See MillGirlsMusical.com/.
Randy Rainbow: Mr. Joe Biden (Bring My Vaccine)
(Broadway Records - new digital single on mp3/at iTunes)
To the tune of The Chordettes' hit single, "Mr. Sandman (Bring Me A Dream). Original cover art by Justin "Squigs" Robertson. Also at BroadwayRecords.com.
"Yesterday / Time After Time / Shallow"
(Broadway Records - new digital single on mp3/at iTunes)
Mashup by Andy Karl, Orfeh and Andrew Logan. Produced by Andrew Logan and Pamela Reswick with original arrangement/music direction by Steven Jamail and vocal arrangement by Andy Karl, Orfeh and Andrew Logan. Eric Garcia (guitar), David Kawamura (guitar), Quinton "Q" Robinson (drums) and Pamela Reswick (additional drum programming and keyboards). Released 3/5/21.
VINYL LPs Now Available:
My Fair Lady
(Music on Vinyl - 2-LP vinyl album)
Expanded 1964 original soundtrack. Score by Frederick Loewe and Allan Jay Lerner. All the songs from the film, plus 11 bonus tracks. Limited edition of 1000 individually numbered copies on transparent purple swirled vinyl.
BLU-RAY/DVDs Now Available:
The Great Caruso
(Warner Archive - new Blu-ray)
1951 (somewhat fictionalized) autobiographical musical film from M-G-M starring Mario Lanza. Directed by Richard Thorpe. New 1080p HD master sourced from 4K scan of original nitrate Technicolor negatives. Extras: Documentary Mario Lanza: Singing to the Gods; theatrical trailer. 109 minutes.
Recordings RECENTLY MADE AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER:
Cinderella
(BBC/Opus Arte - on DVD)
Re-release of the 1969 Royal Ballet production. Antoinette Sibley, Anthony Dowell, Frederick Ashton, Robert Helpmann. Choreography and production, Frederick Ashton. Music, Sergei Prokofiev. Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. John Lanchbery, conductor. Previously released by Kultur.
Faust
(Opus Arte - new Blu-ray/DVD)
2019 Royal Opera production of Charles Gounod's opera. Directed by Oliver Mears. Michael Fabiano, Erwin Schrott, Irina Lungu, GermánE. Alcántara, Stéphane Degout, Marta Fontanals-Simmons, Carole Wilson. Royal Opera Chorus. Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. Dan Ettinger, conductor. Extras: "Why the Royal Opera love performing Faust"; Erwin Schrott and Dan Ettinger discuss the character Méphistophélès in Faust.
Le nozze di Figaro
(Unitel Edition - new Blu-ray)
2014 Theater an der Wien production of Mozart's opera. Bo Skovhus, Christine Schäfer, Mari Eriksmoen, Andrè Schuen, Elisabeth Kulman, Ildikó Raimondi, Peter Kálmán, Mauro Peter, Arnold Schoenberg Chor. Nikolaus Harnoncourt, conductor. Concentus Musicus Wien. Bonus: documentary: Nikolaus Harnoncourt - Between Obsession and Perfection (Le nozze di Figaro). 242 minutes.
Once on This Island
(Broadway Records - new 2-LP vinyl album)
2017 revival cast recording of Lynn Ahrens/Stephen Flaherty score. Cast includes Lea Salonga, Alex Newell, Merle Dandridge, and Quentin Earl Darrington, Hailey Kilgore, Phillip Boykin, Darlesia Cearcy, Rodrick Covington, Emerson Davis, Alysha Deslorieux, Tyler Hardwick, Cassondra James, David Jennings, Grasan Kingsberry, Loren Lott, Kenita R. Miller, Isaac Powell, T. Oliver Reid, Aurelia Williams, and Mia Williamson. New orchestrations by new orchestrations by original orchestrator Michael Starobin and AnnMarie Milazzo. Album produced by Elliott Scheiner, Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty, Hunter Arnold, and Ken Davenport. On orange vinyl. At BroadayRecords.com.
Books/Plays RECENTLY MADE AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER:
50 Women in Theatre
(Supernova Books - Paperback Book)
Marsha Norman, Daryl Roth Cheryl Robson, editors. Introduction by Dr. Susan Croft. An overview of post-war theatre and 25 exclusive interviews with leading women theatre-makers. 208 pages.
Hymn
(Methuen Drama - Paperback Book/Kindle Edition)
Play by Lolita Chakrabarti. Published to coincide with the world premiere at London's Almeida Theatre in February 2021, starring Adrian Lester and Danny Sapani. 64 pages.
OTHER NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Added to April 20:
Broadway Melody of 1940
(Warner Archive - new Blu-ray)
1940 MGM musical film. Fred Astaire, Eleanor Powell, George Murphy, Frank Morgan. Directed by Norman Taurog. Music by Cole Porter (including "Please Don't Monkey with Broadway," "I've Got My Eyes on You," "Begin the Beguine"). New 4k restoration from nitrate preservation elements.
Extras: making-of featurette Begin the Beguine (hosted by Ann Miller), Our Gang Comedies: The Big Premiere; MGM cartoon: The Milky Way; original theatrical trailer (HD). 102 minutes.
Annie Get Your Gun
(Warner Archive - new Blu-ray)
1950 musical film based on the Broadway musical. Score by Irving Berlin. Directed by George Sidney
(Busby Berkeley and Charles Walters uncredited). Betty Hutton, Howard Keel, Louis Calhern, Keenan Wynn, Benay Venuta, J. Carrol Naish. Color. New 4k restoration from the original nitrate technicolor negatives. Bonus material: Susan Lucci retrospective and intro piece (from 2000 DVD release); outtakes: "Let's Go West Again" Betty Hutton, "Doin' What Comes Natur'lly" Judy Garland, "I'm an Indian, Too," Judy Garland, "Colonel Buffalo Bill" with Howard Keel and Frank Morgan; stereo audio pre-recording session tracks including There's No Business Like Show Business featuring Judy Garland; theatrical re-issue Trailer (HD). 107 minutes.
Compiled by Talkin' Broadway Staff.
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