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DIGITAL MUSIC Now Available:
1820 the Musical
(new digital album)
Score by Doug Lowe, Kendra Lowe Holt, and Kayliann Lowe Juarez for "new contemporary musical about Emma and Joseph Smith's faith, love, and trial forged in the religious fervor of 19th century America." The musical's book is by George Nelson.
Books Now Available:
American Vaudeville
(West Virginia Univ Press - Paperback Book)
By Geoffrey Hilsabeck. Foreword by Luc Sante. Tells the story of what was once the most popular form of entertainment in the country using lists, creation myths, thumbnail biographies, dreams, and obituaries. Hilsabeck "dreams vaudeville back into existence," drawing on photographs, letters, joke books, reviews, newspaper stories, anecdotes, and other material gathered from numerous archives, as well as from memoirs by vaudeville performers like Buster Keaton, Eva Tanguay, and Eddie Cantor. Some of this research is presented as—is, a letter from a now forgotten vaudeville performer to her booking agent, for example— and some is worked up into brief scenes and biographies; and some is put to even more imaginative uses, finding new life in dialogues and prose poems. 160 pages.
Blue Song: St. Louis in the Life and Work of Tennessee Williams
(Univ of Missouri Press - Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition)
By Henry I. Schvey. While it has been written that Tennessee Williams had a dislike of St. Louis, the city where he lived the longest, Schvey reveals how the city was indispensable to Williams' formation and development both as a person and artist, and that he remained emotionally tethered to St. Louis for a host of reasons for the rest of his life. 224 pages.
The Thanksgiving Play / What Would Crazy Horse Do?
(Theatre Communications Group - Paperback Book/Kindle Edition)
Plays by Larissa FastHorse. 160 pages.
CALENDAR Now Available:
Hamilton: An American Musical 2021 calendar
(Universe Publishing - wall calendar)
Features include: bonus spread for September–December 2021; generous grids for adding appointments and reminders; major official world holidays; opens to 12 inches x 24 inches. 24 pages.
MUSIC to be released this Friday, June 25:
Coming from Inside the House (A Virtual SubCulture Concert)
(Craft Recordings - new on vinyl)
Jason Robert Brown's spring 2020 virtual April 27, 2020, SubCulture concert featuring Ariana Grande and Shoshana Bean. "Sanctuary" (Georgia Stitt, Molly Cate Brown, Susannah Brown), "Melinda," "The Hardest Hill" (Shoshana Bean), "I Love Betsy," "Still Hurting" (Ariana Grande), "All Things In Time," Bonus track "Nothing's Bigger Than Kong" (world premiere recording of song commissioned for but ultimately not included in the 2018 Broadway musical King Kong). Brown piano and keyboards, with Todd Reynolds, Mairi Dorman-Phaneuf, Gary Sieger, Randy Landau and Jamie Eblen. Recorded, edited and mixed by Jeffrey Lesser, and produced by Lesser and Jason Robert Brown. Mastered by Oscar Zambrano. Marc Kaplan, executive producer. Released previously on mp3 and at iTunes.
In The Light
(Broadway Records - new album)
Highlights from the world premiere studio cast recording of score by Michael Mott. Orchestrations by Kim Scharnberg and arrangements by Mott and Joshua Zecher-Ross. Cast features Jeremy Jordan, Solea Pfeiffer, Ciara Renée, Antonio Cipriano, Bobby Conte Thornton, Anne Fraser Thomas, Aisha Jackson, Zachary James. At BroadwayRecords.com.
Naughty Marietta
(Harbinger Records/Musical Theater Project - new on CD/digital)
Reissue of the Smithsonian Institution's 1981 recording of Victor Herbert/Rida Johnson Young score. First time on CD. Featuring Judith Blazer and Leslie Harrington. Conducted by James R. Morris. "Overture," "Opening Chorus," "Mysterious Melody," "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp," "Taisez-Vous," "Song From the Fountain," "Naughty Marietta," "It Never, Never Can Be Love," "If I Were Anybody Else but Me," "'Neath the Southern Moon," "Italian Street Song," "Act I Finale," "Dance of the Marionettes," "You Marry a Marionette," "Loves of New Orleans," "The Sweet Bye and Bye," "Prelude to Live for Today," "Live for Today," "I'm Falling in Love With Someone," "It's Pretty Soft for Simon," "Finale Ultimo." At MusicalTheaterProject.org.
Compiled by Talkin' Broadway Staff.
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