2021: August 31, 17-24, 10, 3 | July 27, 20, 13, 6 | June 29, 22, 15, 8, 1 | May 25, 18, 4-11 | April 27, 20, 13, 6 | March 30, 23, 16, 9, 2 | February 23, 16, 9, 2 | January 26, 19, 12, 5
2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015
DIGITAL MUSIC Now Available:
Monotony: The Musical
(new digital album)
Original (pod)cast recording (soundtrack) featuring 18 songs from the podcast musical created by Sarah Luery and Jared Chance Taylor. Alden Bettencourt, Jon Gibson, Tod Macofsky, David Castillo, Alixandree Antoine, Kelsey Ann Sutton, Evan Allgood, Ahamed Weinberg, Pat Regan, Karen Trachtenberg. Released 9/3/21.
AUDIOBOOKS Now Available:
Animals
(Audiobook on CD)
Williamstown Theatre Festival world premiere production of Stacy Osei-Kuffour play. Directed by Whitney White. Madeline Brewer, Jason Butler Harner, William Jackson Harper, Aja Naomi King. Previously released as Audible Audiobook.
A Streetcar Named Desire
(Audible Audiobook)
Play by Tennessee Williams in 2020 Williamstown Theatre Festival production. Joel Reuben Ganz, Joe Goldammer, Carla Gugino, Carmen M. Herlihy, Sullivan Jones, Brian Lucas, Audra McDonald, Stacey Raymond, Cesar J. Rosado, Ariel Shafir. Directed by Robert OHara.
BLU-RAY/DVDs Now Available:
Because of Him
(Universal Studios - new Blu-ray)
1946 romantic comedy film directed by Richard Wallis. Deanna Durbin, Charles Laughton and Franchot Tone. Songs include "Lover," "Danny Boy," "Good Bye!."
Can't Help Singing
(Universal Studios - new Blu-ray)
1944 musical Western film. Directed by Frank Ryan. Deanna Durbin, Robert Paige, Akim Tamiroff, Thomas Gomez, David Bruce, Clara Blandick. Score by Jerome Kern with lyrics by E. Y. Harburg. Songs include "Can't Help Singing," "Elbow Room," "Any Moment Now," "Swing Your Sweetheart," "More and More," "Californ-I-Ay."
For the Love of Mary
(Universal Studios - new Blu-ray)
1948 film directed by Frederick De Cordova. Deanna Durbin (her last film), Edmond O'Brien, Don Taylor, Jeffrey Lynn. Songs include "On the Wings of a Song," "Moonlight Bay," "I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen," "Let Me Call You Sweetheart," "Largo al factotum," "In the Gloaming."
In the Heights
(Warner Bros - Blu-ray/DVD/DVD+Digital)
2021 film. By Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes. Directed by Jon M. Chu. Cast includes Anthony Ramos, Corey Hawkins, Leslie Grace, Melissa Barrera, Olga Merediz, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Gregory Diaz IV, Stephanie Beatriz, Dascha Polanco, and Jimmy Smits. Bonus material: Paciencia y Fe features Making In The Heights; Making In The Heights; When You're Home; Hundreds of Stories; Alza La Bandera/Raise the Flag; Wepa!; That Music in the Air; Who Keeps our Legacies?. Sing-a-longs: "In The Heights," "96,000." Released 8/31/21.
Books Now Available:
Vamp Until Ready
(Rattling Good Yarns Press - Paperback Book/Kindle Edition)
Fourth novel by James Magruder (Triumph of Love book and Head Over Heels book adaptation). Novel set at the Hangar Theatre in 1980s Ithaca, New York. 216 pages. Released 9/1/21.
To be released this Friday, September 10:
Confessions of an Actress: From Chorus Girl to Broadway Star
(Merle, Inc. - Kindle Edition)
Meredith Patterson (42nd Street, White Christmas) takes you through intimate, personal, joyous and often painful stories of her rise to Broadway ... whatever it took to support herself while battling self doubt, cut-throat competition while trying to stay as human as possible in an often-vicious industry. It is the story of her rise to Broadway, but also how tragedy made her come back down to earth and place her life's work.
Everybody's Talking About Jamie
(digital album)
Soundtrack from new film based on the musical. Score by Dan Gillespie Sells and Tom MacRae. Max Harwood, Richard E. Grant, Sarah Lancashire, Sharon Horgan, Beck Hill, Chaka Khan, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, The Feeling & Holly Johnson, Todrick Hall. "Don't Even Know It," "Everything," "Wall in My Head," "Spotlight," "This Was Me," "Work of Art," "Werk Girl," "Over the Top," "Everybodys Talking About Jamie," "It Means Beautiful," "He's My Boy," "My Man Your Boy," "While You're Still Young," "Out of the Darkness (A Place Where We Belong)," "When the Time Comes," "ETAJ."
Newly listed RECORDINGS:
October 22:
Kristin Chenoweth: Happiness Is ...Christmas!
(Concord Records - new on CD/digital)
"Happiness (Is Christmas) / Christmas Time Is Here (Medley)," "Why Couldn't It Be Christmas Every Day?," "Merry Christmas, Darling," "(Everybodys Waitin For) The Man With The Bag / Jingle Bell Rock (Medley)," "The Stories That You Told," "The Little Road To Bethlehem," "Merry Christmas Baby," "Christmas Lullaby," "We Are Lights," "Santa, I've Got A Bone To Pick With You!," "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas," "My Dear Acquaintance (A Happy New Year)."
September 24:
Show Time Volume 3: The EP Collection
(Stage Door Records - new on CD)
Compiles all 16 EPs which formed the "Show Time" Series as recorded and released by RCA Victor in 1953. Includes selections from The Little Shows, Girl Crazy, Porgy and Bess, Kiss Me, Kate, and Anything Goes. Featured performers include Carol Bruce, Sheila Bond, Edith Adams, Lisa Kirk, Cab Calloway, Helen Thigpen, Leslie Scott, George Britton, Helena Bliss, Helen Gallagher and Jack Cassidy. Most of the tracks have never been released on CD. Comprehensive sleeve note by Broadway historian George Dansker, including a complete sessionography of recording dates. Limited to 500 units only. StageDoorRecords.com.
December 17:
Ragtime: The Musical
(Masterworks Broadway - new 3-disc vinyl set)
On vinyl for the first time. Original Broadway cast recording of the score by Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens. 180-Gram red, white and blue vinyl in individual jackets, along with a 20-page stitched booklet. The oversized booklet includes a new essay and track-by-track commentary from Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, a new interview with Brian Stokes Mitchell, recording session and production photos, and the complete recording libretto. Cast includes Brian Stokes Mitchell, Marin Mazzie, Peter Friedman, Audra McDonald, Judy Kaye, Mark Jacoby, Lea Michele. Two hours and one minute.
Newly listed BOOKS:
September 20:
Working Backstage: A Cultural History and Ethnography of Technical Theater Labor
(Univ of Michigan Press - Hardcover Book/Paperback/Kindle Edition)
By Christin Essin. Illuminates the work of New York City's theater technicians, shining a light on the essential contributions of unionized stagehands, carpenters, electricians, sound engineers, properties artisans, wardrobe crews, makeup artists, and child guardians. Based on the author's (a former theater technician herself) archival research and interviews with more than 100 backstage technicians, members of the New York locals of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. 286 pages.
Compiled by Talkin' Broadway Staff.
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