2021: December 7 | November 30, 16-23, 9, 2 | October 26, 19, 12 | 5 | September 28, 21, 14, 7 | 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
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DIGITAL MUSIC Now Available:
Pathetic Little Dreamer
(Broadway Records - new digital album)
Debut EP from performer/songwriter Analise Scarpaci (Mrs. Doubtfire). Pop mix of seven original songs. "Pathetic Little Dreamer," "Charlie ," "I Don't Write Love Songs," "My Little Voice," "Drive ," "Seventh Stage of Grief," "End of the Day." Produced and mixed by Michael J Moritz Jr. Musicians include Adam DeAscentis on bass, Jakob Reinhardt on guitar, Tom Jorgenson on drums, and Damon Grant on percussion. Michael J Moritz Jr serves as music director as well as piano and synths. Engineered by Jakob Reinhardt. Mastered by Greg Reierson and Rareform Mastering. Released 12/10/21.
Books Now Available:
Booze Over Broadway: 50 Cocktails for Theatre Lovers
(Tiller Press - Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition)
By Michael Goff. Recipes include Hello, Daquiri!, The Best Little Whiskey Sour in Texas, Don't Cry for Me, Appletini, I Don't Know How to Love Gin, Bloody, Bloody, Mary Jackson, Once on this (Long) Island Iced Tea, Brandy Alexander Hamilton, If I Were a Rich Man(hattan), and more. 160 pages.
MUSIC to be released later this week:
Caroline, or Change
(Broadway Records/Roundabout Records - new digital album)
New Broadway (Roundabout Theatre Company) cast recording of score by Jeanine Tesori (music) and Tony Kushner (lyrics). Produced by Elliot Scheiner, Nigel Lilley, Jeanine Tesori, and Van Dean. Edited and mixed by Lawrence Manchester. Sharon D Clarke, Gabriel Amoroso, Alexander Bello, John Cariani, Joy Hermalyn, Arica Jackson, Tamika Lawrence, Caissie Levy, Adam Makké, Kevin S. McAllister, Harper Miles, NKenge, Nya, Richard Alexander Phillips, Jayden Theophile, Nasia Thomas, Jaden Myles Waldman, Samantha Williams, Stuart Zagnit, and Chip Zien. 2-CD format to be released 1/14/22. BroadwayRecords.com.
NEWLY LISTED Recordings:
January 7, 2022:
The Solomon Diaries: Vol I, II, II
(Adhyâropa Records - three-part album series)
Songs by composer/clarinetist Sam Sadigursky. " ...an aural reflection on America's Jewish Vacationland celebrating the monumental place that it has in American cultural history and capturing absence, loss, and change within the Jewish American immigrant story." Sam Sadigursky (clarinet), Nathan Koci (accordion/piano/banjo), and Katrina Lenk (vocals).
January 18, 2022:
Annie Live!
(Universal Studios - new Blu-ray/DVD)
2021 television presentation. Score by Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin. Book by Thomas Meehan.
January 28, 2022:
Flying Over Sunset
(Sony Masterworks - new digital album)
2021 OBC recording of musical score by Tom Kitt and Michael Korie. Carmen Cusack, Tony Yazbeck, Harry Hadden-Paton, Kanisha Marie Feliciano, Nehal Joshi, Emily Pynenburg, Michele Ragusa, Robert Sella, Laura Shoop, and Atticus Ware. CD format to be released 3/11/21.
NEWLY LISTED Books/Plays:
March 15, 2022:
Fearlessly Different: An Autistic Actor's Journey to Broadway's Biggest Stage
(Rowman & Littlefield - Hardcover Book/Paperback/Kindle Edition)
By Mickey Rowe. The story of an autistic and legally blind person and pushing beyond the restrictions of a special education classroom to shine on the stage ... to become the first autistic actor to play the lead role in the play The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, landing the title role in the play Amadeus, co-creating the theatre/philanthropy company Arts on the Waterfront, and founding the National Disability Theatre. 200 pages.
April 15, 2022:
Offstage Observations: Inside Tales of the Not-So-Legitimate Theatre
(Applause Books - Hardcover Book)
By Steven Suskin. Foreword by Ted Chapin. The author introduces Broadway, once upon a time ... taking the reader through a decade's worth of adventures, working his way from a menial pencil sharpener for producer David Merrick toward a career as a full-fledged manager, producer, and drama critic. The book follows the author's progress from the wintry night after his sixteenth birthday, when he unexpectedly finds himself alone on the empty stage of a Broadway theatre, peering out at the silent, empty auditorium lit only by a solitary ghost light to the matinee eight summers later when he finds himself accidentally and uncomfortably acting in a Broadway musical, bombarded by roars of laughter from a houseful of playgoers. 424 pages.
May 3, 2022:
Creating Back to the Future: The Musical
(Abrams - Hardcover Book)
By Michael Klastorin. Foreword by Bob Gale. About the creation of the musical that opened at the Manchester Opera House in February 2020, music and lyrics by Alan Silvestri and Glen Ballard and a book by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale (adapted from their original screenplay). Pairs exclusive, in-depth interviews with previously unpublished photography; excerpts from Bob Gales personal journal; and a foreword by Gale to reveal and detail the years long process, and the creative ingenuity and technical innovation. 224 pages.
June 7, 2022:
Grease, Tell Me More, Tell Me More: Stories from the Broadway Phenomenon That Started It All
(Chicago Review Press - Hardcover Book)
Edited by Ken Waissman, Adrienne Barbeau, and Tom Moore. How the show that started in a converted trolly barn in Chicago in the Eden Theatre February 14, 1972, short of money, short of audience, short of critical raves ... became a musical classic. Collection of memories and stories from over one hundred actors and musicians, including the creative team and crew who were part of the original Broadway production and in the many touring companies it spawned, including Barry Bostwick, John Travolta, Adrienne Barbeau, Treat Williams, Marilu Henner, Peter Gallagher, Danny Jacobson, Walter Bobbie, Jerry Zaks, Laurie Graff, John Lansing, Ilene Kristen, Ilene Graff, and Lisa Raggio. 352 pages.
July 15, 2022:
The Complete Book of 1900s Broadway Musicals
(Rowman & Littlefield - Hardcover Book)
Latest in series by Dan Dietz. Surveys every single book musical that opened during the decade. Each musical has its own entry which features: Plot summary; cast members; creative team; song lists; opening and closing dates; number of performances; critical commentary; film adaptations, recordings, and published scripts, when applicable. Numerous appendixes include a chronology of book musicals by season; chronology of revues; chronology of revivals of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas; a selected discography; filmography; published scripts; Black musicals; long and short runs; and musicals based on comic strips. 800 pages.
August 1, 2022:
Transforming Space Over Time: Set Design and Visual Storytelling with Broadways Legendary Directors
(Applause Books - Hardcover Book)
By theater designer and Tony Award winner Beowulf Boritt. Tells the stories of six diverse productions: five on Broadway and one Off-Broadway ... beginning with the moment he was offered each job, and taking readers through the conceptual development of the set, in collaboration with the director, the challenges of its physical creation, and the intense process of readying it for the stage. Extensive conversations with the directors of the productions ... such as James Lapine, Kenny Leon, Hal Prince, Susan Stroman, Jerry Zaks, and Stephen Sondheim. 304 pages.
August 9, 2022:
Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux - Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition)
By Mary Rodgers (19312014) and Jesse Green. The memoirs of Mary Rodgers—writer, composer, Broadway royalty, and "a woman who tried everything." Her story, with copious annotations, contradictions, and interruptions from coauthor Jesse Green. 480 pages.
August 15, 2022:
Everything Was Possible: The Birth of the Musical Follies (revised and updated)
(Applause Books - Paperback Book)
By Ted Chapin. Foreword by Frank Rich. Insider's view of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's musical, Follies. New afterword brings the history of the show forward, diving into recent productions around the world, new recordings, and the continued promise of a film version.
OTHER NEW ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
(new album)
2020 Off-Broadway (Transport Group) cast recording of score by Meredith Willson. Cast includes Beth Malone and David Aron Damane. Recorded 12/12/21. Unconfirmed.
Compiled by Talkin' Broadway Staff.
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