Updated 5/16/12

This Week's Recap

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David Essex digital releases: Mutiny! Original London Cast (mp3); Friends - Songs From Mutiny! (mp3/iTunes - originally released as 12" EP of studio pop recordings from Mutiny! score); The Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe (mp3/iTunes, 1996).

Direct From Broadway: Jekyll & Hyde, Putting It Together, Smokey Joe's Cafe
(Image Entertainment - DVD set)
repackage including the previously-issued DVDs: Jekyll & Hyde with David Hasselhoff, Coleen Sexton, Andrea Rivette; Putting It Together with Carol Burnett, George Hearn, Ruthie Henshall; Smokey Joe's Cafe with Ken Ard, Adrian Bailey, Matt Bogart and Brenda Braxton.

Hazel: The Complete Third Season
(Shout! Factory - on 4 DVDs)
TV series starring Shirley Booth, Don Defore.

John Pizzarelli: Double Exposure
(Telarc - new on CD/mp3) 
Classic pop songs in a jazz setting. "I Feel Fine," "Harvest Moon," "Traffic Jam," "Ruby Baby," "Alison," "Rosalinda's Eyes," "Elizabeth Reed," "Drunk On the Moon," "Walk Between Raindrops," "Free Man in Paris," "Take a Lot of Pictures" (original song written by Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey), "I Can Let Go Now," "Diamond Girl." Larry Fuller (keyboards), Martin Pizzarelli (bass) and Tony Tedesco (drums) plus organist Larry Goldings and a four-piece horn section arranged by Don Sebesky: Tony Kadleck, John Mosca, Kenny Berger and Andy Fusco.

Lysistrata Jones
(Broadway Records - new on CD/mp3) 
Original Broadway cast recording. Liz Mikel, Patti Murin, Lindsay Nicole Chambers, Josh Segarra, Jason Tam, LaQuet Sharnell, Alex Wyse, Biti Strauchn. "Right Now: Opening," "Right Now: Party Time," "Just Once," "Change the World," "No More Giving It Up," "Lay Low," "I Don t Think So," "You Go Your Way," "Where Am I Now?," "Writing on the Wall," "Hold On," "Don't Judge A Book," "Right Now: Operetta," "When She Smiles," "Hold On (reprise)," "The Final Game," "Give it Up!," "Never Say Never" (Curtain Call), Bonus Track: "Hold On" sung by Jennifer Holiday, with special lyrics by Lewis Flinn.

Newsies the Musical OBC
(Ghostlight - new on CD/mp3) 
Alan Menken/ Jack Feldman score (book by Harvey Fierstein). Danny Troob orchestrations. Arrangements by Michael Kosarin. Jeremy Jordan, John Dossett, Capathia Jenkins, Andrew Keenan-Bolger, Kara Lindsay, Ben Frankhauser. Recorded March 4-5. "Overture," "Santa Fe (Prologue)," "Carrying the Banner," "The Bottom Line," "That's Rich," "I Never Planned on You/Don't Come a-Knocking," "The World Will Know," "Watch What Happens," "Seize the Day," "Santa Fe," "King of New York," "Watch What Happens (Reprise)," "The Bottom Line (Reprise)," "Brooklyn's Here," "Something to Believe In," "Once and For All," "Finale." Bonus tracks on CD only: "Santa Fe" (Performed by Jeremy Jordan accompanied by Alan Menken), "Seize The Day" (Full Song with Dance Break), "King of New York" (Full Song with Dance Break). released digitally April 10

May 22, 2012

Carol Channing - Larger Than Life
(Entertainment One - new on DVD)
Documentary of the Broadway legend. With Lily Tomlin, Chita Rivera, Barbara Walters, Tyne Daly, Tippi Hedren, Loni Anderson and Debbie Reynolds, Phyllis Diller, Tommy Tune, Bob Mackie and Bruce Vilanch. Directed by Dori Berinstein. 87 minutes.

The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess New Broadway Cast Recording
(PS Classics - new on 2 CDs)
Score by George Gershwin, Dubose & Dorothy Heyward and Ira Gershwin. Orchestrations by William David Brohn and Christopher Jahnke. Audra McDonald, Norm Lewis, David Alan Grier, with Phillip Boykin, Nikki Renée Daniels, Joshua Henry, Christopher Innvar, Bryonha Marie Parham, NaTasha Yvette Williams, Allison Blackwell, Roosevelt André Credit, Trevon Davis, Joseph Dellger, Wilkie Ferguson III, Carmen Ruby Floyd, Heather Hill, David Hughey, Andrea Jones-Sojola, Alicia Hall Moran, Cedric Neal, Phumzile Sojola, Nathaniel Stampley, Julius Thomas III, J.D. Webster, Lisa Nicole Wilkerson. Disc One: "Overture," "Summertime," "Roll Them Bones," "A Woman Is a Sometime Thing," "Porgy's Entrance," "Crap Game," "The Killing of Robbins," "Gone, Gone, Gone," "My Man's Gone Now," "Leaving for the Promised Land," "It Takes a Long Pull to Get There," "I Got Plenty of Nothing," "I Hates Your Strutting Style," "Picnics is all right…," "Bess, You Is My Woman Now," "Oh, I Can’t Sit Down"; Disc Two: "It Ain’t Necessarily So," "What You Want With Bess?," "Oh, Doctor Jesus," "Street Cries," "I was powerful sick…," "I Loves You, Porgy," "The Storm Approaches," "Oh, The Lord Shake the Heaven," "A Red Headed Woman," "Oh, Doctor Jesus" (Reprise), "Clara Don't You Be Downhearted," "Summertime" (Reprise), "The Death of Crown," "There's a Boat That's Leaving Soon for New York," "Bess, Oh Where's My Bess?," "Oh Lord, I'm on My Way." Recorded 3/26/12.

Sweet Little Devil Studio Cast
(PS Classics - new on CD)
1924 show (opened on Broadway at the Astor Theatre on January 21, 1924) with George Gershwin and B.G. DeSylva score. Studio recording. Bethe Austin, Danny Burstein, Philip Chaffin, Sara Jean Ford, Jason Graae, Rebecca Luker and Sally Wilfert. Sam Davis conducts. Vocal arrangements by David Loud.

May 28, 2012

Dave Willetts: Once in a Lifetime, the 2tth Anniversary Collection
(Stage Door Records - new on CD)
UK theatre performer album of brand new songs, live concert recordings and 16 previously unreleased tracks. For more information, visit Stage Door Records.

May 29, 2012

Coriolanus
(Weinstein Company - new Blu-Ray/DVD)
2011 film version of Shakespeare tragedy. Ralph Fiennes and Gerard Butler. Fiennes directs.

Love Never Dies
(Universal - new on Blu-Ray/DVD)
Australian production of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Glenn Slater musical, filmed live. Stars Ben Lewis and Anna O'Byrne.

Nunsense Boulevard: The Nunsense Hollywood Bowl Show
(Kultur Video - new on DVD)
Dan Goggin show. The Little Sisters of Hoboken have been invited to sing at the Hollywood Bowl. New York cast includes Deborah Del Mastro, Bambi Jones, Bonnie Lee, Jeanne Tinker, Stephanie Wahl. 60 minutes.

Sing Your Song: Harry Belafonte
(New Video Group - new on DVD)
2011 HBO documentary.

May 31, 2012

Lift - A New Musical
(new on CD)
Original concept album of score by Craig Adams and Ian Watson. Jack Shalloo, Julie Atherton, Louise Dearman, Jennifer Tierney, Michael Xavier, Paul Ayres. Pre-order at Dress Circle

Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown - Piano/Vocal Selections
(Hal Leonard - Paperback Book)
14 songs from the Broadway musical based on the film by Pedro Almodovar. Score by David Yazbek. Includes "Invisible," "Island," "Lie to Me," "Lovesick," "Madrid Is My Mama," "The Microphone," "Model Behavior," "Mother's Day," "My Crazy Heart," "On the Verge," "Shoes from Heaven."

May, 2012 (no release date)

35mm A Musical Exhibition Original Cast Recording
(Sh-K-Boom - new on CD)
Ryan Scott Oliver songs for show performed at Galapagos Art Space inspired by the photography of Matthew Murphy. Alex Brightman, Ben Crawford, Jay Armstrong Johnson, Lindsay Mendez, and Betsy Wolfe. Recorded March 8.

The Best Plays Theater Yearbook 2008-2009
(Limelight Editions - Hardcover Book)
Jeffrey Eric Jenkins, Editor. The 10 New York premieres honored are Becky Shaw by Gina Gionfriddo; Billy Elliot by Lee Hall and Elton John; Blasted by Sarah Kane; The Cripple of Inishmaan by Martin McDonagh; God of Carnage by Yasmina Reza; The Good Negro by Tracey Scott Wilson; reasons to be pretty by Neil LaBute; Ruined, by Lynn Nottage; 33 Variations by Moises Kaufman; and Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them by Christopher Durang. Special Citation: [title of show] by Jeff Bowen and Hunter Bell.

June 1, 2012

The Little Princess Vocal Selections
(Hal Leonard - Paperback Book)
Andrew Lippa score.

Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark Piano/Vocal Selections
(Hal Leonard - Paperback Book)

June 4, 2012

Priscilla, Queen of the Desert - The Musical
(Hal Leonard - Paperback Book)
Vocal selections. 19 well-known pop songs from the score: Don't Leave Me This Way," "Girls Just Want to Have Fun," "Go West," "Hot Stuff," "I Love the Night Life," "I Say a Little Prayer," "I Will Survive," "It's Raining Men," "Like a Prayer," "MacArthur Park," "Material Girl," "Shake Your Groove Thing," "True Colors," "We Belong," "What's Love Got to Do with It" and more!

June 5, 2012

Alfie: Alfie Boe U.S. Release
(Decca - new on CD)
New solo album by Alfie Boe (Les Miserable Anniversary concert). "Being Alive," "Maria," "When I Fall In Love," "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," "When You Wish Upon a Star," "Music of the Night," "Someone to Watch Over Me," "Song to the Siren" (with Robert Plant), "In My Daughter?s Eyes," "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables" (with Nick Jonas), "Wheels of a Dream," "It Was a Very Good Year," "Who Am I," "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas." Previously released in the UK and available at Dress Circle and Amazon UK.

Evita New Broadway Cast Recording
(Sony - new on 2 CDs)
Andrew Lloyd-Webber and Tim Rice score. Elena Roger, Michael Cerveris, Ricky Martin. First complete English language version since the OBC recording.  Disc: 1: "Requiem," "Oh What a Circus," "On This Night of a Thousand Stars," "Eva, Beware of the City," "Buenos Aires," "Good Night and Thank You," "The Art of the Possible," "Charity Concert," "I'd Be Surprisingly Good For You," "Another Suitcase in Another Hall," "Peron's Latest Flame," "A New Argentina," Disc: 2: "On the Balcony of the Casa Rosada," "Don't Cry For Me Argentina," "High Flying Adored," "Rainbow High," "Rainbow Tour," "The Chorus Girl Hasn't Learned," "And the Money Kept Rolling," "Santa Evita," "Waltz for Eva and Che," "You Must Love Me," "She Is a Diamond," "Dice are Rolling," "Eva's Final Broadcast," "Montage," "Lament," "No Llores Por Mi Argentina" (Bonus Track). Co-produced by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice, and Nigel Wright.

Peter and the Starcatcher: The Annotated Script of the Broadway Play
(Disney Editions - Paperback Book)
B&N
Script for the play with commentary by playwright Rick Elice, director Marco Paguia, composer Wayne Barker; set designer Donyale Werle, and original young-adult novel authors Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson. Behind-the-scenes information and photos of the cast and crew. Introduction by Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson. 192 pages. Ages 18 and up.

Ramin Karimloo: Human Heart
(Sony Masterworks - new on CD)
West End performer (Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables, Love Never Dies). "Show Me Light," "Coming Home," "Music of the Night," "Broken Home," "Guiding Light," "Song of the Human Heart," "Constant Angel," "Til I Hear You Sing," "Eyes Of A Child," "Inside My World," "Everything I do (I Do It For You)," "Cathedrals." Previously released in the UK under the title Ramin. He will be touring North America in September.

Rock of Ages Soundtrack
(WaterTower Music - new on CD)
Soundtrack of te movie based on the Broadway musical. Songs by Def Leppard, Journey, Poison, Twisted Sister, Foreigner, Bon Jovi, Joan Jett, and more, performed by the movie cast, including Tom Cruise, Mary J. Blige, Alec Baldwin, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Russell Brand, Julianne Hough, Diego Boneta, Paul Giamatti, and Malin Akerman.

June 12, 2012

Boleros for the Disenchanted and Other Plays by Jose Rivera
(TCG - Paperback Book)

Chinglish
(TCG - Paperback Book)
2011 Broadway play by David Henry Hwang.

George Dvorsky: All Through the Night
(JAY Records - new on CD) 
Solo album with National Symphony Orchestra. "Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin'," "Lucky To Be Me," "All Through The Night" (with Rebecca Luker) "She Was There," "I Wish I Could Forget You," "All I Care About Is Love (With Girls), "Lonely Town," "Soliloquy," "Almost Like Being In Love (with Janis Kelly), "The Impossible Dream," "Bring Him Home," "Something Wonderful," "I've Come To Wive It Wealthily In Padua (With Men), "Younger Than Springtime," "The Happy Time," "There But For You Go I."

The Memory of All That: George Gershwin, Kay Swift, and My Family's Legacy of Infidelities
(Broadway - Paperback Book)
Katharine Weber, granddaughter of Kay Swift, memoir of her extraordinary family.

The Vermont Plays: Four Plays by Annie Baker
(TCG - Paperback Book)
Circle Mirror Transformation, which takes place in a summer acting class and alternates between theater exercises and moments between classmates; The Aliens explores weighty topics of love and death through the easy banter of the slackers behind the local coffee shop; Body Awareness, set during Body Awareness Week at the local college; Nocturama, in which a twenty-six-year-old Brooklynite returns to live with his mom and video game obsessed stepfather.

June 19, 2012

Gray's Anatomy
(Criterion Collection - new Blu-Ray)
Spalding Gray filmed monologue (co-written with Rene Shafransky). Directed by Steven Soderbergh. 79 minutes.

Merrily We Roll Along 2012 Encores! Cast Recording
(PS Classics - new on 2 CDs)
Colin Donnell, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Adam Grupper, Elizabeth Stanley and Betsy Wolfe. a 23-piece orchestra conducted by Rob Berman. Jonathan Tunick orchestrations. Pre-ordering now at special $14.95 pre-order price at PSClassics.com.

Newsies: 20th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray
(Disney - new single Blu-Ray)
CDU | B&N
1992 musical film. Christian Bale, David Moscow, Bill Pullman, Ann-Margret, Robert Duvall, Max Casella. Directed by Kenny Ortega.

Queen of the Mist Original cast recording
(Ghostlight Records - new on CD)
Michael John LaChiusa score. Original Off-Broadway cast for the Transport Group: Mary Testa, Andrew Samonsky, D.C. Anderson, Stanley Bahorek, Theresa McCarthy, Julia Murney, Tally Sessions. Orchestrations by Michael Starobin. Musical direction by Chris Fenwick, who conducts a seven-piece orchestra. Recorded January 3, 2012.

June 26, 2012

Scott Alan: Live
(new on 2 CDs)
Recorded April at Birdland. "Overture," "I'm A Star" (Natalie Weiss), "Please Don't Let Me Go" (Jeremy Jordan), "And There It Is/Magic" (Louise Dearman & Julia Murney), "Now" (Laura Osnes), "Love, Love, Love" (Pentatonix), "Kiss The Air" (Caissie Levy), "Anymore" (Raena White), "The Distance You Have Come" (Richard Fleeshman), "Again" (Christiane Noll), "At This Moment" (Marc Broussard), "Blessing –rj Helton), "Always/Goodnight" (Sierra Boggess & Jane Monheit), "Disc Two), "Watch Me Soar" (Stephanie J. Block), "Surrender" (Melissa Van Der Schyff), "Home" (Liz Callaway And Ann Hampton Callaway), "Till Then" (Christopher Jackson), "I've Already Won" (Alexander Sage Oyen" (Winner Of "I'm A Star" ContestFeaturing Jack Beatson, Paul Ianniello, Mindy Pack, Nick Pitera, Sidonie Smith, Heather Traska, Camille Trzcinski And Stefani ood), "Over The Mountains" (Ben Fankhauser), "Say Goodbye" (Willemijn Verkaik), "Free" (Mykal Kilgore Featuring Danielle Greaves, Christina Robinson & Kenneth Robinson), "Never Neverland" (Fly Away– Kerry Ellis), "Look" (A Rainbow– Lea Salonga), "), "Bonus Tracks), "Take Me Away" (Hadley Fraser And Ramin Karmiloo" (Studio Recording)), "Ignited By A Dream" (Scott Alan, Live). Songs arranged and orchestrated by Jesse Vargas. Background vocals were arranged by Michael McElory, with the exception of the song "I've Already Won," which was arranged by Michael Orland ("American Idol") and Antonio Sol.

June 30, 2012

On Broadway 2013 Calendar
(Time Factory - Paperback Calendar)
Wall calendar. Each month features a different Broadway musical, featuring Anything Goes, Avenue Q, Godspell, Catch Me If You Can, The Book of Mormon, Memphis, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Sister Act, War Horse, Spider-Man, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. Each with a description written by Ken Johnson, Managing Editor of Playbill.com.

July 1, 2012

Andrew Lippa Songbook
(Hal Leonard - Paperback book)
26 songs from The Wild Party, You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown, A Little Princess, Betty Boop, Jerry Christmas, john & jen, Life with Father; and Reform School Musical plus ten songs not composed for musicals. Includes notes on Lippa's inspiration for certain selections, and a bio. Most of the songs in the book have never before been published.

July 9, 2012

Loverly: The Life and Times of My Fair Lady (Broadway Legacies)
(Oxford Univ Press - Hardcover Book)
By Dominic McHugh. Based on previously-unpublished documents ... a completely new behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the show.

July 17, 2012

In the Wake
(TCG - Paperback Book)
Play by Lisa Kron presented at the Public Theater in 2010.

Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes: 20th Anniversary Edition Edition
(TCG - Hardcover)
B&N
By Tony Kushner. Millennium Approaches and Perestroika in the revised versions presented this season at the Signature Theatre Company, as well as a new author's foreword.

The Veil
(TCG - Paperback Book)
Play by Conor McPherson produced at London's National Theatre in 2011.

August 14, 2012

Chekhov's Three Sisters and Woolf's Orlando: Two Renderings for the Stage
(TCG - Paperback Book)
Sarah Ruhl translations of Three Sisters and Orlando.

August, 2012 (no release date)

Betty Buckley: Ah, Men! The Boys of Broadway
(Palmetto Records - new on CD)
Buckley's Feinstein show. Recorded.

September 4, 2012

Performance of the Century: 100 Years of Actors' Equity Association and the Rise of Professional American Theater
(Applause - Hardcover Book)
By Robert Simonson.

September 11, 2012

The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism & Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures
(TCG - Hardcover/Paperback Book)
Play by Tony Kushner. Originally commissioned and produced by the Guthrie Theater, presented at the Public Theater.

Once
(TCG - Paperback Book)
Adaptation by Enda Walsh; songwriters Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová.

Sex Plays by Eric Bogosian
(TCG - Paperback Book)
Bogosian's two newest plays: Skunkweed details the culture clash between a Los Angeles screenwriter and a working-class girl and her rural Florida clan in a hotel room; 1+1 explores desire, greed, and responsibility to others through the lives of an aspiring actress, assistant restaurant manager, and a photographer.

Stage Kiss
(TCG - Paperback Book)
Play by Sarah Ruhl.

The Train Driver and Other Plays
(TCG - Paperback Book)
Athol Fugard's The Train Driver plus Coming Home and Have You Seen Us?.

September 18, 2012

The Rest of the Story: A Continued Memoir of Broadway and Hollywood
(Applause - Hardcover Book)
Completed only days before his death, Arthur Laurents reveals all that happened in his life since Original Story By. The book ends with a coda by good friend and the editor of this book, David Saint, which reveals the real story of his death.

October 16, 2012

The Anarchist
(TCG - Paperback Book)
New play by David Mamet.

By the Way, Meet Vera Stark
(TCG - Hardcover/Paperback Book)
Play by Lynn Nottage (Second Stage).

The Playbill Broadway Yearbook: June 2011 to May 2012: Eighth Annual Edition
(Applause - Hardcover Book)
Robert Viagas, editor.

October 30, 2012

Thornton Wilder: A Life
(Harper - Hardcover Book)
By Penelope Niven. First biography of this American playwright and novelist; from letters, public and private journals, manuscripts and other documentary evidence. 848 pages.

November 6, 2012

Annie Get Your Gun (The Applause Libretto Library)
(Applause - new Paperback Book)
The original libretto and essays describing the history of the musical's productions.

South Pacific (The Applause Libretto Library)
(Applause - Paperback Book)

November 26, 2012

P. G. Wodehouse: A Life in Letters
(W.W. Norton & Co - Hardcover Book)
Sophie Ratcliffe, editor. 624 pages.

December 1, 2012

Rent Vocal Selections and Libretto Pack
(Hal Leonard - Hardcover Book)

December 11, 2012

After the Revolution and 4,000 Miles: Two Plays by Amy Herzog
(TCG - Paperback Book)
Amy Herzog plays After the Revolution (Williamstown Theatre Festival, Playwrights Horizons; John Gassner Award nomination, Lilly Award) and 4,000 Miles (Lincoln Center Theater's LCT3, upcoming at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center).

Seventy-Five Seventy-Four Essays I Don't Have Time to Write
(TCG - Paperback Book)
Two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist for Drama, playwright Sarah Ruhl, offers up seventy-four reflections on the world of theater. From literary influences and privacy to swordfights, crickets, and umbrellas ... thoughtful examinations of what plays were, are and could be.

December, 2012 (no release date)

One Touch of Venus Studio Cast Recording
(JAY Records - new on 2 CDs)
Kurt Weill and Ogden Nash score for 1943 musical. Melissa Errico, Brent Barrett, Ron Raines, Victoria Clark, Judy Kaye, Lauren Worsham, Michael "Tuba" McKinsey. Complete score plus two cut songs: "Vive La Difference" and "Who Am I?." Original orchestrations by Kurt Weill.

October 12, 2013

The Musical That Changed My Life
(Applause Books - Paperback Book)
By Howard Sherman.

No release date set

Al Hirschfeld Biography
(Sarah Crichton Books - new book)
By Ellen Stern. The life of theatre artist Al Hirschfeld. Expected in 2015.

Andy Hardy Vol. 1
(Warner -DVD Set)
Mickey Rooney film series.

Barbara Cook at Avery Fisher Hall
November 2007/January 2008 concert.

Barbra Streisand DVD set
(Columbia - 12 DVD set)
To feature "never-before-seen footage directly from Barbra's archives, as well as milestones from her illustrious career."

Betty Buckley: Ghostlight
(Palmetto Records - new on CD)
Produced by T Bone Burnett. Expected Spring 2012.

Big Bang
(Original Cast Records - on CD)

The Black Monk
(new on iTunes/CD)
Off-Broadway cast recording of Wendy Kesselman score. Recorded May 25, 2009. Austin Pendleton, Elon Rutberg, Julie Craig, and Scott Robertson.

Boobs! The Musical
(MOL - new on CD)
New York cast album of Ruth Wallis revue.

Bring It On: The Musical
(new on CD)
Tom Kitt, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Amanda Green score. Touring cast.

Carrie Off-Broadway cast album
(Ghostlight - new on CD)
Recorded April 17. Christy Altomare, Corey Boardman, Carmen Cusack, Jeanna de Waal, Blair Goldberg, F. Michael Haynie, Derek Klena, Marin Mazzie, Andy Mientus, Elly Noble, Molly Ranson, Jen Sese, Ben Thompson, Wayne Wilcox. Produced by Joel Moss produce; Kurt Deutsch executive producer.

A Christmas Story (the musical)
(new on CD)
Seattle 5th Avenue Theatre production. Music and lyrics by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul. The cast includes Clarke Hallum as Ralphie, Matthew Lewis, John Bolton, Anne Allgood, Frank Corrado, Carol Swarbrick, Jadd Davis, Candice Donehoo, Brandon O'Neill and Billie Wildrick, Matt Wolfe, Orville Mendoza. Sold at theaters hosting the tour. Nationwide release fall 2012.

Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
(new on DVD)
Film version of Ed Graczyk's play. Cher, Karen Black, Sandy Dennis, Kathy Bates, Mark Patton.

The Complete Show Boat
(Warner - DVD set)
1929 (Laura La Plante, Joseph Schildkraut, Otis Harlan, Emily Fitzroy, Stepin Fetchit), 1936 (Irene Dunne, Allan Jones, Charles Winninger, and Paul Robeson), 1951 (Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel, and Joe E. Brown) films.

Composers' CD (unnamed)
(Harbinger - new on CD)
Featuring Bock and Harnick, Vernon Duke, E.Y. Harburg, Meredith Willson, Stephen Sondheim, Otto Harbach.

Cyrano de Bergerac
(GlobalVision/Koch - new on CD)
Concept recording of new musical premiered in London in 2007. Music by Frank Wildhorn and Book and Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse.

Darling Lili
(DRG - new on CD)
First time U.S. release of 1970 soundtrack album. Mancini/Mercer score. Julie Andrews.

Doll's Life
(Original Cast Records - on CD)

Elaine Stritch At Liberty - HBO Special
(HBO - new on DVD)
2004 HBO documentary by D.A. Pennebaker.

Ellen Greene: All the Lives of Me
(new on CD)
Recorded in 1973-74 but not released. Songs by Peter Allen and a song from Rachael Lily Rosenbloom and Don't You Ever Forget It, Greene's Broadway debut. Originally produced by Joel Dorn and arranged by Arthur Jenkins Jr.

The Frogs - Vocal Selections
(Hal Leonard - Paperback Book)
Sondheim score. New, with added songs.

Gay's the Word 2012 London Studio Cast
(JAY Records - new on CD)

Ghost Brothers Of Darkland County Studio Album
(new on 3 CDs)
Concept album for Stephen King-John Mellencamp musical. Narration by Elvis Costello, plus Rosanne Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Sheryl Crow, Taj Mahalm and Neko Case, Matthew McConaughey, Meg Ryan and Joe Frazier. According to Playbill.com: it was "reportedly produced like a radio play, with a full book of text, as well as two CDs that include all dialogue and songs and a third CD with only the music." A single disc of highlights is also expected.

Half a Sixpence
(Harbinger - on CD)
Tommy Steele demo recordings.

Harold Arlen Sings (with friend)
(Masterworks - new digital download)
Arlen and Streisand. "Blues in the Night," "Little Biscuit," "Ding-Dong! The Witch Is Dead *," "A Sleepin' Bee," "In the Shade of the New Apple Tree," "Hit the Road to Dreamland," "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive," "My Shining Hour," "Today I Love Everybody," "House of Flowers *," "For Every Man There's a Woman," "That's a Fine Kind O' Freedom."

Herringbone
(new on CD)
Dixon Place production of musical starring BD Wong. Score by Skip Kennon and Ellen Fitzhugh.

H.M.S. Pinafore
Minneapolis' Guthrie Theater and Twin Cities Public Television production to air on PBS on October 14 with possible DVD release.

Hark!
(PS Classics - new on CD)
Holiday album from the Broadway Boys. Landon Beard, Danny Calvert, Telly Leung, Maurice Murphy, Jesse Nager, Zak Resnick, Michael James Scott, Peter Matthew Smith, Lucas Steele, Marty Thomas and Daniel Torres. Unconfirmed track list: "Hark!," "Silent Night," "In the Bleak Midwinter," "Do You Hear What I Hear"(featuring Shayna Steele), "Drummer Boy," "The Lights (The Hanukkah Song)," "Just Come Home Today," "All I Want for Christmas Is You," "Breath of Heaven," "Angels," "The Christmas Song," "A Place Called Home," "Imagine Me."

How The Grinch Stole Christmas
(Time-Life - new on CD)
New cast album.

Hugh Panaro solo album
(new on CD)

I Got Rhythm: Mickey and Judy's Hollywood
(PS Classics - new on CD)
Jeff Harnar and Shauna Hicks June 9 Town Hall concert celebrating movie songs associated with Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland. Barry Levitt, conductor; 30-piece orchestra.

JAY Records: 42nd Street studio cast recording; Anyone Can Whistle 2-CD studio cast recording with John Barrowman; Annie complete 2-CD studio cast; Brigadoon complete recording; The Dancing Years studio cast; Fiddler on the Roof studio cast; A Fine and Private Place 2006 York Theatre cast; Karen Ziemba tribute to Mary Martin; The Ladies Singing Their Songs with Carolee Carmello, Susan Egan, Karen Ziemba, Rebecca Luker, Debbie Gravitte, Alice Ripley, Kim Criswell, Melissa Errico, Judy Kaye; People Like Us 2005 NYMF show cast; Seven Brides for Seven Brothers complete studio cast recording; The Postman And The Poet a recording of an abridged presentation of the show (based on the film Il Postino) with The National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Craig Barna

JAY Records Musicality Series: Cryer and Ford; Flaherty and Ahrens; Frank Loesser; George Gershwin; Lionel Bart; Vincent Youmans

John Raitt CD
(Harbinger Records)
Rare recordings from Raitt's personal collection. Produced with the Raitt family. Summer 2011.

Jumbo
(AEI - on CD)
Radio tracks by stars of Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart's Broadway production

Karen Olivo solo album
(Yellow Sound Label - new on CD)
West Side Story performer.

Liaisons: Reimagining Sondheim from the Piano
(new on CD)
Compositions inspired by Stephen Sondheim songs. 17 of the 36 commissioned pieces were performed in April 2012 concert at Symphony Space by pianist Anthony de Mare. The remaining pieces will be performed in March 2013 at the same venue. Composers of performed pieces include David Shire and Ricky Ian Gordon, jazz pianists Ethan Iverson and Fred Hersch, and Paul Moravec.

Lovely Ladies Kind Gentlemen
(Original Cast Records)
Stan Freeman-Franklin Underwood musical version of Teahouse of the August Moon. Orchestrations by Irwin Kostal & Peter Matz. With Lou Diamond Phillips, Mickey Rooney, Charles Nelson Reilly, Robert Morse & Eleanor Cables. Vocals completed.

Lucky Guy
(new on CD)
Original Off-Broadway cast recording of Willard Beckham score for musical that played the Little Shubert. Leslie Jordan, Varla Merman, Kyle Dean Massey, Jim Newman, Savannah Wise.

Mary Bond Davis Solo Album
(new on CD)
From Metropolitan Room performances.

Merrily We Roll Along: Vocal Selections, Revised Edition
(Hal Leonard - Paperback Book)
Stephen Sondheim score. Newly edited, with new music engravings, added songs, articles and photos.

Metropolita(i)n
(new on CD)
Bilingual, socio-political musical revue by Christophe Mirambeau, Ken Bloom and Barry Kleinbort. Cast includes Edwin Cahill, Caroline Defauw, Simon Fortin, Vincent Heded, Liza Michael and Caroline Roelands. Recorded week of November 22.

Michael Rupert album
(The JRockingR Company - new on CD)
To include "Racing To The Moon", from a new musical Rupert is currently writing called Streets of America.

Milk and Honey Backers Audition
(Harbinger Records - new on CD)
With Don Appell giving the entire plot and Jerry Herman accompanying (and singing Molly Picon's songs). May be a two-CD set.

Museum of Modern Art project [untitled]
(Harbinger Records - new on CD)
Original recordings of songs by and about the movies written between 1907 and 1923 accompanied by an extensive booklet with four historical essays, many photos of nickleodeons and sheet music covers, the complete lyrics to the 26 songs, and annotations on all the songs.

Napoleon
(new on 2 CDs)
OLC cast recording.

Pipe Dream 2012 Encores! cast
(Ghostlight Records - new on CD)
Live recording of Rodgers & Hammerstein score. Music Director Rob Berman. Robert Russell Bennett orchestrations and John Morris dance arrangements restored by Bruce Pomahac. Will Chase, Laura Osnes, Leslie Uggams, Tom Wopat among cast of 29. Summer 2012 release.

Road Show Vocal Selections
(Hal Leonard - Paperback Book)
Stephen Sondheim score. New, with added songs.

Robert Goulet on Broadway
(Masterworks - new digital download)
"Come Back to Me," "Dear Love," "Hello Dolly," "If I Ruled the World," "Long Ago and Far Away," "Look For Small Pleasure," "Night Song," "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever," "People," "She Touched Me," "Sunrise Sunset," "Who Can I Turn To."

Rosemary Clooney book
(Oxford Univ Press)
By Malcolm Macfarlane.

Sherman Edwards CD [untitled]
(Harbinger Records - new on CD)
Sherman Edwards' 1776 demos and his last, unfinished score.

Spring is Here
(PS Classics - new on CD)
First-ever recording of Rodgers & Hart's 1929 musical comedy.

Sweet Charity
(Koch/DRG - new on CD)
Reissue of 1966 French cast recording. Magali Noel, Sidney Chaplin, and Collette Marchand.

Walden Records: Songs by Arthur Schwartz
(Harbinger Records - new on CD)
Final issue in Harbinger's Walden Records series. Bonus tracks.

-- Sound Advice Staff