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CDs Now Available:

Ben Bagley's Hold on to Your Hats
(Kritzerland - new on CD)
Music by Burton Lane Lyrics by E.Y. Harburg. Helen Gallagher, Carleton Carpenter, Nancy Grennan Hillner, Arthur Siegel, and an ensemble. Plus some other Harburg songs, rarities, with music by Harold Arlen, Vernon Duke, Sammy Fain, Burton Lane, and Dana Suesse sung by Tammy Grimes, Patrice Munsel, Blossom Dearie, Arthur Siegel, Ann Hampton Callaway and others, plus Harburg himself. Remastered. Cover art by Harvey Schmidt. Limited to 500 copies only and expected in the first week of January 2022. Kritzerland.com.

Ben Bagley's Make Mine Manhattan + Great Revues Revisited
(Kritzerland - new on CD)
1948 Broadway musical Make Mine Manhattan music Richard Lewine and lyrics by Arnold B. Horwitt. Great Revues Revisited music and lyrics by Baldwin Bergerson, Lyn Duddy, Joan Edwards, Edward Eliscu, Ted Fetter, Charles Gaynor, Jay Gorney, Alec Grahame, Bob Hilliard, Arnold B. Horwitt, Jean and Walter Kerr, Richard Lewine, Phyllis McGinley, Henry Myers, Peter Myers, John Pritchett, Harold Rome, Albert Selden, Carl Sigman. Cast includes Nancy Andrews, Carleton Carpenter, Helen Gallagher, Dolores Gray, Estelle Parsons, Lynn Redgrave, Arthur Siegel, and Elaine Stritch. Arrangements by Dennis Deal and Judd Woldin. Remastered. Cover art by Harvey Schmidt. Limited to 500 copies only. Expected first week of January 2022. Kritzerland.com.

DIGITAL MUSIC Now Available:

Scarlet
(new EP)
Original concept recording of score by Jess Newman and Richard Lindenfelzer. Featuring Maggie McKenna. "Prologue," "Machine," "Master of Loneliness," "Sirens," "Sun and Back."

Books Now Available:

Life of Pi
(Methuen Drama - Paperback Book)
Play by Lolita Chakrabarti, adapted from the novel by Yann Martel. Published to coincide with the West End premiere in November 2021. 112 pages.

Morning Sun
(Methuen Drama - Paperback Book/Kindle Edition)
Play by Simon Stephens. Currently in production at Manhattan Theatre Club. 104 pages. Kindle Edition released 11/16/21.

MUSIC to be released this Friday, January 7, 2022:

Samantha Barks: Into the Unknown
(Westway - new on CD)
Studio album featuring Samantha Barks (Pretty Woman: The Musical, Frozen West End cast, Les Misérables film. "Into the Unknown," "Heart of Stone," "Never Enough," "How Far I'll Go," "Reflection," "Waving Through a Window," "Only Us" (with Ramin Karimloo), "I'd Rather Be Me," "With You," "Let Me Be Your Star" (with Stephanie McKeon), "Falling Slowly," "Mary Jane." Digital format released 11/12/21.

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). Bandcamp.com.

Recordings RECENTLY MADE AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER:

Second week in February:

Ben Bagley's Harold Arlen and Vernon Duke Revisited Volume II
(Kritzerland - on CD)
Songs from the revue Life Begins at 8:40, cut songs from Jamaica, the rare Sadie Thompson, and a few other rarities; rare songs from Banjo Eyes, Zenda, Walk a Little Faster, The Lady Comes Across, and more. Plus additional Harold Arlen songs in a bonus section. Dolores Gray, Helen Gallagher, Sandy Duncan, Tammy Grimes, Blossom Dearie, and Arthur Siegel. Arrangements and orchestrations are by Dennis Deal and Albert Evans. Cover art by Harvey Schmidt. Limited to 500 copies only. Kritzerland.com.

I Do! I Do!
(Kritzerland - on CD)
1996 cast (Lamb's Theater) recording of score by Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones. David Garrison and Karen Ziemba. Remastered by James Nelson. Includes new bonus track cut song "Thousands of Flowers," sung by Ziemba and Garrison. New cover art, a booklet with color photographs, new liner notes by Tom Jones, Karen Ziemba, David Garrison, and producer Bruce Kimmel. Limited to 500 copies only. Kritzerland.com.

Books/Plays RECENTLY MADE AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER:

January 25:

BAM... and Then It Hit Me
(powerHouse Books - Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition)
Memoir by Karen Brooks Hopkins, President Emerita of the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Numerous photographs. 320 pages.

March 29:

Screen plays: Theatre plays on British television
(Manchester Univ Press - Hardcover Book)
Amanda Wrigley and John Wyver, editors. Chronicles the history of stage plays produced for the small screen between 1930 and the present. Includes: historical outline of how plays originally written for the theatre have been presented by the BBC and ITV, as well as independent producers and cultural organisations; a variety of critical methodologies to analyse a wide range of outside broadcasts from theatres, screen adaptations of existing stage productions, along with original television productions of classic and contemporary drama. 352 pages.

February 22:

Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven
(TCG - Paperback Book/Kindle Edition)
Play by Stephen Adly Guirgis. 120 pages.

Trouble in Mind
(TCG - Paperback Book/Kindle Edition)
Play by Alice Childress. Scheduled to open on Broadway in 1957, Childress objected to the requested changes in the script that would “sanitize” the play for mainstream audiences, and the production was canceled as a result. Childress’s final script is published here. 120 pages.

Compiled by Talkin' Broadway Staff.