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Digital Music Now Available:

Goosebumps: The Musical: Phantom of the Auditorium Deluxe Edition
(Ghostlight Records - new digital album)
Original studio cast recording plus 15 karaoke tracks. Score by Danny Abosch (music/lyrics) and John Manclay (book/lyrics). Based on the book by R.L. Stine. Krystina Alabado, Alex Brightman, Noah Galvin, Alex Gibson, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Will Roland, Stephanie Styles. Released 8/26/22.

Books Now Available:

Girl from the North Country (2022 edition)
(Nick Hern Books - Kindle Edition)
By Conor McPherson and Bob Dylan. Musical that started at The Old Vic, London, in July 2017, in a production directed by Conor McPherson, and later transferred to the West End, Broadway, Australia, Ireland and toured the UK. 112 pages. Released 8/25/22.

Straight Line Crazy
(Faber & Faber - Paperback Book)
Play by David Hare. Premiered at the Bridge Theatre, London, in March 2022. Playing at The Shed in New York City beginning 10/18/22. 144 pages. Kindle Edition released 3/31/22.

Newly Listed Recordings:

September 16:

Eleri Ward: Keep a Tender Distance
(Ghostlight Records - new digital album)
Folk guitar exploration of Stephen Sondheim's musical theater canon, and follow-up to Ward's A Perfect Little Death album. "Merrily We Roll Along," "Stay with Me," "Unworthy of Your Love," "Johanna," "Agony," "I Remember," "Another Hundred People," "The Miller's Son," "I Know Things Now," "Not a Day Goes By" (released 8/26/22), "Not While I'm Around," "No One Is Alone," "Marry Me a Little," "Move On." Produced by Allen Tate and Eleri Ward, and arranged by Eleri Ward, with string arrangements by Ellis Ludwig-Leone. CD format expected later this year. GhostlightRecords.com.

Newly Listed Books:

November 17:

One Public: New York's Public Theater in the Era of Oskar Eustis
(Methuen Drama - Hardcover Book)
By Kevin Landis. Presents the broader organization, its creative methodology, and its enormous growth over the past 20 years. Tells the contemporary story, recorded over many interviews with iconic practitioners and performers ranging from Diane Paulus, Tony Kushner and Lynn Nottage to Kevin Kline, Chelsea Clinton and Lin-Manuel Miranda. Case-study driven, One Public uses oral history accounts and authorial experience to illuminate The Public Theater, Eustis and their cultural influence on the city of New York and the greater United States. 336 pages.

November 22:

Finale: Late Conversations with Stephen Sondheim
(Harper - Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition/Audible Audiobook/Audiobook on CD)
By D.T. Max (The New Yorker). Personal collection of interviews with the late Stephen Sondheim, conducted in the last years of the artist's life (unedited from the February 22 New Yorker article). Audio versions narrated by Christopher Grove and Keith Sellon-Wright. 240 pages.

Other New Announcements:

The Big Time
(new album)
McCarter concert reading cast recording of score by Douglas J. Cohen. Per Debbie Gravitte Instagram post. Release date unknown.

Compiled by Talkin' Broadway Staff.