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Blu-ray/DVDs Now Available:

The Prince of Egypt: The Musical
(Dazzler Media/Universal Pictures - new Blu-ray/PAL DVD)
Stage musical based on the 1998 animated film. Original London cast. Score by Stephen Schwartz; book by Philip LaZebnik. Filmed live at the Dominion Theatre in London. Choreography by Sean Cheesman. Set designs by Kevin Depinet. Costume designs by Ann Hould-Ward. Lighting design by Mike Billings. Sound design by Gareth Owen. Shown in cinemas in 2023 and is now streaming. 2 hours and 24 minutes. Currently streaming on BroadwayHD.

Music to Be Released This Friday, March 1:

Merrily We Roll Along
(Masterworks Broadway - new 2-disc vinyl)
2023 Broadway revival cast recording of Score by Stephen Sondheim (book by George Furth). Jonathan Groff, Lindsay Mendez, and Daniel Radcliffe with Krystal Joy Brown, Katie Rose Clarke, and Reg Rogers. "Overture," "Merrily We Roll Along," "That Frank," "First Transition," "Old Friends -- Like It Was," "Franklin Shepard, Inc.," "Second Transition," "Old Friends," "Growing Up," "Third Transition," "Not a Day Goes By," "Not a Day Goes By," "Now You Know," "Gussie's Opening Number," "It's a Hit!," "Fourth Transition," "The Blob - Part I," "Growing Up," "Good Thing Going," "The Blob - Part II," "Fifth Transition," "Bobby and Jackie and Jack," "Not a Day Goes By," "Sixth Transition," "Opening Doors," "Seventh Transition," "Our Time." Barnes and Noble exclusive.

Nic & Desi: La Vie en Rose
(new on CD/digital)
Singer/actors Nicolas Dromard and Desirée Davar. "Cheek to Cheek", "I Get a Kick Out of You", "La Vie en Rose", "You Make Me Feel So Young", "Being Alive", "Money, Money", "Somewhere Over the Rainbow", "Top Hat/Puttin' on the Ritz", "Pure Imagination", "Can't Take My Eyes Off of You", "You Make Me Feel So Young" (featuring Zélia Dromard).

Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme: The Original Hits
(Real Gone Music - new on CD)
Compilation album with selections by Steve Lawrence, Eydie Gorme, and Steve & Eydie together. "Too Close for Comfort," "Party Doll," "Love Me Forever," "Pretty Blue Eyes," "You Need Hands," "Footsteps," "Blame It on the Bossa Nova," "Portrait of My Love," "I Want to Stay Here," "Go Away Little Girl," "Don't Try to Fight It Baby," "Don't Be Afraid Little Darlin'," "I Can't Stop Talking About You," "I Want You to Meet My Baby," "Poor Little Rich Girl," "Sabor a Mi," "Walking Proud," "Tonight I'll Say a Prayer," "The Drifter," "We Can Make It Together" (featuring The Osmonds).

Sweeney Todd 2023 revival cast
(Reprise Records - new on 3-LP disc box set)
Score by Stephen Sondheim. Josh Groban, Annaleigh Ashford, Jordan Fisher, Gaten Matarazzo, Ruthie Ann Miles, Maria Bilbao, Jamie Jackson, John Rapson, Nicholas Christopher And Jeanna De Waal."Prelude," "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd," "No Place Like London," "The Barber and His Wife," "The Worst Pies in London," "Poor Thing," "My Friends," "Green Finch and Linnet Bird," "Ah, Miss," "Johanna," "Pirelli's Miracle Elixir," "The Contest," "Wait," "Kiss Me (Pt. 1)," "Ladies in Their Sensitivities," "Kiss Me (Pt. 2)," "Pretty Women (Pt. 1)," "Pretty Women (Pt. 2)," "Epiphany," "A Little Priest," "God, That's Good!," "Johanna (Act 2 Sequence)," "By the Sea," "The Letter," "Not While I'm Around," "Parlor Song," "City on Fire!," "Searching," "The Judge's Return," "Final Scene," "The Barber and His Wife (Reprise)," "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd (Finale)" Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick. Music supervision by Alex Lacamoire. 40-page booklet with full libretto, production photos, and an essay by Peter Marks. Digital and CD released earlier.

Newly Listed Recordings:

March 15:

Jane Scheckter: I'll Take Romance
(Doxie Records - new album)
Songs include "Isn't It a Pity," "If Love Were All," "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life," "A Beautiful Friendship," "Love I Hear," "A Song for Bill Evans," "Looking Back."

Newly Listed Books:

March 12:

The Long Revolution: Sixty Years on the Frontlines of a New American Theater
(Theatre Communications Group - Paperback Book/Kindle Edition)
By Zelda Fichandler. Todd London, editor. Content from sixty years of essays, speeches, and manifestos by the founding mother of the resident professional theatre movement. Founder and artistic director of Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., and chair of New York University’s Graduate Acting program. Gathers Fichandler’s most prescient writing about that movement, ranging over such topics as The Institution as Art-Work, the Profit in NonProfit, Race and a Deepening Aesthetic, and Creativity and the Public Mind. Also includes intimate portraits of artists with whom she frequently collaborated and director’s notes from the major productions that defined her vision. 320 pages.

May 21:

Too Funny for Words: Backstage Tales from Broadway, Television, and the Movies
(Viva Editions - Paperback Book/Kindle Edition)
By Jerry Adler. The author recounts his career as a theater director, producer and actor that has spanned over 70 years. 240 pages.

May 24:

Yankee Doodle Dandy: George M. Cohan and the Broadway Stage
(Oxford Univ Press - Hardcover Book)
By Elizabeth T. Craft. Part of the Broadway Legacies series. In the first book on Cohan in fifty years, Craft situates Cohan as a central figure of his day. Examining his multifaceted contributions and the various sociocultural identities he came to embody, Craft shows how Cohan and his works indelibly shaped the American cultural landscape. 288 pages.

Compiled by Talkin' Broadway Staff.