Talkin' Broadway Sound Advice Recap Weeks of 3/26/24
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Digital Music Now Available:
"Kaleidoscope" from Hell's Kitchen
(new digital single)
Song by Alicia Keys. Performed by Maleah Joi Moon. Released 3/22/24.
"Keep Marching" from Suffs
(new digital single)
Song from score by Shaina Taub. Shaina Taub and original Broadway cast.
Music to Be Released later this week:
March 29:
White Girl in Danger
(Yellow Sound Label - new digital album)
Original cast album of score by Michael R. Jackson. Based on last year's co-production from Vineyard Theatre and Second Stage Theater. Rocky Anicette, Liz Lark Brown, LaDonna Burns, Alexis Cofield, Kayla Davion, Shane Donovan, Latoya Edwards, Jennifer Fouché, Morgan Siobhan Green, Molly Hager, Ciara Alyse Harris, Vincent Jamal Hooper, James Jackson Jr., Tarra Conner Jones, Alyse Alan Louis, Lauren Marcus, Jon-Michael Reese, Eric William Morris, and Natalie Walker. Produced by Michael Croiter, Lynne Shankel, and Michael R. Jackson. Co-produced by Meg Zervoulis. Executive producers Salman al-Rashid and Accidental Jacket Entertainment. Orchestrations by Lynne Shankel
March 31:
Dreams of Dracula: The Immersive Show
(new digital album)
Off-Broadway cast recording, music by Dian Shuai.
Newly Listed Recordings:
April 5:
The Shining
(Pentatone - new 2-CD set)
Lyric Opera of Kansas City recording of Paul Moravec and Mark Campbell's opera based on the novel by Stephen King. Conductor Gerard Schwarz. Cast includes Edward Parks.
April 26:
Flying High: Big Band Canaries Who Soared
(new on CD/vinyl)
From the live show. Songs made famous by jazz canaries once they spread their wings - that's Billie Holiday, Anita ODay, Lena Horne, Peggy Lee, Jo Stafford, Rosemary Clooney, Ella Fitzgerald, and others. Champian Fulton, Jane Monheit, Carmen Bradford, Olivia Chindamo, Vanessa Perea, and Gretje Angell. Liner notes by Ricky Ricardi.
June 18:
The Notebook on CD
(Atlantic Records - new on CD)
OBC recording of score by Ingrid Michaelson. Cast includes Maryann Plunkett, Dorian Harewood, Joy Woods, Ryan Vasquez, Jordan Tyson, John Cardoza, Andréa Burns, and Carson Stewart. "Time," "Dance With Me," "Carry You Home," "Blue Shutters," "I Paint," "Sadness and Joy," "Leave The Light On," "What Happens," "I Wanna Go Back," "If This Is Love," "Kiss Me," "Home," "We Have To Try," "Forever," "Iron In The Fridge," "Don't You Worry," "It's Not Easy," "My Days," "I Love You More," "I Know," "Coda." Digital release date 4/19/24.
October (no release date):
Sunset Blvd: The Album
(new album)
West End cast recording of score for Sunset Boulevard by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Recorded live at the Savoy Theatre, in the West End. Cast includes Nicole Scherzinger, Tom Francis, Grace Hodgett Young, and David Thaxton as Max Von Mayerling. October 2024 release date expected, to coincide with Broadway run, which begins 9/28/24.
Newly Listed Books:
April 18:
Ageless Dancers
(Overhead Press - Hardcover Book)
Photographs by Betti Franceschi, from her collection of photographs of dancers age 70 and up. Forty iconic dancers from the disciplines of ballet, modern, contemporary, tap, and musical theater. 130 pages. https://brilliant-editions.com/collections/new-arrivals/products/copy-of-refractions-2-ralph-gibson.
June 18:
Appropriate/An Octoroon: Plays
(Theatre Communications Group - Paperback Book)
Two plays by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. Revised edition. 260 pages.
Stereophonic
(Theatre Communications Group - Paperback Book)
Play by David Adjmi (songs by Will Butler). On Broadway this season. 160 pages.
