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CDs Now Available:
Ben Bagley's Everyone Else Revisited
(Kritzerland - new on CD)
Music by Baldwin Bergesen, Ralph Blane, Lew Brown, Hoagy Carmichael, Phil Charig, Moose Charlap, Duke Ellington, Jay Gorney, Burton Lane, Milton Pascal, Richard Rodgers, Harry Ruby, Dan Shapiro, Arthur Siegel, Sam H. Stept, Kay Swift, Charles Tobias, Fats Waller, G. Wood. Lyrics by William Archibald, Lew Brown, Phil Charig, Howard Dietz, Edward Eliscu, Lorenz Hart, Paul James, Bert Kalmer, John Latouche, Eddie Lawrence, George Marion, Jr., Hugh Martin, Phyllis McGinley, Johnny Mercer, Henry Myers, Milton Pascal, Dan Shapiro, Sam H. Stept, Charles Tobias, G. Wood. Cast includes Nell Carter, the brilliant Dorothy Loudon, June Carroll, Arthur Siegel, The Populaires, Diane Carnevale and others. Remastered. Limited to 500 copies only. Expected to ship by third week in July 2022. Kritzerland.com.
Ben Bagley's Oscar Hammerstein Revisited
(Kritzerland - new on CD)
The lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein with music by Lewis Alter, Rudolf Friml, Jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers, Sigmund Romberg, Herbert Stothart. Additional lyrics by E.Y. Harburg, Lorenz Hart. Cast includes Cab Calloway, Blossom Dearie, Alfred Drake, E.Y. Harburg, Dorothy Loudon, Patrice Munsel, Elaine Stritch, and Gloria Swanson. Musical Direction and Arrangements by Norman Paris. Cover art by Harvey Schmidt. Remastered. Limited to 500 copies only. Expected to ship by third week in July 2022. Kritzerland.com.
Elizabeth Ward Land - Still Within the Sound of My Voice: The Songs of Linda Ronstadt
(LML Music - new on CD/digital)
New album from Elizabeth Ward Land (The Bedwetter). "Heatwave," "Different Drum," "When Will I Be Loved / That'll Be the Day / It's So Easy / Just One Look / It's In His Kiss," "Heart Like A Wheel / Faithless Love," "You're No Good," "Frenesi," "Someone To Lay Down Beside Me," "Blue Bayou," "Falling In Love Again," "Pain of Loving You / Somewhere Out There / All My Life / Don't Know How Much," "Long Long Time," "Still Within The Sound of My Voice," "Desperado." Produced by Ken Land and Lee Lessack, with Karen Mulvey and Andrew Needleman serving as executive producers. Arrangements by Andrew David Sotomayor and vocal arrangements by Joel Waggoner. A special vinyl edition of the album will be released later this year. (Announced as available 7/15/22, though that does not agree with all outlets.)
Kaye Ballard in The Ladies Who Wrote the Lyrics
(Kritzerland - new on CD)
From Kaye Ballard's show. Musical arrangements and pianist: Arthur Siegel. Produced by Ben Bagley. Music by Elmer Bernstein, Cy Coleman, Morton Gould, Albert Hague, Morgan Lewis, Jimmy McHugh, Jerome Kern, Johnny Richards, Arthur Schwartz, Jule Styne. Lyrics by Dorothy Fields, Nancy Hamilton, Carolyn Leigh. Cover art by Harvey Schmidt. Remastered. Limited to 500 copies only. Expected to ship by third week in July 2022. Kritzerland.com.
Love Quirks
(Kritzerland Records - new on CD)
Original Off-Broadway cast recording of score by Seth Bisen-Hersh. "Overture," "It Never Works," "Let's Just Be Friends," "Haven't You Noticed?," "I'd Rather Take a Nap," "Darling, I Love You/Who Knows Why?," "Straight Boys," "I'm Not Interested in You," "Love Quirks," "Waking," "The Circle," "Um, Yeah," "This Is Awkward," "I Saw You Tonight/You Can't Always Choose," "Just Get Over It," "Hey!," "The Circle (reprise)," "In Love." Kritzerland.com.
MUSIC to be released this Friday, July 22:
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
(Broadway Records and Yellow Sound Label - new digital album)
2020 Off-Broadway (Transport Group) cast recording of score by Meredith Willson. Beth Malone, David Aron Damane, Whitney Bashor, Omar Lopez-Cepero, Alex Gibson, Paolo Montalban, Paula Leggett Chase, Lauryn Ciardullo, Karl Josef Co, Kaitlyn Davidson, Tyrone Davis, Jr., Gregg Goodbrod, Michael Halling, Nikka Graff Lanzarone, Keven Quillon, and CoCo Smith. "I Ain't Down Yet," "The Wonderful Plan," "Just Becuz," "I've A'ready Started In," "Dancing to the Saddle Rock," "Belly Up to the Bar, Boys," "I've A'ready Started In - Reprise," "I'll Never Say No/My Own Brass Bed," "He's My Friend," "Are You Sure?," "Act One Finale," "Beautiful People of Denver / The Sacred 36," "Share the Luck / He's My Friend - Reprise," "I'd Like to Change Everything About You," "Cuppa Tea," "If We Can-Can," "The Dolce Trio: Dolce Far Niente / The Same Little Chapel / I May Never Fall in Love With You," "Wait for Me," "Share the Luck - Reprise," "Exit Music," Bonus Track: "Colorado My Home." Orchestrations by Larry Hochman and additional orchestrations by Michael Starobin and Bruce Coughlin. Mixed and edited by Michael Croiter at Yellow Sound Lab, New York NY and mastered by Michael Fossenkemper, Turtle Tone Mastering, New York NY. Recorded 12/12/21 at Power Station at Berklee, New York NY.
Newly listed recordings:
August 12:
13: The Musical
(Ghostlight Records / Atlantic Records - new digital album)
Soundtrack for 2022 Netflix film based on the Broadway musical. Score by Jason Robert Brown. Khiyla Aynne, Alec Benjamin, Lindsey Blackwell, Kayleigh Cerezo, Nolan Dubuc, Eli Golden, Luke Islam, by Jonathan Lengel, JD McCrary, Frankie McNellis, Ramon Reed, Willow Moss, Shechinah Mpumlwana, Gabriella Uhl. "13," "Lamest Place in the World," "I've Been Waiting," "Opportunity," "The Bloodmaster," "Getting Ready," "Bad Bad News," "It Would Be Funny," "Tell Her," "A Little More Homework," "Brand New You," "Getting Ready (Extended)," "What It Means to Be a Friend," Bonus Track: "Tell Her."
Details added, still no release date:
Into the Woods
(Concord Theatricals/Craft Recordings - new digital album)
Recording of the 2022 Broadway / New York City Center Encores! cast. Sara Bareilles, Brian dArcy James, Patina Miller, Phillipa Soo, Joshua Henry, Aymee Garcia, TaNika Gibson, Annie Golden, Albert Guerzon, Brooke Ishibashi, Kennedy Kanagawa, David Patrick Kelly, Julia Lester, Nancy Opel, Cole Thompson, David Turner, Alysia Velez. Score by Stephen Sondheim. Music direction by Rob Berman with The Encores! Orchestra. CD format expected later. Release date TBA.
Newly listed books:
October 1:
Good Morning, Olive: Haunted Theatres of Broadway and Beyond
(Applause - Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition)
By Robert Viagas. Good Morning, Olive (named for one of the most beautiful and temperamental of Broadway's ghosts) is about the ghosts that haunt theatres in New York and around the world. 288 pages.
October 11:
A Front Row Seat: An Intimate Look at Broadway, Hollywood, and the Age of Glamour
(Univ Press of Kentucky - Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition)
By Nancy Olson Livingston. In this memoir, Nancy Olson Livingston treats readers to an intimate, charming chronicle of her life as an actress, wife, and mother, and her memories of many of the most notable figures and moments of her time, including reminiscences of her marriages to lyricist and librettist Alan Jay Lerner and to Alan Wendell Livingston. Interweaves Livingston's life with her observations of the artists, celebrities, and luminaries with whom she came in contact. 408 pages.
Moulin Rouge! The Musical: The Story of the Broadway Spectacular
(Universe - Hardcover Book)
By David Cote. Foreword by Baz Luhrmann. Alex Timbers and John Logan, contributors. "A glittering backstage pass to Moulin Rouge! The Musical and its journey to Broadway, with contributions from cast and crew, interviews with Baz Luhrmann and Catherine Martin, and a chronicle of its triumphant 2021 return." Photo essay and oral history through early sketches, historical research, technical diagrams, and rehearsal photos. 184 pages.
