2021: October 26, 19, 12 | 5 | September 28, 21, 14, 7 | August 31, 17-24, 10, 3 | July 27, 20, 13, 6 | June 29, 22, 15, 8, 1 | May 25, 18, 4-11 | April 27, 20, 13, 6 | March 30, 23, 16, 9, 2 | February 23, 16, 9, 2 | January 26, 19, 12, 5
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CDs Now Available:
Ben Bagley's Vernon Duke Revisited
(Kritzerland - on CD)
Music by Vernon Duke. Lyrics by Howard Dietz, Ted Fetter, Ira Gershwin, John Latouche, and Ogden Nash. Tammy Grimes, Anthony Perkins, Blossom Dearie, Gloria De Haven, Jack Haskell, and, in true Ben fashion, Rex Reed and Joan Rivers. The wonderful arrangements and orchestrations are by Norman Paris. Cover art by Harvey Schmidt. 500 copies only. To be released by the first week in November 2021. Kritzerland.com.
Ben Bagley's Vincent Youmans Revisited
(Kritzerland - on CD)
Music by Vincent Youmans. Lyrics by Harold Adamson, Ann Caldwell, Sidney Clare, B.G. DeSylva, Ira Gershwin, Mack Gordon, Clifford Grey, Oscar Hammerstein, Otto Harbach, Edward Heyman, Bryan Hooker, Gus Kahn, Bud McCreery, Billy Rose. Dorothy Loudon, Cab Calloway, Mary McCarty, Gloria DeHaven, Blossom Dearie, Charles Rydell, and the most surprising choice, the brilliant actress, Maureen Stapleton. The fifteen songs from the original LP release, plus seven additional songs with performances by Ann Hampton Callaway and Mary Cleere Haran. 500 copies only. To be released by the first week in November 2021. Kritzerland.com.
BOOKs Now Available:
Noël Coward on (and in) Theatre
(Knopf - Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition/Audible Audiobook)
By Noel Coward. Edited with commentary by Barry Day. "The book Noël Coward wanted, promised, threatened to write--and never did." Shows how Coward's opinions were as sharp and entertaining as his plays and his lyrics. Including essays, interviews, diary entries, verse showing his views on his fellow playwrights, critics, producers, acting methods, and actors. Compiled, edited, and annotated by Barry Day, Coward authority and editor of The Noel Coward Reader and The Letters of Noel Coward. Barry Day narrates the audiobook issue. 480 pages.
She Persisted: One Hundred Monologues from Plays by Women over Forty
(Applause - Paperback Book/Kindle Edition)
Lawrence Harbison, editor. Preface by Jacquelyn Reingold. Introduction by Theresa Rebeck. Collection of monologues from plays by members of Honor Roll!, an advocacy group of women over forty. 240 pages.
When the Lights Are Bright Again: Letters and images of loss, hope, and resilience from the theater community
(Applause - Hardcover Book)
By Andrew Norlen. Photographs by Matthew Murphy. Immortalizes the stories, struggles, and successes of an industry that was the first to be shut down and one of the last to return. Weaves more than 200 letters from Broadway theater veterans, devout theatergoers, teenage dreamers aching for their day in the spotlight, long-time ushers, designers, creatives, and countless other arts workers with a brand-new, breathtaking photo series by Broadway photographer Matthew Murphy. For every copy purchased, a portion of the profits will directly benefit The Actors Fund. 240 pages.
Emily Mann: Rebel Artist of the American Theater
(Applause - Hardcover Book)
By Alexis Greene. The story of American playwright, director, and artistic director Emily Mann ... her family life; her coming-of-age in Chicago during the exuberant, rebellious, and often violent 1960s; how sexual violence touched her personally; and how she fell in love with theater and began learning her craft at the Loeb Drama Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, while a student at Radcliffe ... her evolution as a professional director and playwright at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, on and off Broadway, at regional theaters including the McCarter. 352 pages.
Recordings NEWLY LISTED:
December 1:
Sondheim Unplugged - The NYC Sessions Volume 1
(Yellow Sound Label - new 2-CD set/digital)
First in three-volume set. "Something's Coming" (Marquee Five), "Broadway Baby" (Michelle Dowdy), "What Can You Lose?" (Nicholas Rodriguez), "The Right Girl" (Aaron Ramey), "The Boy From" (Lucia Spina), "Sooner or Later" (Brian Charles Rooney), "Someone Is Waiting / Pretty Women" (Alton Fitzgerald White), "Everybody Ought to Have a Maid" (Jim Brochu), "I Remember" (Lina Koutrakos), "The Glamorous Life" (Blaine Krauss), "Ariadne" (Eric Michael Gillett), "Gee, Officer Krupke" (Jacob Hoffman), "Multitudes of Amys" (John Treacy Egan), "In Buddy's Eyes" (Teri Ralston), "Old Friends / Like it Was" (Donna Vivino), "Good Thing Going / Growing Up" (Michael Winther), "By the Sea" (Liz McCartney), "Send in the Clowns" (Sally Mayes), "Children and Art" (Danielle Ferland), "Being Alive" (Christina Bianco, Carole JBufford and Scott Coulter), "The Ballad of Sweeney Todd" (Marquee Five), "Agony I" (Tally Sessions and Jeff Kready), "What More Do I Need?" (Lucia Spina), "No One Is Alone" (Blaine Krauss), "Changing / Beautiful" (Melanie Vaughan and Courter Simmons), "Let Me Entertain You / Broadway" (Kate Loprest), "Unworthy of Your Love" (Annie Golden and Michael Winther), "Live Alone and Like It" (Karen Mason), "There Won't Be Trumpets" (Gabrielle Stravelli), "Your Eyes Are Blue" (Stearns Matthews), "The Story of Lucy and Jessie" (Victoria Cook), "Talent" (Hunter Ryan Herdlicka), "Not While I'm Around" (Julie Reyburn), "Not While I'm Around" (Julie Reyburn), "The Road You Didn't Take" (Eric Michael Gillett), "On the Steps of the Palace" (Erica Spyres), "Maria" (Brian Charles Rooney), "The Ladies Who Lunch" (Alice Ripley), "Someone in a Tree" (Jacob Hoffman), "Rain on the Roof" (Stearns Matthews and Natalie Arneson), "I'm Still Here" (Marta Sanders), "Color and Light" (Claybourne Elder and Christina Bianco), "Sunday" (Charlie Levy). Produced by Phil Geoffrey Bond. Music director Joseph Goodrich on piano. YellowSoundLabel.com.
Compiled by Talkin' Broadway Staff.
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