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Schedule of New & Upcoming CD, DVD & Book Releases

Updated 5/23/23

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Dance on the American Musical Theatre Stage: A History
(Routledge - Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition)
By Ray Miller. Chronicles the development of dance, with an emphasis on musicals and the Broadway stage, in the United States from its colonial beginnings to performances of the present day. 304 pages.

I'll Drink to That!: Broadway's Legendary Stars, Classic Shows, and the Cocktails They Inspired
(Weldon Owen - Hardcover Book)
By Lawrence Maslon. Photographs by Joan Marcus. Mixes clever cocktails that pay homage to unforgettable Broadway shows–such as the Rainbow High from Evita and the Sidecar Named Desire–with authentic recipes for drinks that played supporting roles in beloved shows–like the legendary Vodka Stinger from Company–and shakes it up with a history of the cocktail on Broadway. 30 drink recipes. Featured throughout are images from intoxicating images of classic shows to portraits of effervescent stage celebrities to vintage liquor ads featuring Broadway stars. 176 pages.

May 26, 2023

The Little Mermaid
(Disney - new digital/LP)
Soundtrack from 2023 live-action film, starring Halle Bailey, Jonah Hauer-King, Daveed Diggs, Awkwafina, Jacob Tremblay, Noma Dumezweni, Art Malik, Javier Bardem, Melissa McCarthy. Score by Alan Menken (music), Howard Ashman (lyrics), Lin-Manuel Miranda (new lyrics).

Rodgers & Hammerstein South Pacific
(JAY Records - new digital album)
DigiMIX digital surround recording of score by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. Cast includes Justino Diaz, Paige O'Hara, Shezwae Powell and Sean McDermott. Original orchestrations by Robert Russell Bennett. National Symphony Orchestra conducted by John Owen Edwards. 37 tracks. JAYRecords.com.

May 31, 2023

Theatre Royal Drury Lane: A Star Reborn
(Scala Arts Publishers - Paperback Book)
By Pamela Hartshorne. Foreword by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Souvenir guide Brand to the world's oldest theater site in continuous use. Published to mark the reopening of the theater following the major renovation project which has restored the theater's Georgian glory. Tells the rich history of the theater and its many famous personalities and productions. 72 pages.

June 1, 2023

When the British Musical Ruled the World
(Applause - Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition)
By Robert Sellers, who gives his account of how Evita, Cats, Starlight Express, Les Misérables, The Phantom of the Opera, Chess, and Miss Saigon changed the business of musical theater in the 1980s. With insightful, personal stories from cast members, set designers, musical supervisors, dancers, lighting designers, production managers, singers, and choreographers ... and the backstage drama, production nightmares, and financial woes that threatened to derail the shows at multiple points. 268 pages.

June 2, 2023

Camelot
(Broadway Records - new digital album)
2023 Broadway revival cast recording of score by Alan Jay Lerner (lyrics) and Frederick Loewe (music). Cast includes Andrew Burnap, Phillipa Soo, Jordan Donica, Dakin Matthews, Taylor Trensch, Marilee Talkington, Camden McKinnon, Anthony Michael Lopez, Fergie Philippe, and Danny Wolohan. Music director Kimberly Grigsby conducts a 30-piece orchestra. Original orchestrations by Robert Russell Bennett and Philip J. Lang and original dance and choral arrangements by Trude Rittmann. Recording is produced by David Caddick and David Lai. CD format expected June 30. BroadwayRecords.com

Eleri Ward: Acoustic Sondheim: Live From Brooklyn
(Ghostlight Records - new digital album)
Third in trilogy of acoustic versions of songs by Stephen Sondheim. Guest Bobby Conte. "Johanna" (Reprise), "Send in the Clowns," "Giants in the Sky," "Being Alive / Sorry Grateful," "Good Thing Going," "Move On" (with Bobby Conte), "Into the Woods Medley," "Sunday."

June 6, 2023

Kimberly Akimbo
(Theatre Communications Group - Paperback Book)
Libretto for 2022 musical version of David Lindsay-Abaire's Kimberly Akimbo, with score by Jeanine Tesori. 120 pages.

Prima Facie: Special Edition
(Nick Hern Books - Paperback book/Kindle Edition)
Play by Suzie Miller. Special edition features the definitive version of the award-winning script, together with colour photos and exclusive additional content. 144 pages.

June 9, 2023

New York, New York OBC
(Wine & Peaches - new digital album)
Cast recording of 2023 Broadway musical. Score by John Kander, Fred Ebb, Lin-Manuel Miranda. To feature the show's complete score, comprising 90 minutes of music, including orchestral interludes. Cast includes Colton Ryan, Anna Uzele, Clyde Alves, John Clay III, Janet Dacal, Ben Davis, Oliver Prose as Alex Mann, Angel Sigala, Emily Skinner. "Morning in New York," "Cheering for Me Now," "Major Chord," "New York in Summer," "Better Than Before," "One of the Smart Ones," "Gold," "Wine and Peaches," "I Love Music," "My Own Music," "I'm What's Happening Now," "New York in the Rain," "A Simple Thing Like That," "Can You Hear Me?," "Happy Endings/Let's Hear It for Me," "New York in the Snow," "Marry Me," "Along Comes Love," "San Juan Supper Club," "A Quiet Thing," "New York at Night," "A Quell' Amor," "Sorry I Asked," "But the World Goes Round," "New York Concerto," "Music, Money, Love," "Light," "New York, New York," "Finale Ultimo." Album produced by Michael Croiter, Sam Davis, Lin-Manuel Miranda; co-produced by Sonia Friedman, Tom Kirdahy, Craig Balsam.

Shucked
(Sony Masterworks Broadway - new on CD)
Original Broadway cast recording of score by Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally. Cast includes John Behlmann, Kevin Cahoon, Andrew Durand, Grey Henson, Caroline Innerbichler, Ashley D. Kelley, and Alex Newell. Digital format released May 5.

June 13, 2023

Cambodian Rock Band
(Theatre Communications Group - Paperback Book)
Play by Lauren Yee. 96 pages.

Fat Ham
(Theatre Communications Group - Paperback Book/Kindle Edition)
Play by James Ijames. Winner of the 2022 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Premiere at Public Theater in May 2022. 112 pages.

June 18, 2023

Fanny Brice: Rare and Unreleased Recordings, Curated by Chip Deffaa
(Garret Mountain Records - new on CD/digital)
Rare performances from Deffaa's personal collection, some never before released. Audio restoration by Scott Gordon. Graphic design by Frank Dain. 18 tracks.

June 25, 2023

Lewberger the Wizard of Friendship
(Broadway Records - new digital album)
Original cast recording of score from new musical by Hughie Stone Fish, Keith Habersberger and Alex Lewis. With special guests special guests Wayne Brady, Alex Brightman and Dashaun Wesley.

June 30, 2023

Camelot
(Broadway Records - new on CD)
2023 Broadway revival cast recording of score by Alan Jay Lerner (lyrics) and Frederick Loewe (music). Cast includes Andrew Burnap, Phillipa Soo, Jordan Donica, Dakin Matthews, Taylor Trensch, Marilee Talkington, Camden McKinnon, Anthony Michael Lopez, Fergie Philippe, and Danny Wolohan. Music director Kimberly Grigsby conducts a 30-piece orchestra. Original orchestrations by Robert Russell Bennett and Philip J. Lang and original dance and choral arrangements by Trude Rittmann. Recording is produced by David Caddick and David Lai. Digital format released 6/2/23. BroadwayRecords.com

Say, Darling Deluxe Edition
(Stage Door Records - new 2-CD set)
Music by Jule Styne and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. Original Broadway cast album newly remastered from stereo reel to reel tape, plus a selection of cover recordings including tracks by Peggy Lee, Dinah Shore, Blossom Dearie, Perry Como and Tony Martin. Detailed sleeve notes by George Dansker. Limited edition release of 500 units only.

June 2023, no release date

Other Lives: The Story Songs of Michael Colby
(JAY Records - new digital album)
Original Off-Broadway cast recording. 2022 Urban Stages Theater (Winter Rhythms) cast. JAYRecords.com.

July 3, 2023

Creating Back to the Future: The Musical
(Abrams - Hardcover Book)
By Michael Klastorin. Foreword by Bob Gale. About the creation of the musical that opened at the Manchester Opera House in February 2020, music and lyrics by Alan Silvestri and Glen Ballard and a book by Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale (adapted from their original screenplay). Pairs exclusive, in-depth interviews with previously unpublished photography; excerpts from Bob Gale's personal journal; and a foreword by Gale to reveal and detail the years long process, and the creative ingenuity and technical innovation. 224 pages.

July 21, 2023

Some Like It Hot OBC
(Concord Theatricals Recordings - new on CD)
2022 original Broadway cast recording of score by Marc Shaiman (music/lyrics) and Scott Wittman (lyrics). Cast includes Christian Borle, J. Harrison Ghee, Adrianna Hicks, and Kevin Del Aguila. "What Are You Thirsty For?," "You Can't Have Me (If You Don't Have Him)," "Vamp!," "I'm California Bound," "A Darker Shade of Blue," "Take It Up a Step," "Zee Bap," "At the Old Majestic Nickel Matinee," "Poor Little Millionaire!," "Some Like It Hot," "Let's Be Bad," "Dance the World Away," "Fly, Mariposa, Fly," "You Coulda Knocked Me Over with a Feather," "He Lied When He Said Hello," "Ride Out the Storm," "Baby, Let's Get Good." Produced by Scott M. Riesett and Marc Shaiman. Digital version released earlier.

August 3, 2023

20 Seasons: Broadway Musicals of the 21st Century
(Routledge - Hardcover/Paperback/Kindle Edition)
By Amy S. Osatinsk. Catalogues, categorizes, and analyzes the 269 musicals that opened on Broadway from the 2000-2001 season through the 2019-2020 season. 228 pages.

August 8, 2023

Eleanor Powell: Born to Dance
(Univ of Kentucky Press - Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition)
By Paul Broussard and Lisa Royère. Follows the American dance legend from her premature birth into a single-parent home in Springfield, Massachusetts, to her first Broadway performance at age fifteen, through her days as a blazing icon in the world of Hollywood, and finally, to her inspiring comeback. From rare documents, letters, and production files; and drawing on the authors' intimate personal relationships with Powell. 352 pages.

August 15, 2023

August Wilson: A Life
(Simon & Schuster - new hardcover book/Kindle Edition)
Biography of August Wilson by Patti Hartigan, who interviewed Wilson many times before his death and traces his life from his childhood in Pittsburgh to Broadway. She also interviewed scores of friends, theater colleagues and family members, and conducted extensive research to tell the story of a writer who left an indelible imprint on American theater and opened the door for future playwrights of color. 592 pages.

August 18, 2023

Idina Menzel: Drama Queen
(BMG - new digital album)
Collaborations alongside global hitmakers Nile Rodgers, Jake Shears, Justin Tranter, Sir Nolan, Simon Wilcox, Laura Veltz, Jim Eliot, Maty Noyes, Mitch Allan, Lindy Robbins, Chantry Johnson, Michelle Zarlenga and more. Tracks include "Move" (released), "Beast," "Paradise" (with Nile Rodgers), "Make Me Hate Me," "Royalty," "My Love for Life," "Funny Kind of Lonely," "Dramatic," "Madison Hotel." Produced by Chantry Johnson and Mitch Allan.

September 5, 2023

Here's to the Ladies: Conversations with More of the Great Women of Musical Theater
(Oxford Univ Press - Hardcover Book)
Eddie Shapiro's follow-up to Nothing Like a Dame and A Wonderful Guy. From twenty exclusive, never-before-seen interviews, detailed stories and reflections from conversations with Barbara Cook, Kelli O'Hara, Heather Headley, Faith Prince, Stephanie J. Block, Tonya Pinkins, and a host of others about what it means to be a leading lady on Broadway over the past fifty years. 400 pages.

September 15, 2023

Oklahoma!
(Chandos - new album)
First complete recording of Rodgers & Hammerstein score. Featuring Leo Roberts and Sierra Boggess. Sinfonia of London with John Wilson conducting. Details TBA.

Right This Way: A History of the Audience
(Applause - Hardcover Book/Audiobook on CD)
By Robert Viagas. Pop history of audiences through the ages. Walks us through the different types of audiences and the history of their changing behaviors, what science has to say about how our brains respond to what we experience, how technology will continue to shape audiences, and why, during COVID-19, people risked a deadly virus to be part of a crowd. Drawing on perspectives from critics, performers, scholars, and many others. 256 pages.

November 3, 2023

Some Like It Hot OBC
(Concord Theatricals Recordings - new double vinyl LP)
2022 original Broadway cast recording of score by Marc Shaiman (music/lyrics) and Scott Wittman (lyrics). Cast includes Christian Borle, J. Harrison Ghee, Adrianna Hicks, and Kevin Del Aguila. "What Are You Thirsty For?," "You Can't Have Me (If You Don't Have Him)," "Vamp!," "I'm California Bound," "A Darker Shade of Blue," "Take It Up a Step," "Zee Bap," "At the Old Majestic Nickel Matinee," "Poor Little Millionaire!," "Some Like It Hot," "Let's Be Bad," "Dance the World Away," "Fly, Mariposa, Fly," "You Coulda Knocked Me Over with a Feather," "He Lied When He Said Hello," "Ride Out the Storm," "Baby, Let's Get Good." Produced by Scott M. Riesett and Marc Shaiman.

November 7, 2023

My Name Is Barbra
(Viking - new Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition/Audible Audiobook)
Barbra Streisand's memoir detailing her life from growing up in Brooklyn to the early days of her career, including her breakout performance in the musical and film versions of Funny Girl, and the years after.

January 2, 2024

Cambodian Rock Band
(Theatre Communications Group - Paperback Book)
Play by Lauren Yee. 96 pages.

Release date unknown

Bonnie and Clyde
(new album)
Cast album from 2022 West End production with score by Frank Wildhorn (music) and Don Black (lyrics). Cast includes Mayli McCann and Jordan Luke Gage. Date TBA.

Charlie Rosen's Broadway Big Band
(new double album)
First recording from this band, which "puts both modern and classic showtunes on display, sung by the best and brightest of Broadway's young generation of leading performers, in the timeless tradition of Big Band. A full sized Jazz orchestra composed of 17 musicians play Rosen's re-imagined arrangements of an eclectic mix of tunes from Broadway's past, present, and beyond."

Complete Lyrics of Sheldon Harnick
(new book)

Garland – That's Beyond Entertainment – Reflections on Judy Garland
(BearManor - new book)
By Lawrence Schulman. Regrouping of Schulman's extensive writings on Garland–articles, reviews, liner notes, interviews, program notes, talks, prefaces–written between 1993 and 2023. Foreword by John H. Haley. Afterword by James Fisher. 2023 release expected.

Harbinger Records upcoming releases: material from Eubie Blake; download only demos of Hugh Martin and Sheldon Harnick; Steve Ross' back catalog for download;

Harmony
(new album)
2022 Off-Broadway Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman cast recording of score by Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman. Cast includes Sean Bell, Danny Kornfeld, Zal Owen, Eric Peters, Blake Roman, Steven Telsey, Jessie Davidson, and Ana Hoffman.

Judy Garland: Splendor and Downfall of a Legend by Bertrand Tessier
(BearManor - new book)
French biography by Bertrand Tessier first published by Archipel (Paris) in 2019. Translated by Lawrence Schulman, who has also provided a foreword. 2023 release expected.

Larry Kramer authorized biography
(Henry Holt & Co. - new book)
By Bill Goldstein. To include interviews with Kramer and his husband David Webster, along with friends, colleagues, and "foes" plus material from Kramer's archives at Yale University.

Mary Bridget Davies: Freedom of My Mind
(new album)
Live album for Mary Bridget Davies ( A Night with Janis Joplin). With Clint DeGanon on drums, Mark Berman on piano, Alex Prezzano on guitar, and Dave Richards on bass. To be recorded at Power Station NYC. Details TBA.

Paradise Square OBC
(new on CD/digital)
Broadway cast recording of score Jason Howland (music), Nathan Tysen and Masi Asare (lyrics), with additional music by Larry Kirwan, inspired by the songs of Stephen Foster. Joaquina Kalukango, Chilina Kennedy, John Dossett, Sidney DuPont, A.J. Shively, Nathaniel Stampley, Gabrielle McClinton, Jacob Fishel, Kevin Dennis and Matt Bogart. Produced by Jason Howland and Billy Jay Stein. Recorded at Power Station at BerkleeNYC during the weeks of April 18 and April 25.

Romeo & Bernadette: A Musical Tale of Verona and Brooklyn
(Yellow Sound Label - new album)
Off-Broadway cast recording. Nikita Burshteyn (Newsies), Anna Kostakis, Carlos Lopez (Man of La Mancha), Michael Marotta (Tenderly: The Rosemary Clooney Musical), Judy McLane (Mamma Mia!), Michael Notardonato, Ari Raskin, Troy Valjean Rucker (August Rush), Zach Schanne (Pippin), and Viet Vo (Viet Gone). Lyrics by Mark Saltzman and music adapted from classic Italian melodies. Recorded 2/18/20. Late March release expected.

Suffs
(Atlantic Records - new album)
2022 Public Theater cast recording of score by Shaina Taub. Jenna Bainbridge, Ally Bonino, Tsilala Brock, Jenn Colella, Hannah Cruz, Nadia Dandashi, Aisha de Haas, Amina Faye, Holly Gould, Cassondra James, Nikki M. James, Jaygee Macapugay, Grace McLean, Susan Oliveras, Mia Pak, J. Riley Jr, Phillipa Soo, Shaina Taub, and Ada Westfall. Release date TBA.

Sweeney Todd 2023 revival cast
(Reprise Records - new album)
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. Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick. Music supervision by Alex Lacamoire. Release date TBA.

Tammy Faye
(new album)
Music by Elton John; lyrics by Jake Shears. Cast from Almeida Theatre debut production. Details TBA.