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Digital Music Now Available:

Jeremy Pope: Last Name Pope
(new EP)
Tony-nominated Jeremy Pope (Choir Boy, Ain't Too Proud) with six original songs. "U, Lost," "What I Gotta Do," "Want, U," "City2City," "Fine," "U, Lost (Prom Edition)." Written and produced by Jeremy Pope. Released 6/21/24.

Books Now Available:

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.

Music to Be Released This Friday, June 28:

The Great Gatsby
(Sony Masterworks Broadway - new digital album)
OBC recording of score by Jason Howland and Nathan Tysen (book by Kait Kerrigan). Cast includes Jeremy Jordan, Eva Noblezada, Noah J. Ricketts, Samantha Pauly, Sara Chase, John Zdrojeski, Paul Whitty, and Eric Anderson. "Roaring On," "Absolute Rose," "New Money," "For Her," "Valley of Ashes," "Second-Hand Suit," "For Better or Worse," "The Met," "Only Tea," "My Green Light," "Shady," "Better Hold Tight," "Past is Catching Up to Me," "La Dee Dah With You," "Go," "Made to Last," "For Better or Worse (Reprise)," "One-Way Road," "God Sees Everything," "For Her (Reprise)," "New Money (Reprise)," "Beautiful Little Fool," "Made to Last," "For Better or Worse (Reprise)," "One-Way Road," "God Sees Everything," "For Her (Reprise)," "New Money (Reprise)," "Beautiful Little Fool," "Finale: Roaring On." CD to be released 8/2/24.

Schwartz Songs
(Westway Music - new digital album)
New recordings of songs by Stephen Schwartz. With Samantha Barks, Jamie Muscato, Lucie Jones, Louise Dearman, Kerry Ellis, Rachel Tucker, Billy Luke Nevers, John Owen-Jones, Oliver Thompsett, Rob Houchen, Hiba Elchikhe, Alice Fearn, Rachel John, Peter Jöback And Emma Kingston. "Defying Gravity," "Corner of the Sky," "Ain't It Good," "On Wings of a Swan," "Colours of the Wind," "Let There Be," "The Wizard and I," "On the Willows," "Meadowlark," "Deliver Us," "Beautiful City," "Forgiveness Embrace," "Lost in the Wilderness," "Oh, Bless the Lord My Soul," "Children of the Wind," "When You Believe." Conceived and produced by Rhydian Roberts and Stephen Schwartz. CD to be released 7/5/24.

Newly Listed Recordings:

July 26:

Jeff Harnar Sings Sammy Cahn: The Second Time Around
(PS Classics - new on CD/digital)
Jeff Harner updates his out-of-print 2001 release with six new tracks and guest vocalists Clint Holmes, MOIPEI and Nicole Zuraitis. "All the Way," "I'll Only Miss Him When I Think of Him," "Come Fly with Me" (with Nicole Zuraitis), "Love Is a Bore," "Teach Me Tonight," "The Second Time Around," "Bei Mir Bist du Schön," (with MOIPEI), "I Fall in Love Too Easily," "Come Dance with Me/I Like to Lead When I Dance" (Clint Holmes), "Saturday Night (Is the Loneliest Night in the Week) / I'll Walk Alone / It's Been a Long, Long Time," "Call Me Irresponsible," "My Kind of Town," "Blame My Absent-Minded Heart," "Be My Love," "I Should Care," "Time After Time." PSClassics.com.

Nick Cartell: A Thousand Spotlights
(Club44 Records - new on CD/digital)
Broadway actor-singer Nick Cartell (Jesus Christ Superstar, Scandalous: The Musical, Paramour, The Phantom of the Opera and Les Miserables national tours). "Blue Skies," "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes," "It All Fades Away," "On the Street Where You Live," "Why Should I Worry?," "Never Enough," "You'll Be In My Heart," "Music of the Night," "Bring Him Home." Produced and orchestrated by Brian Eads and Wayne Haun.

August 2:

Natalie Jacob: Sooner or Later
(new digital album)
Jazz vocalist Natalie Jacob sings songs from The Great American Songbook and three bossa nova standards by Jobim. Scotty Barnhart on Trumpet, pianist Tamir Hendelman, guitarist Anthony Wilson, bassist Carlitos Del Puerto, drummer Clayton Cameron, and percussionist Kevin Winard. "Exactly Like You," "Wave," "I Could Write a Book," "Smile," "East of the Sun," "What a Little Moonlight Can Do," "Corcovado," "I've Got You Under My Skin," "Sooner or Later," "Chega de Saudade (No More Blues)." Arrangements by Barnhart and Hendelman. Produced by Scotty Barnhart.

Newly Listed Books:

September 3:

I Danced on Broadway: Memoir of a Career on Stage
(McFarland - Paperback Book)
By Lee Wilson, who shares stories from her four decades of dancing on Broadway, with anecdotes about theatre legends including Agnes de Mille, Richard Rodgers, Michael Bennett, Donna McKechnie, and Bernadette Peters. She details the economic, political, and social events that led from the Golden Age to the slump of the early 1970s to the rejuvenation of Broadway with the huge success of A Chorus Line. 120 pages.

September 6:

Love Me Tonight (Oxford Guides to Film Musicals)
(Oxford Univ Press - Hardcover Book/Paperback)
By Geoffrey Block. About the musical film Love Me Tonight (1932), with individual chapters devoted to the work's genesis and development of the screenplay, the songs and instrumental music, the role censorship has played in the history of the film, and the film's reception from its time to the modern day. Informed by extensive archival holdings in several major library collections, as well as from the indispensable resources housed at the Paramount Studio archives. 208 pages.

September 17:

The Book of Joel
(powerHouse Books - Hardcover Book)
By Joel Grey. The visual life story of Joel Grey: actor, singer, dancer, director, and photographer. This sprawling yet intimate scrapbook-style volume uncovers a kaleidoscope of both famous and previously unseen photographs, family snapshots, playbills, posters, and ephemera from Grey’s personal archive, revealing an encyclopedic and all-absorbing visual romp through one of the last living greats of American entertainment. Excavated from Grey's personal archives and the treasure trove of his New York Public Library collection. Also included: intimate essays contributed by Eddie Redmayne Tony Kushner. 176 pages.

Compiled by Talkin' Broadway Staff.