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Digital Music Now Available:

Petunia
(Garage Musicals - new EP)
Concept recording of musical created by John Levy. with Cathy Richardson, Donnie Kehr, Jackie Hoffman, Eddie Cooper. Musical arrangements and performances by Dave Heilman and Chris Holm. Seven tracks.

Books Now Available:

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.

The Play's the Thing: Fifty Years of Yale Repertory Theatre (1966-2016)
(Yale Univ Press - Hardcover Book)
By James Magruder. Foreword by Marguerite Elliott and Rocco Landesman. Each of four chapters is dedicated to one of the Yale Rep's artistic directors to date: Robert Brustein, Lloyd Richards, Stan Wojewodski Jr., and James Bundy. Numerous sidebars are dedicated to the spaces used by the theater, the playwrights produced most often, casting, the prop shop, the costume shop, artist housing, and other topics. Illustrated. Based in part on interviews with some of America’s most respected actors about their experiences at the Rep. 400 pages.

Running the Room: Conversations with Women Theatre Directors
(Nick Hern Books - Paperback Book/Kindle Edition)
By Rosemary Waugh. Explores, through a series of conversations with many of the leading talents working on British stages, what it takes to succeed in the field, and how each director approaches the work in their own way. Contributions from Natalie Abrahami, Annabel Arden, Milli Bhatia, Carrie Cracknell, Tinuke Craig, Marianne Elliott, Nadia Fall, Yaël Farber, Vicky Featherstone, Jamie Fletcher, Sarah Frankcom, Emma Frankland, Rebecca Frecknall, Debbie Hannan, Tamara Harvey, Natalie Ibu, Ola Ince, Lynette Linton, Nancy Medina, Katie Mitchell, Rachel O'Riordan, Emma Rice, Indhu Rubasingham, Jenny Sealey. 272 pages.

The Third Gilmore Girl
(Gallery Books - Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition)
Memoir by Kelly Bishop, spanning her six decades in show business from Broadway to Hollywood with A Chorus Line, Dirty Dancing, Gilmore Girls, and much more. Also includes a special collection of personal and professional photographs. 288 pages.

Music to Be Released This Friday, September 27:

OZ: A New Musical
(freeFall Theatre Records - new album)
Original cast (freeFall Theatre, St. Petersburg, Florida) recording of score by Michael Raabe (music), Michael Raabe (lyrics) and Eric Davis (lyrics). David Foley Jr., Melissa Minyard, Roxanne Fay, Elizabeth Meckler, and Drew H. Wells

Suffs
(Atlantic Records - new on 2 CDs)
OBC recording of score by Shaina Taub. Jenna Bainbridge, Kim Blanck, Ally Bonino, Tsilala Brock, Jenn Colella, Dana Costello, Hannah Cruz, Nadia Dandashi, Laila Erica Drew, Nikki M. James, Jaygee Macapugay, Anastacia McCleskey, Grace McLean, Monica Tulia Ramirez, Emily Skinner, Shaina Taub, and Ada Westfall. Digital version previously released.

Wild About You Deluxe Edition
(Broadway Records - new digital album)
World premiere recording of new musical score by Chilina Kennedy. Lea Salonga, Alex Newell, Joaquina Kalukango, Jenn Colella, Eric McCormack, Aisha Jackson, Noah Ricketts, Jay McKenzie, Katharine McPhee, Jessie Mueller, Jackie Burns, Rachel Ling Gordon. Arrangements, orchestrations and music production are by Daniel Edmonds. Produced by Brian Spector, Daniel Edmonds and Michael J. Moritz Jr. Includes two bonus tracks featuring Eric Mccormack, Ashley Loren And Troy Iwata.

Newly Listed Recordings:

October 18:

Jennifer Hudson: The Gift Of Love
(JHUD Productions/Interscope - new on CD/digital/vinyl
"Hallelujah," "Winter Wonderland," "Carol of the Bells," "Find the Love," "O Holy Night," "Make It Christmas," "Santa for Someone," "My Favorite Things," "Little Drummer Boy," "Go Tell It on the Mountain," "Almost Christmas," "Jingle Bells [Prelude]," "Jingle Bells," "The Christmas Song," "Auld Lang Syne."

November 19:

Funny Girl
(The Criterion Collection - Blu-ray/4k UHD)
1968 musical film based on the stage musical with score by Jule Styne and Bob Merrill. Barbra Streisand, Omar Shariff, Kay Medford, Anne Francis, Walter Pidgeon. Directed by William Wyler. Screenplay by Isobel Lennart. 4K digital restoration, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack; one 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features; new audio interview with Barbra Streisand; new conversation between director William Wyler’s son David and author Alicia Malone; Directed by William Wyler (1986), a documentary on Wyler’s life and career; archival interview with actor Omar Sharif; deleted scene featuring Streisand and Sharif; featurettes from the original theatrical release; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing. PLUS: An essay by author and film critic Michael Koresky.

No release date:

Empire: The Musical
(Yellow Sound Label - new album)
Original Off-Broadway cast recording of score by Caroline Sherman and Robert Hull. Produced by Michael Croiter. Recorded at PowerStation at BerkleeNYC. Release date TBA.

Newly Listed Books:

October 14:

The Musical: A Research and Information Guide (Routledge Music Bibliographies) 2nd Edition
(Routledge - Paperback Book)
2nd edition of 2011 book by William Everett. More than 1,400 annotated entries; includes reference works, monographs, articles, anthologies, and websites related to the musical. Separate sections devoted to sub-genres (such as operetta and megamusical), non-English language musical genres in the U.S., traditions outside the U.S., individual shows, creators, performers, and performance. This second edition reflects the notable increase in musical theater scholarship since 2000. Also includes multimedia and electronic resources. 332 pages.

November 19:

Women Writing Musicals: The Legacy That the History Books Left Out
(Applause - Hardcover/Kindle Edition/Audible Audiobook/Audiobook on CD)
By Jennifer Ashley Tepper. Tells the stories of over 300 inspiring women who wrote Broadway and Off-Broadway musicals that Publishers Weekly calls "an exhaustive tribute to women whose contributions to Broadway musical history have often been overlooked." Covers prolific and celebrated Broadway writers like Betty Comden and Jeanine Tesori, women who have written musicals but gained fame elsewhere like Dolly Parton and Sara Bareilles, and dramatists you’ve never heard of—but definitely should have. 408 pages.

Compiled by Talkin' Broadway Staff.