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Digital Music Now Available:

D.C. Anderson - Believe, Breathe and Sing
(LML Music - new digital album)
Singer D.C. Anderson with Rose Snyder (piano), Ritt Henn (bass, ukulele and shaker), Gantt Kushner (guitar), Audrey Q Snyder (cello) and David Robison (piano). "Believe, Breathe and Sing," "Sparrow," "Whiskey Blues," "A Kiss," "Twenty Twenty Five," "Fish Fry and Guava Pie," "Ethan and Emily," "Love Song to a Friend," "The Worst Thing We Ever Did," "Oh, My Diana," "Other Mother," "Don't Put My Baby Down," "Old No22," "Pelican," "Sara," "Arms," "Funeral Blues," "When the Angels Come to Call," "For My Luck I Suppose."

The Sabbath Girl: A New Musical
(Center Stage Records - new digital album)
Original Off-Broadway cast recording of score Neil Berg (music/lyrics) and Cary Gitter (lyrics). Marilyn Caserta, Diana DiMarzio, Rory Max Kaplan, Lauren Singerman, and Max Wolkowitz. Released 11/15/24. CD to be released spring 2025.

Blu-ray/DVDs Now Available:

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.

Books Now Available:

Bathhouse.pptx (Yale Drama Series)
(Yale Univ Press - Paperback Book/Kindle Edition)
Play by Jesús I. Valles. Foreword by Jeremy O. Harris. Winner of the Yale Drama Prize. 160 pages.

How Sondheim Can Change Your Life
(Atria Books - Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition/Audible Audiobook/Audio CD)
Author Richard Schloch makes the case that Sondheim's greatness–beyond the clever lyrics and adventurous music–rests in his ability to tell stories that relate to us all. From Louise's desire for freedom to Sweeney Todd's thirst for revenge, we as an audience relate easily to Sondheim's characters. Follows the arc of Sondheim's career and includes stories about productions and iconic performers, deep readings of his music and lyrics, and insights into his creative process. 304 pages.

Recording Broadway: A Life in Cast Albums
(Applause - Hardcover Book)
By Thomas Z. Shepard and Gayden Wren. Foreword by John Kander. Producer Thomas Z. Shepard's writes about his childhood as a piano prodigy, and of the making of fifty plus years' worth of show albums, featuring stories of his work with Broadway people including Julie Andrews, Leonard Bernstein, Sheldon Harnick, Barbara Cook, Placido Domingo, Gregory Hines, John Kander, Fred Ebb, Danny Kaye, Angela Lansbury, Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Chita Rivera, Stephen Sondheim, Barbra Streisand, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and many more. 408 pages.

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.

Music to Be Released This Friday, November 22::

Starlight Express
(The Other Songs Records - new on CD/vinyl)
New Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre cast recording of score by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Richard Stilgoe. "Overture/Entry of Trains," "Rolling Stock," "Crazy," "I Am Me," "Whistle at Me," "Freight is Great," "Hydrogen," "AC/DC," "Pumping Iron," "Make Up My Heart," "Momma's Blues," "Starlight Express," "U.N.C.O.U.P.L.E.D," "Wide Smile," "The Race," "I Am the Starlight," "The Final Race," "One Rock 'N' Roll Too Many," "I Do," "Light at the End of the Tunnel," "Megamix." Digital version released earlier.

SUNSET BLVD: The Album
(The Other Songs Records - new on CD/vinyl)
London cast recording of Sunset Boulevard score by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Don Black and Christopher Hampton. Cast includes Nicole Scherzinger, Tom Francis, Grace Hodgett-Young, David Thaxton. "Overture," "Let Me Take You Back," "Let's Do Lunch," "Betty's Pitch," "The Car Chase," "Surrender," "With One Look," Scene: Did you say you were a writer?, "Salome," "The Greatest Star Of All," "Schwab's Drugstore," "Girl Meets Boy," Scene: Where have you been?, "I Started Work," "What's On This Evening?," "New Ways To Dream," Scene: Today's the day, "New Year's Tango," "The Perfect Year," "This Time Next Year," Scene: Happy New Year, darling, "Entr'acte," "Sunset Boulevard," "There's Been A Call / It Took Her Three Days," "Arrival at Paramount," "Norma In The Studio," "As If We Never Said Goodbye," "Paramount Conversations / Surrender (Reprise)," "Girl Meets Boy (Reprise)," Scene: Who's Betty Schaefer? / I Should Have Stayed There, Scene: The Back Lot, "Too Much In Love To Care," Scene: I made her a star, "New Ways To Dream (Reprise)," "The Phone Call," "What's Going On, Joe?," "No One Ever Leaves A Star," "Max, Where Am I?," "End Credits." Digital album released earlier.

Wicked: The Soundtrack
(Republic Records - new on CD/digital)
Soundtrack for 2024 film based on the musical. Score by Stephen Schwartz. "No One Mourns the Wicked," "Dear Old Shiz," "The Wizard And I," "What Is This Feeling?," "Something Bad," "Dancing Through Life," "Popular," "I’m Not That Girl," "One Short Day," "A Sentimental Man," "Defying Gravity," "Ozdust Duet" (bonus track). Jonathan Bailey, Marissa Bode, Courtney-Mae Briggs, Sharon D. Clarke, Peter Dinklage, Cynthia Erivo, Jeff Goldblum, Ariana Grande, Ethan Slater, Michelle Yeoh.

Newly Listed Recordings:

December 5, 2024:

Chris, Mrs. - A New Holiday Musical
(new album)
Score by Matthew Stodolak and Katie Kerr marries traditional holiday themes with a contemporary musical theater sound. Studio cast includes Adam Jacobs, Danielle Wade, Samantha Pauly, and Danny Burstein. Produced by Boldly Productions, with new orchestrations by Stodolak. The show premiered at Toronto's Winter Garden Theatre in 2023. First single, Ready to Try," now available.

December 6, 2024:

Hadestown - Live From London
(Sing It Again Records - new on CD/digital/vinyl)
Original West End cast recording of score by Anais Mitchell, recorded live at the Lyric Theatre in London. Cast includes Dónal Finn, Grace Hodgett Young, Zachary James, Melanie La Barrie, Gloria Onitiri, Bella Brown, Madeline Charlemagne, and Allie Daniel. CD and digital editions include more than 20 minutes of additional music featuring five songs exclusive to those formats. Produced by Todd Sickafoose, David Lai and Anais Mitchell, and co-produced by Mara Isaacs and Liam Robinson. Digital track list: "Road to Hell," "Melanie La Barrie & Original West End Company of Hadestown," "Come Home With Me," "Wedding Song," "Livin' It Up on Top," "All I've Ever Known ("In Spite of Herself"...) [Intro]," "All I've Ever Known," "Way Down Hadestown," "Chant," "When the Chips Are Down ("Songbird vs. Rattlesnake"...) [Intro]," "When the Chips Are Down," "Wait for Me ("Hey, The Big Artiste"...) [Intro]," "Wait for Me," "Why We Build the Wall," "Why We Build the Wall ("Behind Closed Doors"...) [Outro]," "If It's True," "Epic III," "Epic III ("They Danced"...)," "Promises," "Wait for Me (Reprise)," "Road to Hell (Reprise)."

January 10, 2025:

Reefer Madness: New Los Angeles Cast Recording
(Yellow Sound Label - new on CD/digital)
Music by Dan Studney and lyrics by Kevin Murphy. Featuring the full cast from its critically acclaimed 25th Anniversary Los Angeles revival, including Nicole Parker, Thomas Dekker, Anthony Norman, Darcy Rose Byrnes, J. Elaine Marcos, and Bryan Daniel Porter. CD will feature two bonus tracks not available on the digital album. Album produced by Michael Croiter, Kevin Murphy, and Dan Studney. Three tracks released 11/14/24. reefermadness.com.

Newly Listed Books:

November 25:

The Show Goes On: Broadway Hirings, Firings and Replacements
(new book)
By Ron Fassler. From interviews with more than one hundred theatre professionals over the past two and a half years.

Compiled by Talkin' Broadway Staff.