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Books Now Available:
American Dramatists in the 21st Century: Opening Doors
(Methuen Drama - Hardcover book/Kindle Edition)
By Christopher Bigsby. Examines the careers of seven award-winning playwrights: David Adjmi, Julia Cho, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Will Eno, Martyna Majok, Dominique Morisseau and Anna Ziegler. Covering all their plays, including several as yet unpublished, nothing their critical reception while drawing on their own commentary on their approach to writing and the business of developing a career. 256 pages.
The Wanderers
(Methuen Drama - Paperback Book/Kindle Edition)
Anna Ziegler play opening next month at Roundabout Theatre Company. 80 pages.
Music to Be Released This Friday, March 3:
Standing at the Sky's Edge: A New Musical Original
(Universal UK - new on CD/digital)
Original live cast recording of Richard Hawley score. Played at National Theatre.
Newly Listed Recordings:
March 31:
I Do! I Do! OLC
(Stage Door Records - new on CD)
Part of Stage Door Records' Cast Album Masters Series. Score by Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones. Opened at London's Lyric Theatre on May 16, 1968, directed by Gower Champion with leads Anne Rogers and Ian Carmichael. Original album produced by Norman Newell. Includes bonus tracks from both artists and detailed sleeve notes by Stewart Nicholls including exclusive contributions from Anne Rogers. Digitally remastered from the original studio master tapes. 17 original tracks plus eight bonus tracks. Strictly limited to 500 units only. StageDoorRecords.com.
April 11:
Ben Bagley's Vernon Duke Revisited Volume III
(Kritzerland - new on CD)
Music by Vernon Duke. Lyrics by Sammy Cahn, Howard Dietz, Ira Gershwin, E.Y. Harburg and E. Hartman, John Latouche, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, and Harold Rome. Tammy Grimes, Dorothy Loudon, Kaye Ballard, Mary Cleere Haran, Ann Hampton Callaway, Sandy Stewart, Arthur Siegel, and more. Remastered. Cover art by Harvey Schmidt. Arrangements and musical direction by Dennis Deal, Richard Rodney Bennett, and Robert Marks. 25 tracks. Limited to 500 copies. Expected to ship by second week in April 2023. Kritzerland.com
April 18:
High, Wide and Handsome
(Kino Lorber - new Blu-ray)
1937 Paramount musical western film. Directed by Rouben Mamoulian. Irene Dunne, Randolph Scott, Alan Hale, Sr., Charles Bickford and Dorothy Lamour. Written by Oscar Hammerstein II and George O'Neil, with lyrics by Hammerstein and music by Jerome Kern. Brand new HD master - from a 4k scan by universal pictures; new audio commentary by film historian Eddy von Mueller; theatrical trailer (newly mastered in 2K); optional English subtitles. One hour 44 minutes.
December 5:
Kerry Ellis: Kings & Queens
(Westway Music - new on CD)
British singer/songwriter/actress Kelly Ellis (Wicked). "Kings & Queens," "Be Tender with Me Baby," "Battlefield" (with Sir Brian May), "I Will Find You," "Mean the World To Me" (with Newton Faulkner), "Big Wide World," "The Only One," "Fire & Rain," "Lemonade," "My All," "Love Wins," "Home Again." Recorded in LA and London. Produced by Mike Stevens.
