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Digital Music Now Available:
Up Here
(new digital album)
Soundtrack from new Hulu series. Original songs by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez. Cast includes Sophia Hammons, Andréa Burns, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Scott Porter, Katie Finneran, Norm Lewis. Released 3/24/23.
Books Now Available:
Around the Globe: Behind the Scenes at Shakespeare's Theatre
(Cultureshock - Paperback Book)
Ed Behrens, editor. A unique view of the theater's backstage life, props, wardrobe collections and rehearsal spaces through unprecedented access to life behind the scenes. All captured by Angela Moore's photographs. 200 pages.
Blanche: The Life and Times of Tennessee Williams's Greatest Creation
(Harper - Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition/Audible Audiobook/Audiobook on CD)
By Nancy Schoenberger. An exploration of the cultural impact of Blanche DuBois, examining Tennessee Williams's most enduring creation through the performances of seven brilliant actresses who have taken on the role: Jessica Tandy, Vivien Leigh, Ann-Margret, Jessica Lange, Patricia Clarkson, Cate Blanchett, and Jemier Jackson. Exploring themes of womanhood, sexuality, mental illness, and the idealized South, Blanche is an engrossing cultural history of a rich and complex character that sheds light on who we are. Photographs. 240 pages.
The Great American Songbook: 201 Favorites You Ought to Know (& Love)
(Backbeat - Paperback Book/Kindle Edition)
By Steven Suskin. Foreword by John Pizzarelli. Surveys 201 of the most significant selections from the Great American Songbook, ranging from celebrated masterpieces to forgotten gems. Year by year, Suskin puts songwriters and their contributions in their context, and explains what makes each song such a distinctive treat - whether felicitous melody, colorful harmony, compositional originality, or merely the sheer, irreducible joy of listening to it. 200 black & white and 96 full-color illustrations. 296 pages.
Music to Be Released This Friday, April 7:
Cabaret 2021 West End cast
(Decca UK - double vinyl LP)
Score by John Kander and Fred Ebb. Eddie Redmayne, Jessie Buckley, Anna-Jane Casey, Stewart Clarke, Omari Douglas, Sally Frith, Elliot Levey, Liza Sadovy, Sophie Maria Wojna. "Willkommen," "So What?," "Don't Tell Mama," "Mein Herr," "Perfectly Marvelous," "Two Ladies," "It Couldn't Please Me More," "Tomorrow Belongs to Me," "Maybe This Time," "Money," "Married," "Tomorrow Belongs to Me (Reprise)," "Kickline," "If You Could See Her," "What Would You Do?," "I Don't Care Much," "Cabaret," "Finale." Released earlier on CD.
Newly Listed Recordings:
May 12:
Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical
(Sony - new on CD/digital/double-LP vinyl)
New musical currently playing at London's Fortune Theatre. Book/music/lyrics by David Cumming, Felix Hagan, Natasha Hodgson & Zoë Roberts. Cast includes David Cumming, Claire-Marie Hall, Natasha Hodgson, Jak Malone, Zoë Roberts, Geri Allen, Christian Andrews, Seán Carey, and Holly Sumpton. Produced by Steve Sidwell.
Other New Announcements:
Date added:
May 5:
Shucked
(Sony Masterworks Broadway - new digital album)
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.
