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CDs Now Available:
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. Approximate release date.
Chip Deffaa's the George M. Cohan Revue: The Cast Album
(Garret Mountain Records - new on CD/digital)
More than 40 songs–both famous and rare–by the father of the America musical, George M. Cohan. Jon Peterson heads the original New York cast, including Joan Jaffe, Dawne Swearingen, Michael Townsend Wright, Seth Sikes, David Warren, Cathy Remmert, Lynelle Johnson Steffan, with musicians Michael Lavine, Sterling Price-McKinney, Richard Danley.
Books Now Available:
Room
(Methuen Drama - Paperback Book)
Play by Emma Donoghue. Updated and revised edition. 96 pages. [A 2017 version is available on Amazon in Kindle format.]
Theatre Spaces 1920-2020: Finding the Fun in Functionalism
(Methuen Drama - Hardcover Book/Paperback/Kindle Edition)
By Iain Mackintosh. Foreword by Richard Eyre. Lavishly illustrated hands-on account of the creation of new theatre spaces spanning a century. A compelling history that is part memoir, part impassioned call to rethink the design of our theatre spaces and the future of live theatre. 256 pages.
True West: Sam Shepard's Life, Work, and Times
(Crown - Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition/Audible Audiobook)
By Robert Greenfield. Delves deeply into Shepard's life as well as the ways in which his work illuminates it. Takes readers through the world of downtown theater in Lower Manhattan in the early sixties; the jazz scene at New York's Village Gate; fringe theater in London in the seventies; Bob Dylan's legendary Rolling Thunder tour; the making of classic films Broadway productions. Greenfield interviewed dozens of people who knew Shepard well, many of whom had never before spoken on the record about him. While exploring his relationships with Patti Smith, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, and Jessica Lange across the long arc of his brilliant career, Greenfield makes the case for Shepard as not just a great American writer but a unique figure who first brought the sensibility of rock 'n roll to theater. Audiobook version narrated by Jon Lindstrom. 448 pages.
Music to Be Released This Friday:
Clicquot: A Revolutionary Musical
(Brainstorm Records / Yellow Sound Label / 35th Parallel Productions - new EP)
Studio highlights cast recording of score by Lisette Glodowski and Richard C. Walter. Victoria Frings, Kevin Massey, Paolo Montalban, Kai An Chee, Tim Rogan, Rachael Worthington, Nick Laughlin, Steve Blanchard, Neil Young, Erin McMillen, and Eric Sorrels. 13-piece orchestra conducted by Kenneth Gartman. Orchestrations and arrangements by Frank Galgano and Matt Castle. Produced by Frank Galgano and Michael Croiter. Six tracks.
The Magnificent Seven
(new digital album)
Score by Julia Meinwald (music) and Gordon Leary (lyrics). The show about the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Was produced at Theatre Row in July 2022. "Welcome to my House," "Back in '92," "Always Almost," "USA," "Like Mary Lou," "Hero," "You Cant' Let it Show," "I'm you Girl," "A Million Other Things," "My Body is," "36 hours to Atlanta," "You Can Do It," "For More Years," "Not for you," "Mary Lou," "The Perfect Ten," "The Beginning," "The Vault."
Newly Listed Recordings:
May 19:
Kimberly Akimbo
(Ghostlight Records - new on CD)
2022 original Broadway cast recording of score by Jeanine Tesori and David Lindsay-Abaire. Victoria Clark, Steven Boyer, Justin Cooley, Alli Mauzey, Bonnie Milligan, Olivia Elease Hardy, Fernell Hogan, Michael Iskander, Nina White. "Skater Planet," "Hello, Darling," "Make a Wish," "Anagram," "Better," "Father Time," "Happy for Her," "This Time," "How to Wash a Check," "Good Kid," "Hello, Baby," "Skater Planet (Reprise)," "Our Disease," "The Inevitable Turn," "Now," "How to Wash a Check (Reprise)," "Before I Go," "Hello, Sister," "Great Adventure." CD booklet features complete lyrics, color photography and liner notes by Washington Post theater writer Peter Marks. GhostlightRecords.com. Released earlier in digital format.
