Broadway's Carols for a Cure 2011
Released on Rock-It Science Records on 11/1/11
Lovers of Broadway talent can do some early Christmas shopping as well as support Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS (BC/EFA) through the purchase of this 2-disc, annual CD of original and traditional holiday music.
As always, the CDs will be sold during a six-week "Gypsy-of-the-Year" fundraising period, which runs this year from October 22nd through mid-December at participating Broadway and o... (more...)
Elf The Musical - Original Broadway Cast
Released on Ghostlight Records on 11/1/11
Original Broadway cast recording of Elf: The Musical. ELF is the hilarious tale of Buddy, a young orphan child who mistakenly crawls into Santa's bag of gifts and is transported back to the North Pole. Buddy is raised unaware that he is actually a human, until his enormous size and poor toy-making abilities cause him to face the truth. With Santa's permission, Buddy embarks on a journey to New Yor... (more...)
Tears of Heaven - The Concept Recording
Released on GlobalVision Records, LLC on 11/1/11
Linda Eder, Rob Evan, Christiane Noll, James Barbour, Jackie Burns, Laura Osnes and an all-star cast in this bittersweet tale of love, faith, and redemption. A new Concept Recording from Frank Wildhorn.
CAST:
Tianna: Morgan James (Linda Eder sings Tianna on track #2)
Linh: Linda Eder
Quyen: Christiane Noll
Joon: Rob Evan
Sang: Michael Lanning
Tam: Jackie Burns
Colonel Grayson: James... (more...)
Barry Manilow: His Greatest Hits
Released on Warner Bros UK on 11/1/11
2011 live album from the singer, songwriter and entertainer. May 2011 saw a triumphant return of Barry Manilow to the UK live arena. The shows demonstratEd Barry's amazing showmanship and songwriting ability and were a massive hit with both critics and the 60,000 strong audience. The recordings from these four shows form the basis of His Greatest Hits: Live. The album features all of Barry's bigge... (more...)
The First Nudie Musical
Released on Kritzerland on 11/6/11
The First Nudie Musical comes to CD in honor of its 35th anniversary. In this outrageously hilarious spoof that has become a cult classic, a desperate young filmmaker tries to rescue his studio by making a porno musical.
Originally released by Paramount Pictures in 1976, the film garnered excellent reviews but in a bit of unfortunate timing, Cindy Williams’ series, Laverne and Shirley (also pr... (more...)
Love Songs & Lullabies - Paul Spicer
Released on Speckulation Entertainment on 11/7/11
'Love Songs & Lullabies' is the debut album of West End star Paul Spicer. ... (more...)
Summer and Smoke
Released on Kritzerland on 11/7/11
Tennessee Williams was already a legend when Summer and Smoke premiered on Broadway on October 6, 1948, thanks to the huge success of his play The Glass Menagerie and, more importantly, A Streetcar Named Desire, which had opened the year before Summer and Smoke and become a sensation with critics and audiences and catapulTEd Williams into the playwriting firmament. Summer and Smoke failed to ignit... (more...)
The Road to Qatar! - The York Theatre Company Cast
Released on Jay Records on 11/8/11
Recording of the Off-Broadway production of The Road to Qatar! a new true musical comedy. Book & Lyrics by Stephen Cole, Music by David Krane.... (more...)
Tale of Two Cities - Original Broadway Concept Album
Released on Libra Verde on 11/8/11
Original Broadway Concept Album of Jill Santoriello's new musical 'A Tale of Two Cities'. ... (more...)
Tale Of Two Cities - International Studio Recording
Released on Libra Verde on 11/8/11
Recorded at London's Sphere Studios with James Barbour, Brandi Burkhardt, Natalie Toro, Kevin Earley, Simon Thomas, J. Mark McVey, Ed Dixon, Craig Bennett, and Alex Santoriello. ... (more...)
The Sound of Music - Original Australian Cast
Released on Stage Door Records on 11/14/11
he Sound of Music, brings us the last of the magnificent scores from the pens of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II. The Australian production of The Sound of Music opened and was recorded at Melbourne's Princess Theatre in 1961 and ran for three years with a cast headed by the talented Australian soprano June Bronhill. This recording was the first time a major overseas production featuring ... (more...)
The Secret Of Happiness - Susan Egan
Released on LML Music on 11/15/11
Features Momsense, which went viral on the web, performed here with a full orchestra and Susan's hilarious take that gets standing ovations in concert. Features her original song, Nina Doesn t Care, has a beautifully produced music video on the internet.
New song by Broadway icon Jason Robert Brown called All Things In Time. Multiple new songs from popular theatre writers Georgia Stitt and Paul G... (more...)
Blackbirds Of 1928 & Shuffle Along
Released on Sony on 11/15/11
Shuffle Along (1921) and Blackbirds of 1928 (1928) are both pioneering “black musicals,” though they have little in common except their all-black casts, a leading lady (Adelaide Hall) and the fact that both enjoyed game-changing success in their original Broadway productions at opposite ends of the Jazz Age.
Shuffle Along opened May 23, 1921, ran for 484 performances and toured for years; it is... (more...)
Porcelain - Bebe Neuwirth
Released on The Leopard Works Records on 11/15/11
Bebe is a two-time Emmy and two-time Tony winner and one of Broadway's most exciting triple threats. Although she has recorded many songs as part of cast albums, this is her first official solo album. It contains fifteen tracks recorded at Second Story Sound in NYC, in September of 2011. She is accompanied by Scott Cady on Piano, who is also the musical director on the project.
Scott and Bebe a... (more...)
Soho Cinders - A New Musical
Released on on 11/21/11
Cinderella re-imagined - is a modern musical fable with a story centered around the complicated love life of prospective Mayoral candidate James Prince, his fiancée and his law-student lover, Robbie - who`s paying his college bills in a somewhat unorthodox way. A satirical comedy with a catchy contemporary new score from Stiles and Drewe, Soho Cinders is a truly 21st-century musical.
This spec... (more...)
War Horse (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Released on Sony Masterworks on 11/21/11
The dramatic countryside of Dartmoor has inspired John Williams to compose a score of such beauty and quiet majesty that one might think the earth was speaking through him, much as the heavens have done for nearly five decades. When I first heard John s sketches of the four central themes for War Horse, I didn t need my memories of the film to underscore the feelings I was having. The music was a ... (more...)
Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall
Released on Polydor UK on 11/22/11
To celebrate its 25th Anniversary year, Cameron Mackintosh presents The Phantom Of The Opera in a fully-staged, lavish production, set in the sumptuous Victorian splendour of the Royal Albert Hall. Featuring Barry James, Liz Robertson, Sierra Boggess Gareth Snook, Ramin Karimloo . ... (more...)
Follies - New Broadway Cast Recording
Released on P.S. Classics on 11/29/11
Composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim and librettist James Goldman's landmark 1971 musical returns to Broadway in a production The New York Times raved '[makes] you realize anew just why Follies is one of the greatest musicals ever written.' A bittersweet look at the follies of youth seen through the eyes of age and experience, this new production stars two-time Tony Award-winner Bernadette Peters as... (more...)
Linda Lavin: Possibilities - Linda Lavin
Released on Ghostlight on 11/29/11
Musical Direction / Arrangements / Piano by Billy Stritch. Inspired by Jim Caruso. Produced by John Brown. Recorded at Overdub Lane, Durham, NC... (more...)
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