SAY IT WITH MUSIC Cast Album Out Now
ASCAP Award-winner Chip Deffaa's 'Say it with Music' cast album--with a cast of 21 led by Michael Townsend Wright and Jed Peterson, who helped develop the show at New York's 13th Street Theater--is out now! The album--featuring no less than 40 songs by Irving Berlin---may be ordered now (as either a physical CD or digital download).
Steve Ross, Jerry Dixon And More Star On Chip Deffaa's New Cd 'Irving Berlin: Sweet And Hot'
ASCAP Award-winning writer/producer Chip Deffaa's new CD, 'Irving Berlin: Sweet and Hot'--being released January 4th--features such Broadway and cabaret notables as Steve Ross ('Private Lives'), Jerry Dixon ('Once On this Island'), Seth Sikes ('The Band's Visit'), Analise Scarpaci ('Mrs. Doubtfire'), Alex Dreier ('Finding Neverland'), Charlie Franklin ('The Book of Mormon'), Giuseppe Bausilio ('Hamilton'), Matthew Nardozzi ('Dracula'), Jon Peterson ('Cabaret'), and others.
Chip Deffaa's AN IRVING BERLIN TRAVELOGUE Album Is Released Today
ASCAP Award-winning writer/producer Chip Deffaa's new CD, 'An Irving Berlin Travelogue,' is being released today. The album is an outgrowth of shows celebrating Berlin that Deffaa has been presenting at his base in New York, the 13th Street Theater. It features Broadway performers singing rare--and in some cases, never-before-recorded--songs by master songwriter Berlin. The album includes such Broadway pros as Jon Peterson ('Cabaret'), Charlie Franklin ('Book of Mormon'), Giuseppe Bausilio ('Hello, Dolly!'), Seth Sikes ('The Band's Visit'), Jackson Demott Hill ('Finding Neverland'), Alex Dreier ('Billy Elliot'), Matthew Nardozzi ('Dracula'), Analise Scarpaci ('Matilda'), and more. Richard Danley is the music director. The album, available from Amazon, CDBaby, iTunes, Footlight Records, etc., may be ordered here now: https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/chipdeffaasanirvingberli
Chip Deffaa's New IRVING BERLIN: RAGTIME RARITIES Album Out Now
ASCAP Award-winning playwright/producer Chip Deffaa's latest album, 'Irving Berlin: Ragtime Rarities,' is out now. The CD, featuring an all-star New York cast performing two dozen rare--and, in many cases, never-before-recorded--ragtime numbers, is the 24th CD that Deffaa has produced and the tenth dealing with master songwriter Irving Berlin.
New IRVING BERLIN'S AMERICA Cast Album Out Now
A new cast album for ASCAP Award-winning writer/director Chip Deffaa's musical play "Irving Berlin's America" (published and licensed by Steele Spring Stage Rights) is being released today. Michael Townsend Wright and Matthew Nardozzi co-star on the new album. An earlier cast album of the show, with Wright and Giuseppe Bausilio--co-stars of the first New York production at the 13th Street Theater--will continue to be available. Both albums are being distributed in the US by CDBaby, and are available now from Amazon, iTunes, Google Play, Footlight Records, etc.
Chip Deffaa Releases THE CHIP DEFFAA SONGBOOK
'The Chip Deffaa Songbook'—a double-album featuring nearly 40 theater songs by ASCAP Award-winning playwright/songwriter Chip Deffaa--is out now. The two-CD set gathers songs that Deffaa wrote or co-wrote for such shows of his as 'George M. Cohan Tonight!,' 'The Seven Little Foys,' 'Mad About the Boy,' 'Presenting Fanny Brice,' 'The Family that Sings Together,' 'Yankee Doodle Dandy,' 'Song-and-Dance Kids,' and 'Theater Boys.' The set, with a suggested list price of $17.00, is available from Amazon, CDBaby, iTunes, Footlight Records, etc. It may be ordered here: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/thechipdeffaasongbook.
CHIP DEFFAA SONGBOOK Album to Be Released 11/30
'The Chip Deffaa Songbook'--a two-CD set, featuring nearly 40 theater-songs by ASCAP Award-winning playwright/songwriter Chip Deffaa--will be released November 30th. The album features songs that Deffaa wrote or co-wrote for such shows of his as 'Theater Boys,' 'The Seven Little Foys,' 'Mad About the Boy,' 'Yankee Doodle Dandy,' 'The Family That Sings Together,' 'The Fanny Brice Story,' 'Song-and-Dance Kids,' and 'George M. Cohan Tonight!'
IRVING BERLIN SONGBOOK Album to be Released on August 16th
Award-winning playwright/director Chip Deffaa's 'Irving Berlin Songbook' album--part of an ongoing 'Irving Berlin Project' which Deffaa has been developing at the 13th Street Theater in New York City--will be released August 16th. The album--with two-dozen members of New York's theatrical community singing 29 rare Berlin songs--includes many songs that have never before been recorded. Deffaa--one of the world's foremost authorities on Berlin's music and the author of five different shows about him--went through every song in the Berlin archive, some 1500 in all, in preparation for the project.
A TIME TO SHINE Youth Cabaret Set for Stage 72 This Today
On February 26th at 7:00PM some of New York City's finest teens and young adults will come together to sing their favorite pop and rock-n-roll songs. The performers are all talent from the Broadway community and NYC MT College students.
A TIME TO SHINE Youth Cabaret Set for Stage 72 This Friday
On February 26th at 7:00PM some of New York City's finest teens and young adults will come together to sing their favorite pop and rock-n-roll songs. The performers are all talent from the Broadway community and NYC MT College students.
Cast Album IRVING BERLIN & CO. Set for Release This Month
The original cast album for Chip Deffaa's musical play 'Irving Berlin & Co.' (published by Eldridge Plays and Musicals) will be released December 21st. The album can be pre-ordered now from CDBaby (http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/irvingberlinco); as of the 21st, it will be available from Amazon, iTunes, Google Music Store, SoundExchange, Rhapsody, etc. This is the 13th cast album of Deffaa's to be released, and the fourth dealing with Berlin. Cast-members will help celebrate the release with performances of songs at Birdland and on 'The Barry Z Show.'