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Post by Talon Karrde on Nov 9, 2013 8:52:58 GMT -5
DR. SEUSS’ HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS! THE MUSICAL (Nov. 4 – New York, NY) Masterworks Broadway in Partnership with Running Subway and Dr. Seuss Enterprises announces the release of the World Premiere Recording of Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical. The recording, which features original Broadway cast members Patrick Page as “The Grinch” and John Cullum as “Old Max,” is available now on CD and digital download. With book and lyrics by Timothy Mason and music by Mel Marvin, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical also includes two songs written by Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss himself) and composer Albert Hague: the beloved “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” and “Welcome, Christmas,” both from the classic 1966 animated television special. The World Premiere Recording includes two bonus tracks: a new recording of the song “Where Are You, Christmas?” from the 2000 movie, as well as “Once in a Year,” which was cut from the musical prior to its Broadway premiere. “We are thrilled to be releasing this CD,” said Susan Brandt, President of Licensing and Marketing at Dr. Seuss Enterprises. “Many of these songs hold a special place in people’s hearts and now they can finally enjoy them whenever and wherever they want. It’s a whole new way to celebrate a classic holiday tradition.” Dr. Seuss’ classic holiday tale about materialism and the true meaning of Christmas first came to life on Broadway for a holiday engagement in 2006. The New York Times said the musical was “100 times better than any bedside story” and the Gannett papers hailed it as “A genius of a show! A total delight for both kids and adults.” Promptly breaking box office records, it returned to the Great White Way the following year, broke records again, and has been touring the nation during the holiday season ever since, with another Broadway run in 2012. A new US tour launches November 19 in Ft. Worth, followed by stops in Cincinnati, Durham, Rochester, Buffalo and San Antonio. Additionally, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical will return to San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre November 16 through December 28. The timeless story of the Scrooge-like Grinch, who tries to ruin Christmas for everybody until he has a dramatic change of heart, has been delighting both children and adults since the picture book came out in 1957. Over nearly half a century, the story has re-appeared in new formats, first as a classic TV special with the voice of Boris Karloff, and later a hit live-action movie in 2000 starring Jim Carrey. When the Broadway musical burst on the scene, the Grinch’s tale gained vivid new life for new generations yet again. The World Premiere Recording of Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical tracklisting: 1 Overture 2 Fah Who Foraze 3 Who Likes Christmas? 4 This Time Of Year 5 I Hate Christmas Eve 6 Whatchamawho 7 Welcome, Christmas 8 I Hate Christmas Eve (Reprise) 9 It's The Thought That Counts 10 This Time of Year (Reprise) 11 One Of a Kind 12 Down the Mountain 13 Now's the Time 14 You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch 15 Santa For a Day 16 Stealing Christmas 17 Who Likes Christmas? (Reprise) 18 One of a Kind (Reprise) 19 This Time Of Year (Reprise) 20 Welcome, Christmas (Reprise) 21 Finale 22 Bows 23 Exit Music 24 Once in a Year (Bonus Track) 25 Where are You, Christmas? (Bonus Track) Masterworks Broadway is a label of Sony Masterworks. For email updates and information on Masterworks Broadway please visit www.masterworksbroadway.com. For information on the tour of Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical please visit www.grinchmusical.com. For information on the world of Dr. Seuss please visit www.seussville.com. About Dr. Seuss Theodor “Seuss” Geisel is quite simply the most beloved children’s book author of all time. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1984, an Academy Award, three Emmy Awards, three Grammy Awards, and three Caldecott Honors, Geisel wrote and illustrated 44 books for children. Hundreds of millions of copies have found their way into homes and hearts around the world. While Theodor Geisel died on September 24, 1991, Dr. Seuss lives on, inspiring generations of children of all ages to explore the joys of reading. Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P. The primary focus of Dr. Seuss Enterprises, L.P. is to protect the integrity of the Dr. Seuss books while expanding beyond books into ancillary areas. This effort is a strategic part of the overall mission to nurture and safeguard the relationship people have with Dr. Seuss characters. Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss) said he never wanted to license his characters to anyone who would “round out the edges.” That is one of the guiding philosophies of Dr. Seuss Enterprises. Audrey S. Geisel, the widow of Dr. Seuss, heads Dr. Seuss Enterprises as CEO.
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Post by Talon Karrde on Nov 23, 2013 8:33:49 GMT -5
TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES AND SONY MASTERWORKS JOIN FORCES TO HONOR THE LEGENDARY FRED ASTAIRE Turner Classic Movies (TCM) and Sony Masterworks team up to celebrate one of Hollywood's most beloved stars: Fred Astaire. The new 2-CD set from Sony Masterworks, Fred Astaire: The Early Years at RKO, is available November 19 and TCM names Astaire their “Star of the Month” for December. Fred Astaire: The Early Years at RKO features 31 songs that showcase Astaire’s vocal performances from such classic films as Top Hat, Swing Time and Shall We Dance. In these and other films, Astaire introduced songs by the greatest “American Songbook” composers, including Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern and George and Ira Gershwin. The songs on the 2-CD set have long since become standards and include “Night And Day,” “Cheek To Cheek,” “The Way You Look Tonight,” “They All Laughed,” “They Can't Take That Away From Me” and “Nice Work If You Can Get It.” The Early Years at RKO comprises these and other songs performed by Astaire in RKO films, on record backed by orchestras led by the esteemed conductors Leo Reisman, Ray Noble, and Astaire’s friend Johnny Green. The set also includes rare alternate takes and two solo performances by Astaire’s most famous partner, Ginger Rogers. Additionally, the collection features liner notes by “The Ambassador of the Great American Songbook,” Mr. Michael Feinstein. “From the vantage point of today it might be hard for some to fully grasp the impact that Fred Astaire had on the world of entertainment,” writes Feinstein in the album liner notes. ”While there were many hugely talented song and dance men,” he notes, “he is considered by many to be the most sublime popular singer and dancer of any generation. That he is still revered and remembered today is a testament to the idea that great art does not diminish, nor lose its power to captivate each succeeding generation. The tracks that appear in this compilation truly mirror his films… and are in many instances the very first recordings of a group of songs that have survived to become Great American Songbook standards.” Sony Masterworks comprises the Masterworks, Sony Classical, OKeh, Portrait, Masterworks Broadway and Flying Buddha imprints. For email updates and information please visit www.SonyMasterworks.com Fred Astaire: The Early Years at RKO Track listing: CD 1 1 Music Makes Me 2 Flying Down To Rio 3 Night And Day (From "The Gay Divorce") 4 No Strings 5 Isn't This A Lovely Day 6 Top Hat, White Tie And Tails 7 Cheek To Cheek 8 The Piccolino 9 We Saw The Sea 10 Let Yourself Go 11 I'd Rather Lead A Band 12 I'm Putting All My Eggs In One Basket 13 Let's Face The Music And Dance 14 Pick Yourself Up 15 The Way You Look Tonight 16 A Fine Romance 17 Bojangles Of Harlem 18 Never Gonna Dance 19 A Fine Romance (Alternate Take) [Bonus Track] 20 Waltz In Swing Time (Alternate Take)[Bonus Track] CD 2 1 (I've Got) Beginners Luck 2 Slap That Bass 3 They All Laughed 4 Let's Call The Whole Thing Off 5 They Can't Take That Away From Me 6 Shall We Dance 7 I Can't Be Bothered Now 8 Things Are Looking Up 9 A Foggy Day 10 Nice Work If You Can Get It 11 I Used To Be Color Blind 12 The Yam 13 Change Partners 14 They Can't Take That Away From Me (Alternate Take) [Bonus Track] 15 The Yam Step (As explained by Fred Astaire) [Bonus Track] 16 The Yam (Ginger Rogers) [Bonus Track] 17 I Used To Be Color Blind (Ginger Rogers) [Bonus Track] TCM “Star of the Month” for December: Fred Astaire Wednesday, December 4: 8:00 PM Flying Down to Rio (1933) 9:45 PM Carson on TCM: Fred Astaire (2013) 10:00 PM The Gay Divorcee (1934) 12:00 AM Roberta (1935) 2:00 AM Follow the Fleet (1936) 4:00 AM The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939) 5:45 AM Second Chorus (1940) 7:15 AM The Sky’s the Limit (1943) Wednesday, December 11 8:00 PM You’ll Never Get Rich (1941) 9:45 PM You Were Never Lovelier (1942) 11:30 PM The Band Wagon (1953) 1:30 AM Silk Stockings (1957) 3:45 AM Three Little Words (1950) 5:30 AM The Belle of New York (1952) 7:00 AM Yolanda and the Thief (1945) 8:45 AM Ziegfeld Follies (1946) Wednesday, December 18 8:00 PM Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940) 10:00 PM Easter Parade (1948) 12:00 AM Royal Wedding (1951) 2:00 AM A Damsel in Distress (1937) 3:45 AM Finian’s Rainbow (1968) Wednesday, December 25 8:00 PM Top Hat (1935) 10:00 PM Swing Time (1936) 12:00 AM Shall We Dance (1937) 2:00 AM Carefree (1938) 3:30 AM The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
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Post by Talon Karrde on Jan 25, 2014 9:34:41 GMT -5
SONY MUSIC MASTERWORKS EARNS 14 NOMINATIONS FOR THE 2014 GRAMMY AWARDS IN MULTIPLE GENRES (Dec 9. - New York, NY) Sony Music Masterworks receives 14 Grammy nominations for the 2014 Grammy Awards in multiple genres including Rock, Traditional Pop, R&B, Classical and Musical Theatre. “I’d like to congratulate all of our stellar artists on their nominations,” says Bogdan Roscic, President of Sony Music Masterworks. “We are proud to be the home to a diverse range of creative musicians who continue to push the genre boundaries of music today.” Masterworks and its imprints Flying Buddha, Sony Classical and Masterworks Broadway earned nominations in the following categories: BEST TRADITIONAL POP VOCAL ALBUM: The Standards by Gloria Estefan (Masterworks) BEST ROCK PERFORMANCE: “Always Alright” by the Alabama Shakes from the Silver Linings Playbook Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Sony Classical) BEST R&B PERFORMANCE: “Nakamarra” by Hiatus Kaiyote Featuring Q-Tip from Tawk Tomahawk (Flying Buddha/Masterworks) BEST URBAN CONTEMPORARY ALBUM: One: In The Chamber by Salaam Remi (Flying Buddha / Masterworks) BEST MUSICAL THEATER ALBUM: Kinky Boots: Original Broadway Cast Recording (Masterworks Broadway) BEST SCORE SOUNDTRACK FOR VISUAL MEDIA: Life Of Pi by composer Mychael Danna, composer (Sony Classical/Fox Music) Lincoln by John Williams, composer (Sony Classical) Skyfall by Thomas Newman, composer (Sony Classical) BEST SONG WRITTEN FOR VISUAL MEDIA: “Silver Lining” by Diane Warren, songwriter (Jessie J) from Silver Linings Playbook Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Sony Classical; Publisher: Realsongs) BEST INSTRUMENTAL ARRANGEMENT: “Skylark” by Nan Schwartz, arranger (Amy Dickson) from Dusk & Dawn (Sony Classical) BEST INSTRUMENTAL ARRANGEMENT ACCOMPANYING VOCALIST(S): “Swing Low” by Gil Goldstein, arranger (Bobby McFerrin & Esperanza Spalding) from spirityouall (Masterworks) “What A Wonderful World” by Shelly Berg, arranger (Gloria Estefan) from The Standards (Masterworks) BEST ALBUM NOTES: Stravinsky: Le Sacre Du Printemps by Jonathan Cott, album notes writer (Leonard Bernstein & New York Philharmonic) (Sony Classical) BEST ORCHESTRAL PERFORMANCE: “Lutoslawski: Symphony No. 1” conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen with the Los Angeles Philharmonic from Lutoslawski: The Symphonies (Sony Classical) Sony Music Masterworks comprises Masterworks, Sony Classical, OKeh, Portrait, Masterworks Broadway and Flying Buddha imprints. For email updates and information please visit www.SonyMasterworks.com ###
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Post by Talon Karrde on Jan 25, 2014 9:41:37 GMT -5
MASTERWORKS BROADWAY RINGS IN THE NEW YEAR WITH THREE LONG REQUESTED ALBUMS Masterworks Broadway rings in 2014 with the release of three long requested albums previously unavailable on CD – Li’l Abner (January 14), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf (February 18), Brigadoon / Kiss Me, Kate (March 18). Like most hit Broadway musicals of its time, the rollicking Li’l Abner – inspired by Al Capp’s blockbuster comic strip – got the full Hollywood treatment in 1959. Musical theater fans know the film as a remarkably pure transfer of a classic 1950s Broadway musical, skillfully re-setting and preserving a theatrical experience onscreen. Most of the Broadway cast was retained: Peter Palmer reprised his portrayal of Li’l Abner, and the stage veterans included Stubby Kaye, Julie Newmar, Joe E. Marks plus a number of ensemble performers. Nelson Riddle adapted and conducted the Gene de Paul/Johnny Mercer score for the Li’l Abner soundtrack, with choral arrangements by Joseph J. Lilley; they earned the film’s only Oscar (and, later, Grammy) nomination. The “soundtrack” album (in stereo, while the Broadway recording was available only in mono) is actually a re-recording (or re-editing) of the songs for the soundtrack’s commercial LP release, a common practice that promised a smoother listening experience on the home hi-fi. Li’l Abner will be released exclusively for purchase via MasterworksBroadway.com on January 14 in a limited quantity of Manufacture-On-Demand CDs as well as digital download. The CD will be available through Arkiv Music on February 11, plus downloads through digital service providers the same day. Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? has been an essential part of American theater – even more to the point, American culture – for over half a century. Starring Arthur Hill, Uta Hagen, George Grizzard and Melinda Dillon, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was the recipient of five Tony Awards® including best play, best actor (Hill) and best actress (Hagen). Produced by Goddard Lieberson, the original cast reprises their stage roles in this recording of the complete play, unavailable since the LP era and now available for the first time on CD-R and digital download. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? will be released exclusively for purchase via MasterworksBroadway.com on February 18 in a limited quantity of Manufacture-On-Demand CDs as well as digital download. The CD will be available through Arkiv Music on March 18, plus downloads through digital service providers the same day. Long before Carrie Underwood in The Sound of Music, network television was regularly airing versions of Broadway musicals in the 1950’s and ‘60s. Following his blazing introduction in Camelot, Robert Goulet had become one of the hottest actors of the time. Capitalizing on his fame, the ABC network showcased Goulet in live broadcasts of Brigadoon in 1966 and Kiss Me, Kate in 1968. Lerner and Loewe’s Brigadoon features Goulet with Peter Falk and Sally Ann Howes, and Cole Porter’s Kiss Me, Kate stars his then-wife, Carol Lawrence, as well as Jessica Walter and Michael Callan. Brigadoon / Kiss Me, Kate, available together for one price, will be released exclusively for purchase via MasterworksBroadway.com on March 18 in a limited quantity of Manufacture-On-Demand CDs as well as digital download. The CD will be available through Arkiv Music on April 14, plus downloads through digital service providers the same day. Masterworks Broadway is a label of Sony Masterworks. For email updates and information on Masterworks Broadway please visit www.masterworksbroadway.com.
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Post by Talon Karrde on Mar 12, 2014 11:37:08 GMT -5
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? has been an essential part of American theater – even more to the point, American culture – for over half a century. When we talk about long-ago stage productions of great plays, most of us have to imagine. In the case of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, we have something far better: in the winter of 1963, a few months after the play opened, Columbia Records took the unusual step of bringing the original cast – Uta Hagen, Arthur Hill, Melinda Dillon and George Grizzard – into the studio to perform the entire play for an audio recording. It has been unavailable since the LP era, but now Masterworks Broadway proudly releases this important recording for the first time in the digital era. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? will be available for purchase exclusively via MasterworksBroadway.com on February 18 in a limited quantity of 2-CD-R sets as well as digital download. The 2-CD-R sets will be available through Arkiv Music on March 18, plus downloads through digital service providers the same day. Columbia Records had been making audio recordings of plays and other “spoken word” projects since the 1940s. None would have the impact of this recording of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, which was produced by Columbia’s legendary chief and tastemaker, Goddard Lieberson. A year after its release, the four-LP recording of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? won the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Recording. The newly available recording includes a booklet with the original liner notes by Edward Albee and Goddard Lieberson, as well as a new essay by David Foil. In Lieberson’s mere decision to make this recording of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, there was a bit of daring. We forget how deeply shocking the play was for many of its first audiences (as the film would be to a larger audience in 1966). As if to prove the point, in the spring of 1963, the trustees of Columbia University overruled the unanimous recommendation of the Pulitzer Prize drama jury and refused to award Albee’s play the prize in drama that year – because of its unprecedented portrait of a dysfunctional marriage and the scathing language with which it speaks. The Tony Award voters were not so faint of heart: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? won Tonys for Best Play, Best Actor (Hill), Best Actress (Hagen) and Best Director (Schneider) of the 1962-63 Broadway season. It also won the Best Play citation of the New York Drama Critics Circle. For most people, the experience of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is defined by the 1966 film adaptation, but it always seems more in-the-moment, more ferocious, more astonishing on the stage. The performance of the play that emerges on the recording lives up to the theatrical phenomenon we can only read about, and it is especially arresting in comparison with the film. The play retains its own identity and looms larger and greater with the passage of time, like Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman and Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire. The greatness seems, at moments, like it might have threatened to burn down its original home, the Billy Rose Theatre. Once again, we have this recording to prove it. Masterworks Broadway is a label of Sony Masterworks. For email updates and information on Masterworks Broadway please visit www.masterworksbroadway.com.
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Post by Talon Karrde on Jun 14, 2014 7:39:25 GMT -5
MASTERWORKS BROADWAY SPRINGS AHEAD WITH THREE UNEXPECTED ALBUMS FROM THE VAULT Masterworks Broadway springs forward with the release of three unexpected album from the vault previously unavailable on CD – Marriage Type Love by Shirley Jones & Jack Cassidy (April 15), Androcles and the Lion (May 13), Ed Ames: Opening Night / More I Cannot Wish You (June 17). In 1959, the release of Shirley Jones and Jack Cassidy’s new album, Marriage Type Love was announced with great fanfare. The cover was prepared and all of the audio was recorded and mixed. Yet, for reasons that still remain unclear, the album was never released and the master tapes have resided in the vaults ever since. Now, after more than fifty years, fans can hear the third collaboration between “the very much married-and-in-love” Shirley Jones and Jack Cassidy for the first time. Marriage Type Love features Marty Gold and His Orchestra backing up the singing couple with jazzy, brassy arrangements of a collection of songs that form what might be called a concept album built around the themes of love and marriage. Marriage Type Love will be released exclusively for purchase via MasterworksBroadway.com on April 15 in a limited quantity of Manufacture-On-Demand CDs as well as digital download. The CD will be available through Arkiv Music on May 13, plus downloads through digital service providers the same day. Based on George Bernard Shaw’s play, the 1967 television special Androcles and the Lion recounts the story of Androcles, the simple-hearted Christian tailor whose friendship with a lion saves himself and his friends from martyrdom in the Roman Colosseum. Set to music by Richard Rodgers, the cast includes British comedian Norman Wisdom as Androcles, Noël Coward as Caesar and features Ed Ames, John Cullum and Geoffrey Holder. Androcles and the Lion will be released exclusively for purchase via MasterworksBroadway.com on May 13 in a limited quantity of Manufacture-On-Demand CDs as well as digital download. The CD will be available through Arkiv Music on June 10, plus downloads through digital service providers the same day. The legendary Broadway producer George Abbott once said that Ed Ames’s voice was one of the finest he had heard on the legitimate stage. After success as a member of The Ames Brothers – the multi-platinum vocal quartet and popular TV fixture – Ames turned his attention to acting and a solo vocal career. His acting career took off as he landed roles in the Broadway production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, the off-Broadway production of The Fantasticks and the role of “Mingo” in the TV series Daniel Boone. Opening Night, a collection of songs from Broadway musicals recorded in 1964 was his first solo recording and includes “Try to Remember” from The Fantasticks, his first charted single. Several years later, he followed up with the album More I Cannot Wish You, another collection of Broadway favorites that includes “The Impossible Dream” from Man of La Mancha and “Climb Ev’ry Mountain” from The Sound of Music. Opening Night / More I Cannot Wish You, available together for one price, will be released exclusively for purchase via MasterworksBroadway.com on June 17 in a limited quantity of Manufacture-On-Demand CDs as well as digital download. The CD will be available through Arkiv Music on July 14, plus downloads through digital service providers the same day. Masterworks Broadway is a label of Sony Masterworks. For email updates and information on Masterworks Broadway please visit www.masterworksbroadway.com. Masterworks Broadway Facebook: Facebook.com/MasterworksBroadway Twitter: @sonybroadway Instagram: instagram.com/masterworksbroadway Pinterest: pinterest.com/sonybroadway
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Post by Talon Karrde on Jun 14, 2014 7:40:28 GMT -5
BULLETS OVER BROADWAY MASTERWORKS BROADWAY proudly announces the signing of the Original Broadway Cast Recording of Bullets Over Broadway. Produced by Doug Besterrman and engineered by Frank Fillipetti, the album will be recorded on April 14. The cast recording will be available for download via all digital service providers June 3 with the CD available everywhere June 10. Visit MasterworksBroadway.com for more information. Producers Letty Aronson and Julian Schlossberg present the world premiere production of the brand new musical comedy Bullets Over Broadway, written by Woody Allen and based on the screenplay by Allen and Douglas McGrath for the 1994 film. Directed and choreographed by five-time Tony Award® winner Susan Stroman, BULLETS OVER BROADWAY began preview performances on Tuesday, March 11 and will officially open Thursday, April 10, 2014 at The St. James Theatre (246 West 44th Street). Bullets Over Broadway tells the story of an aspiring young playwright (Braff) newly arrived on Broadway in 1920’s New York who is forced to cast a mobster's (Pastore) talentless girlfriend (Yorke) in his latest drama in order to get it produced. Bullets Over Broadway features Brooks Ashmanskas (The Producers) as “Warner Purcell,” Golden Globe® and Emmy Award nominee Zach Braff (“Scrubs,” Garden State) as “David Shayne,” Nick Cordero (Rock of Ages) as “Cheech,” Tony Award® nominee Marin Mazzie (Passion; Ragtime; Kiss Me, Kate) as “Helen Sinclair,” Vincent Pastore (“The Sopranos”) as “Nick Valenti,” Betsy Wolfe (The Mystery of Edwin Drood) as “Ellen,” Lenny Wolpe (The Drowsy Chaperone) as “Julian Marx,” Heléne Yorke (Grease) as “Olive Neal” and Tony Award® winner Karen Ziemba (Contact) as “Eden Brent.” Bullets Over Broadway will also feature Clyde Alves (Nice Work if You Can Get It), Jim Borstelmann (Chaplin), Preston Truman Boyd (Big Fish), Janet Dickinson (How The Grinch Stole Christmas), Bryn Dowling (Big Fish), Kim Fauré (Anything Goes), Paige Faure (Cinderella), Casey Garvin (Bare), Kelcy Griffin (Broadway debut), Dan Horn (Cinderella), Sarah Lin Johnson (Broadway debut), Andy Jones (Cinderella), Amanda Kloots-Larsen (Follies), Kevin Ligon (The Chosen), Synthia Link (Big Fish), Brittany Marcin (Anything Goes), Paul McGill (La Cage aux Folles), James Moye (Million Dollar Quartet), Beth Johnson Nicely (Irving Berlin’s White Christmas), Eric Santagata (Chaplin) and Kevin Worley (Cinderella). Five time Tony Award® winning director and choreographer Susan Stroman brings the new musical to the stage with a design team of Broadway veterans including Santo Loquasto (scenic design), William Ivey Long (costume design), Donald Holder (lighting design), Peter Hylenski (sound design), Paul Huntley (wig and hair design), William Berloni (animal training), Glen Kelly (music supervision and adaptation / additional Lyrics), Doug Besterman (orchestrations) and Andy Einhorn (music direction/conductor and vocal arrangements). The Broadway production of Bullets Over Broadway features existing music of the period. Bullets Over Broadway is produced by Letty Aronson and Julian Schlossberg and co-produced by Edward Walson, Leroy Schecter, Roy Furman, Broadway Across America, Just for Laughs Theatricals/Jacki Barlia Florin, Harold Newman and Jujamcyn Theaters and associate producer Don't Speak, LLC. Sony Music Masterworks comprises the Masterworks, Sony Classical, OKeh, Portrait, Masterworks Broadway and Flying Buddha imprints. For email updates and information please visit www.SonyMasterworks.com For more information on the musical, please visit www.BulletsOverBroadway.com. Bullets Over Broadway Facebook: facebook.com/BulletsOverBway Twitter: @bulletsoverbway YouTube: youtube.com/bulletsoverbway Instagram: instagram.com/bulletsoverbway Masterworks Broadway Facebook: Facebook.com/MasterworksBroadway Twitter: @sonybroadway Instagram: instagram.com/masterworksbroadway Pinterest: pinterest.com/sonybroadway ### For more information, please contact: MASTERWORKS BROADWAY Beth Krakower / beth@cinemediapromotions.com / 212.533.6864 Angela Barkan / Angela.Barkan@sonymusic.com / 212.833.8575 Larissa Slezak / Larissa.Slezak@sonymusic.com / 212.833.6075 BONEAU BRYAN-BROWN Chris Boneau, Joe Perrotta, Kelly Guiod (212-575-3030)
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Post by Talon Karrde on Jun 14, 2014 7:54:00 GMT -5
MASTERWORKS BROADWAY RELEASES THE ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST RECORDING OF IF/THEN: A NEW MUSICAL MASTERWORKS BROADWAY releases the Original Broadway Cast Recording of If/Then: A New Musical. Produced by Steve Epstein, Tom Kitt and David Stone, the album will be available nationwide on June 3, 2014. Visit MasterworksBroadway.com for more information. Idina Menzel returns to Broadway for the first time since winning the Tony Award for Wicked in If/Then, an original Broadway musical which reunites Tom Kitt (music), Brian Yorkey (book and lyrics), and Michael Greif (director), the creative team behind the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical, Next to Normal. If/Then is being produced by David Stone, who produced both Wicked and Next to Normal. If/Then is an original new musical that follows Elizabeth as she rebuilds her life in New York, a city of infinite possibilities. By the Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning creators of Next to Normal, this contemporary musical is set where choice and chance collide. In one moment, Elizabeth will lead parallel lives. This is the story of both. The company of If/Then features Idina Menzel (Tony Award-winner for Wicked, original cast of Rent, Disney’s Frozen), LaChanze (Tony Award-winner for The Color Purple), Anthony Rapp (original cast of Rent), James Snyder (Cry-Baby), Jerry Dixon (tick, tick…Boom!, Once On This Island), Jenn Colella (Chaplin, High Fidelity), Jason Tam (A Chorus Line, Lysistrata Jones), Tamika Lawrence (Matilda), and Jackie Burns (Wicked). The production also features Joe Cassidy, Miguel Cervantes, Curtis Holbrook, Stephanie Klemons, Tyler McGee, Ryann Redmond, Joe Aaron Reid, Ann Sanders, Marc delaCruz, Charles Hagerty, Janet Krupin and Pearl Sun. If/Then features choreography by Larry Keigwin, set design by Tony Award-Nominee Mark Wendland, costume design by Emily Rebholz, lighting design by Tony Award-Winner Kenneth Posner and sound design by Tony Award-Winner Brian Ronan. The production features musical direction by Carmel Dean, vocal arrangements by Annmarie Milazzo, and orchestrations by Tony Award-Winner Michael Starobin. If/Then opened on Broadway on Sunday, March 30, 2014 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre (226 West 46th Street). To purchase tickets please visit ifthenthemusical.com or Ticketmaster.com or call 877-250-2929. Masterworks Broadway is a label imprint of Sony Music Masterworks. For email updates and information on Masterworks Broadway please visit www.masterworksbroadway.com. For more information on the musical, please visit www.IfThenTheMusical.com. TRACKLISTING
1. Prologue 2. What If? 3. It’s a Sign 4. A Map of New York 5. You Never Know 6. Ain’t No Man Manhattan 7. What the F**k? 8. Here I Go 9. You Don’t Need To Love Me 10. No More Wasted Time 11. Surprise 12. This Day / Walking by a Wedding 13. Hey, Kid 14. Some Other Me 15. Best Worst Mistake 16. I Hate You 17. A Map Of New York (Reprise) 18. You Learn To Live Without 19. The Moment Explodes 20. Love While You Can 21. What Would You Do? 22. Always Starting Over 23. What If? (Reprise)
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Post by Talon Karrde on Apr 24, 2015 10:30:24 GMT -5
An American in Paris
MASTERWORKS BROADWAY proudly announces the signing of the Original Broadway Cast Recording of An American in Paris. Produced by Rob Fisher and Scott Lehrer, the album will be recorded on April 20 in anticipation of a June 2 release. The score of An American In Paris includes the songs “I Got Rhythm,” “Liza,” “’S Wonderful,” “But Not For Me,” “I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise,” and orchestral music including “Concerto in F,” “Second Prelude,” “Second Rhapsody/Cuban Overture” and “An American In Paris.” An American In Paris is directed and choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon. Inspired by the Academy-Award winning film, An American In Paris brings this classic tale to Broadway for the first time with music and lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin and a book by Tony nominee and Pulitzer Prize finalist Craig Lucas. An American In Paris is the romantic story of a young American soldier, a beautiful French girl and an indomitable European city, each yearning for a new beginning in the aftermath of war. The cast of An American In Paris includes Robert Fairchild as Jerry Mulligan, Leanne Cope as Lise Dassin, Veanne Cox as Madame Baurel, Jill Paice as Milo Davenport, Brandon Uranowitz as Adam Hochberg, and Max von Essen as Henri Baurel. The cast also includes Caitlin Abraham, Will Burton, Attila Joey Csiki, Michael Cusumano, Taeler Cyrus, Ashlee Dupré, Rebecca Eichenberger, Sara Esty, Laura Feig, Jennie Ford, Kurt Froman, Heather Lang, Dustin Layton, Nathan Madden, Gia Mongell, Candy Olsen, Rebecca Riker, Adam Rogers, Sam Rogers, Shannon Rugani, Garen Scribner, Sam Strasfeld, Sarrah Strimel, Charlie Sutton, Allison Walsh, Scott Willis and Victor J. Wisehart. The creative team is comprised of Tony Award-winners Bob Crowley (sets and costumes), Natasha Katz (lighting), Jon Weston (sound), 59 Productions (projections) with the musical score adapted, arranged and supervised by Rob Fisher, musical supervision by Todd Ellison, musical direction by Brad Haak, orchestrations by Christopher Austin, dance arrangements by Sam Davis, and additional orchestrations by Don Sebesky and Bill Elliott. The Associate Director is Jacquelin Barrett and the Associate Choreographer is Dontee Kiehn. Casting is by Telsey + Company/Rachel Hoffman. The producers are Stuart Oken, Van Kaplan, Roy Furman, Stephanie P. McClelland, Darren Bagert, Carole L. Haber, James Nederlander, Five Cent Productions, Michael Leavitt, Apples and Oranges Studios/Dominion Pictures, Roger Berlind/Arch Road, Simone Genatt Haft/Marc Routh, Triptyk Studios/Spencer Ross, Ed Walson/Peter May, Adam Zotovich/Celia Atkin, Eugene Beard/Julie Boardman/Kallish-Weinstein, Stuart Ditsky/Jim Herbert/Sandy Robertson, Suzanne Friedman/Independent Presenters Network/Wonderful Productions, The Leonore S. Gershwin 1987 Trust/Jenkins-Taylor/Proctors, Harriet Newman Leve/Jane Dubin/Sarahbeth Grossman, Caiola Productions/Jennifer Isaacson/Raise the Curtain, by special arrangement with Elephant Eye Theatrical, Pittsburgh CLO and Théâtre du Châtelet. Leanne Cope is appearing with the support of Actors’ Equity Association. The Producers gratefully acknowledge Actors' Equity Association for its assistance of this production. Broadway tickets are on sale now through www.Ticketmaster.com or by phone at 877-250-2929. Group tickets for Broadway are on sale now through the Group Sales Box Office at www.broadway.com/group-sales-box-office/ or by phone at 800-223-7565 or 212-398-8383. Masterworks Broadway is a label of Sony Music Masterworks. For email updates and information on Masterworks Broadway please visit www.masterworksbroadway.com. For more information on the musical, please visit www.AnAmericanInParisBroadway.com
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Post by Talon Karrde on Apr 24, 2015 10:31:13 GMT -5
MASTERWORKS BROADWAY REKINDLES ITS PLEDGE TO EMPTY THE VAULT WITH CLASSIC ALBUMS RELEASED ON CD FOR THE FIRST TIME Masterworks Broadway continues to make good on its promise to make available its extensive catalog of cast recordings with the release of three classic albums from the archives previously unavailable on CD – Dames at Sea – The Original London Cast Recording (April 14), Two’s Company (May 4), and Ages of Man (June 16). Upon release, each title will be accompanied by new album pages and photos on MasterworksBroadway.com. A surprise hit Off-Broadway in 1968, Dames at Sea had its London debut little more than a year later. The Original London Cast Recording features an all-English cast in a lively but distinctive interpretation of the show, under original director/choreographer Neil Kenyon, with orchestral arrangements that differ from those created expressly for the Off-Broadway cast recording – perhaps closer to what was actually heard in the theater. In the role that made Bernadette Peters famous, nineteen-year-old Sheila White brings a fresh, pixie-ish quality to the optimistic showgirl Ruby. (White played Brigitta in The Sound of Music in London and, in 1969, had just appeared as Nancy Sykes’s best friend in the Oscar-winning film Oliver!). Dames at Sea has had an enduring popularity in England, and this production was the beginning of that. The Original London Cast Recording of Dames at Sea, available for the first time on CD, will be released exclusively for purchase via MasterworksBroadway.com on April 14 in a limited quantity of Manufacture-On-Demand CDs as well as digital download. The CD will be available through Arkiv Music on May 4, plus streaming and downloads via digital service providers the same day. Bette Davis was making a triumphant return to Broadway in the 1952 revue Two’s Company … until the show began its previews, when she promptly collapsed onstage on opening night. Davis was perhaps in over her head (song, dance and comedy were not her strong points) in this otherwise charming revue, with a score largely by Vernon Duke (music) and Sammy Cahn and Ogden Nash (lyrics). Two’s Company was one of the last of the sophisticated, satirical revues, a kind of show that television killed off, and its reputation has been held hostage to Davis’s troubled involvement. But Sheldon Harnick, Horton Foote and Peter DeVries were among those contributing material to the show, and the choreographer was no less than Jerome Robbins. Hiram Sherman won a Tony for his expert comedy work in this fascinating relic of Broadway’s past. Two’s Company will be released exclusively for purchase via MasterworksBroadway.com on May 4 in a limited quantity of Manufacture-On-Demand CDs as well as digital download. The CD will be available through Arkiv Music on June 9, plus streaming and downloads via digital service providers the same day. A legendary actor with what might have been the most expressive, musical voice in the modern English theater – “a silver trumpet muffled in silk,” in the words of Sir Alec Guinness – Sir John Gielgud had enduring success with his one-man Shakespearean evening Ages of Man. This tour de force, in which he toured for twenty years, would win him Tony, Emmy and Grammy awards. Gielgud selected excerpts from Shakespeare’s texts that dramatized the complete arc of human experience, from life to death – an unforgettable poetic journey. This recording was made after the show’s triumphant, Tony-winning Broadway debut in 1959, when Gielgud was in his artistic prime. Ages of Man, available for the first time on CD, will be released exclusively for purchase via MasterworksBroadway.com on June 16 in a limited quantity of Manufacture-On-Demand CDs as well as digital download. The CD will be available through Arkiv Music on July 13, plus streaming and downloads via digital service providers the same day. Additionally, two Off-Broadway cast recordings receive their first official digital release on July 13: Howard Crabtree’s Whoop-Dee-Doo!, the 1993 all-male sendup of the Ziegfeld Follies and Promenade, the 1969 show with music by Al Carmines and lyrics by Maria Irene Fornes. Both titles will be available for streaming and downloads through all major digital service providers, and will be accompanied by new album pages and photos on MasterworksBroadway.com. Masterworks Broadway is a label of Sony Music Masterworks. For email updates and information on Masterworks Broadway please visit www.masterworksbroadway.com.
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Post by Talon Karrde on Jun 27, 2015 7:48:08 GMT -5
AN AMERICAN IN PARIS MASTERWORKS BROADWAY releases the Original Broadway Cast Recording of An American in Paris. Produced by Rob Fisher and Scott Lehrer, the album will be available everywhere on June 2, 2015. The score of An American In Paris includes the songs “I Got Rhythm,” “Liza,” “’S Wonderful,” “But Not For Me,” “I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise,” and orchestral music including “Concerto in F,” “Second Prelude,” “Second Rhapsody/Cuban Overture” and “An American In Paris.” An American In Paris is directed and choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon. Inspired by the Academy-Award winning film, An American In Paris brings this classic tale to Broadway for the first time with music and lyrics by George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin and a book by Tony nominee and Pulitzer Prize finalist Craig Lucas. An American In Paris is the romantic story of a young American soldier, a beautiful French girl and an indomitable European city, each yearning for a new beginning in the aftermath of war. The cast of An American In Paris includes Robert Fairchild as Jerry Mulligan, Leanne Cope as Lise Dassin, Veanne Cox as Madame Baurel, Jill Paice as Milo Davenport, Brandon Uranowitz as Adam Hochberg, and Max von Essen as Henri Baurel. The cast also includes Caitlin Abraham, Will Burton, Attila Joey Csiki, Michael Cusumano, Taeler Cyrus, Ashlee Dupré, Rebecca Eichenberger, Sara Esty, Laura Feig, Jennie Ford, Kurt Froman, Heather Lang, Dustin Layton, Nathan Madden, Gia Mongell, Candy Olsen, Rebecca Riker, Adam Rogers, Sam Rogers, Shannon Rugani, Garen Scribner, Sam Strasfeld, Sarrah Strimel, Charlie Sutton, Allison Walsh, Scott Willis and Victor J. Wisehart. The creative team is comprised of Tony Award-winners Bob Crowley (sets and costumes), Natasha Katz (lighting), Jon Weston (sound), 59 Productions (projections) with the musical score adapted, arranged and supervised by Rob Fisher, orchestrations by Christopher Austin, dance arrangements by Sam Davis, musical supervision by Todd Ellison, and additional orchestrations by Don Sebesky and Bill Elliott. The Associate Director is Jacquelin Barrett and the Associate Choreographer is Dontee Kiehn. Casting is by Telsey + Company/Rachel Hoffman. The producers are Stuart Oken, Van Kaplan, Roy Furman, Stephanie P. McClelland, Darren Bagert, Carole L. Haber, James Nederlander, Five Cent Productions, Michael Leavitt, Apples and Oranges Studios/Dominion Pictures, Roger Berlind/Arch Road, Simone Genatt Haft/Marc Routh, Triptyk Studios/Spencer Ross, Ed Walson/Peter May, Adam Zotovich/Celia Atkin, Eugene Beard/Julie Boardman/Kallish-Weinstein, Stuart Ditsky/Jim Herbert/Sandy Robertson, Suzanne Friedman/Independent Presenters Network/Wonderful Productions, The Leonore S. Gershwin 1987 Trust/Jenkins-Taylor/Proctors, Harriet Newman Leve/Jane Dubin/Sarahbeth Grossman, Caiola Productions/Jennifer Isaacson/Raise the Curtain, by special arrangement with Elephant Eye Theatrical, Pittsburgh CLO and Théâtre du Châtelet. Leanne Cope is appearing with the support of Actors’ Equity Association. The Producers gratefully acknowledge Actors' Equity Association for its assistance of this production. Broadway tickets are on sale now through www.Ticketmaster.com or by phone at 877-250-2929. Group tickets for Broadway are on sale now through the Group Sales Box Office at www.broadway.com/group-sales-box-office/ or by phone at 800-223-7565 or 212-398-8383. Masterworks Broadway is a label of Sony Music Masterworks. For email updates and information on Masterworks Broadway please visit www.masterworksbroadway.com. For more information on the musical, please visit www.AnAmericanInParisBroadway.com Tracklisting: 1 Concerto in F 2 I Got Rhythm 3 Second Prelude 4 I've Got Beginner's Luck 5 The Man I Love 6 Liza 7 'S Wonderful 8 Shall We Dance? 9 Second Rhapsody / Cuban Overture 10 Entr'acte 11 Fidgety Feet 12 Who Cares? / For You, For Me, For Evermore 13 But Not for Me 14 I'll Build a Stairway to Paradise 15 An American in Paris 16 They Can't Take That Away from Me 17 Epilogue
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Post by Talon Karrde on Sept 26, 2015 8:25:40 GMT -5
MASTERWORKS BROADWAY REOPENS THE ARCHIVES WITH THREE RARE MUSICAL THEATER ALBUMS Pinocchio – Starring Mickey Rooney - Available July 17 Woman of the Year – Starring Lauren Bacall - Available August 14 The Beggar’s Opera – 1968 London Cast - Available September 18 Masterworks Broadway continues to make good on its promise to make available its extensive catalog of cast recordings with the release of three classic albums from the archives – Pinocchio (July 17), Woman of the Year (August 14), and The Beggar’s Opera (September 18). Upon release, each title will be accompanied by new album pages and photos on MasterworksBroadway.com. Pinocchio, a nearly forgotten television musical special starring Mickey Rooney, was originally broadcast October 13, 1957 on NBC and never repeated again. The production featured a script by Yasha Frank and musical numbers by Alec Wilder and William Engvick. In addition to Rooney, the cast also included Fran Allison famous for her work on TV’s Kukla, Fran and Ollie; Stubby Kaye, the bouncing comedian of Guys and Dolls and Li’I Abner, and Martyn Green, the inimitable Gilbert and Sullivan star. Pinocchio, officially available for the first time on CD, will be released exclusively for purchase via MasterworksBroadway.com on July 17 in a limited quantity of Manufacture-On-Demand CDs as well as digital download. The CD will be available through Arkiv Music on August 14, plus streaming and downloads via digital service providers the same day. Lauren Bacall might have been the unlikeliest candidate ever for Broadway-diva musical stardom – you had to love her to love her singing – but she absolutely nailed it. And twice. Her first musical, Applause (1970), had given her glorious second act to a film career that was as uneven as it was memorable. Her second, Woman of the Year, only reaffirmed that triumph when it opened at the Palace Theater on March 29, 1981. Based on the classic Spencer Tracy/Katherine Hepburn film, Woman of the Year features music and lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb with an all-star cast including Harry Guardino and scene stealer Marilyn Cooper. The New York critics loved not only Bacall and Cooper but also Kander and Ebb’s songs. In the New York Post, Clive Barnes wrote that the “melodious score by John Kander and the witty lyrics by Fred Ebb mark their best collaboration yet for the musical theater, and that includes Cabaret.” The New York Times’s Frank Rich wrote, “From the moment we hear the cheering overture … it’s clear that the score is flush with melodic ballads and show-biz brio.” The show won Tonys® for Bacall, Cooper, Kander and Ebb and Peter Stone, who wrote the book. Woman of the Year will be released exclusively for purchase via MasterworksBroadway.com on August 14 in a limited quantity of Manufacture-On-Demand CDs as well as digital download. The CD will be available through Arkiv Music on September 11, plus streaming and downloads via digital service providers the same day.
Richard Pillbrow and Harold Prince’s production of The Beggar’s Opera opened September 1968 at the Apollo Theatre in London. Starring Peter Gilmore, James Cossins and Jan Waters, the production was first performed at the Cambridge and Edinburgh Festivals and later for London Weekend Television. The story of Macheath and his band of beggars and thieves (and the basis for Kurt Weill’s more frequently performed The Three Penny Opera), John Gay’s classic eighteenth century ballad opera still delights audiences centuries later. The Beggar’s Opera will be released exclusively for purchase via MasterworksBroadway.com on September 18 in a limited quantity of Manufacture-On-Demand CDs as well as digital download. The CD will be available through Arkiv Music on October 16, plus streaming and downloads via digital service providers the same day. Masterworks Broadway is a label of Sony Music Masterworks. For email updates and information on Masterworks Broadway please visit www.masterworksbroadway.com. Masterworks Broadway Facebook: Facebook.com/MasterworksBroadway Twitter: @sonybroadway Instagram: instagram.com/masterworksbroadway Pinterest: pinterest.com/sonybroadway
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Post by Talon Karrde on Sept 26, 2015 8:58:55 GMT -5
A CHORUS LINE – 40TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION FEATURING EIGHT NEVER-BEFORE-RELEASED DEMO RECORDINGS Masterworks Broadway releases A Chorus Line – 40th Anniversary Celebration, a definitive, newly remastered edition of the best-selling 1975 Original Broadway Cast Recording. The reissue features eight bonus tracks that – for the first time – allow the listener to eavesdrop on the creative process of composer Marvin Hamlisch and lyricist Edward Kleban, including songs that did not make it into the final version of their acclaimed score. A Chorus Line – 40th Anniversary Celebration will be available October 23, 2015 on CD, downloads in enhanced audio formats and via streaming audio providers. This release introduces a new high-resolution (24/96) master of the original cast recording, taken from the surround-sound remix created for Super Audio CD (SACD) and previously available only in that format. A perennial best-seller and 1975 Grammy nominee for Best Musical Show Recording, A Chorus Line was the last of the great original cast albums produced by Columbia Records’ Goddard Lieberson. Supplementing A Chorus Line’s beloved score on the 40th Anniversary Celebration are eight bonus tracks, found under the title “A Chorus Line work reel” in the holdings of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Recorded by Hamlisch and Kleban during the first workshop of the show in 1974, they reveal an early opening number entitled “It’s All in Here,” as well as “Joanne” and “Shoes,” songs that came and went with the development of the show’s gallery of characters. Also included are early working versions of “I Can Do That,” “At the Ballet,” “Sing!,” “One” and (identified on the work-reel tape only as “Finale Ballad”) “What I Did for Love.” Included in the package for the 40th Anniversary Celebration is an expanded booklet with new liner notes by Oskar Eustis (Artistic Director of The Public Theater in New York), Terre Blair Hamlisch, Linda Kline (co-bookwriter of A Class Act) and Robert Viagas (Managing Editor, Playbill.com). Simultaneous to the 40th Anniversary Celebration release is a new audiophile vinyl LP edition of the cast album. Cut from high-resolution files by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio and manufactured on 180-gram vinyl at Memphis Record Pressing, the set includes a digital download card redeemable for the entire 40th Anniversary Celebration set. Opening at a time when the very idea of the Broadway musical seemed out of step with the new direction in American pop music, Hamlisch and Kleban defied the odds with an exuberant, razor-sharp but heartfelt score that even yielded a breakout hit, the show’s penultimate number, “What I Did for Love.” A visionary, game-changing theatrical achievement as well as a blockbuster commercial hit, A Chorus Line – conceived, directed and choreographed by Michael Bennett – reinvigorated the traditional Broadway musical in a legendary production. After premiering at the New York Public Theater late in the spring of 1975, A Chorus Line moved to Broadway the following July, where it ran for almost fifteen years, closing in 1990 after 6,137 performances. The show not only swept the Tony Awards in the 1975-76 Broadway season, it also won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical and the Pulitzer Prize in Drama, as well as the Olivier Award when it first appeared on London’s West End in 1976. A Chorus Line is currently the sixth longest-running show in Broadway history. It held the record for the longest run for seven years, until Cats surpassed it in 1997. Masterworks Broadway is a label of Sony Music Masterworks. For email updates and information on Masterworks Broadway please visit www.masterworksbroadway.com. A CHORUS LINE – 40TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION TRACKLIST 1. Opening: I Hope I Get It - Company 2. I Can Do That - Wayne Cilento 3. At The Ballet - Carole Bishop, Nancy Lane, Kay Cole 4. Sing! - Renee Baughman, Don Percassi 5. Montage, Part 1: Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen, Hello Love* - Cameron Mason, Baayork Lee 6. Montage, Part 2: Mother - Ron Kuhlman, Patricia Garland 7. Montage, Part 3: Gimme The Ball - Michel Stuart, Ronald Dennis 8. Nothing - Priscilla Lopez 9. Dance: Ten; Looks: Three - Pamela Blair 10. The Music And The Mirror - Donna McKechnie 11. One - Company 12. What I Did For Love - Priscilla Lopez, Company 13. One (reprise)/Finale - Company BONUS TRACKS Marvin Hamlisch, piano, vocals Ed Kleban, vocals 14. It’s All In Here 15. I Can Do That 16. At The Ballet 17. Sing! 18. Joanne 19. Shoes 20. One 21. Finale Ballad (What I Did For Love)
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Post by Talon Karrde on Feb 19, 2016 15:34:35 GMT -5
MASTERWORKS BROADWAY ANNOUCES SLATE OF WINTER 2016 RELEASES Sweet Charity – Original London Cast Recording – Available February 12 The Essential Stephen Sondheim - Available February 26 Salad Days – Original Cast Recording- Available March 18 Kismet - 1965 Music Theater of Lincoln Center Cast Recording – Available April 15 Masterworks Broadway announces a slate of releases for Winter 2016 including the release of three classic albums from the archives – Sweet Charity (February 12), Salad Days (March 18), and Kismet (April 15). On February 26, Masterworks Broadway releases The Essential Stephen Sondheim, celebrating the 85th birthday year of the legendary theater composer and lyricist. Upon release, each title will be accompanied by new album pages and photos on MasterworksBroadway.com. Winner of the 1967 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Musical, Sweet Charity stars Juliet Prowse as everyone’s favorite dance-hall hostess in the Cy Coleman/Dorothy Fields musical. Also featuring Red McLennan, Josephine Blake, and Paula Kelly, the production originated in Las Vegas at the newly opened Caesar’s Palace earlier that year. Sweet Charity – The Original London Cast Recording will be officially released for the first time on CD in the U.S. February 12, with streaming and downloads available the same day. Stephen Sondheim, the pre-eminent Broadway composer and lyricist of the modern era, has been awarded eight Tonys, eight Grammys, an Oscar, a Pulitzer Prize, five Oliviers and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Essential Stephen Sondheim spans this iconic artist’s unparalleled career, from West Side Story (1957) through Passion (1994), and also includes important works from his forays into television and film. This new 2-CD collection features performances by Bernadette Peters, Mandy Patinkin, Ethel Merman, Jason Alexander, Angela Lansbury, Elaine Stritch, Victor Garber, Barbara Cook, Carol Burnett, Rita Moreno, Dean Jones, Glynis Johns, Marni Nixon, Lee Remick, Jim Walton, Lonny Price, Peabo Bryson, Nancy Wilson and many more. The Essential Stephen Sondheim will be released on February 26, with streaming and downloads available the same day. Starring Eleanor Drew, John Warner, Salad Days was commissioned in 1954 by the Bristol Old Vic. The show ran there for three weeks and then moved to the Vaudeville Theatre in London, where it played for a then unprecedented 2283 performances. With music by Julian Slade, and book and lyrics by Dorothy Reynolds and Slade, the story features a young and impetuous couple, a tramp who possesses a magic piano that makes everyone who hears it dance and a flying saucer that ultimately helps track down the piano when it goes missing. Salad Days – Original Cast Recording will be released on March 18, with streaming and downloads available the same day. Famed composer Richard Rodgers produced a series of musical revivals for Lincoln Center from 1964-1969 at New York’s City Center. Kismet opened for a limited summer run in June 1965 starring Alfred Drake, recreating his Tony-winning role as the Hajj, as well as Henry Calvin from the original Broadway production. "Bored," a song written by Robert Wright and George Forrest for the 1955 movie version, was added to the score of the Tony-winning Best Musical for this production. Also staring Anne Jeffreys, Lee Venora, Richard Banke, Rudy Vejar, Albert Toigo, and Anita Alpert, Kismet – Music Theater of Lincoln Center Cast Recording will be released on April 15, with streaming and downloads available the same day.
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Post by Talon Karrde on May 6, 2016 12:57:32 GMT -5
MASTERWORKS BROADWAY ANNOUCES SLATE OF WINTER 2016 RELEASES
Sweet Charity – Original London Cast Recording – Available February 12
The Essential Stephen Sondheim - Available February 26
Salad Days – Original Cast Recording- Available March 18
Kismet - 1965 Music Theater of Lincoln Center Cast Recording – Available April 15
Masterworks Broadway announces a slate of releases for Winter 2016 including the release of three classic albums from the archives – Sweet Charity (February 12), Salad Days (March 18), and Kismet (April 15). On February 26, Masterworks Broadway releases The Essential Stephen Sondheim, celebrating the 85th birthday year of the legendary theater composer and lyricist. Upon release, each title will be accompanied by new album pages and photos on MasterworksBroadway.com.
Winner of the 1967 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Musical, Sweet Charity stars Juliet Prowse as everyone’s favorite dance-hall hostess in the Cy Coleman/Dorothy Fields musical. Also featuring Red McLennan, Josephine Blake, and Paula Kelly, the production originated in Las Vegas at the newly opened Caesar’s Palace earlier that year. Sweet Charity – The Original London Cast Recording will be officially released for the first time on CD in the U.S. February 12, with streaming and downloads available the same day.
Stephen Sondheim, the pre-eminent Broadway composer and lyricist of the modern era, has been awarded eight Tonys, eight Grammys, an Oscar, a Pulitzer Prize, five Oliviers and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Essential Stephen Sondheim spans this iconic artist’s unparalleled career, from West Side Story (1957) through Passion (1994), and also includes important works from his forays into television and film. This new 2-CD collection features performances by Bernadette Peters, Mandy Patinkin, Ethel Merman, Jason Alexander, Angela Lansbury, Elaine Stritch, Victor Garber, Barbara Cook, Carol Burnett, Rita Moreno, Dean Jones, Glynis Johns, Marni Nixon, Lee Remick, Jim Walton, Lonny Price, Peabo Bryson, Nancy Wilson and many more. The Essential Stephen Sondheim will be released on February 26, with streaming and downloads available the same day.
Starring Eleanor Drew, John Warner, Salad Days was commissioned in 1954 by the Bristol Old Vic. The show ran there for three weeks and then moved to the Vaudeville Theatre in London, where it played for a then unprecedented 2283 performances. With music by Julian Slade, and book and lyrics by Dorothy Reynolds and Slade, the story features a young and impetuous couple, a tramp who possesses a magic piano that makes everyone who hears it dance and a flying saucer that ultimately helps track down the piano when it goes missing. Salad Days – Original Cast Recording will be released on March 18, with streaming and downloads available the same day.
Famed composer Richard Rodgers produced a series of musical revivals for Lincoln Center from 1964-1969 at New York’s City Center. Kismet opened for a limited summer run in June 1965 starring Alfred Drake, recreating his Tony-winning role as the Hajj, as well as Henry Calvin from the original Broadway production. "Bored," a song written by Robert Wright and George Forrest for the 1955 movie version, was added to the score of the Tony-winning Best Musical for this production. Also staring Anne Jeffreys, Lee Venora, Richard Banke, Rudy Vejar, Albert Toigo, and Anita Alpert, Kismet – Music Theater of Lincoln Center Cast Recording will be released on April 15, with streaming and downloads available the same day.
Masterworks Broadway is a label of Sony Music Masterworks. For email updates and information on Masterworks Broadway please visit www.masterworksbroadway.com.
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