Bway Musicals of '49 CD, with Ziemba & More, Released 5/19

"The Broadway Musicals of 1949" will be the latest "Broadway by the Year" CD. Featuring Karen Ziemba, Cady Huffman, Marla Schaffel and more, it will be released on May 19th.

Produced by Bayview Records, the recordings preserve performances given in the popular Town Hall series, which is written and hosted by Scott Siegel. In addition to Tony Award-winners Huffman (The Producers) and Ziemba (Never Gonna Dance, Contact), and Schaffel (Jane Eyre), the CD will feature Scott Coulter, Nancy Lemenager (Never Gonna Dance), Noah Racey (Never Gonna Dance), Martin Vidnovic (Baby, Oklahoma!), Lennie Watts and Robert Westenberg (The Secret Garden, Into the Woods) singing songs from the musicals of 1949--a group of shows that included South Pacific, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and Lost in the Stars.

The cast recording of "The Broadway Musicals of 1949" is produced by Robert Pinne. Robert Bianca directed the April 2004 concert, and Ross Patterson offered musical direction.

To date, several "Broadway by the Year" CDs have been released, with the earlier ones representing musicals from the years 1925, 1933, 1939, 1940, 1943, 1951, 1953, 1964 and 1926.

The CD will include the following 22 tracks:

"It's Great to Be Alive" from Texas Lil' Darlin' (Company)
"A Cockeyed Optimist" from South Pacific (Ziemba)
"This Nearly Was Mine" from South Pacific (Vidnovic)
"Call It Apple Fritters" from Along Fifth Avenue (Huffman)
"What Will It Be?" from Regina (Schaffel)
"Santo Dinero" from Along Fifth Avenue (Watts)
"Skyscraper Blues" from Along Fifth Avenue (Westenberg)
"Bye Bye Baby" from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Coulter, Schaffel)
"A Little Girl from Little Rock" from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Huffman)
"Mr. Monotony" cut from Miss Liberty (Schaffel)
"A Little Fish in a Big Pond" from Miss Liberty (Watts, Huffman)
"Lost in the Stars" from Lost in the Stars (Vidnovic)
"A Little Gray House" from Lost in the Stars (Westenberg)
"You've Got to Be Carefully Taught" from South Pacific (Ziemba)
"This Had Better Be Love" from Touch and Go (Huffman)
"It Will Be Alright" from Touch and Go (Coulter)
"Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend" from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Huffman)
"The Big Movie Show in the Sky" from Texas Lil' Darlin' (Watts)
"No Time for Nothin' But You" from All for Love (Racey, Lemenager)
"A Wonderful Guy" from South Pacific (Ziemba)
"Some Enchanted Evening" from South Pacific (Vidnovic)
Finale (Company)

For more information, visit www.bayviewrecords.com.