Cast albums, theatre books, videos and upcoming releases from the world of Broadway.
Live Nation, the world's largest live music company, as announced that Madonna's most recent stage extravaganza, the STICKY & SWEET Concert, will be released on March 30th. STICKY & SWEET, which was produced by Live Nation, was the most successful tour by a solo artist in history and was seen by…
SONY MASTERWORKS partners with Tony®-nominated composer/producer Frank Wildhorn (Jekyll & Hyde, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Civil War, Dracula and Victor/Victoria) and Soul Bear Records on the marketing, promotion, and distribution of Wildhorn's national and international theatre recordings. Within…
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment (WDSHE) has announced the Blu-ray high-definition debut of Disney's animated masterpiece, Beauty and the Beast on October 5, 2010.
THE DAVID BERGER JAZZ ORCHESTRA - the acclaimed band featured in the Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio and PBS TV - will celebrate the release of their groundbreaking new album Sing Me A Love Song: Harry Warren's Undiscovered Standards, with two sets at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola on March 29…
The original cast recording of Benny Andersson, Björn Ulvaeus, and Herbert Kretzmer's KRISTINA will be released on April 12 by Decca Records.
Actress and singer Lucie Arnaz has released a new album titled, 'Latin Roots.' She will perform and autograph CDs on March 26 at Manhattan's J&R Music World at 12 PM. Special guests Pap Pepin and Joe Luckinbill will join her.
This week we are taking a listen to one of Broadway's brightest stars Laura Bell Bundy, late of HAIRSPRAY and LEGALLY BLONDE, who is hoping for some pop/country-crossover success with her latest, for all intents and purposes, double-album...
In 1996, DINK Records released a compendium of musical theater love songs from Gershwin, Sondheim, Porter, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Herman, Kern,..., with a twist. Sung between men, with no lyric alterations (including pronouns), 'Stage 1 How I Love You' was, as Out Magazine described 'a dream no…
HARBINGER RECORDS has announced the release of the new CD from piano jazz legend BARBARA CARROLL. The CD Something To Live For: Live at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola - the most improvisational album of a recording career that stretches back to 1951 - was captured in performance at New York's nightclub…
Adapted from the hit play by award-winning novelist, playwright and screenwriter John Mortimer (Rumpole of Bailey), A Voyage Round My Father, debuts on DVD from Acorn Media on April 27, 2010.
Featuring poetry's highlights through the years, as read by distinguished actors, Six Centuries of Verse debuts on DVD from Athena (Playing Shakespeare) on April 27, 2010.
On March 24th, the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA) will host a conversation with cartooning legend Jules Feiffer with Danny Fingeroth. Feiffer will be discussing his new autobiography Backing Into Forward: A Memoir.
Israeli bassist Avishai Cohen is an alchemist at heart. Finding inspiration in musicians ranging from Bach to Stevie Wonder, Avishai can transform a tired Israeli school tune back into poetic gold. He can take the Sephardic melodies his grandfather sang in prayer, or his mother hummed while washing…
THE DAVID BERGER JAZZ ORCHESTRA - the acclaimed band featured in the Wall Street Journal, National Public Radio and PBS TV - will celebrate the release of their groundbreaking new album Sing Me A Love Song: Harry Warren's Undiscovered Standards, with two sets at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola on March 29…
The off-Broadway musical GOOD OL' GIRLS is set to record its cast album today, March 23. The cast features Sally Mayes, Teri Ralston, Lauren Kennedy, Liza Vann, and Gina Stewart. A release date for the recording has yet to be announced.
DRG Records is releasing a recording of Jane Krakowski's nightclub debut at Feinstein's at Loews Regency. The recording is set to be released on March 23 and will be available in all major online and retail outlets. The show, which played the famed Fienstein's at Lowes Regency from October 6…
Australian actor/muscian David Campbell will be releasing his new album, 'On Broadway' on April 2, 2010, in Australia the star has announced on his Facebook page. The disc was recorded at East West Studios in Los Angeles in January 2010, and produced by leading musical director Rob Fisher and…
Gaida's debut album Levantine Indulgence arrives March 21, 2010 (Palmyra Recordings). A mesmerizing collection that explores the tonal and imporvisational intersection of traditional Arabic music with American jazz. For streaming audio, visit www.rockpaperscissors.biz/go/gaida.
Music of Ireland - Welcome Home tells the definitive story of contemporary Irish music, focusing on the Emerald Isle's greatest musical exports, their influence on America and the music's global impact.
GLEE will return on April 13 with more than just new episodes. According to GLEE's official fan wiki, a third album will be released when episodes return. The album will be titled 'GLEE: The Music-The Power of Madonna.' The release will coincide with the shows much anticipated all-Madonna episode…
NewMusicalTheatre.com, the first website ever exclusively devoted to selling sheet music by musical theater writers, launches Georgia Stitt's sheet music catalogue today. Over the course of the next several weeks and leading up to an April launch concert, NewMusicalTheatre.com will be adding a new…
What started off as a small college musical at the University of Michigan made national headlines this week, when the cast album recording to Me and My Dick, featuring a book by Matt Lang, Nick Lang, Brian Holden and Eric Gale and a score by AJ Holmes, Carlos Valdes, and Darren Criss, made the…
On March 24th, the Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MoCCA) will host a conversation with cartooning legend Jules Feiffer with Danny Fingeroth. Feiffer will be discussing his new autobiography Backing Into Forward: A Memoir.
As BroadwayWorld previously reported, the cast album for LOVE NEVER DIES premiered on the UK National charts at Number 10, the production announced today. Of those international markets where the album has been released it has also charted well, such as in Greece (Number 1), Taiwan (Number 14), New…
Billboard's Top Cast Albums chart for week ending 3/20/2010.
