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Schedule of New & Upcoming CD, DVD & Book Releases

Updated 2/12/25

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Bing Crosby: Kraft Music Hall Time: Volume 2
(Sepia Records - on 2 CDs)
Volume 2 of selections from Bing Crosby hosting the Kraft Music Hall broadcast. New transfers.63 tracks. Released 2/7/25. SepiaRecords.com.

Mario Lanza: Night and Day
(Sepia Records - on 2 CDs)
From two early live broadcasts to his final monaural recordings in 1957. All 49 tracks are offered for the first time in Digitally Extracted Stereo (DES). Released on 2/7/25. SepiaRecords.com.

Three Houses
(new digital album)
Concept album for Dave Malloy musical. Margo Seibert, Mia Pak, J.D. Mollison, Ching Valdes-Aran, Henry Stram, Scott Stangland. Matias (conductor/piano), Blair Hamrick (french horn), Maria Bella Jeffers (cello), Dave Malloy (beats/organ), Yuko Naito-Gotay (violin), Scott Stangland (guitar). Music direction and supervision by Or Matias. Recorded at Sear Sound. davemalloy.bandcamp.com/album/three-houses.


February 13, 2025

I'm Almost There
(Audible Audiobook)
Written and performed by Todd Almond and directed by David Cromer. Erin Hill on harp and Luke McCross on on bass. Music supervision and co-orchestration by Jonathan Mastro. Recorded at Minetta Lane Theatre. 59 minutes.


February 14, 2025

Frank Dain: I've Had a Love
(new album)
"But Beautiful," "I'll Be Easy to Find," "Let's Fall in Love," "It's a New World," "I Didn't Know What Time It Was," "Embraceable You," "Lazy Afternoon," "Corcovado," "Sleepy Man," "The Twelfth of Never," "Whistling Away the Dark," "No One Ever Tells You," "Unusual Way (In a Very Unusual Way)," "A Certain Smile," "Hello, Young Lovers," "Some Other Time." Kathleen Landis, arranger, music director, and co-producer with Kurt Peterson.

Romantics Anonymous
(Wise Children and Plush Theatricals - new digital album)
Live cast recording of score by Michael Kooman and Christopher Dimond (book by Emma Rice). Captured live during its 2020 run at Bristol Old Vic. Marc Antolin, Carly Bawden, Brett Brown, Me'sha Bryan, Harry Hepple, Laura Jane Matthewson, Sandra Marvin, Craig Pinder, and Gareth Snook.


February 24, 2025

Painting the Town: Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano
(new on CD)
Songs range from Cole Porter's "Just One Of Those Things," to Joni Mitchell's "Marcie", with stops in between for Berlin, Mercer, Ellington & Strayhorn, Van Heusen, Coleman & Leigh, Carole King, and Paul Simon.


March 14, 2025

Liaisons II
(Avie Records - new on CD)
Part two of Anthony de Mare's commissioning project of "Re-Imagining Sondheim from the Piano." Fourteen tracks by contemporary composers from the worlds of classical, jazz, film, indie, pop and musical theatre, including Jon Batiste, Stephen Hough, Meredith Monk, Max Richter, Conrad Tao, with the soloist himself contributing the title track "All Things Bright and Beautiful". Digital version expected in February 2025.


March 22, 2025

Every Day a Little Death: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of Stephen Sondheim
(Level Best Books - new Paperback/Kindle Edition)
Edited by Josh Pachter. Twenty crime stories, one inspired by a song from each of the twenty musicals with scores by Stephen Sondheim (including the made-for-TV Evening Primrose and the final show, Here We Are). Contributing authors include both widely published crime writers and people who are involved in the world of the theatre. 329 pages.


March 25, 2025

Elphie
(William Morrow - Hardcover Book/Paperback/Kinde Edition/Audible Audiobook)
By Gregory Maguire. The childhood story of Wicked's Elphaba, including her promiscuous mother, her pious father, her saintly sister Nessarose, and her junior felon brother Shell. Deluxe collector's hardcover features stenciled edges and a color illustrated map of Oz. 288 pages.


March 28, 2025

Once Upon a Mattress
(Center Stage Records / Shout! Broadway - new on CD/digital)
2024 Broadway revival cast recording of score by Mary Rodgers (music) and Marshall Barer (lyrics). The cast includes Sutton Foster, Michael Urie, Nikki Renée Daniels, David Patrick Kelly, Ana Gasteyer, Will Chase, Daniel Breaker, and Brooks Ashmanskas. Produced by Amy Sherman-Palladino, Adam Guettel, Lawrence Manchester, and Jenny Gersten. Executive produced by Van Dean for Center Stage Records and Douglas Denoff for Shout! Broadway.


March 2025, no date

Jo - The Little Women Musical
(Center Stage Records - new album)
Studio concept album for musical by Dan Redfeld (music), Christina Harding (book and lyrics) and John Gabriel Koladziej (book and lyrics). Christine Allado, Laura Benanti, Christine Ebersole, Eleanor Grant, Bob Gunton, Rob Houchen, Chris Mann, Kelly Mathieson, Miyuki Miyagi, Julian Ovenden, Sophie Pollono, Liam Tamne, Tobias Turley and 29-piece orchestra. Produced by Nigel Wright and Dan Redfeld. Recorded at London's Abbey Road Studios.


April 10, 2025

Strategic Love Play
(Audible Originals - Audible Audiobook)
Play by Miriam Battye, with 2024 Off-Broadway cast Heléne York and Michael Zegan.


April 15, 2025

The In-Between: Intimate and Candid Moments of Broadway Stars
(Applause - Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition)
By Jenny Anderson. Foreword by Ariana DeBose. Anderson's personal ode to the theatre community, including more than 100 of her photographs taken behind the scenes of the most iconic shows of the last decade: Hamilton, Wicked, The Lion King, Kinky Boots, Sweeney Todd, Waitress, Hadestown, Phantom of the Opera, and many, many more. Rare photography of performers like Glenn Close, Patti LuPone, Hugh Jackman, Chita Rivera, Jonathan Groff, and Gavin Creel. A privileged glance behind the curtains of the world's most prestigious theaters and the stars who grace their stages. 144 pages.

The Musicals of Cole Porter: Broadway, Hollywood, Television
(Univ Press of Mississippi - Hardcover Book)
By Bernard F. Dick. A critical study of Porter's Broadway and movie musicals, and his one foray into live television, from his first failure, See America First (1916) to Silk Stockings (1955). Interspersed with chapters on Porter's "list songs," his love songs, and his love of figurative language. Discusses the various literary sources and cultural reference points that inspired the lyrics to Porter's numbers. 240 pages.


May 6, 2025

Theater Kid: A Broadway Memoir
(Simon & Schuster - Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition)
A coming-of-age tale by theatrical producer Jeffrey Seller. From Detroit to New York City, finding his voice through musical theatre and making a name for himself. Through the 1980s, from working as an office assistant to Rent, Avenue Q, In the Heights and Hamilton. 368 pages.


May 13, 2025

Stereophonic
(Theatre Communications Group - Paperback Book)
Play by David Adjmi (songs by Will Butler). On Broadway this season. 160 pages.


May 20, 2025

The Book of Joel
(powerHouse Books - Hardcover Book)
By Joel Grey. The visual life story of Joel Grey: actor, singer, dancer, director, and photographer. This sprawling yet intimate scrapbook-style volume uncovers a kaleidoscope of both famous and previously unseen photographs, family snapshots, playbills, posters, and ephemera from Grey's personal archive, revealing an encyclopedic and all-absorbing visual romp through one of the last living greats of American entertainment. Excavated from Grey's personal archives and the treasure trove of his New York Public Library collection. Also included: intimate essays contributed by Eddie Redmayne Tony Kushner. 176 pages.


June (no release date)

Alan Harris: The Poetry of Jazz
(new album)
Singer/musician/writer Alan Harris. From his live show in which he performs through music and recitation, literary masterpieces. With John Di Martino (piano), Jay White (bass), Sylvia Cuenca (drums), and Alan Grubner (violin). Recorded live at Blue Llama Jazz Club, Ann Arbor MI. AllanHarris.com


September 2, 2025

Matching Minds with Sondheim: The Puzzles and Games of the Broadway Legend
(Applause - Hardcover Book)
Gaming expert and theatre fan Barry Joseph draws from over eighty years of Sondheim's activities, collecting his extremely rare and never-publicly-seen puzzles and game designs, original interviews with the celebrity friends who played them, deep dives into Sondheim-related archives from around the country, and analysis from both puzzle designers and theatre professionals from around the world. Allows readers to solve Sondheimian puzzles and bring Sondheimian games into their own homes. 208 pages. MatchingMindswithSondheim.com.


2025, date TBA

Death Becomes Her
(Concord Recordings - new album)
Original Broadway cast recording of score by Julia Mattison and Noel Carey (book by Marco Pennette). Megan Hilty, Jennifer Simard, Christopher Sieber, Michelle Williams, Taurean Everett, and Josh Lamon. Four tracks available now.


2026, date TBA

Liza Minnelli memoir
(Grand Central Publishing - new Hardcover book/ebook)
Liza Minnelli, with Michael Feinstein, Heidi Evans, and Josh Getlin. Audio edition will include bonus content with unreleased autobiographical recordings and musings that Minnelli and Feinstein have been working on for 15 years.


Release date unknown

Boop! The Musical
(new album)
Cast recording the score by David Foster and Susan Birkenhead of musical (book by Bob Martin) now playing at CIBC Theatre in Chicago. Cast includes Jasmine Amy Rogers, Faith Prince, Ainsley Melham, Erich Bergen, Stephen DeRosa. Recorded the week of November 12. Details TBA.

Charlie Rosen's Broadway Big Band
(new double album)
First recording from this band, which "puts both modern and classic showtunes on display, sung by the best and brightest of Broadway's young generation of leading performers, in the timeless tradition of Big Band. A full sized Jazz orchestra composed of 17 musicians play Rosen's re-imagined arrangements of an eclectic mix of tunes from Broadway's past, present, and beyond."

Complete Lyrics of Sheldon Harnick
(new book)

Empire: The Musical
(Yellow Sound Label - new album)
Original Off-Broadway cast recording of score by Caroline Sherman and Robert Hull. Produced by Michael Croiter. Recorded at PowerStation at BerkleeNYC. Release date TBA.

The Fantasticks
(JAY Records - new album)
Studio album recording of score by Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones. Brad Oscar, Telly Leung, Elizabeth Teeter, Lewis Cleale, and Ron Raines.

The Fitzgeralds of St. Paul
(Brainstorm Live Entertainment - new album)
Concept album for score by Christie Baugher. Heidi Blickenstaff, Jewell Wilson Bridges, Jessica and Santino Fontana, Grace McLean, Shannon O'Boyle, Tiffany Topol, Alysha Umphress, and others. Kickstarter.com.

Harbinger Records upcoming releases: material from Eubie Blake; download only demos of Hugh Martin and Sheldon Harnick; Steve Ross' back catalog for download;

The Jerusalem Syndrome
(JAY Records - new on CD/digital)
Original Off-Broadway (2023 York Theatre Company) cast recording of score by Laurence Holzman, Felicia Needleman, and Kyle Rosen.Farah Alvin, Dana Costello, Scott Cote, Andrea Fleming, James D. Gish, Alan H. Green, Danielle Lee James, John Jellison, Josh Lamon, Garrett Long, Karen Murphy, Jeffrey Schecter, Jennifer Smith, Chandler Sinks, Pablo Torres, Curtis Wiley, Lenny Wolpe, and Laura Woyasz. Digital release expected in January 2024 and CD in March 2024.

I Can Get It for You Wholesale
(Concord - new album)
2024 Off-Broadway cast recording of score by Harold Rome (book by Jerome Weidman). Santino Fontana, Adam Chanler-Berat, Eddie Cooper, Victor de Paula Rocha, Adam Grupper, Darron Hayes, Greg Hildreth, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Judy Kuhn, Julia Lester, Hayley Podschun, Sarah Steele, Joy Woods, Ephie Aardema, Jennifer Babiak, Billy Cohen, and John Plumpis. Arrangements by David Chase. Expected Fall 2024.

Larry Kramer authorized biography
(Henry Holt & Co. - new book)
By Bill Goldstein. To include interviews with Kramer and his husband David Webster, along with friends, colleagues, and "foes" plus material from Kramer's archives at Yale University.

Lizard Boy
(new album)
Live recording of 2023 Prospect Theatre cast. Score by Justin Huertas. Cast features Huertas, Kiki deLohr, and William A. Williams. Release date TBA.

Love Life
(Capriccio - new album)
Live recording of Opera North of Leeds concert recording of score by Kurt Weill (music), Alan Jay Lerner (lyrics). Book by Lerner. The first "complete" recording. To be broadcast on BBC Radio 3, and subsequently released on CD. James Holmes, conductor. Quirijn de Lang, Stephanie Corley, Justin Hopkins, Themba Mvula, Will Hopkins, Joshua Da Costa, Andrew Randall, Masimba Ushe, Holly Saw, Max Westwell, Tilly Baker, Louie Stow, Felicity Moore, Amber Midgley, and Lottie Gray. Release date TBA

Maybe Happy Ending
(Ghostlight Records - new album)
OBC recording of score by Will Aronson and Hue Park. Darren Criss, Helen J Shen, Dez Duron and Marcus Choi. Spring 2025 release date expected.

The Nutty Professor
(new album)
Studio recording of score by Marvin Hamlisch and Rupert Holmes. Based on the recent Ogunquit Playhouse staging of the musical based on the Jerry Lewis movie.. Cast TBA. 2024 release expected.

Paradise Square OBC
(new on CD/digital)
Broadway cast recording of score Jason Howland (music), Nathan Tysen and Masi Asare (lyrics), with additional music by Larry Kirwan, inspired by the songs of Stephen Foster. Joaquina Kalukango, Chilina Kennedy, John Dossett, Sidney DuPont, A.J. Shively, Nathaniel Stampley, Gabrielle McClinton, Jacob Fishel, Kevin Dennis and Matt Bogart. Produced by Jason Howland and Billy Jay Stein. Recorded at Power Station at BerkleeNYC during the weeks of April 18 and April 25.

Romeo & Bernadette: A Musical Tale of Verona and Brooklyn
(Yellow Sound Label - new album)
Off-Broadway cast recording. Nikita Burshteyn (Newsies), Anna Kostakis, Carlos Lopez (Man of La Mancha), Michael Marotta (Tenderly: The Rosemary Clooney Musical), Judy McLane (Mamma Mia!), Michael Notardonato, Ari Raskin, Troy Valjean Rucker (August Rush), Zach Schanne (Pippin), and Viet Vo (Viet Gone). Lyrics by Mark Saltzman and music adapted from classic Italian melodies. Recorded 2/18/20. Late March release expected.

Tammy Faye
(new album)
Music by Elton John; lyrics by Jake Shears. Cast from Almeida Theatre debut production. Details TBA.

This Side of the World
(new album)
East West Players cast recording of score by Paulo K Tiról.

Welcome to the Big Dipper
(new album)
York Theatre Company cast recording of score by Jimmy Roberts (book by Catherine Filloux and John Daggett), with additional lyrics by John Daggett. Jennifer Byrne, Robert Cuccioli, Darius Harper, Jillian Louis, Christian Magby, Mia Pinero, Jayae Riley, Jr., Pablo Torres, Debra M. Walton, and Michael Yeshion.

-- Sound Advice Staff