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Schedule of New & Upcoming CD, DVD & Book Releases

Updated 1/14/25

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In Gad We Trust: A Tell-Some
(Gallery Books - Hardcover Book/Audible Audiobook/Audiobook on CD)
Collection personal stories by Josh Gad (The Book of Mormon, Guttenberg! The Musical!). 272 pages.

Zachary James Live at Crazy Coqs, London
(new digital album)
Broadway (The Addams Family, West End (Hadestown), and opera singer/actor Zachary James with George Francis on piano. "There's No Business Like Show Business," "Why We Build The Wall," "Pure Imagination," "A New Town Is A Blue Town," "Boulevard Of Broken Dreams," "Sixteen Tons," "I Feel Like I'm Not Out Of Bed Yet," "Some Enchanted Evening," "This Nearly Was Mine," "Stars," "Move Toward the Darkness," "You'll Never Walk Alone," "No One Is Alone," "You'll Never Walk Alone Reprise," "Over The Rainbow," "What A Wonderful World," "Over The Rainbow Reprise," "The Impossible Dream," "Thank You Crazy Coqs," "Flowers." Recorded before live audiences in London in July of 2024. Released 12/31/24.


January 17, 2025

The Shape of Things: Songs from Joy The Musical
(Joy Machine Records - new digital album)
Concept album for musical about Joy Mangano, with a score by and performed by Annmarie Milazzo. Piano: Andy Einhorn and Sonny Paladino; guitars: Ben Butler; bass: Jeffery Allen; drums and percussion: Rich Mercurio; cello: Yair Evnine. Music supervision by Andy Einhorn. Recorded and mixed at Renaissance Studio, NYC. JoytheMusical.com. Produced by Sonny Paladino.

Ari Axelrod: A Place For Us: A Celebration of Jewish Broadway
(PS Classics - new on CD/digital)
Singer Ari Axelrod with 13-piece orchestra arranged and conducted by Mike Stapleton. "Migratory V," "Hatikvah," "Hope," "Everybody Says Don’t," "You’d Be So Nice to Come Home To / Papirosn," "So in Love," "Shalom / Milk and Honey / I Will Follow You," "You’ve Got to Be Carefully Taught / Children Will Listen," "Some Enchanted Evening," "Shy," "Corner of the Sky," "God Knows Where," "Miracle of Miracles," "It Ain’t Necessarily So," "Lost in the Stars," "Cool," "Somewhere," "Bring Him Home," "Adrift on a Star." Additional arrangements by Larry Yurman. 0Produced by Tommy Krasker and Bart Migal, with Ron Thomas serving as executive producer. Special album release concert at New York’s 54 Below on Saturday, January 18 at 7:00 PM.


January 19, 2025

Manuel vs. The Statue of Liberty
(new album)
Concept album for a musical comedy with a score by David Davila and Noemi de la Puente. Gabrielle Ruiz, Julia Estrada, Florencia Cuenca, Kevin Gwinn, Martin Ramirez Jr, and Haley Guerra. Kennedy on acoustic and electric guitar, Tony Mastroberti on electric bass, Jaxson Rives on drums, and Jeremy Gussin on piano. Musical arrangements and orchestrations by Karl Hedrick with additional arrangements by Gussin, Aaqil Abdullah, Mark Galinovsky, Angela Ortiz, and Jaime Ramirez. Produced and music directed by Jeremy Gussin. Also features four karaoke tracks of popular audition songs from the show. Recorded at Airtime Studios in Bloomington IL.


January 21, 2025

A Show Tune for Today: 366 Songs to Brighten Your Year Calendar
(Applause - calendar)
By Peter Filichia. Day-to-day calendar (one that can be used again and again, in any year). 366 bite-size entries, with anecdotes, observations, fun facts, and other confections tied to a single song, perfect for starting each day. Tied to a show's opening date, holidays, historic dates, lyrics, or connections more surprising. 400 pages.


January 23, 2025

Slow Train Coming: Bob Dylan's Girl From the North Country and Broadway's Rebirth
(Methuen Drama - Hardcover Book/Kindle)
By Todd Almond. The journey of a musical from potential disaster to success, and the Broadway industry that managed to stay alive during the pandemic shutdown of 2020-22. Told through personal stories, anecdotes from the cast, production shots, behind-the-scenes photos, and insights from the creators. 280 pages.


February 4, 2025

Wicked
(Studio Dist Services - new Blu-ray/DVD/4k)
2024 musical film based on the Broadway musical. Score by Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman. Screenplay by Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox. Directed by Jon M. Chu. Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Bowen Yang, Marissa Bode, Peter Dinklage, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum. Two hours, forty minutes. Extras: sing along - alternate feature-length version; deleted and extended scenes; "Making Wicked"; "Welcome to Shiz"; "A Wicked Legacy"; "The Wonderful Wizard"; feature commentary with Jon M. Chu; feature commentary with Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande.


February 6, 2025

If the Song Doesn't Work, Change the Dress: The Illustrated Memoirs of Broadway Costume Designer Patricia Zipprodt
(Methuen Drama - Hardcover Book/Kindle Edition)
Broadway costume designer Patricia Zipprodt (1925-99) tells her own colorful story, with Arnold Wengrow. Foreword by Joel Grey. From plunging into the developing Off-Broadway movement to charting her personal and professional failures and successes collaborating with the biggest artists of the day - Jerome Robbins, Hal Prince, and Bob Fosse, and more. Includes pictures from Zipprodt's own archive including sketches, drawings, and photographs of her work from some of the most significant shows of the 20th century, including Cabaret, Fiddler on the Roof, Chicago, and Pippin. Wengrow provides a vivid epilogue about her final battle with cancer. Drawing from her archive at the New York Public Library and Museum of the Performing Arts, he amplifies her recollections with letters, oral histories, and interviews she gave over the years to offer a portrait of an artist consistently working against the grain. 216 pages.


February 7, 2025

Swept Away
(Joy Machine Records - new digital album)
OBC recording of score by The Avett Brothers (book by John Logan). Cast includes John Gallagher, Jr., Stark Sands, Adrian Blake Enscoe, Wayne Duvall. "Prelude," "The Charnel House," "Go to Sleep," "Hard Worker (Part 1)," "Nothing Short of Thankful," "Hard Worker (Part 2)," "Swept Away," "Lord Lay Your Hand on My Shoulder," "Ain't No Man," "May It Last," "Murder in the City," "The Shipwreck," "A Gift for Melody Anne," "Through My Prayers," "Two Tableaux," "Satan Pulls the Strings," "No Hard Feelings" (now available), "Go to Sleep (Reprise)," "Finale." Produced by Brian Usifer, Chris Miller, Will Van Dyke, and Madison Wells Live. CD format expected in early 2025.


March 21, 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 book)
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.


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.


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.


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.


May 25, 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.


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


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.

Three Houses - A Concept Album
(new album)
Score by Dave Malloy. Kickstarter.com.

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






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