While theatre is necessarily ephemeral, vanishing into the night the moment the curtain comes down, at least musicals can leave one part of themselves behind: the score can be released both as sheet music and as an original cast album. But the means of distributing both of them have changed so much in the last decade that it is an industry under severe threat. As with every other branch of the recording industry, the…
SOURCE: The Stage at 09:38AM on June 16, 2011