Thursday, November 1, 2012
There's nice work on all three of this week's musical entries. We begin with Nice Work If You Can Get It, the cast album that's a glut of Gershwin & Gershwin from the golden age. A starkly m…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:55PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 25, 2012
We've got three discs on the CD player, and the name of composer-lyricist Irving Berlin is very much around. There's a London cast album of a production adding various Berlin songs to the sc…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:34PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 11, 2012
Journey from eerie (Carrie, Jekyll & Hyde, two musicals we first heard from at the end of the 1980s) to spiffy, smirking supposed "sequel" to the ultimate in musical theatre cheery (The Soun…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:21AM[SHARE]Friday, October 5, 2012
One of the lesser-known musicals of one of the best-known musical theatre writing teams gets its only recording since the original and the two female stars of the new production have their o…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:43AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Taking on the legend's songbook, Ann has her own landmark bookmark in it, having been a contributor on a couple of occasions, which helps uniquely anchor the show.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 20, 2012
Here are two studio cast albums of enjoyable musicals which saw limited-run New York productions: Next Thing You Know and Sympathy Jones. And a new issue of the original (1971) Follies Broad…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:22AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 13, 2012
Two legendary ladies surnamed Lee—one fictional and one real—get new looks in recordings released this month. Lorelei Lee is the gold-digging heroine ... and cabaret singer Stacy Sulliva…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:10PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Here's a look at the theatrical cabaret act of a bright talent with a fun and funny autobiographical act, with a thoughtful core ...
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:43AM[SHARE]Friday, September 7, 2012
old and brave, or balladeering and besotted with love, bathed in bravery or just bravado, musical theatre's long line of leading male roles is rich with juicy material.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:45AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 30, 2012
Another edition of the Original Cast Records series of Lost Broadway and More brings more than a treasure chest full of recovered gems ... Only a Kingdom revels in its just-right tone ... […
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:10AM[SHARE]Saturday, August 25, 2012
The pair of pros on stage and in full command are musical theatre darlings Faith Prince and Jason Graae.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:23AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 23, 2012
This time: one vocal album from someone currently lighting up one of NYC's most elegant nightclubs and another kind of Sondheim set - this time instrumental.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:31PM[SHARE]Tuesday, August 21, 2012
So, what is it about zombies that makes them want to bring crazed drama to the stage or even sing and dance, determined to eat musical and non-musical theatre alive, seeking fresh blood, mak…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 04:05AM[SHARE]Sometimes it's all about being impressed and/or amused that very few actors plays many roles in the play, switching gears (meaning accents, voices, costumes, energies, walks) in a flash, dar…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 04:03AM[SHARE]If you are a Fringe Festival Fanatic, things can get dramatic, traipsing from venue to venue, when you see what's on the theatrical menu. The annual glut of shows to which one goes in downto…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 04:02AM[SHARE]Each year in the summer marathon of theatre known as the New York International Fringe Festival of theatre pieces downtown (or Fringe Frenzy, as I have come to call it), there are shows that…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 04:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 15, 2012
When Michael Arden is in the driver's seat, you want to fasten your seat belt and go along for the ride ...
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:35AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 9, 2012
The tale of a real-life show biz family troupe from the old days brings kids and kidding around back around for vaudeville cheer in a new cast album ... osh Young, a strong-voiced current B…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:21PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 19, 2012
Her current Broadway role finds the captivating Nikki Renée Daniels singing the classic "Summertime" as the latest Clara ... The heart is on the sleeve, pounding and apparently resilient de…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:50PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 12, 2012
For those multitudes who have been merrily rolling along their way through the years as Stephen-Sondheimaholics, I guess there is no such thing as too much Sondheim and there maybe can never…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, July 5, 2012
British leading man Dave Willetts has quite the resumé at this point, as this recently released album makes us stop and take note of the quarter-century career retrospective (and his landma…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:46PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 28, 2012
... the expansive score of Evita filling two CDs ... several of its songs are among those included on a double-disc multi-performer concert set surveying its composer's work ... and , a cab…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:47PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 21, 2012
In one of the more unusual footnotes on history's pages becoming a musical, we have the real-life story of the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel. Then, over in California, no…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:29AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 14, 2012
Here for your listening pleasure: two albums with female vocalists, each with 17 tracks: one old, one new. We have a 1974 red-hot live recorded document by a super nova and a recently record…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:02PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 31, 2012
Better late than never as the score of a 1924 Gershwin/DeSylva Broadway show finally gets recorded: "Sweet Little Devil" ... in "Sweeney Todd," the only warnings needed about the latest cas…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:52PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 24, 2012
In various productions (and a film) over the years, with the original material shrinking or growing somewhat, the turbulent 1935 folk opera that grew from DuBose Heyward's novel Porgy is bac…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:50PM[SHARE]Friday, May 18, 2012
If you strolled down Broadway late in 1961, among the shows playing were How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (which opened that year), the previous year's late entry, Do Re Mi, …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:01AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 3, 2012
Reviews of "One Man, Two Givnors" Original Cast Album, Julie Reiber's "Love Travels," Gay Marshall's Go Back Where You Stayed Last Night!" and Nancy Stearns' "Weather or Not."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:53PM[SHARE]Thursday, April 26, 2012
Reviews of "Bonnie & Clyde" original cast recording, Sue Raney's "Listen Here," Sue Halloran and Ken Hitchcock "I Can Cook Too!
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:38PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 24, 2012
It's easy to feel at home with singer Roslyn Kind, as we chat about her life and career and her April 28 concert in Brooklyn, before May dates in New Jersey and Rhode Island.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:57AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 19, 2012
Someone Else's Story is a debut solo CD from Meredith Braun ... Barb Jungr continues her association with the tales crafted and introduced by Bob Dylan.
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