Thursday, February 14, 2013
She's back! And she looks and sounds terrific. As you might expect, Dreamgirls star Jennifer Holliday includes two big songs from that very musical that put her on the Broadway map.
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 06:55PMMaria Jacobs demonstrates the Art of the Duo, mostly with one guitarist or another (or, instead, bass or piano player). Jessica Molaskey's pianist du jour is also her singing partner and the…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:09PMThursday, February 7, 2013
You can say that all musical theatre roads liltingly lead back to composer Jerome Kern.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:44PMFriday, February 1, 2013
Context is everything. Have some patience and drink it all in, and don't judge by casual first listen. The brand new revival cast album of The Mystery of Edwin Drood is fully understood and …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:18AMThursday, January 24, 2013
Patti LuPone comes from the world of theatre and Patricia Racette is an established opera singer, but each has found another home on the cabaret stage. Each has a new live album that include…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:06PMTuesday, January 22, 2013
"Retirement." It's not even a thought for performers Barbara Cook and Joel Grey or writers Sheldon Harnick and Sherman Yellen.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:40PMThursday, January 17, 2013
Beyond the usual Top Ten Vocals, there are a couple of other special honorees.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:36PMThursday, January 10, 2013
These are the ones that make me want to press "repeat play" repeatedly and think will hold up and I'll hold closer over the coming years.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:27AMThursday, January 3, 2013
Let's leap into the new year with looks at two new cast recordings, both courtesy of the invaluable Ghostlight Records label.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:41PMFriday, December 28, 2012
This is a feel-good fest. Lively and upbeat, the 69-year-old is as bubbly as the soon-to-be-corked New Year's Eve champagne.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:39AMThursday, December 27, 2012
Recommended listening comes from vocalists who've perked up my ears and piqued my interest.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:35AMThursday, December 20, 2012
Brian Stokes Mitchell, Telly Leung, Robert Cuccioli and Natalie Toro.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:39PMThursday, December 13, 2012
It's a wonderful feeling, finding an eye-opening, ear-opening dazzling treasure-chest of songs with melodies by a master, many of which have never (or rarely) been recorded.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:15AMThursday, December 6, 2012
Tell the stage manager to cue the snow as we welcome two Broadway veterans teaming up and joined by a small instrumental group. Then, two other albums: both vocalists from the Washington, DC…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:51AMThursday, November 29, 2012
There are three things certain in life: death, taxes, and that every year there will be a bunch of new Christmas recordings on the market. "Haul out the holly" and have a look at this year's…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:55PMThursday, November 15, 2012
Anthony Newley "The Last Song: The Final Recordings," "Top Hat" 2012 London Cast, and Andrea Marcovicci's "Smile" reviewed.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:04PMFriday, November 9, 2012
What a pleasure to find these two Lost-titled albums and welcome back to two female singers whose latest work brings intelligent, artful interpretations: Deborah Shulman and Deanna Kirk.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:07PMThursday, 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 12:55PMThursday, 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 01:34PMThursday, 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 09:21AMFriday, 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 11:43AMWednesday, 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 04:03PMThursday, 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 11:22AMThursday, 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 Sullivan ta…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:10PMWednesday, 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 10:43AMFriday, 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 10:45AMThursday, 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 11:10AMSaturday, 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 10:23AMThursday, 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 12:31PMTuesday, 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 04:05AMSometimes 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, d…
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