Sunday, January 29, 2012
This month's column discusses the 50th anniversary Blu-ray of "To Kill a Mockingbird"; new releases of Hitchcock's "Rebecca," "Spellbound" and "Not…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 22, 2012
This week's column discusses the original Broadway cast album of People in the Picture, starring Donna Murphy, and the long-forgotten 1960 West End musical Johnny the Priest.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 15, 2012
Paging through a stack of recent theatre-related books, scripts and sheet music, including the latest from Peter Filichia, a travel tome celebrating Shakespeare's Italy, a Wicked memoir,…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Monday, January 9, 2012
Listening to "My Lifelong Love," a collection of songs by Georgia Stitt; Perfect Hermany, Jason Graae's one-man salute to Jerry Herman; and the CD debut of the 1959 West End ca…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:13PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 8, 2012
Listening to "My Lifetime Love," a collection of songs by Georgia Stitt; Perfect Hermany, Jason Graae's one-man salute to Jerry Herman; and the CD debut of the 1959 West End ca…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 1, 2012
Listening to the original Broadway cast recording of Elf; Stage Door Canteen from Lyrics & Lyricists; and "Possibilities," a solo album from Linda Lavin.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 25, 2011
Screening Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris"; Jean Renoir's classic "The Rules of the Game"; Ernst Lubitsch and Ben Hecht's overhaul of Noel Coward's Desig…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 18, 2011
Paging through "Harold: The Boy Who Became Mark Twain" by Hal Holbrook; "Luck and Circumstance" by Michael Lindsay-Hogg; the new edition of Stanley Green's "Musi…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 11, 2011
This week's column discusses the cast album of the current Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman's Follies, plus a special recording from the archives of the late Hu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Sunday, December 4, 2011
The holiday season has arrived yet again, bringing with it this column's annual list of recommended CDs from the past year.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 27, 2011
Listening to "Legrand Affair," Melissa Errico's salute to composer Michel Legrand; Michael Feinstein's "The Sinatra Project, Vol. II: The Good Life"; and the 2011…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Paging through "Look, I Made a Hat," the second volume of Stephen Sondheim's collected and annotated lyrics. Here's everything from Sunday in the Park With George to Sondhe…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 13, 2011
Screening the 50th Anniversary Blu-ray of "West Side Story"; "Top Banana" with Phil Silvers; the Blu-ray of "Blue Velvet"; a set of Jean Harlow films; and Alfre…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 6, 2011
In preparation for the new Broadway cast album of Follies, here's part two of an overview of the four recordings that already exist. This week, the Cameron Mackintosh London production a…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 30, 2011
In preparation for the cast album of the new Broadway production of Follies, here's part one of an overview of the four cast recordings that already exist. This week, the original 1971 c…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 23, 2011
Screening the iconic thriller "The Bad Seed"; two celebrated British miniseries; a deluxe gift box of "Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory"; "The World of Sholom…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 16, 2011
Listening to the original cast album of Maury Yeston's new Death Takes a Holiday, plus the first CD appearance of the London cast album of Jule Styne, Betty Comden and Adolph Green's…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 9, 2011
Screening the 50th anniversary edition of the award-laden "Ben-Hur"; new Blu-ray remasterings of Disney's "The Lion King" and Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Ficti…
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Listening to the new reissue of the 1967 revival cast album of Rodgers & Hart's By Jupiter, plus a CD full of old-time star Irene Dunne singing songs by Jerome Kern.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 25, 2011
Paging through "For the Good of the Show," a memoir by general manager Peter Neufeld; "Judy: A Legendary Film Career" a coffee table book; and the scripts for Good People…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 18, 2011
Listening to cast recording of A Minister's Wife plus Masterworks Broadway reissues of archy and mehitabel, Say, Darling, Ernest in Love and The Mad Show.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 11, 2011
Screening the 70th anniversary edition of Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane"; Danny Kaye in the mirthful musical "The Inspector General"; and Carrie Fisher's "Wish…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 4, 2011
Listening to the new Broadway cast album of Cole Porter's Anything Goes, starring Sutton Foster, and a two-disc compilation of original recordings from Kurt Weill's Germany.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 28, 2011
Our books column explores the unusual entanglements of two Broadway names: Wendy Wasserstein in "Wendy and the Lost Boys," and George Gershwin in "The Memory of All That"…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 21, 2011
Listening to live recordings of Kate Baldwin's salute to Sheldon Harnick, She Loves Him, and the Callaway sisters' nostalgic look at music of the '60s and '70s, Boom!
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 14, 2011
Screening 1955 TV adaptations of the vintage musicals A Connecticut Yankee and The Desert Song; early '90s comedies "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and "Honeymoon in Vegas&q…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, August 7, 2011
Listening to the first CD appearance of Gian-Carlo Menotti's Pulitzer Prize-winning The Saint of Bleecker Street; Michael Lavine's collection of obscure show tunes, "Lost Broadw…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 24, 2011
Listening to the first full album of the 1938 Kurt Weill musical Knickerbocker Holiday and the original 1961 London cast album of The Music Man starring Van Johnson.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 17, 2011
Screening early films with stage stars Jeanne Eagels ("The Letter") and Helen Hayes ("The Sin of Madelon Claudet"), plus Fred Astaire in "A Damsel in Distress" …
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 10, 2011
Listening to the original cast albums of the spring 2011 musicals How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and Catch Me If You Can, plus some Masterworks Broadway reissues.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:01AM[SHARE]We listen to the original cast albums of the spring 2011 musicals How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying and Catch Me If You Can, plus some Masterworks Broadway reissues.
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