Tuesday, November 5, 2024
If you walk through Manhattan's theatre district, you pass locations of theaters owned by a man who wrote many shows (music, lyrics, book) and directed, produced, and often performed in them…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:34AMThursday, October 10, 2024
Reviews of new theatre and cabaret recordings.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:06PMThursday, June 27, 2024
Let's start with a recent Off-Broadway cast recording of a show that takes on religion, relationships, and right wing propaganda. Then it's love's ups and downs taking center stage for two s…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:32PMMonday, May 6, 2024
Maybe the musical Lucky Stiff wasn't enormously lucky the first time around, managing only 15 performances in its 1988 Off-Broadway debut, but it has continued to pop up over the years aroun…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:46PMSaturday, April 20, 2024
There's a place for a glib, undemanding, unpretentious old-school musical comedy that seeks to entertain and just wants to make someone happy. "Make Someone Happy" was the big song that came…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:47PMTuesday, April 2, 2024
Reviews of three new cast recordings.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:39AMWednesday, January 31, 2024
Reviews of albums from Stephen Pasquale & John Pizzarelli, Jan Cronin, Judy Whitmore, and Andy Pratt.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:51AMMonday, January 15, 2024
Reviews of cast recordings from Guys and Dolls, Wild About You, Walking with Bubbles, and The New Peggy.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:57AMWednesday, November 29, 2023
I've been doing a deep dive into songs by Stephen Sondheim lately, gorging on the new recording of Merrily We Roll Along, and then, wanting more, I went merrily scavenging through my "waitin…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:48PMThursday, November 16, 2023
"New York, New York" OBC, Matthew Scott, "Other Lives", and Chloé Jean album reviews.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:48PMThursday, October 26, 2023
Two "Anything Goes" albums from JAY Records.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 05:08PMWednesday, September 20, 2023
A Collective Cy: Jeff Harner Sings Cy Coleman and "Harmony" OBC cast recording reviewed.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:45AMThursday, August 10, 2023
New album reviews: "Lewberger: The Wizard of Friendship," Fanny Brice: Rare and Unreleased Recordings, and "The Flasher!" soundtrack.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:29PMMonday, June 26, 2023
"New York, New York" OBC, Matthew Scott, "Other Lives", and Chloé Jean album reviews.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:58AMThursday, June 15, 2023
Reviews of newly released albums: Eleri Ward; Legends of Broadway and Vaudeville; Chet Baker Blue Room.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:48PMThursday, June 8, 2023
et's open our minds and ears to alternate versions of classic musicals as presented in cast recordings: Camelot's recently opened revival and a complete South Pacific with a studio cast from…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:21AMThursday, May 18, 2023
Rob reviews the new OBC cast recordings for "Shucked" and "KPOP."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:41AMMonday, February 20, 2023
... Laurie Winer sees many sides to the icon, with her own eyes wide open rather than with myopic wide-eyed fandom, and with the advantage of 20/20 hindsight fueled by modern-day perspectiv…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:46AMThursday, February 2, 2023
Now we give due appreciation to duos–with a retrospective of the oeuvre of a long-standing, outstanding songwriting twosome, and then it's time for spare pairings of one singer accompanied…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:49PMTuesday, December 20, 2022
Reviews of new Funny Girl cast recording, A Beautiful Noise OBC recording, plus Harry Connick Jr.'s newest holiday album, and The Skivvies' Sleigh My Name.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:15AMThursday, December 8, 2022
Part one of reviews of 2022 Christmas music releases, starting with Million Dollar Quartet Christmas.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:59PMWednesday, November 30, 2022
Maury Yeston's song cycle and two sets of Sondheim songs: The calendar inching us to December is an apt cue to turn to December Songs, with Victoria Clark taking on Maury Yeston's one-charac…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:35PMThursday, September 29, 2022
The comet at hand is not the celestial object but a musical comedy with a title character named Regina Comet. Constellations and Under the Stars are the names of cool jazz releases. In any c…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:30PMWednesday, September 28, 2022
Miracle of The Music Man: The Classic American Story of Meredith Willson, while full of affection and appreciation, is also full of familiar tales and tidbits if you've read some of the othe…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 04:01PMThursday, September 22, 2022
When the feats of production are at their most dense and intense, there's a risk of upstaging the essence of the material's drama or delicacy–at least on the first or second hearing. And I…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:12AMTuesday, September 13, 2022
Full of fascinating facts, fond memories, musings, and proffered preferences, Peter Filichia's newest book may be a haven for the theatre maven unable to put it down. While perusing The Book…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:36AMTuesday, September 6, 2022
Let's check out two London cast recordings of newer musicals–The Pleasure Garden and It Happened in Key West–and then turn our focus to southern California to report on two singers based…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:48AMThursday, August 25, 2022
In her candid memoirs, self-aware Mary Rodgers (1931-2014) states this about the princess protagonist of the show she worked on as composer in the late 1950s, Once Upon a Mattress: "Despite …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:40PMFriday, August 19, 2022
Here's some "colorful" music: tweaked scores of The Unsinkable Molly Brown and 13 (music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown), and the concept recording for Anne of Green Gables, plus vocals by…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:58AMTuesday, July 19, 2022
Reviews of "Joe Iconis & Family: Album" and others.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:15AMThursday, January 20, 2022
New cast albums from two Broadway shows of this season: "Girl from the North Country" and "Caroline, or Change."
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:55AM 
