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. Its appealing and soulful intensity and very human heart make it clear early on that this sometimes gutsy and gritty (but ultimately sweet) musical belongs on the list of gratifyingly adve…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:19AMMonday, April 6, 2015
Alysha Umphress has an album that, like her role in On the Town, has lots of moxie and sass, while it's low-key lullabyes on the agenda for Anika Larsen (Cynthia Weil in Beautiful: The Carol…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:38AMFriday, March 27, 2015
It's only taken seventy years for On the Town to get a truly complete recording by a cast who had lived in the roles through an actual run of a production.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 09:32AMFriday, March 6, 2015
The original stage cast album and the recent recorded revival have somewhat different tones and the same can be send for the film version. Designed for ears attuned to film, there's a genera…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:02AMSunday, January 25, 2015
Hello, cabaret fans. I'd like to start out by telling you about the most inventive, charming, and out-and-out hilarious musically mad merriment I've seen in a cabaret room in a very long tim…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 12:47AMThursday, January 22, 2015
... here is an honor roll of the ones I find myself wanting to return to and which seem richer and more appreciated with repeat plays.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 03:31PMThursday, January 8, 2015
Assuming no iPods are allowed on desert islands and there's no Wi-Fi there and the "sound cloud" isn't overhead, here's what I'd bring if forced to only bring ten cast albums from 2014 ...
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:10PMSaturday, January 3, 2015
Like your favorite Christmas sweater, Antonia Bennett's Embrace Me feels warm and comfortable and familiar ... the versatile Sandy Bainum voice that can croon, build up steam, or belt as nee…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:37AMThursday, December 11, 2014
Merry Christmas from the factory where they make the toys, and then meet singer Mark Jennett, not cut from the same cloth as many of the retro crooner boys.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:10PMThursday, November 20, 2014
A beleaguered woman, strong and troubled, is at the center of each. Meet Tamar and Tess�one of the River, one of the D'Urbervilles. Both have tragedy and unusual trajectories.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:42AMThursday, November 6, 2014
Musical theatre veteran Betty Buckley's Ghostlight is named for that perhaps spooky sole light that traditionally is kept on in theatres so they are not completely dark. The Ellynne Rey ray …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:10PMDon't say that NiteLifeExchange didn't give you a medical warning. If you feel a sudden pain later this week, it will be because you deservedly kicked yourself for missing Marilyn Maye and h…
SOURCE: NiteLifeExchange at 01:00PMThursday, October 23, 2014
... some pretty good things come in big packages, like this finally full, generous-length two-disc set, giving us much more of the score of this revue.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:34AMThursday, October 16, 2014
Studio casts of shows about fashion (Roberta) & passion (Theater Boys).
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:17PMThursday, October 9, 2014
Ann Hampton Callaway's From Sassy To Divine: The Sarah Vaughan Project and Diane Schuur's I Remember You: With Love to Stan and Frank.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 07:41AMThursday, October 2, 2014
Each presents an eclectic repertoire. As they sing their love songs, it's interesting to know that it was in theatrical settings that both Ball and Bell met their very musical wives with who…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:02PMThursday, September 11, 2014
One of the music world's oddest real-life stories became one of the musical theatre world's more intriguing biographical pieces, with an Off-Broadway cast album preserving emotionally charge…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 01:45PMThursday, September 4, 2014
This album sampling the output of young composer/lyricist Michael Mott has a lot of pop influences, and the selections from two of his musicals suggest he doesn't long for the long-lined, sw…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 10:42AMFriday, August 29, 2014
The homeland of Anna in The King and I, which she described as "a civilized land called Wales," with a side trip to Venice are the settings for a little-known, never-recorded score that dese…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:14AMThursday, August 21, 2014
The gentle, low-key A Second Chance brings us a nice enough later-in-life man and woman who meet at a party and soon begin dating ... the "concept album" of the British entry Swan Esther, f…
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 02:08PMThursday, July 31, 2014
Here are two Off-Broadway shows with new cast albums. Each has its own devilish humor and talented cast.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:03PMThursday, July 24, 2014
McDonald is equally adept at capturing the insouciance of chipper pieces or the resigned role of needy romantic. Her struggle through "Easy Living," with much help from the pianist, and the …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:49AMThursday, July 17, 2014
"Love's Labour's Lost," ... freshly musicalized ... And the not-so-classic lost-in-the-shuffle Kern.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:01AMThursday, July 10, 2014
You might have heard the Lynn Ahrens/Stephen Flaherty songs for the musical "Rocky" are upstaged by the show's downstage boxing match finale ... ["Nice Fighting You" is] a nice reminder of …
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:25AMThursday, June 26, 2014
We haven't heard the last of "The Last Session," as there's a new recording from a London production.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:37AMTuesday, June 24, 2014
It's never been seen in the United States, despite its score having been written by one of the giants of musical theatre: Cole Porter.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 11:56AMThursday, June 19, 2014
It's June, traditionally a wedding-heavy month, so let's consider three very different married couples for whom a career in creative endeavors was also central to the relationship.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 08:00AMThursday, June 12, 2014
For broad Broadway panache, and sublime silliness, it's tough to top the well-aimed Bullets cast recording.
SOURCE: TalkinBroadway at 12:24PM 
