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…
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…
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, …
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."
Reviews of "Bonnie & Clyde" original cast recording, Sue Raney's "Listen Here," Sue Halloran and Ken Hitchcock "I Can Cook Too!
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.
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.
Once upon a time it was easier to define and identify the typical "Broadway"/musical theatre sound and style.
"Godspell" Revival Cast Recording and candidates for MAC CD of the year.
The concert series that takes an affectionate and informed look back at them, without being quite blinded by love, but rather the advantage of 20/20 hindsight, called If It Only Even Runs a …
One CD features a feisty fellow full of Fun named Robert Creighton (currently on Broadway). The other is a much, much more mellow man named Jerry Costanzo, with Can't We Be Friends?. Each Mr…
The two leading ladies leading off the column with their first solo albums are hardly newcomers to singing and theatre ... Dakaboom, upbeat up-and-comers, should have a booming caree
There's a little overlap in our singers and musicians, in material by composer-lyricist-pianist-arranger-orchestrator-(co-)producer Michael Patrick Walker and then similarly multi-tasking Ge…
Her New York City engagement at Feinstein's at Loews Regency, running through February 4th, finds her in fine form, connecting strongly with her appreciative audience.
There's the outrageous and irreverent, profanity-peppered parody of the once-scary saga of "The Silence of the Lambs," plus "raindrops on roses," reverence, Reverend Mother, Rodgers & Hammer…
Which vocal albums impress mightily on first spin and have the lasting power, too, for frequent visits? It's time to sing the praises of such CDs released for the first time in 2011
Rob's list of top ten (plus an honorable mention) cast albums of 2011.
"The People in the Picture" ... cast album, with its bits of dialogue and high drama feels like an old radio play meant to spark listeners to "see" the action ... Melodies composed, arranged…
To complain that "Elf" is too giddy and rollicking is almost like being surprised and ungrateful that the plateful of sugar-sprinkled gingerbread and chocolate is kinda sweet or that bearded…
Each season, new holiday-themed recordings emerge and, despite a zillion versions, it's the famously usual suspects that dominate, secular or sacred. Enter humming. But there's always a fres…
On West 30th Street, The Urban Stages eclectic festival Winter Rhythms continues through December 11 ... Susan Winter is one of this week's attractive attractions at the Metropolitan Room ..…
Wintertime is here in NYC in the time zone of cabaret. Over on West 30th Street, the first day of December saw the beginning of Urban Stages' 11-day festival of (mostly) cabaret events, many…
Here are three very different musicals which have in common the theatrical conceits and conventions of putting their often dramatic dramatis personae right in the spotlight's golden glow or …
These three singular singers, who came together not long ago on Broadway for "Sondheim on Sondheim," sound convincingly deep into their material.
Our ears and eyes are on a recently closed new British musical comedy ... and three tribute CDs.