Latest News on Theatre CDs, Books & DVDs UPCOMING RELEASES Dear Evan Hansen Release Date: 2/3 Freaky Friday Release Date: 3/10 Beauty And The Beast (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) Release Date: 3/10 People Like Us Release Date: 12/31 The SpongeBob Musical Release Date: 12/31 Holiday Inn Release Date: 12/31 A Bronx Tale: The New Musical Release Date: 12/31 Christian Borle Will Appear at FALSETTOS CD Signing at Barnes & Noble Christian Borle will now join Ghostlight Records to celebrate the cast album of the critically acclaimed Broadway revival of William Finn and James Lapine's Tony Award-winning musical FALSETTOS - based on the Lincoln Center Theater production - with a special in-store performance and CD signing at Barnes & Noble tomorrow, Friday, January 27 at 7:00 PM. ( more... ) Gabrielle Stravelli Releases New Album DREAM AGO Today Gabrielle Stravelli - the celebrated pop/jazz vocalist and songwriter - releases Dream Ago, her first major recording in a quickly rising career. The album, which is available starting today, January 27, 2017 from the Big Modern Music label, presents a joyous new voice of flexibility and range. ( more... ) SHAPIRO SISTERS: TIME REVEALS Album Out Today SHAPIRO SISTERS: TIME REVEALS will be released digitally and in stores today, January 27, 2017, via Broadway Records. ( more... ) Ramin Karimloo & Alison Luff Star in SONG OF SOLOMON Original Concept Recording, Arriving Today The?Song of Solomon (Original Concept Recording) will be released digitally and in stores today, January 27, 2017, via Broadway Records. ( more... ) Lea Michele Dishes on Her Very Vocal PLACES Album As BroadwayWorld previously reported,?Lea Michele's new album is on its way. ?She told Billboard,?'I sat back and listened to all of the songs that I grew up listening to, and most of them were Celine Dion, four-minute-long vocal Olympics. This is a vocal album, and there are definitely love songs in there, but there's also a sense of freedom. I went back and listened to all of the divas that I loved, and tried to find how that music resonates for me, in 2017." ( more... ) Dramatic Publishing Nabs Rights to Gabriel Jason Dean's QUALITIES OF STARLIGHT Dramatic Publishing Company today announced its exclusive representation of the worldwide professional and amateur stage performance rights to?QUALITIES OF STARLIGHT by exciting young American playwright Gabriel Jason Dean. ( more... ) The Cleveland Orchestra and Franz Welser-Most Announce Johannes Brahms Cycle DVD; Now Available! The Cleveland Orchestra and Franz Welser-Most have announced details of their latest DVD recording project: the Johannes Brahms Cycle DVD set, featuring the four Symphonies, both Piano Concertos, the Violin Concerto, and three other orchestral works. Beginning on December 1, 2015, the DVD set is exclusively available in the?Cleveland Orchestra Store, located at Severance Hall. Starting January 8, 2016, it will be available in the United States via?Amazon.com, where it is currently available for pre-order. This DVD project is the culmination of a series of live recordings by Music Director Franz Welser-Most and the Orchestra with guest artists Julia Fischer on violin and Yefim Bronfman on piano. ( more... ) Lauren Elder Celebrates Self-Titled Debut Album Tonight at the Slipper Room Broadway star Lauren Elder's debut-album release concert will be held at the Slipper Room tonight, January 25 at 8pm. ( more... ) Go Inside Gabrielle Stravelli's New Album DREAM AGO, Out This Week; Plus More Tour Dates! Gabrielle Stravelli?- the celebrated pop/jazz vocalist and songwriter -?will release Dream Ago, her first major recording in a quickly rising career. The album, which will be available this week on?January 27, 2017 from the Big Modern Music label, presents a joyous new voice of flexibility and range. ( more... ) Sony Classical Celebrates NY Philharmonic's 175th Season With CD Release, 4/7 Sony Classical will celebrate the New York Philharmonic's 175th anniversary season with?New York Philharmonic - 175th Anniversary Edition,?a 65-CD compilation of the Orchestra's recordings from 1917 to 1995, to be released on?April 7, 2017. ( more... ) Sony Classical to Release Simone Dinnerstein's MOZART IN HAVANA, 4/21 Sony Classical?will release acclaimed pianist?Simone Dinnerstein's new album,?Mozart in Havana, on?April 21. The new album, recorded in Cuba, may be her most ambitious to date and is a testament to music's ability to cross all cultural and language barriers. For it, Dinnerstein has collaborated with the virtuosic?Havana Lyceum Orchestra?to perform Mozart's Piano Concerto Nos. 21 and 23. In June, the Orchestra will also make their American debut in a series of concerts, the first time an orchestra of this size has traveled to the U.S. from Cuba since the revolution. ( more... ) A DOG STORY Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording Unleashed Today Broadway Records has announced that A Dog Story (Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording) will be released digitally and in stores today, January 20, 2017. ( more... ) Minnesota Orchestra Features Live-In-Concert KULLERVO The Swedish label BIS Records is releasing the latest offering from Music Director Osmo Vanska and the Minnesota Orchestra: a live-in-concert recording featuring Sibelius' five-part symphonic poem?Kullervo,?his beloved?Finlandia,?and Finnish composer Olli Kortekangas'?Migrations,?a new work commissioned by the Orchestra. ( more... ) Ron Fassler's UP IN THE CHEAP SEATS Unveils Teenage Broadway Adventures Both a poignant coming of age memoir and a compulsively readable story of Broadway itself, the new book UP IN THE CHEAP SEATS by actor/writer/director Ron Fassler is his valentine to Broadway, where he pays homage to the men and women who devote their lives to making great theatre. ( more... ) Meredith Willson's AND THEN I WROTE THE MUSIC MAN Album Out Next Month Stage Door Records are pleased to announce the debut CD release of Meredith and Rini Willson's 1959 studio album ...AND THEN I WROTE THE MUSIC MAN on February 24th, 2017. ( more... ) Brush Up on Your Physical Skills with MOVEMENT FOR ACTORS Book, Out Now With more than seventy thousand actors currently employed, there's more competition than ever. This is how an aspiring artist can get ahead! The book Movement for Actors, edited by Nicole Potter, Second Edition edited by Mary Fleischer and BarbAra Adrian, is now?available. ( more... ) Lauren Elder to Celebrate Self-Titled Debut Album at the Slipper Room Broadway star Lauren Elder's debut-album release concert will be held at the Slipper Room on Wednesday, January 25 at 8pm. ( more... ) THE COLOR PURPLE, HAMILTON, Josh Groban & More Win 2016 BWW Albums/CDs/DVDs Awards! Votes are cast; polls are closed; and results have been tabulated! This was our biggest year yet! BroadwayWorld is very excited to announce the 2016 BWW Albums/CDs/DVDs Awards?winners! Thanks to all who voted, and huge congratulations to all the winners! ( more... ) John Kander and Greg Pierce to Chat New Musical KID VICTORY at The Drama Book Shop The Drama Book Shop will welcome acclaimed playwright Greg Pierce (Slowgirl, Her Requiem)?and three-time Tony Award-winning composer?John Kander (Chicago, Cabaret, Kiss of the Spiderwoman, The Visit)?for a discussion with playwright and Drama Book Shop Events Manager Steven Carl McCasland (Little Wars)?about their new musical,?Kid Victory, opening?at The Vineyard Theatre in February. ( more... ) Broadway's A BRONX TALE Hits the Recording Studio Tommy Mottola, the Dodgers, Tribeca Productions, and Evamere Entertainment just announced that the Original Broadway Cast Album of A Bronx Tale was recorded?in New York City today, January 9. Release dates and additional information will be announced shortly. ( more... ) Sony Classics Releases New Album, HANS ZIMMER - THE CLASSICS, 1/13 Sony Classical?is delighted to announce a key new recording event: a?brand-new?album performed by stellar musicians of the day that showcases some of?Hollywood's?greatest ever movie themes, written by one of the world's most innovative musical talents and leading film composer of our time -?Hans Zimmer. The new?album,?Hans Zimmer - The Classics?is available?January 13, 2017?on Sony Classical. ( more... ) HAMILTON MIXTAPE, KINKY BOOTS and WAITRESS Win Curtain Up Show Album of the Year 2016 With over 13,000 votes cast, the winners have today been for The Curtain Up Show Album of the Year 2016 in association with TodayTix. ( more... ) BWW Exclusive: Listen to a Track from Lobbyists' SEAWIFE Album One part roots pop band and one part theater company,?The Lobbyists?kick off 2017 with the release of their first full length album,?SeaWife.?The album takes its name from the hugely successful original stage production produced by Naked Angels featuring The Lobbyists, who were nominated for a 2016 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music in a Musical. ( more... ) Off-Broadway's A DOG STORY Musical Sniffs Out the Recording Studio Broadway Records has announced that A Dog Story (Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording) will be released digitally and in stores on Friday, January 20, 2017. ( more... ) BWW Album Review: HAIRSPRAY LIVE! Skeptics of musical theater like to ask, 'But how do they know the song?' when characters join in during a musical number. One of the virtues of HAIRSPRAY is that the audience itself actually does this: the songs are so catchy that we start singing along. This is appropriate, given the show's message of inclusivity and empowerment of the ordinary. Marc Shaiman (music and lyrics) and Scott Wittman (lyrics) are responsible for the irresistible score of this show, set in Baltimore in the 1960s, that follows plucky, overweight teenager Tracy Turnblad's quest to integrate the 'Corny Collins Show,' an AMERICAN BANDSTAND-style teen dance party that she adores. Along the way, she falls in love with one of its stars, locks horns with another, makes new friends who are black and have a different perspective and a different way of dancing, and finds a place for herself on the show and in life. And her mother Edna and best friend Penny also benefit from Tracy's widening world. ( more... ) Next Page >>