Sweet Charity - First time on CD reissue of SAGA Records' 1967 London studio cast recording of Cy Coleman/Dorothy Fields score. Mary Preston, June Hunt, Canna Kendall, Valentine Palmer, Craig Hunter, John Parker and David Weldon Williams. Westminster Sinfonia and Theatre Chorus directed by Frank Raymond. This is the only recorded version to feature an additional cut verse in Charity's song You Should See Yourself. Also included on the CD release is an extended version of the Rich Man's Frug which was recorded during the album sessions but went unreleased. Digitally remastered from the original studio master tapes. Limited edition of 500 units only.
A Perfect Little Death by SUF/SOND - GHOSTLIGHT RECORDS will release the new album A Perfect Little Death by SUF/SOND the brainchild of New York singer/songwriter Eleri Ward in streaming and digital formats on Friday, June 4. SUF/SOND is a whirling combination of Ward s two deep loves: the expansive one-of-a-kind canon of Stephen Sondheim, and the ethereal, melancholic sounds of Sufjan Stevens. Blossoming from a spontaneous Instagram cover of Every Day a Little Death captioned Sufjan on Sondheim in 2019, Eleri has now crafted SUF/SOND to be her own niche at the crossroads of musical theater and indie folk music, embodied by swirling harmonies and her original point of view. The album features 13 songs varying from The Ballad of Sweeney Todd to Loving You to Take Me to the World, leading you through an acoustical Sondheim journey the evokes golden hour. A Perfect Little Death is produced by Eleri Ward. Eleri recorded all of the songs in the closet of her apartment during lockdown, follo
Chip Deffaa's Say It with Music: The Irving Berlin Saga - Cast album of biographical show with music and lyrics by Irving Berlin. Written and arranged by Chip Deffaa. Cast includes Michael Townsend Wright, Jed Peterson, Santa Claire Hirsch, Katherine Paulsen, Keith Anderson, Danielle Tolep, Dee Julien, Caroline McFee, Jon Peterson, Ryan Muska, Analise Scarpaci as soloist , Chip Deffaa as Eddie Cantor, Jacqueline Parker. Musical director/pianist: Richard Danley.
American Blues Theater Names Yussef El Guindi 2021 Blue Ink Playwriting Award Winner
Yussef El Guindi s work frequently examines the collision of ethnicities, cultures, and politics that face Arab-Americans and Muslim Americans.by BWW News Desk
American Blues Theater has announced the winner of the 2021 Blue Ink Playwriting Award is Refugee Rhapsody by Yussef El Guindi. A staged reading of his play will be presented as part of the virtual 2021 Blue Ink Playwriting Festival, along with an online library of new work by finalists Juan Alfonso (An Educated Guess), Matthew Libby (The Machine), Wendy MacLeod (The Good Samaritan), and Chandra Thomas (The Buzzer). Details for the virtual reading and library, including dates and tickets, will be announced at a later date.
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In Moxie Theatre’s new filmed production of Lauren Gunderson’s moving play “I and You,” the dying teen character Caroline is fighting so hard to stay alive, she can’t or more accurately, she won’t let anybody inside her heart. Then Walt Whitman enters her room.
Not the famed 19th-century American poet himself, but Anthony, a fellow senior at Caroline’s high school who shows up begging for her help on a shared literature project about Whitman’s “Song of Myself.” The 1,300-line autobiographical poem, which Whitman tinkered with from 1855 to 1881, explores grand questions about the self versus humanity, the conscious and the unconscious mind, pain and beauty, and man’s relationship with the universe.