In 1978 Lea Salonga made her stage debut in a Philippines Repertory production of The King & I at age seven. 1989 she made her London debut as Kim in Miss Saigon winning an Olivier Award for Best Actress. Two years later she made her Broadway deb …Read more
The newly released soundtrack for the film adaptation of The Last Five Years is an important album. Important for me because the Original Cast Recording of the musical on which it is based was one of the first physical copies of a cast album I ever o …Read more
Can you love a revival just from the casting announcement of the leading lady? The news that Roundabout Theatre Company is producing a revival of She Loves Me in the Spring of 2016 as part of its 50th Anniversary Season is made only sweeter by the ne …Read more
One of the annual Broadway traditions will have its 2015 run when Broadway Unplugged happens on January 26, at The Town Hall. The yearly show is a great chance to hear Broadway stars show off their singing voices and performance ability in their natu …Read more
Next to actually seeing shows, the memories that come with a great cast recording are the next best thing. We were fortunate to have some excellent recordings of new scores, jukebox musicals and revivals and narrowing it down to ten is indeed, diffic …Read more
We want to wish you a Merry Christmas with the help of musical theatre. For such a popular holiday there are unusually few Christmas songs in the musical theatre canon. Of the sixteen, or thereabouts, I know from actual stage musicals I’ve picked my …Read more
A few weeks ago we took a listen of the audio commentary for The Bridges of Madison County and now we give a listen to the Beautiful cast recording with Jessie Mueller. The Beautiful cast recording is an interesting listen because it includes not jus …Read more
Ghostlight Records, has released commentary for the Tony winning score of The Bridges of Madison County with composer Jason Robert Brown and star Kelli O’Hara adding commentary to each of the numbers. It’s such an interesting, and informative things …Read more
It doesn’t begin previews until next February but we’re already counting down the days until the On The Twentieth Century revival makes it way to Broadway (its first revival since its 1978 premiere!) Not just because we’re excited to see Kristin Chen …Read more
Ted Shen, the librettist, lyricist and composer of A Second Chance which had its world premiere in 2011 is a notable theatre enthusiast who left his job on Wall Street in the late nineties to make a contribution to something he was passionate about. …Read more
