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Posted on Monday, March 10, 2014
come to the Fun Home ... instore
Our Original Cast Recording of FUN HOME soared to #2 on the Billboard Top Cast Album chart in its first week of release, by far our best first week ever for an off-Broadway show. This coming Thursday, March 13th, at 6 PM, authors Jeanine Tesori and Lisa Kron will be joined by the entire original cast -- Griffin Birney, Michael Cerveris, Roberta Colindrez, Noah Hinsdale, Judy Kuhn, Sydney Lucas, Beth Malone, Joel Perez and Alexandra Socha -- at a CD performance and signing at the Barnes & Noble at 86th & Lexington. As noted, the full cast will be performing as well as signing. FUN HOME was a joyous experience for all involved (and at Playbill last week, Steven Suskin called it “the best musical on the New York stage of 2013 — far outclassing the competition — and is thus far the best musical of the 2013-14 season. The cast recording presents Fun Home in all its brilliance -- treat yourself to the CD, now.”); join us as we celebrate its release this Thursday.
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Posted on Friday, February 7, 2014
the next few weeks...
Our new cast recordings of FUN HOME and YANK! hit stores on February 25 (we had to bump them back a week, as the winter weather wreaked havoc with our printer’s schedule), but we’ll start shipping orders from our website this Tuesday, the 11th. We’ll also be sending digital tracks and hard copies at that time to all the people who contributed to the YANK! Kickstarter campaign.
In the meantime, over the next few days, we’ll be adding sound clips for both albums, so folks can sample and, should they desire, purchase. We’re enormously excited about both releases and how true they are to our mission of great theater music, brilliantly performed and beautifully sung.
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Posted on Tuesday, January 28, 2014
the last few weeks...
Two of our esteemed colleagues in the press – Steven Suskin at Playbill.com and Rob Lester at Talkin’ Broadway – weighed in recently with their “best of” lists, and three of our 2013 releases were singled out by both: Rebecca Luker’s I GOT LOVE (Songs of Jerome Kern), our two-disc cast recording of PASSION, and Philip Chaffin’s SOMETHIN’ REAL SPECIAL (The Songs of Dorothy Fields).
With regard to the latter album, just as it felt wonderful having customers and critics rediscover Kern at the start of 2013, it’s been just as gratifying seeing them rediscover Fields through the holiday season. The Toronto Star raved, “Here’s a blue-chip collection… Philip Chaffin has one of those warm, sophisticated voices that call to mind the finer products of Kentucky’s distilleries. Match him up with the dry, witty, bitters-flavored lyrics of the masterful Dorothy Fields, shake with a 23-piece orchestra and you’ve got a cocktail to cherish.” Both the Huffington Post and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer called the album “long overdue” and agreed that Philip was, in the words of the latter publication, “the singer for the job.” And Show Business tagged the album “a bullseye… Chaffin’s gorgeous, soaring baritone will make you hear these old songs in a fresh and thrilling new way.”
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