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As you’ll hear from the new original cast album, FLYING OVER SUNSET takes one of musical theater’s most-often-applied rules and does it one better. We’ve often been told that characters in musicals sing when they’re so excited that simple speech simply will no longer suffice. In this recent James Lapine-Tom Kitt-Michael Korie musical, four characters […]

We know February as Black History Month, National Bird-Feeding Month and LGBT+ History Month (in the United Kingdom, anyway). It should be Broadway Songwriters History Month, too. To be sure, we could have long earmarked the second month of year for our songwriters, considering that some musical theater giants were born in it. First, Harold […]

Here’s hoping that on February 14th, you and your Valentine had a better time with love than lyricists have had. I don’t mean Alan Jay Lerner, who married eight times. (Yes, EIGHT. And this from the man who wrote “How to Handle a Woman.”) No, lyricists have been plagued by love because so many musicals […]

Wouldn’t you say that African music ranks among the most exciting? The chants, the rhythms, the drums, the energy, the emphasis on melody: all those elements make many of us who are interested in musical theater wish that there were more cast albums in this genre. So here’s WITNESS UGANDA, a recording that will thrill […]

And the 2022 Grammy for the Best Musical Theater Album goes to … Well, to quote a song from a 1984 Grammy nominee for Best Cast Show Album, as the category was then awkwardly called, “Who knows? Who knows? Who knows?” (That song is “The Best of Times” from LA CAGE AUX FOLLES, if you […]