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We’ve seen books that celebrate the making of Annie, The Producers, Hairspray and No, No, Nanette – but did you know that there’s also one on It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s Superman? Indeed, in 2003, Bob Holiday and Chuck Harter wrote Superman on Broadway. The former of the two certainly knew the territory, […]

If you’ve been following me the last three Tuesdays, then you know I’ve been dealing with the new (and excellent) two-CD retrospective The Essential Stephen Sondheim that Masterworks Broadway recently issued. As I stated last week, the powers-that-be did a fine job in culling two-and-a-half-dozen Sondheim cuts from cast albums and other sources. Still, I […]

As I mentioned two Tuesdays ago, I can only imagine the anguish of those Sony executives who chose the thirty selections for the new two-CD retrospective The Essential Stephen Sondheim. True, the job had to be done, but how could they possibly choose so few and ignore so many others? I’m not saying that the […]

When Stephen Sondheim was growing up, “eighty-six” was a popular expression that meant “to throw out or get rid of.” Well, although Stephen Sondheim recently turned eighty-six, we here at Masterworks Broadway certainly aren’t interested in throwing out any of his work. But we ARE throwing some Sondheim your way in a nice two-disc collection […]

Oh, to have been a fly on the wall after the Masterworks Broadway powers-that-be decided, “Yeah, let’s put out a compilation called The Essential Stephen Sondheim.” Yes, doing such would be a nice way of celebrating Mr. Stephen Sondheim’s 86th birthday. But saying that there would be an album called The Essential Stephen Sondheim was the […]