Cast Albums Blog

In advance of the Thursday, September 24 digital release, NPR has posted a First Listen of the Original Broadway Cast recording of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Hamilton.

To listen to the cast recording, visit http://www.npr.org/2015/09/16/440925873/first-listen-cast-recording-hamilton

The new London Revival of MISS SAIGON is set to release its cast album (recorded live in performance at the Prince Edward Theatre) on September 22. Check out a preview of the opening of the show below.

Two premiere CD releases are coming from Masterworks Broadway: the original London cast recording of On the Town (8/19) and Give Me You/This is Roslyn Kind (7/22).

With music by Leonard Bernstein and book and lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, On The Town enjoyed a successful Broadway run during the 1940s. The London production opened at the Prince of Wales Theatre in 1963 and starred Elliott Gould along with Don McKay, Carol Arthur, Andrea Jaffe and Gillian Lewis.

The Original London Cast Recording of On the Town has never before been available in the U.S. and arrives in advance of a new Broadway production this fall. The recording will be available exclusively from MasterworksBroadway.com starting August 19, followed by a September 16 release through ArkivMusic and digital music outlets.

On a late spring morning in 1968, seventeen-year-old Roslyn Kind (younger half-sister to Barbra Streisand) graduated from high school in Brooklyn and immediately began a new job later the same day. “I graduated to ‘Pomp and Circumstance’ in the morning,” she recalls, “and that evening I was in RCA Studio B, down around 23rd Street in Manhattan, making my first recording.”

Kind’s two RCA albums Give Me You and This Is Roslyn Kind are fascinating time capsules from a period – 1968-69 – when American popular music was undergoing seismic changes. There is a bit of Broadway to be heard, but most of the material reflects Kind’s own taste and then-current trends in popular music. Kind rarely looked back to the albums that started her career, until 2014. At the behest of her director, she began to sing some of the material from Give Me You and This Is Roslyn Kind in her live act. Audiences loved it. “It was a surprise to me that I could return to this,” Kind says. “But people love the vintage material. They love to know your history.”

Give Me You/This Is Roslyn Kind will be available exclusively from MasterworksBroadway.com starting July 22, followed by a August 19 release through ArkivMusic and digital music outlets.

Entertainment Weekly has posted a preview of the new Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill Broadway cast recording.

Featuring Audra McDonald's record 6th Tony-winning performance, the double CD set was recorded live by P.S. Classics during several performances in May. The recording hits stores and digital outlets on July 15.