Elaine Paige is lending her name to a new 3-CD collection of musical theatre favorites.  Elaine Paige Presents The Musicals is due on November 25 from Union Square Music, with 58 tracks and over three hours of music.

Elaine Paige Presents the Musicals is licensed from various labels, making for a cross-section of recordings.  You'll find familiar names from the worlds of theatre, movies and pop, including Michael Ball ("Love Changes Everything" from Aspects of Love, "Falling Slowly" from Once, "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables" from Les Miserables, "Let It Be Me" as heard in Dreamboats and Petticoats), Petula Clark ("With One Look" from Sunset Boulevard, the immortal "Downtown" by way of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert), Michael Crawford ("Only You" from Starlight Express, "The Phantom of the Opera" and "The Music of the Night" from Crawford's 1986 star turn), Meryl Streep ("The Winner Takes It All" from Mamma Mia!), Jennifer Holliday (Dreamgirls' "And I'm Telling You I'm Not Going"), Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth ("Defying Gravity" from Wicked), Liza Minnelli ("All that Jazz" from Chicago), and Sheridan Smith ("Don't Rain on My Parade" from the recent Funny Girl revival, "Serious" from Legally Blonde, and "Bugsy Malone" from Paul Williams' musical of the same name).

The collection features both original cast performances from Broadway and Hollywood, as well as cover versions, and concentrates mainly on modern-day theatre hits as well as classic shows that have enjoyed recent revivals in London's West End, such as Gypsy, Show Boat, Guys and Dolls, Half a Sixpence, and The Sound of Music.  Naturally, there are a number of "second-hand showtunes" on this set from jukebox musicals, including the aforementioned "The Winner Takes It All" and "Let It Be Me," The Kinks' Sunny Afternoon from the musical of the same name, Jessie Mueller's "Will You Love Me Tomorrow" from Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Alexandra Burke's "I Will Always Love You" from The Bodyguard, and Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons' original "December 1963 (Oh, What a Night)" from Jersey Boys.

Leading lady Paige is heard on five tracks throughout the set, including two hit singles: her U.K. top 10 rendition of "Memory" from Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats; "I Don't Know How to Love Him" from Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Jesus Christ Superstar; the No. 1 smash duet with Barbara Dickson, "I Know Him So Well," from Rice, Björn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson's Chess; "What I Did for Love" from A Chorus Line; and the showstopping "As If We Never Said Goodbye" from Lloyd Webber, Don Black and Christopher Hampton's Sunset Boulevard.

This set arrives just in time for holiday gift-giving for the musical theatre fan in your life on November 25 from Union Square Music.  You can pre-order at the links below!  (Note that the Amazon U.S. link is currently only for third-party sellers, while Amazon U.K. is selling directly.)

Various Artists, Elaine Paige Presents the Musicals (Union Square Music, 2016) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)

CD 1

1. Elaine Paige - Memory (Cats)
2. Michael Ball and Il Divo - Love Changes Everything (Aspects Of Love)
3. Adam Jacobs, Courtney Reed and the Original Broadway Cast - A Whole New World (Aladdin)
4. Kristin Chenoweth & Idina Menzel - Defying Gravity (Wicked)
5. Sheridan Smith and the Original London Cast - Don't Rain On My Parade (Funny Girl)
6. Michael Crawford - Music of the Night (The Phantom Of The Opera)
7. Sarah Brightman and Cliff Richard - All I Ask of You (The Phantom Of The Opera)
8. Barbara Dickson - Another Suitcase In Another Hall (Evita)
9. Julie Covington - Don't Cry For Me Argentina (Evita)
10. Jason Donovan - Any Dream Will Do (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat)
11. Connie Fisher - My Favourite Things (The Sound Of Music)
12. Denise Van Outen - Tell Me On A Sunday (Tell Me On A Sunday)
13. Original London Cast - With You (Solo Version) (Ghost The Musical)
14. Elaine Paige - I Don't Know How To Love Him (Jesus Christ Superstar)
15. Michael Ball - Falling Slowly (Once)
16. Collabro - Somewhere (West Side Story)
17. Jennifer Holliday - And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going (Dreamgirls)
18. Alexandra Burke - I Will Always Love You (The Bodyguard)

CD 2

1. Elaine Paige and Barbara Dickson - I Know Him So Well (Chess)
2. Meryl Streep - The Winner Takes It All (Mamma Mia!)
3. Katherine Jenkins - Love Never Dies (Love Never Dies)
4. Michael Ball - Empty Chairs at Empty Tables (Les Misérables)
5. Michael Crawford Feat. Barbara Bonney - The Phantom Of The Opera (The Phantom Of The Opera)
6. Beverly Knight & The Original London Cast - Love Will Stand When All Else Fails (Memphis The Musical)
7. Barbara Dickson - Tell Me it's Not True (Blood Brothers)
8. Jessie Mueller - Will You Love Me Tomorrow (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical)
9. Elaine Paige - What I Did For Love (A Chorus Line)
10. Jodie Prenger, Ross McCormack, Laurence Jeffcoate, Charlotte Spencer, Rowan Atkinson & Gang. - I'd Do Anything (Oliver!)
11. Petula Clark - With One Look (Live) (Sunset Boulevard)
12. Poppy Lee Friar - Tomorrow (Annie)
13. The Original London Cast feat. Sheridan Smith - Bugsy Malone (Bugsy Malone)
14. Original London Cast - When I Grow Up (Matilda The Musical)
15. Patina Miller, Claire Greenaway, Julia Sutton, Katie Rowley Jones & the "Sister Act" Ensemble - Raise Your Voice (Sister Act)
16. Jason Donovan and the Cast - Timewarp (The Rocky Horror Show)
17. Doug Labrecque & Men  - Luck Be A Lady (Guys And Dolls)
18. Liza Minnelli - All That Jazz (Chicago)
19. Imelda Staunton - Everything's Coming Up Roses (Gypsy)
20. Tommy Steele & Polly James - Flash Bang Wallop (Half A Sixpence)

CD 3

1. Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons - December 1963 (Oh What A Night) (Jersey Boys)
2. Boyzone - No Matter What (Whistle Down The Wind)
3. The Kinks - Sunny Afternoon (Sunny Afternoon)
4. Craig McLachlan and Debbie Gibson - Summer Nights (Grease)
5. Petula Clark - Downtown (Priscilla Queen Of The Desert)
6. Michael Ball and The Overtones - Let It Be Me (Dreamboats And Petticoats)
7. Sian Phillips with the National Symphony Orchestra Ensemble (conducted by John Owen Edwards) - Send In The Clowns (A Little Night Music)
8. Sheridan Smith and Duncan James - Serious (Legally Blonde)
9. Sacre, featuring Zoe Nicholas & Marc Monroe - I've Had The Time Of My Life (Dirty Dancing)
10. Kim Criswell, Graham Bickley & NSO - The Last Night Of the World (Miss Saigon)
11. Michael Crawford - Only You (Starlight Express)
12. Elaine Paige - As If We Never Said Goodbye (Sunset Boulevard)
13. Ruthie Henshall - Electricity (Billy Elliot)
14. Adam Cooper & The 2012 Cast - Singin' In The Rain (Singin' In The Rain)
15. Company of Rent - Seasons Of Love (Rent)
16. Carmen Cusack & Andrew Halliday - The Circle Of Life (The Lion King)
17. William Michals - Some Enchanted Evening (South Pacific)
18. Issy Van Randwyck - I Dreamed A Dream (Les Misérables)
19. Willard White and Original Cast - Ol' Man River (Show Boat)
20. Alfie Boe and John Owen Edwards - You'll Never Walk Alone (Carousel)