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January 31, 2024 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

chita rivera two fer

You've got to learn how not to be/Where you are/The more you face reality, the more you scar/So close your eyes and you'll become a movie star/Why must you stay where you are?  As Aurora, the dark vision of fantasy and title character of Terrence McNally, John Kander, and Fred Ebb's 1992 musical Kiss of the Spider Woman, Chita Rivera cast a powerful spell. Since her Broadway debut as an ensemble dancer in the 1950 production of Guys and Dolls - billed as Conchita del Rivero, shortened from

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Categories: News Genre: Cast Recordings Tags: Chita Rivera

August 11, 2021 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Dick Van Dyke Songs I Like

In an extraordinary showbiz career spanning almost 75 years, perennial song-and-dance man Dick Van Dyke has only recorded three solo albums (in addition to his appearances on best-selling cast albums and soundtracks, that is!).  While two of those - 2017's Step Back in Time and 2009's Put on a Happy Face, the latter with his a cappella group The Vantastix - are from recent years, he did record one LP while starring on the 15-time Emmy Award-winning sitcom The Dick Van Dyke Show.  1963's Songs I

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Chita Rivera, Dick Van Dyke

August 1, 2019 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Lost Broadway 1956 1957

For the second volume in its Lost Broadway series of 2-CD sets, the U.K.'s Stage Door Records label has turned its attention to the years 1956 and 1957.  Musical hits during the 1956-1957 and 1957-1958 seasons included Bells Are Ringing, Li'l Abner, West Side Story, and The Music Man, but Stage Door's attention doesn't lie with those smashes but rather with the largely-forgotten, but certainly worthy, shows that haven't received nearly as much love over the years.  Like the first volume (which

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Barbara Cook, Carmen McRae, Chita Rivera, Eartha Kitt, Ethel Merman, Gwen Verdon, Lena Horne, Leonard Bernstein, Mel Tormé, Sammy Davis Jr., Various Artists

June 22, 2018 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Garbage 2.0

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Cure, Mixed Up: Deluxe Edition (Universal (U.K.)/Elektra/Rhino (U.S.)) 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Mixed Up 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Torn Down 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Postponed from last week: The Cure revisits its 1990 remix album as a 3-CD deluxe edition.  The first disc of the new set contains the original Mixed Up album,

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Chita Rivera, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Doug Clifford, Garbage, Leonard Bernstein, Miles Davis, The Cure, Tom Fogerty, William Grant Still

April 25, 2016 By Randy Fairman 2 Comments

Now Broadway

The long-running Now That's What I Call Music! series is adding another volume in about two weeks and this one is a little different from its  normal fare.  Now That's What I Call Broadway! is an 18-track compilation rounding up tracks musical theater tracks from the last 40 years and is due to hit stores on April 29. While the Now! series is primarily focused on contemporary pop music from the Top 40 charts, it has had several detours into slightly other genres, like volumes focused on

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings Tags: Betty Buckley, Chita Rivera, Patti LuPone, Various Artists

February 19, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

West Side Story OBC

Curtain up!  Analog Spark, the audiophile imprint of Razor and Tie, has brought back the luster of yesteryear with a trio of reissues from the days when people dressed up to go to the theatre.  The label has given the Original Broadway Cast Recordings of My Fair Lady, West Side Story and Fiddler on the Roof the deluxe treatment on 180-gram vinyl, and indeed, one would be hard-pressed to think of three titles more worthy of the presentation. Fair Lady, Fiddler and West Side all reveal

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings Tags: Alan Jay Lerner, Arthur Laurents, Chita Rivera, Frederick Loewe, Jerry Bock, Julie Andrews, Leonard Bernstein, Sheldon Harnick, Stephen Sondheim, Zero Mostel

January 25, 2016 By Joe Marchese 12 Comments

My Fair Lady Vinyl

Following its vinyl and SACD presentations of the original soundtrack of 1965's The Sound of Music and its 40th anniversary vinyl pressing of 1975's original Broadway cast recording of A Chorus Line, Razor and Tie's audiophile division Analog Spark has turned its attention to three more classic cast albums.  My Fair Lady (1956), West Side Story (1958) and Fiddler on the Roof (1964) are all now available from Analog Spark in newly-remastered, 180-gram deluxe audiophile vinyl editions.  These are

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings Tags: Alan Jay Lerner, Chita Rivera, Frederick Loewe, Jerry Bock, Julie Andrews, Leonard Bernstein, Sheldon Harnick, Stephen Sondheim

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