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/ Priscilla Lopez

August 4, 2020 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Company Quad

The U.K.'s Dutton Vocalion label is continuing its ongoing campaign reissuing quadraphonic albums on hybrid SACD (with a stereo layer playable on all CD players) with two classic Broadway cast recordings from the Columbia vaults.  Both were choreographed by Michael Bennett, feature the talents of Donna McKechnie, and have orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick.  Moreover, both merged classic Broadway with a powerful and contemporary sensibility. Much as Rodgers and Hammerstein had done before him,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, SACD Genre: Cast Recordings Tags: Dean Jones, Donna McKechnie, Ed Kleban, Elaine Stritch, Marvin Hamlisch, Priscilla Lopez, Stephen Sondheim

September 24, 2015 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

A Chorus Line 40th

Of a remarkable and indeed, singular, career that crowned him as an EGOT - winner of Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Awards - and one of only two EGOTs with a Pulitzer Prize (the other is Richard Rodgers), Marvin Hamlisch's most lasting musical accomplishment might well be his score to A Chorus Line.   Working with lyricist Ed Kleban, director/choreographer Michael Bennett, co-choreographer Bob Avian, and writers James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante, composer Hamlisch struck a universal chord with the

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings Tags: Donna McKechnie, Ed Kleban, Marvin Hamlisch, Priscilla Lopez

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