May 06, 2013

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Features: On the Record
ON THE RECORD: A Time for Singing, Bravo Giovanni, and Lady in the Dark
28 Apr 2013
This week's column examines the new-to-CD original cast album of the 1966 musical A Time for Singing, along with digital releases of the 1962 Bravo Giovanni and the 1963 studio cast album of the Weill-Gershwin Lady in the Dark.

ON THE RECORD: Everybody Rise! The Essential Elaine Stritch Show Recordings, Part Two
14 Apr 2013
Last week's column was the first of our two-part salute to Broadway's own Elaine Stritch, who will soon pack her bags and retrace her steps back to Michigan. In Part 1, we followed the young hopeful from Detroit to Manhattan, where she found acclaim and weathered two stormy attempts at Broadway stardom. We pick up the tale in 1970, as La Stritch meets all those "Ladies Who Lunch."


ON THE RECORD: Everybody Rise! The Essential Elaine Stritch Show Recordings, Part One
07 Apr 2013 -- In honor of Elaine Stritch's retirement this spring, here's part one of a roundup of cast-album tracks that best represent the mellow, earthy, fearless actress known for the musicals Sail Away, Goldilocks, Company, Show Boat and more.

ON THE RECORD: Patti LuPone's Far Away Places, Plus a Jerome Kern Revue and Porter/Coward Creation
03 Mar 2013 -- This week's column addressed a live recording of Patti LuPone's Far Away Places act from 54 Below, plus songbooks of Jerome Kern ("The Land Where the Good Songs Go") and the pairing of Noël Coward and Cole Porter ("Noël and Cole").

ON THE RECORD: The Broadway Revival of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Plus Early Chita Rivera (17 Feb 2013)

ON THE RECORD: Rebecca Luker Sings Kern on "I Got Love," Plus the Digital Release of No Way to Treat a Lady (03 Feb 2013)

ON THE RECORD: Barbara Cook's "Loverman," and the Original Soundtrack of "Bye Bye Birdie" (20 Jan 2013)

ON THE RECORD: Chaplin, Leap of Faith and Now. Here. This. (06 Jan 2013)

ON THE RECORD: Holiday Gift List of 2012, Part Two; Revivals and Reissues, from Pipe Dream to Merrily (16 Dec 2012)

ON THE RECORD: Holiday Gift List of 2012, Part One; New Musicals and Studio Recordings (09 Dec 2012)

ON THE RECORD: The Original London Cabaret Starring Judi Dench (25 Nov 2012)

ON THE RECORD: The Musical Calvin Berger and Another Edition of "Carols for a Cure" (11 Nov 2012)

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