Featuring vocalist Kate Baldwin, the actress who got recent raves as Sharon in the Encores! presentation of Finian's Rainbow, "Alphabet City Cycle" is be available exclusively at iTunes.

The title refers to the East Village Manhattan neighborhood with lettered avenues. Victoria Paterson is heard on violin.

PS Classics co-founder Tommy Krasker told Playbill.com, "'Alphabet City Cycle' is a wonderful reunion. We released Georgia's album 'This Ordinary Thursday' in the spring of 2007, and just brought out Marcy's Dear Edwina last fall. Georgia's hard at work on a new album, but we don't yet have a time-line for completion or release. What she had finished, though, is this gorgeous song cycle. 'This Ordinary Thursday' has been one of our strongest digital releases to date; rather than wait for the new album to be completed, we decided to unveil the song cycle now, as a digital exclusive."

Stitt revealed in press notes, "Marcy and I became friends in New York City several years ago, back when we were both starting out as baby songwriters and were playing our respective songs all over town. I was really curious to see what Marcy and I might create if we pooled our talents. After rejecting the ideas of writing a full-length musical or a slew of cabaret songs together, Marcy pulled from her filing cabinet a stack of poems she had written and asked if I'd like to take a crack at setting them. I sifted through maybe 15 or 20 poems and picked one to put to music. Once we realized that we were on to something and that our songs sounded different from anything either of us had written before, we picked four more poems and kept going. The 20-minute song cycle here is the collection of those five musical poems; they are some kind of hybrid between musical theatre and art song."

Heisler stated, "While written at separate times in my life, the poems come together in a story maybe I was too much a part of to see clearly. While not all of the pieces are autobiographical, they all came from strolling down the streets of and near my Greenwich Village home. It was Georgia's music that gave me a new perspective on their meaning, capturing the lure and loss and ultimate inescapability of connection we cannot help but seek." "Alphabet City Cycle" was produced by Grammy Award winner Jeffrey Lesser, who also produced "This Ordinary Thursday" and several other PS Classics recordings, including Maureen McGovern's "A Long and Winding Road" and Lauren Kennedy's two solo albums."

The track listing follows: "The Wanting of You" (The Student on Avenue B)
"Almost Everything I Need" (The Divorcée on Avenue C)
"I Hardly Remember" (The Widow on Avenue D)
"Blanket in July" (The Jilted Actress in Tompkins Square Park)
"Sunday Light" (The Lover on Avenue A)

Stitt played all tracks except track "Blanket in July." For that, Grant Wenaus played the piano and Stitt conducted.

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Also being released by iTunes — and other digital providers — on March 31 is PS Classics' recording of Ricky Ian Gordon and Tina Landau's musical Dream True. It's the digital premiere of the recording, which had been released on CD in 2006.

Since its release composer Gordon and the studio cast have become more high-profile than ever, helping to prompt the iTunes release. A live recording of Gordon and Michael Korie's opera The Grapes of Wrath was released by PS Classics in 2008; Richard Nelson and Gordon's musical, My Life With Albertine, is also in the label's catalog. Gordon's settings of the work of Langston Hughes, under the title, "Only Heaven," was also released by PS Classics.

The cast of Dream True includes Broadway's Brian d'Arcy James (currently in Shrek the Musical), Jason Danieley (recently of Curtains), South Pacific's Kelli O'Hara, Jessica Molaskey, Jeff McCarthy and Tony Award winner Victoria Clark (The Light in the Piazza), plus Harrison Chad, William Ullrich, Michael McElroy, James Moye and Clarke Thorell. The orchestra is conducted by Ted Sperling; the orchestrations are by Jonathan Tunick.

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Winner of the Richard Rodgers Production Award given by The American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1999, Dream True, inspired by the novel "Peter Ibbetson" by George du Maurier, was originally produced by the Vineyard Theatre in June 1998, then in an extended run in the spring of 1999. It was subsequently produced in concert on March 8, 2004, at CooperArts, a contemporary music series produced by Howard Stokar; the concert cast and orchestra then went into the recording studio to preserve their performances on disc.

Since Dream True's initial run, several of its songs have been performed frequently on recordings and in concert, including "Finding Home" and "We Will Always Walk Together," said PS Classics' co-founder Tommy Krasker.

Krasker told Playbill.com, "Because Dream True was an album of a concert done only once, we brought it out in limited release in the spring of 2006. But since then, Ricky's gone on to Grapes of Wrath, Kelli to South Pacific, Brian to Shrek, Jason to Curtains, Jessica to Sunday in the Park With George, and the album itself just keeps garnering attention. Between the continued visibility of its participants, and the strong reviews the disc itself received, it's been a solid seller — a surprisingly solid seller, I might say. We thought it was time to offer it to the digital market, so that a whole new audience can discover it."

PS Classics is devoted to theatre music and the heritage of the American song. For more information, visit psclassics.com.