Masterworks Broadway Says “Willkommen” to Dench in “Cabaret,” Broadway’s...
Masterworks Broadway is reopening the vaults for the latest two titles in its series of made-on-demand cast recording reissues, and proving that there truly is nothing like a Dame – one Dame Judi...
View ArticleRelease Round-Up: Week of October 22
Peter Gabriel, So: 25th Anniversary Edition (3CD Deluxe Edition: U.S./U.K.; 4CD/2DVD/2LP Box Set: U.S./U.K.; Classic Albums: So DVD (U.S./U.K.)/BD (U.S./U.K.)) (Real World) A year late for the actual...
View ArticleVerve Goes “Off to the Races” with Remastered Reissue of Rupert...
“I had been over at Barry Manilow’s house, and he said ‘you know Rupert Holmes?’ I said, ‘No,’” recalled Academy Award-winning producer Craig Zadan to author Kenneth Turan. “[Barry] played me his...
View ArticleRelease Round-Up: Week of November 13
The Beatles, Stereo Vinyl Box Set (Capitol/EMI) The Fab Four’s 2009 stereo remasters have been painstakingly pressed on vinyl. The whole box set will set you back considerably, but you can get the...
View ArticleOn the Fifth Day of Second Discmas…
Here at The Second Disc, the holiday season is the perfect time to do what we love to do best: share the gift of music. For the second year in a row, we have we reached out to some of our favorite...
View ArticleThe Year in Reissues: The 2012 Gold Bonus Disc Awards
Wow! Was it just over a year ago when a rather dubious report began circulating (that, shockingly, was picked up by many otherwise-reputable publications) that proclaimed the death of the CD was...
View ArticleWe Love You Conrad, Oh Yes We Do: “Bye Bye Birdie” Film Soundtrack Turns 50,...
Gray skies are gonna clear up… More than seven years before the first Tribe of Hair let the sun shine in, another cast of characters brought rock (and roll!) to the New York stage. Michael Stewart,...
View ArticleGet Ready! Songs of “Motown: The Musical” Are Collected In Original Hit Versions
When Motown: The Musical opens at Broadway’s Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on April 14, it will mark yet another career landmark for Berry Gordy, the songwriter-producer-entrepreneur who turned Detroit,...
View ArticleKritzerland Goes “Green” with Broadway’s “A Time For Singing” and Vintage...
Kritzerland is going Green just in time for St. Patrick’s Day. Richard Llewellyn’s 1939 novel How Green Was My Valley was an immediate sensation, winning the 1940 National Book Award and attracting...
View ArticleFriday Feature: “It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s Superman”
Look! Up in the sky! It’s the return of the Friday Feature! When a mad scientist threatens Metropolis, it’s Superman to the rescue…right? What if Superman wasn’t there? What if the Man of Steel...
View Article“Bravo,” Masterworks Broadway! “Giovanni” and “Lady in the Dark” Go Digital
Tomorrow, April 9, Masterworks Broadway once again dips into the vaults for two digital-only reissues of vintage Columbia Records cast recordings. What do these recordings have in common? Both...
View ArticleStage and Screen Bonanza: “World of Suzie Wong,”“Elephant Steps” and Gene...
More treats are on the way for fans and collectors of rare cast albums and film soundtracks thanks to the ongoing work of the Masterworks Broadway and Kritzerland labels. As part of its ongoing...
View ArticleIsn’t It Rich: Masterworks Broadway Reissues Sondheim’s “A Little Night...
Where are the clowns? Following the release last month of Clownaround, one of the rarest cast recordings of all time, Masterworks Broadway is again sending in the clowns. In August, the label will...
View ArticleMidnight Special: Sweet “Rocky Horror” Reissues on Tap
A toast! A famed box set of music from The Rocky Horror Show is coming back into print, as well as a new reissue of the original film soundtrack on CD and vinyl, 40 years after the show first Time...
View ArticleHappy Halloween! “Wicked” Turns 10, Celebrates With Deluxe Reissue
“No one mourns the wicked,” goes the opening song of Winnie Holzman and Stephen Schwartz’s musical Wicked. But the musical, which last night celebrated its tenth anniversary on Broadway, won’t have...
View ArticleThe Year in Reissues: The 2013 Gold Bonus Disc Awards
Welcome to The Second Disc’s Fourth Annual Gold Bonus Disc Awards! Though this is a slow time of year for news, it’s the perfect time to look at the year in review. As with every year’s awards, our...
View ArticleFrom Brigadoon to Dogpatch, USA: Masterworks’ Slate Features Robert Goulet...
It might be a typical day in Dogpatch, USA, but it’s far from a typical one around these parts, for Sony’s Masterworks Broadway imprint has unveiled its first three releases of 2014 – each one a rare...
View ArticleIf You’ve Got It, Flaunt It: Stage Door Records Brings “Privates on Parade”...
Reviewing The Michael Grandage Company’s 2012 production of Peter Nichols’ play with music Privates on Parade, critic Charles Spencer summed up the feelings of many of his colleagues when he called the...
View ArticleShe’s The Greatest Star: Barbra Streisand’s Broadway “Funny Girl” Goes Super...
Attention people who need people! Funny Girl is turning 50, and that’s no laughing matter. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the classic Broadway musical that launched Barbra Streisand to...
View ArticleThe Animals’ Alan Price Leads Musical “Andy Capp” From Stage Door Records
When the musical Andy Capp premiered at London’s Aldwych Theatre (current home to Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Stephen Ward) in September 1982, cartoonist Reg Smythe’s beloved character took his place...
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