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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nJo \u2013 The Little Women Musical<\/a><\/em><\/strong> is a Broadway-bound reimagined take by Christina Harding and John Gabriel Koladziej (book and lyrics) from a bold new perspective on Louisa May Alcott’s classic coming-of-age novel of 1868, focused on Jo March, a passionate young writer whose grief over losing her sister inspires the show\u2019s universal themes of family, ambition, and identity. With a lush timeless score by conductor and orchestrator Dan Redfeld, the studio cast album, recorded at London\u2019s renowned Abbey Road Studios, released through Little Women Enterprises LLC and Center Stage Records, and performed by a mix of Broadway, West End, and international stars accompanied by a 29-piece orchestra, is now available in digital and streaming formats and as a 2-CD set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Featuring Grammy-nominated Christine Allado as Jo March, the illustrious cast of the recording includes Tony Award winner and five-time nominee Laura Benanti, two-time Tony winner Christine Ebersole, Olivier Award-nominated West End and Broadway star Julian Ovenden, two-time Tony nominee Bob Gunton, and West End star Kelly Mathieson, along with Sophie Pollono, Eleanor Grant, Rob Houchen, Chris Mann, Liam Tamne, Tobias Turley, and Miyuki Miyagi. <\/p>\n\n\n\n To order, stream, or download the album, click here<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n Floyd Collins \u2013 Original Broadway Cast Recording<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, produced by Adam Guettel and Ted Sperling, released in CD format by Center Stage Records on September 5, and also available on streaming and digital platforms, preserves the songs of the recent Broadway premiere of the musical at Lincoln Center\u2019s Vivian Beaumont Theater, performed April 21-June 22, 2025, and nominated for six 2025 Tony Awards, including Best Revival of a Musical, Best Orchestrations, Best Actor in a Musical for Jeremy Jordan, and Best Featured Actor in a Musical for Taylor Trensch, some three decades after its Off-Broadway debut at Playwrights Horizons in 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Based on the true story of a cave explorer in 1925 Kentucky, Floyd Collins<\/a><\/em><\/strong> tells the tale of an American dreamer who becomes trapped 200 feet underground and fights for his life, as the rescue efforts above explode into the country\u2019s first media circus. With a book by Tina Landau and a folk and bluegrass-inspired score by Guettel, the album\u2019s Broadway company features Jordan as Floyd Collins, with Trensch, Jason Gotay, Sean Allan Krill, Marc Kudisch, Lizzy McAlpine, Wade McCollum, Jessica Molaskey, Cole Vaughan, and Clyde Voce, and the company of Kevin Bernard, Dwayne Cooper, Jeremy Davis, Charlie Franklin, Kristen Hahn, Happy McPartlin, Kevyn Morrow, Zak Resnick, Justin Showell, and Colin Trudell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n To stream or download the album, or to order the CD, go online<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n On August 29, 2025, Yellow Sound label released the NYC Studio Recording of Winchell: The Musical<\/a><\/em><\/strong> on streaming and digital formats. Focusing on the legendary media figure Walter Winchell (1897-1972) – originally a vaudeville performer, then a syndicated American newspaper gossip columnist and radio news commentator, who began his newspaper career as a Broadway reporter, critic, and columnist for the New York tabloids and was known for his entertaining style of jokes, Jazz Age slang, and news briefs about celebrities – the work features music by Keith Levenson, lyrics by Martin Charnin and Levenson, and vocal arrangements by Jeanine Tesori.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The stage production was scheduled to open on Broadway in 1991, but a scandal involving the producers forced the show to cancel those plans. Its score was never recorded, but this new album gives listeners the chance to hear it for the first time, from the all-star cast of Roger Daltrey, Sally Struthers, Kate Baldwin, Chip Zien, F. Murray Abraham, Julia Murney, Billy Idol, Michael Cerveris, Darlene Love, Kristin Duerr, Adrian Zmed, Jon Cryer, Claudia Schneider, Steven Mercurio, Jackie Turner, Alice Cooper, Angelina Carballo, Jeffrey Bruce Duncan, and Jason Robert Brown as Walter Winchell, with the ensemble of Claudia Schneider, Jessie Janet Richards, Claire Howland Kenny, Giulianna Augello, Neal Mayer, Larry Kleiber, Peter Cormican, Alexandra Rose DeAngelis, Peter Green, David Josefsberg, Mallory King, Mark Megill, Dominque Plaisant, Tom Rocco, David Quinn, Lisa Spielman, Jonathan Marc Sherman, and Joy Donze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Proceeds from the album will benefit the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Heath, located in Las Vegas, NV, which treats trauma and movement disorders, and has helped Levenson in his ongoing fight with Parkinson\u2019s disease. You can stream or download the album at Apple Music<\/a><\/strong> or Spotify<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n Birdland Jazz Club, located at 315 West 44th<\/sup> Street in NYC, will present the return of multiple BroadwayWorld<\/em> Award-winning concert artist Jeff Harnar in his acclaimed show The 1959 Broadway Songbook<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, directed by Sara Louise Lazarus, on Monday, October 6, at 7 pm, to celebrate the remastered version of the show\u2019s 1992 album of the same name, which will be released in its streaming debut from the PS Classics<\/a><\/strong> label on Friday, October 3. At Birdland, Harnar will be joined by his longtime music director Alex Rybeck, in addition to Tom Hubbard on bass and Dan Gross on drums. For tickets (priced at $35.46-$45.76, including fees), click here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The song list represents the 21 musicals that were playing in New York in 1959, such as Gypsy<\/em>, The Sound of Music<\/em>, Fiorello!<\/em>, West Side Story<\/em>, My Fair Lady<\/em>, The Music Man<\/em>, Flower Drum Song<\/em>, Bells Are Ringing<\/em>, and Once Upon a Mattress<\/em>, in this tribute to an era that\u2019s been called the twilight of The Golden Age of Broadway. Songwriters represented include Jule Styne, Stephen Sondheim, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Harold Arlen & Yip Harburg, Leonard Bernstein, Comden & Green, and Lerner & Loewe, with more than 40 classic songs (\u201cTonight,\u201d \u201cOn the Street Where You Live,\u201d \u201cTill There Was You,\u201d \u201cThe Party\u2019s Over,\u201d and \u201cEverything\u2019s Coming Up Roses\u201d among them).<\/p>\n\n\n\n First performed as a one-man show for his 1991 debut at The Algonquin Hotel\u2019s fabled Oak Room, which was televised on PBS, the original live album was recorded there in 1992, and the new digital release will make the vintage hits available to Broadway fans everywhere, across all streaming platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A selection of new cast albums and recordings of songs from Broadway\u2019s greatest hits and performers includes an array of shows, themes, and styles that offer fans the opportunity to hear their favorites and rare works again and again, beyond the theater. 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