A newly recorded cast album for Broadway’s Funny Girl starring Lea Michele as Fanny Brice will be released digitally tomorrow – Friday, Nov. 18 at 12:01 a.m. Et. The surprise announcement was made by Michele herself during last night’s curtain call at the Broadway hit.
“We’re all so so so proud to announce that we’re going to be releasing our original cast album,” Michele said excitedly from the stage following the Wednesday night performance. “As the biggest Funny Girl fan my whole life, I am so proud and it’s so so so great!”
See video of her announcement below.
The news of the unexpected album release was also shared on this morning’s Today show.
Produced by David Caddick and David Lai and featuring the score by Jule Styne (music) and Bob Merrill (lyrics), a physical CD of the new cast recording is set for release on Friday,...
“We’re all so so so proud to announce that we’re going to be releasing our original cast album,” Michele said excitedly from the stage following the Wednesday night performance. “As the biggest Funny Girl fan my whole life, I am so proud and it’s so so so great!”
See video of her announcement below.
The news of the unexpected album release was also shared on this morning’s Today show.
Produced by David Caddick and David Lai and featuring the score by Jule Styne (music) and Bob Merrill (lyrics), a physical CD of the new cast recording is set for release on Friday,...
- 11/17/2022
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
Good News Musical Theatre Fans BroadwayWorld.com has confirmed Lincoln Center Theater's The King And I, which features a cast led by Kelli O'Hara as Anna Leonowens and Ken Watanabe as the King of Siam will receive a cast recording this summer on the the Decca Broadway Universal Music Classics label, produced by David Lai David Caddick and Bruce Pomahac. Of note, the the production features the musical's original 1951 orchestrations by Robert Russell Bennett with dance and incidental music arranged by Trude Rittmann. Music director Ted Sperling conducts a 29-piece orchestra which will be heard on the album as well.
- 3/14/2015
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The Recording Academy Honors 2013 will feature Grammy-winners Michael Bolton, Kristian Bush and David Caddick, Grammy-nominee Joan Osborne, stage and screen stars Aaron Tveit, Samantha Barks and Stephanie J. Block, American Idol Music Director Ray Chew, singer-songwriters Peter Cincotti and Frankie Moreno, Island Def Jam Music Group President Steve Bartels, Img Founder Charles Hamlen, and entertainment and media entrepreneur Kevin Liles. The star studded gala will celebrate honorees Ashford amp Simpson, Grammy-winning violinist Joshua Bell, Grammy-winning artist Melissa Etheridge, Grammy-winning creators of 'Les Miserables' - Alain Boublil, Herbert Kretzmer and Claude-Michel Schonberg - and RampB singersongwriter Trey Songz. The Recording Academy Honors was established to celebrate outstanding individuals whose work embodies excellence and integrity and who have improved the environment for the creative community. The event, which will attract recording artists, key entertainment executives and community leaders, will be hosted Tuesday, June 25, 2013, at 6 p.m. at 583 Park Avenue. This gala...
- 6/12/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
The 2011 Grammy Awards were big for the ladies -- country trio Lady Antebellum took home the most awards with five, while Lady Gaga earned three. Eminem had two honors, but Alternative Rock group Arcade Fire won the coveted Album of the Year.
Here is the full list of winners:
Album Of The Year
The Suburbs -- Arcade Fire
Recovery -- Eminem
Need You Now -- Lady Antebellum
The Fame Monster -- Lady Gaga
Teenage Dream -- Katy Perry
Record Of The Year
"Nothin' On You" -- B.o.B Featuring Bruno Mars
"Love The Way You Lie" -- Eminem Featuring Rihanna
"Forget You" -- Cee Lo Green
"Empire State Of Mind" -- Jay-z & Alicia Keys
"Need You Now" -- Lady Antebellum
Best New Artist
Justin Bieber
Drake
Florence & The Machine
Mumford & Sons
Esperanza Spalding
Song Of The Year
"Beg Steal Or Borrow" -- Ray Lamontagne, songwriter (Ray Lamontagne And The...
Here is the full list of winners:
Album Of The Year
The Suburbs -- Arcade Fire
Recovery -- Eminem
Need You Now -- Lady Antebellum
The Fame Monster -- Lady Gaga
Teenage Dream -- Katy Perry
Record Of The Year
"Nothin' On You" -- B.o.B Featuring Bruno Mars
"Love The Way You Lie" -- Eminem Featuring Rihanna
"Forget You" -- Cee Lo Green
"Empire State Of Mind" -- Jay-z & Alicia Keys
"Need You Now" -- Lady Antebellum
Best New Artist
Justin Bieber
Drake
Florence & The Machine
Mumford & Sons
Esperanza Spalding
Song Of The Year
"Beg Steal Or Borrow" -- Ray Lamontagne, songwriter (Ray Lamontagne And The...
- 2/14/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
The new Broadway Cast Recording of Promises, Promises was released nationwide physically and digitally on June 22, 2010 and is produced by Grammy Award winners David Caddick and David Lai. For the first time in over forty years Promises, Promises returns to the stage starring Emmy Award winner Sean Hayes and Tony and Emmy Award winner Kristin Chenoweth. Directed and choreographed by Tony and Emmy Award winner Rob Ashford, this new production of Promises, Promises, with Neil Simon's funny and touching book and Burt Bacharach and Hal David's hit-packed score, opened at the Broadway Theatre Sunday, April 25, 2010.
- 6/24/2010
- BroadwayWorld.com
"Evita" is muerte.
Buena Vista's big-screen, Madonna-starring adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's colossus of a musical is a dull, workmanlike extravaganza that will likely reign only for a short while as an "events" curiosity at the boxoffice.
Buena Vista's challenge, of course, will be to lure Madonna fans to a musical they probably never attended and, similarly, to attract older theatergoers to a vehicle for the Material Girl.
Lavishly mounted, with multitudes of extras, this Alan Parker-directed opus is a generally dreary, stodgy affair. Swathed in a dim array of muted browns and golds and filmed in a straight-ahead style, "Evita" is surprisingly devoid of the electric energy and incredible trajectory of Eva Peron's cataclysmic life.
Bookended by her lavish funeral, the film traces Eva's life as a peasant girl through her early "wild years" to her eventual meeting with a rising Juan Peron (Jonathan Pryce) and finally to her ascendance as Argentina's evanescent leader. It's a pretty straightforward telling, documenting her mercurial boldness and unwavering self-promotion.
Unfortunately, the production never really finds a point of view on her amazing ascent. With a screenplay dually credited to Alan Parker and Oliver Stone (indicative of the film's circuitous route to the screen), "Evita"'s scenario is basically a superficial, factual recitation of her rise to near-deity. Most woefully, "Evita" is bereft of irony or any perspective -- political, psychological or historical.
Parker's visual style is distressingly bland throughout. While he shows a flair for character groupings, "Evita" clomps along in a pedestrian visual cadence: Countless scenes of peasants -- marching in the streets, or standing in expectant herds to hear her balcony orations, or tromping along at her funeral -- all clump together. After awhile, the novelty of viewing large aggregations of peons standing before public works edifices loses its luster.
As Evita, Madonna exudes a grim and relentless ambition but never ignites any real sparks. After awhile, as we witness her methodical rise to power, the character becomes about as exciting and charismatic as Bob Dole.
While Madonna is surprisingly prim and subdued, the talented Jonathan Pryce is almost moribund. With his hair flattened back and a tiny smile seemingly cemented on his face, Pryce's visage looks as if it has been dabbed on by an undertaker. Worse, his performance is so limp that one is left in wonderment how such a wan person could ever have risen to head the Argentine government.
As Che, Antonio Banderas exhibits a surprisingly good singing voice; alas, his warblings are not enough to carry the expositional drivel he is required to deliver. One's mind drifts back to Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin croaking away in a buckboard in "Paint Your Wagon".
Other than the radiantly expressive "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina", the music all smears together in the same singsong cadence. Indeed, most of the expository lyrics are numbingly humdrum and forgettable. Credit, however, to Nigel Wright, for the music production and David Caddick for the music supervision: The orchestrations are often stirring and mellifluous.
EVITA
Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
Hollywood Pictures
Andrew G. Vajna presents "Evita"
A Cinergi/Robert Stigwood/
Dirty Hands production
An Alan Parker film
Producers Robert Stigwood,
Alan Parker, Andrew G. Vajna
Director Alan Parker
Screenwriters Alan Parker, Oliver Stone
Based on the musical "Evita"
Lyrics Tim Rice
Music Andrew Lloyd Webber
Line producer David Wimbury
Associate producer Lisa Moran
Director of photography Darius Khondji
Production designer Brian Morris
Editor Gerry Hambling
Music Andrew Lloyd Webber
Lyrics Tim Rice
Music production Nigel Wright
Music supervision David Caddick
Costume designer Penny Rose
Choreographer Vincent Paterson
Casting John & Ros Hubbard
Music produced by Nigel Wright, Alan Parker, Andrew Lloyd Webber, David Caddick,
Emilio Estefan Jr.
Orchestra conducted by John Mauceri
Color/stereo
Cast:
Eva Peron Madonna
Che Antonio Banderas
Juan Peron Jonathan Pryce
Agustin Magaldi Jimmy Nail
Dona Juana Victoria Sus
Brother Juan Julian Littman
Blanca Olga Meediz
Elisa Laura Pallas
Erminda Julia Worsley
Young Eva Maria Lujan Hidalgo
Running time -- 133 minutes
MPAA rating: PG...
Buena Vista's big-screen, Madonna-starring adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's colossus of a musical is a dull, workmanlike extravaganza that will likely reign only for a short while as an "events" curiosity at the boxoffice.
Buena Vista's challenge, of course, will be to lure Madonna fans to a musical they probably never attended and, similarly, to attract older theatergoers to a vehicle for the Material Girl.
Lavishly mounted, with multitudes of extras, this Alan Parker-directed opus is a generally dreary, stodgy affair. Swathed in a dim array of muted browns and golds and filmed in a straight-ahead style, "Evita" is surprisingly devoid of the electric energy and incredible trajectory of Eva Peron's cataclysmic life.
Bookended by her lavish funeral, the film traces Eva's life as a peasant girl through her early "wild years" to her eventual meeting with a rising Juan Peron (Jonathan Pryce) and finally to her ascendance as Argentina's evanescent leader. It's a pretty straightforward telling, documenting her mercurial boldness and unwavering self-promotion.
Unfortunately, the production never really finds a point of view on her amazing ascent. With a screenplay dually credited to Alan Parker and Oliver Stone (indicative of the film's circuitous route to the screen), "Evita"'s scenario is basically a superficial, factual recitation of her rise to near-deity. Most woefully, "Evita" is bereft of irony or any perspective -- political, psychological or historical.
Parker's visual style is distressingly bland throughout. While he shows a flair for character groupings, "Evita" clomps along in a pedestrian visual cadence: Countless scenes of peasants -- marching in the streets, or standing in expectant herds to hear her balcony orations, or tromping along at her funeral -- all clump together. After awhile, the novelty of viewing large aggregations of peons standing before public works edifices loses its luster.
As Evita, Madonna exudes a grim and relentless ambition but never ignites any real sparks. After awhile, as we witness her methodical rise to power, the character becomes about as exciting and charismatic as Bob Dole.
While Madonna is surprisingly prim and subdued, the talented Jonathan Pryce is almost moribund. With his hair flattened back and a tiny smile seemingly cemented on his face, Pryce's visage looks as if it has been dabbed on by an undertaker. Worse, his performance is so limp that one is left in wonderment how such a wan person could ever have risen to head the Argentine government.
As Che, Antonio Banderas exhibits a surprisingly good singing voice; alas, his warblings are not enough to carry the expositional drivel he is required to deliver. One's mind drifts back to Clint Eastwood and Lee Marvin croaking away in a buckboard in "Paint Your Wagon".
Other than the radiantly expressive "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina", the music all smears together in the same singsong cadence. Indeed, most of the expository lyrics are numbingly humdrum and forgettable. Credit, however, to Nigel Wright, for the music production and David Caddick for the music supervision: The orchestrations are often stirring and mellifluous.
EVITA
Buena Vista Pictures Distribution
Hollywood Pictures
Andrew G. Vajna presents "Evita"
A Cinergi/Robert Stigwood/
Dirty Hands production
An Alan Parker film
Producers Robert Stigwood,
Alan Parker, Andrew G. Vajna
Director Alan Parker
Screenwriters Alan Parker, Oliver Stone
Based on the musical "Evita"
Lyrics Tim Rice
Music Andrew Lloyd Webber
Line producer David Wimbury
Associate producer Lisa Moran
Director of photography Darius Khondji
Production designer Brian Morris
Editor Gerry Hambling
Music Andrew Lloyd Webber
Lyrics Tim Rice
Music production Nigel Wright
Music supervision David Caddick
Costume designer Penny Rose
Choreographer Vincent Paterson
Casting John & Ros Hubbard
Music produced by Nigel Wright, Alan Parker, Andrew Lloyd Webber, David Caddick,
Emilio Estefan Jr.
Orchestra conducted by John Mauceri
Color/stereo
Cast:
Eva Peron Madonna
Che Antonio Banderas
Juan Peron Jonathan Pryce
Agustin Magaldi Jimmy Nail
Dona Juana Victoria Sus
Brother Juan Julian Littman
Blanca Olga Meediz
Elisa Laura Pallas
Erminda Julia Worsley
Young Eva Maria Lujan Hidalgo
Running time -- 133 minutes
MPAA rating: PG...
- 12/10/1996
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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