News Round-Up (Aug 18)

This Week on the Filmed Live Musicals Calendar

​Discover new musicals:

• We’ve Battled Monsters Before - a new American-Filipino indie-folk musical)
• Rathskeller: A Musical Elixir - a rock and roll musical set in a mythical dive bar
• The Boy Who Kissed the Sky - inspired by the early life of Jimi Hendrix​​ ​

Cabarets
Catch performances by Broadway veterans and a cabaret featuring the talents of Broadway standbys, understudies, and alternates!

Last Chance!
It’s your last weekend to livestream Opera Wyoming’s macabre musical Ride the Cyclone.

Find out where you can watch these musicals and more
​in the Filmed Live Musicals streaming calendar!

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Immersive Audio Sondheim
Masterworks Broadway have released “immersive audio” editions of the original cast albums of Sweeney Todd, Assassins, Into the Woods, and Company. Sondheim himself consulted on the remastering of each album prior to his death in 2021. Each album is available via Apple Music, Amazon Music, and Tidal. 

Where to Stream:
Sweeney Todd: Amazon, Apple
Assassins: Amazon, Apple
Into the Woods: Amazon, Apple
Company: Amazon, Apple

​For more info visit Masterworks Broadway.

New books

• Fixing the Musical: How Technologies Shaped the Broadway Repertory 

Doug Reside, curator of the Billy Rose Theatre Division at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts makes the case for the fact that the musicals we most remember are those which most effectively used their era's best recording and distribution technologies to document and share the work with those who would never see the original production on Broadway. The book will be available from August 25, 2023. Available for pre-order via Amazon and Bookshop.org.

• THE TONY AWARDS: A CELEBRATION OF EXCELLENCE IN THEATRE

A new coffee table book by Eila Mell and the American Theatre Wing featuring over 130 interviews, and 400 photographs celebrating the history of over 75 years of Broadway greatness. The book also features a forward by six-time Tony winner Audra McDonald. Currently available for pre-order, the book will be released in April, 2024. Pre-order via Amazon or Bookshop.org.

More Musical Theatre Games: Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical
Last week I shared info on the new Hamilton Simulator, and this week saw the launch of another musical-themed game Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical. Gods. Romance. Murder. Musical Numbers?! Play as Grace in a world where Greek Gods live in hiding among us. Change your fate as you draw friends, foes & lovers into song using your powers of musical persuasion to unravel the mystery of the Last Muse's death. The game features music by Grammy-nominee Austin Wintory, and Australian musicians Tripod (Scott Edgar, Steven Gates, and Simon Hall), and Montaigne. The character voices are provided by The Last of Us actors Laura Bailey and Ashley Johnson, along with Felicia Day, Troy Baker, Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, and Merle Dandridge as the Gods. Stray Gods is available now on STEAM, Nintendo Switch, Xbox and X/S, PC and PS4/5.

SIX: Teen Edition
The Teen Edition of the international hit musical SIX is now available for licensing in the US via Concord Theatricals. It is also available in the UK. A release date on the West End capture of the musical has yet to be announced.

Children of Eden

A special one-night-only concert performance of John Caird and Stephen Schwartz’s Children of Eden was filmed at the Cadillac Palace Theatre in Chicago in October, 2022. The production featured over 150 performers, including Michelle Williams, Randal Keith, Koryn Hawthorne, David Phelps, and Sam Tsui. The film is expected to be released later this year.