Hello Again (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

Beyond the Moon (Single) (Bonus Track)

Ragtime: The Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

Wheels of a Dream

Sarah Brown Eyes

My Favorite Things: The Rodgers & Hammerstein 80th Anniversary Concert

My Favorite Things (Live from Theatre Royal Drury Lane / 2023 / From "The Sound of Music")

Gypsy Starring Audra McDonald (2024 Broadway Cast Recording)

Rose's Turn

Everything's Coming Up Roses

Some People

May We Entertain You

Together, Wherever We Go

Small World

Madame Rose's Toreadorables

Seattle to Los Angeles (Some People Reprise)

I Thought You Did It for Me, Momma

You'll Never Get Away from Me

Curtain Music

You Gotta Get a Gimmick

Have an Eggroll, Mr. Goldstone

Go Back Home

I'll Be Here

Way Back to Paradise

I Follow

How Glory Goes

I Won't Mind

Edelweiss

Annie - Original Telefilm Soundtrack

Maybe/Tomorrow (Reprise) (Grace) (Voice)

The Sound of Music (Music from the Television Special)

Climb Ev'ry Mountain

Was That You?

Stars and the Moon

Your Daddy's Son

President

Finale Ultimo: Climb Ev'ry Mountain

My Favorite Things

Maria

Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast (Finale) (From "Beauty and the Beast"/Soundtrack Version)

Aria (From "Beauty and the Beast"/Soundtrack Version)

When five-time Tony Award-winning singer and actress Audra McDonald decided it was about time she step back into the recording studio—it had been seven years since she’d released her last solo effort, Build a Bridge—the concept for her fifth Nonesuch disc came together quickly, starting with the title, Go Back Home. As she recounts, “If there were a Broadway show written about my life, especially the last seven years, this would be the soundtrack. That’s the main theme of the album, coming back home to my physical roots, to my theatrical roots, coming back home to singing—coming back home to me, in a way.”

In the intervening years, McDonald, already a familiar face on network television, enjoyed a long-running role on the hit ABC medical-drama series Private Practice. But she increasingly longed to return full-time to New York City, where merely a year after graduating from Juilliard she established her name as a rising musical theater star, earning a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for the 1994 Lincoln Center production of Carousel. That was just the first in a series of award-winning performances: Before McDonald reached 30, she garnered two additional Tonys in the same category, for Terrence McNally’s play Master Class (1996) and for his musical Ragtime (1998). In 2004, she won a fourth, for A Raisin in the Sun.

McDonald’s first move when she decided to come back east was to take on the demanding lead role in director Diane Paulus and playwright Suzan Lori-Parks’ adaptation of George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward’s Porgy and Bess, a stunning performance that proved to be as arduous as it was acclaimed. That earned McDonald her record-tying fifth Tony Award, her first as Leading Actress. Recounts McDonald, “Coming back from Los Angeles and immediately going into Porgy and Bess—something so difficult, such a major role to tackle—it felt wonderful in the way that if you haven’t been exercising in a while and then you start and you are in a lot of pain, but it’s good pain. It felt great to come back and stretch my muscles again and feel more like myself again in a theater. I had a wonderful time on Private Practice, but coming back home to the theater and to singing again made me feel that I was whole.”

Audra McDonald

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