"The show of our dreams – a merry, madcap, slaphappy musical comedy" is how Variety hailed ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY in its "sizzling and sumptuous" (Associated Press) 2015 Broadway production, led by Tony and Emmy Award-winner Kristin Chenoweth and Golden Globe-winner and Tony Award nominee Peter Gallagher. While the show garnered five Tony Awards during its original 1978 run, it was only with the opening of this new production that it has come to be celebrated as a classic. The New York Post raved "They don't write musical comedies like this anymore!," while The New York Times cheered, "This production not only retains but also amps up what was good about the original… shining a spotlight on the shrewd silliness and alchemical fizz of Cy Coleman's operetta-style melodies and Comden and Green's giddy gift for showbiz satire." Along with standout supporting performances by Andy Karl, Mark Linn-Baker and Tony Award winners Michael McGrath and Mary Louise Wilson, this production gives audiences the opportunity to bask in the star turns of Gallagher ("flawless and delightfully entertaining" [USA Today]) and Chenoweth, who, "creates one of the most virtuosic portraits in song ever on Broadway" (The New York Times). On the Twentieth Century brims with "the kind of performance that will make those lucky enough to have seen it grin with remembered delight decades after the fact" (The Wall Street Journal), and PS Classics' deluxe two-disc set is a first-class ticket that everyone can enjoy.

On the Twentieth Century - New Broadway Cast Recording

Following a sold-out, critically acclaimed run at The Public Theater, the groundbreaking new musical Fun Home comes to Broadway. It was named Best Musical by the New York Drama Critics Circle, and received the OBIE, Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle and Off Broadway Alliance Awards in the 2013-2014 season. Hailed by The New York Times as a "beautiful heartbreaker of a musical," Fun Home "finds a shining clarity that lights up the night" in one of the best-reviewed productions of the year. In this fresh, daring new musical, based on the acclaimed graphic novel by Alison Bechdel, the cartoonist relives her unique childhood playing at the family's Bechdel Funeral Home, her growing understanding of her own sexuality and the looming, unanswerable questions about her father's hidden desires and sudden death. With music by four-time Tony Award-nominee Jeanine Tesori and book and lyrics by Tony Award-nominated playwright Lisa Kron, Fun Home features a splendid cast, including Tony Award-winner Michael Cerveris and three-time Tony Award-nominee Judy Kuhn, "doing some of the best work of their careers" in a "miracle" production directed by Sam Gold (New York Magazine). New York Daily News, in a 5 star review, called it "achingly beautiful," Variety hailed it as "warm, funny and heartbreaking," while New York Observer simply proclaimed it "a triumph!" PS Classics is proud to preserve this musical about seeing your parents through grown-up eyes. 

Fun Home - A New Broadway Musical

Legendary composer Vernon Duke (“April in Paris,” “Autumn in New York,” “I Can’t Get Started,”  “Taking a Chance on Love”) left behind a treasure trove of unheard melodies when he died.  Now celebrated journalist and author Barry Singer has taken nearly two dozen of these tunes and fashioned the book and lyrics for a new musical that celebrates the life of Misia Sert, the legendary muse and patroness of fin de siecle Paris, whose coterie included Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Auguste Renoir, Marcel Proust, “Coco” Chanel and Serge Diaghilev. An all-star cast of Broadway veterans – including Marin Mazzie in the title role, along with Bobby Steggert, Jonathan Freeman, Marc Kudisch,  Jason Danieley, Lauren Worsham, Telly Leung, Philip Chaffin,  Stephen DeRosa, Eddie Korbich and Darcy Dunn – have assembled to bring this new musical to life, under the baton of Scott Dunn,  to all-new orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick.  PS Classics is very proud to present the world premiere recording of MISIA, a rich and rewarding new musical that unveils – for the first time -- the full, previously-unheard glories of the Vernon Duke catalog.

Misia - 2015 Studio Cast Recording

"A jubilant revival that takes your breath away" is how The New York Times hailed the new production of ON THE TOWN, the beloved musical by American icon Leonard Bernstein and Betty Comden & Adolph Green, which returned to Broadway on October 16th, 2014. The Wall Street Journal declared, "Anyone who isn’t thrilled by this production needs a heart transplant - [it’s] everything a great show should be," while The Hollywood Reporter called it "an explosion of pure joy." Bernstein and Comden & Green’s "rapturous, red-blooded score" (New York Daily News) - featuring some of the most heartfelt and memorable songs in the musical canon (including "New York, New York," "Lonely Town," "Lucky to Be Me" and "Some Other Time"), and brought to life by a 28-piece orchestra (the biggest on Broadway) - remains, 70 years after its premiere, among the finest scores ever written for the stage. The 30-member cast, led by Tony Yazbeck, Jay Armstrong Johnson, Clyde Alves, Megan Fairchild, Elizabeth Stanley and Alysha Umphress, perform this big, brassy musical comedy under the direction of Tony Award-winner John Rando, with choreography by Emmy-winner Joshua Bergasse (Smash). ON THE TOWN has become a national musical treasure, and now PS Classics is proud to preserve the complete score in a deluxe two-disc set.

On the Town New Broadway Cast Recording

The Golden Apple - First Full Length Recording

Ain't It Funny What a Difference Just a Few Drinks Make?

Seasons of Love

Rolled Into One

A Picture In Your Mind

The Only One

Welcome to Our House on Maple Avenue

Hailed by The New York Times as a "beautiful heartbreaker of a musical," Fun Home "finds a shining clarity that lights up the night" in one of the best-reviewed productions of the year. In this fresh, daring new musical, based on the acclaimed graphic novel by Alison Bechdel, the cartoonist relives her unique childhood playing at the family’s Bechdel Funeral Home, her growing understanding of her own sexuality and the looming, unanswerable questions about her father’s hidden desires and sudden death. With music by four-time Tony Award-nominee Jeanine Tesori and book and lyrics by Tony Award-nominated playwright Lisa Kron, Fun Home features a splendid cast, including Tony Award-winner Michael Cerveris and three-time Tony Award-nominee Judy Kuhn, "doing some of the best work of their careers" in a "miracle" production directed by Sam Gold (New York Magazine). New York Daily News, in a 5 star review, called it "achingly beautiful," Variety hailed it as "warm, funny and heartbreaking," while New York Observer simply proclaimed it "a triumph!" Now, PS Classics and The Public Theater join forces to preserve this groundbreaking world-premiere musical about seeing your parents through grown-up eyes.

It All Comes Back (Opening)

Ring of Keys

Telephone Wire

Two-time Tony Award-winner Sutton Foster "dazzles in a career-redefining performance," hails The New York Times, "revealing the full range of her expressive gifts. If the time has come for Sutton Foster to take her place among the first rank of Broadway performers, the moment also seems ripe for Violet to be acknowledged as an enduringly rewarding musical.” Foster heads a cast of Broadway stars, including Colin Donnell (Anything Goes, Merrily We Roll Along at Encores!), Alexander Gemignani(Assassins, Sunday in the Park with George) and Tony Award-nominee Joshua Henry (The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, The Scottsboro Boys), in the debut Broadway production of VIOLET, with music by four-time Tony Award-nominee Jeanine Tesori (Fun Home) and book and lyrics by Brian Crawley. “A work of great beauty, resonance, and joy," raved New York Magazine of this new production. "Sutton Foster is riveting, Colin Donnell is terrific and Joshua Henry brings the house down."  New York Daily News cheered, "What a wonderful trip it is! An exhilarating musical that purrs from start to finish,” while Entertainment Weekly called it "a beautiful Broadway revival. Rich and soul-stirring. It's impossible not to get swept up." Now, PS Classics is delighted to preserve Roundabout Theatre Company's acclaimed production in a deluxe two-disc set.

Let it Sing

An extraordinary cast – Farah Alvin, Marc Kudisch, Judy Kuhn, Jessica Molaskey, Matthew Risch, Diane Sutherland, and Tony Yazbeck – brings a seminal work by composer Ricky Ian Gordon (The Grapes of Wrath, Intimate Apparel) to vibrant life. Sycamore Trees, Gordon’s American family saga exploring his own tumultuous upbringing and early adulthood, premiered in 2010 at Virginia’s Signature Theater, but no official recording was made at the time. Fortunately, original sound designer Matt Rowe recorded excerpts from a performance for archival purposes; now, recent advances in audio technology – and the eagerness of the original cast to come into the studio 14 years later to see the work properly preserved on disc – allow that “board mix” to be transformed into a genuine cast album: one that reflects both the spontaneity and suppleness of a live performance and the precision and expansiveness of a studio mix. The new album features the original orchestrations by Bruce Coughlin, with music direction by Fred Lassen and Andrew Resnick on piano. Released to coincide with Gordon’s acclaimed memoirs, Seeing Through: A Chronicle of Sex, Drugs, and Opera, this recording was produced by Tommy Krasker and Bart Migal, with audio restoration by Migal, and was made possible by the support and generosity of Ted & Mary Jo Shen, with additional funding provided by So-Chung Shinn. PS Classics is proud to present the original cast recording of a show “aimed at the American dream itself … a fresh and stimulating tribute to family” (Washington Examiner) that “reveals with sharpness and affectionate eccentricity the joys and tensions in one Long Island Jewish household” (The Washington Post).

My Mother Is A Singer

Pigeons

The Last Time I Saw Him

Let There Be Light

New York, New York

Presentation of Miss Turnstiles

Come Up to My Place

Carried Away (Encore)

I Feel Like I'm Not Out of Bed Yet

When it premiered in 1954, composer Jerome Moross and librettist John Latouche's THE GOLDEN APPLE was hailed as "the most original musical since Oklahoma!" (The Washington Post), "the best thing that has happened in and to the theatre in a very long time" (New York Daily News), and "a magnificent achievement. A sensational success. The most imaginative work of its kind" (New York Daily Mirror). Its blend of American folklore and Greek myth, popular entertainment and high art, and musical comedy and operatic drama "stood Manhattan on its ear," winning the New York Drama Critics' Circle prize for Best Musical (the first Off-Broadway show to do so) and spawning the standard "Lazy Afternoon." Yet, sadly, this 135-minute through-sung musical was preserved only in a 48-minute LP, and after a short-lived transfer to Broadway, THE GOLDEN APPLE all but slipped into obscurity. In November of 2014, the Lyric Stage of Irving, Texas, mounted a fully-staged revival of THE GOLDEN APPLE, featuring an orchestra of 38 and a 43-member cast, and PS Classics was there to preserve the score in its entirety. Featuring nearly 90 minutes of previously unrecorded music and the complete libretto, PS Classics' deluxe two-disc cast recording of THE GOLDEN APPLE gives new life to a musical milestone of the American theatre.

Mother Hare's Return / An Impartial Judge

Good Is a Word That Fools Believe / It's the Going Home Together (Continuation)

Overture / Nothing Ever Happens in Angel's Roost

The Broadway musical as we know it would not exist without the generations of Jewish songwriters who brought not only their talent but their heritage and perspective to their art. In A Place for Us: A Celebration of Jewish Broadway, award-winning musical storyteller Ari Axelrod has gathered a collection of this cherished work through which he finds healing and a sense of home and community, echoing the refuge generations of Jews have sought in the American theater. Axelrod's debut studio album adapts the one-man show he's performed to raves across the country ("Genuinely one of the finest shows I've ever seen" —BroadwayWorld), expanding upon his deep connection to this material and his own Jewish heritage. Weaving together a century of songs from the likes of Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Stephen Sondheim, Mary Rodgers, Jason Robert Brown, Adam Guettel and many others - including Cole Porter, a gentile who said the key to a hit was in writing a "Jewish tune" - Axelrod creates a stunning tapestry of the Jewish American experience, from immigration and assimilation to activism, faith and family, revealing in exquisite detail how Jewish liturgy and culture were transformed into a popular music beloved by all. Featuring a 13piece orchestra arranged and conducted by Mike Stapleton, with additional arrangements by Larry Yurman, A Place for Us: A Celebration of Jewish Broadway tells an unforgettable story of a community's survival built on courage and the yearning for "peace and quiet and onen air ... somewhere.” (The Washington Post).

So In Love

It Ain't Necessarily So

Hope

Lost In The Stars

Everybody Says Don't

God Knows Where

Saddle Up The Horse / On The Twentieth Century

Veronique

Veronique Playoff / I Have Written A Play

"Where's The High Priest Of The Theatre..." / I Rise Again

Indian Maiden's Lament

Party Dress

Changing My Major

Pony Girl / "A flair for the dramatic…"

Legendary composer Vernon Duke (“April in Paris,” “Autumn in New York,” “I Can’t Get Started,”  “Taking a Chance on Love”) left behind a treasure trove of unheard melodies when he died.  Now celebrated journalist and author Barry Singer has taken nearly two dozen of these tunes and fashioned the book and lyrics for a new musical that celebrates the life of Misia Sert, the legendary muse and patroness of fin de siecle Paris, whose coterie included Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Auguste Renoir, Marcel Proust, “Coco” Chanel and Serge Diaghilev. An all-star cast of Broadway veterans – including Marin Mazzie in the title role, along with Bobby Steggert, Jonathan Freeman, Marc Kudisch,  Jason Danieley, Lauren Worsham, Telly Leung, Philip Chaffin,  Stephen DeRosa, Eddie Korbich, Darcy Dunn and Graham Rowat – have assembled to bring this new musical to life, under the baton of Scott Dunn,  to all-new orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick.  PS Classics is very proud to present the world premiere recording of MISIA, a rich and rewarding new musical that unveils – for the first time -- the full, previously-unheard glories of the Vernon Duke catalog.

Well, How Nice!

Painted, Promised Land

My Heart and I

Nursery

Bow Your Head

2008 GRAMMY NOMINEE and The Tony Award-winning Broadway production.
GREY GARDENS – proclaimed the #1 Show of the Year by Time magazine – opened on Broadway on November 2, 2006, to rave reviews, led by Ben Brantley in The New York Times, who called it “an experience no passionate theatergoer should miss!” Starring Tony Award-winner Christine Ebersole and Tony Award-nominee Mary Louise Wilson, it subsequently appeared on over 25 “Best of 2006” lists, including #1 Show of the Year (Time), Best Musical of the Year (USA Today, Entertainment Weekly) and Performance of the Year (The New York Times, New York) for Ms. Ebersole. 

This Original Broadway Cast Recording features an all-new 32-page full-color booklet complete with lyrics and Broadway production photos.

Book by Doug Wright 
Music by Scott Frankel 
Lyrics by Michael Korie 

The Cake I Had

The Five-Fifteen

A "miracle" and "revelatory" is how New York Magazine greeted the 2015 New York City Center Encores! Off-Center production of William Finn and James Lapine's A New Brain, starring Broadway, film and television star Jonathan Groff (Hamilton, Spring Awakening, Frozen, Glee), along Christian Borle (Something Rotten!), Ana Gasteyer (Saturday Night Live) and Aaron Lazar (A Little Night Music, The Light in the Piazza). Audiences and critics alike welcomed the opportunity to revisit this deeply personal show, largely neglected since it premiered in 1998, and this new production – featuring some canny rewrites by Finn and Lapine – seemed more moving and invigorating than ever before; as New York magazine put it, "sharpening and tightening" the show allows its main theme, "the responsibility we have to use ourselves fully," to emerge more clearly. The score by the Tony Award–winner comprises "madcap, hallucinatory production numbers and gorgeous, tender ballads" (amNY); "both eccentrically individual and universal, these songs evoke the original, piquant talent" (The New York Times) of the composer/lyricist. Now PS Classics has preserved the "starry and beautifully sung" (NY Daily News) production of this 95-minute, through-composed show in its entirety for the first time, in a deluxe two-disc set.

I Feel So Much Spring

Don't Give In

Heart and Music

From the Drama Desk Award–nominated creators of Broadway's The Story of My Life comes The Theory of Relativity, a new musical written for and about college-age youth. Much in the style of A Chorus Line, composer/lyricist Neil Bartram and bookwriter Brian Hill sat down with a group of young actors and listened to their hilarious and heartbreaking stories about home, childhood, family, love and loss. Inspired by these stories, they have crafted an emotional and highly accessible show that explores the profound sense of connection in these diverse personal narratives. Brimming with youthful exuberance and quirkiness, Bartram's score gives unique voice to that awkward dance to adulthood while upending familiar themes in unexpected ways. In its first year alone, The Theory of Relativity has played to packed houses in London, Toronto and across the United States. Now PS Classics has assembled the very best new voices from among its many casts for this world premiere recording. The Theory of Relativity is a joyous musical exploration of the communities we build out of our shared experiences.

Me And Ricky

Apples And Oranges

I'm Allergic to Cats

Relativity

Brian d'Arcy James, Jason Danieley, Kelli O'Hara, Jessica Molaskey, Jeff McCarthy and Victoria Clark star in the world premiere recording of Ricky Ian Gordon and Tina Landau's DREAM TRUE, conducted by Ted Sperling. Inspired by George du Maurier's 1891 novel Peter Ibbetson, DREAM TRUE was originally produced by the Vineyard Theatre in June of 1998, then in an extended run in the spring of 1999. It was subsequently performed in concert in March of 2004 at Cooper Arts, a contemporary music series produced by Howard Stokar; this recording – with its striking cast of Broadway stars and orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick – is drawn from that performance.

We Will Always Walk Together

Composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim and librettist James Goldman’s landmark 1971 musical returns to Broadway in a production The New York Times raved “[makes] you realize anew just why Follies is one of the greatest musicals ever written.” A bittersweet look at the follies of youth seen through the eyes of age and experience, this new production stars two-time Tony Award-winner Bernadette Peters as Sally Durant Plummer, four-time Tony Award-nominee Jan Maxwell as Phyllis Rogers Stone, two-time Tony Award-nominee Danny Burstein as Buddy Plummer, three-time Emmy Award-nominee Ron Raines as Benjamin Stone and four-time Olivier Award-nominee Elaine Paige as Carlotta Campion, under the direction of Eric Schaeffer. The cast of 41 is backed up by a 28-piece orchestra, conducted by James Moore. Now, PS Classics and producer Tommy Krasker – who has helmed over a dozen Sondheim cast recordings – preserve this unparalleled work of genius in an expansive two-disc set, complete with 52-page full-color booklet with essay, synopsis, lyrics, production photos and a brief note from the album producer.

The God-Why-Don't-You-Love-Me Blues

PS Classics continues its forgotten musicals series, which kicked off with Vincent Youmans’ Through the Years and Kay Swift’s Fine and Dandy, with the world premiere recording of the 1926 “bright new summer musical delight” KITTY’S KISSES.
This tuneful charmer beguiled Broadway audiences in its day, spawning several hit songs, but like so many musicals of its era, it’s faded unfairly into obscurity. The music is by Con Conrad, who took home the first Academy Award for Best Song (“The Continental” in 1934); the lyrics are by Gus Kahn, whose standards include “It Had to Be You,” “I'll See You in My Dreams,” and “Makin' Whoopee.” The book was co-authored by celebrated librettist Otto Harbach (Roberta, Desert Song, and No, No, Nanette!).

Now PS Classics has assembled Broadway’s best musicians and an all-star cast – including Rebecca Luker (Mary Poppins), Danny Burstein (South Pacific), Andréa Burns (In the Heights), Christopher Fitzgerald (Young Frankenstein), Victoria Clark (The Light in the Piazza) and Kate Baldwin (Finian’s Rainbow) – to bring this Jazz Age hit vividly to life.

Kitty's Kisses

Needles

I'm in Love

THE STORY OF MY LIFE is a Broadway rarity: an intimate musical that candidly explores the simplicity of human need and the complexity of emotions under which it lies buried. Tony nominee Malcolm Gets (Amour, A New Brain) and Will Chase (High Fidelity, Rent) star in this new musical that follows the contours of a lifelong friendship between two men, Alvin and Thomas, whose childhood bond threads throughout their adult years.	Composer-lyricist Neil Bartram and librettist Brian Hill have created an authentic and affecting work, told through a series of songs – in turn playful, touching and dramatic, and expertly orchestrated by Jonathan Tunick. 

One New York critic predicted, “When the original cast recording comes out, see if you don’t find yourself moved to Google the name of some long-lost friend with whom you simply lost touch.” THE STORY OF MY LIFE inspires us to reconnect with those who were part of the earliest chapters of our own life stories.

The Butterfly

Cooking Breakfast For The One I Love

Building on a deep friendship forged on and off the stage, Broadway’s Rebecca Luker and Sally Wilfert have recorded an intensely personal celebration of womanhood in all its complexities and varied expressions. Adapted from the show of the same name, All the Girls is framed by songs from such theater luminaries as Stephen Sondheim, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and Fred Ebb and John Kander, highlighted by a delicious and delirious medley of tunes from shows featuring iconic female duets. But Luker and Wilfert enrich the tone and expand the scope by also embracing art songs, cabaret material and even settings of poems written expressly for them by the show’s music director, Joseph Thalken (who expanded the orchestrations from four to ten pieces specially for this recording). In doing so, they manage to celebrate women “in all of our messy wonderfulness,” as they put it, with an empathy and optimism that radiate through the material. Individually, Luker and Wilfert’s dazzling voices and keen dramatic senses animate the tenderness, humor and resilience in these songs, while together their personal bond produces duets of extraordinary sensitivity and beauty. PS Classics is proud to present this inspiring and deeply moving ode to female friendship by two remarkable women.

You Are My Best Friend

Celebrating the heritage of Broadway and American popular song.

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