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2018 Tony Award Season

 

A

A Boy Named Charlie Brown (Rod McKuen)
A Chorus Line: 40th Anniversary Celebration
A Christmas Carol: 1995 Original Cast Recording
A Christmas Story: The Musical
A Dog Story: Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording
A Little Night Music (Original 1977 Soundtrack Recording)
A Musical About Star Wars: Original Cast Recording
A Never-Ending Line: A Female Song Cycle
A Night with Janis Joplin (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
A Rockin' Midsummer Night's Dream
A Song Cycle for Soho (Original Cast Recording)
A Spoonful of Sherman (Original London Cast Recording)
A Spoonful of Stiles & Drewe: Celebrating 25 Years of Song Writing
A Strange Loop: Original Cast Recording
A Thurber Carnival (Original Broadway Cast)
The A-Z of Mrs P (Original London Cast Recording)
Aaron Tveit: The Radio In My Head - Live at 54 Below
Acoustically Speaking (Adam Pascal & Anthony Rapp)
Adam Pascal & Anthony Rapp: Acoustically Speaking
Ahrens and Flaherty: Nice Fighting You - A 30th Anniversary Celebration Live At 54 Below
The Alex Hiele Paris Jazz Combo: I Love Paris
Alexa Green: So Good
Alexis Michelle: Lovefool
Alfred Drake: Lucky to be Me - A Life in Music
Allegiance: Original Broadway Cast Recording
Along the Way (Bobby Conte Thornton)
An American in Paris (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
An American Victory: A New Musical - Studio Cast Recording
Andrea McArdle: 70’s and Sunny - Live at 54 Below
The Andrew Fisher Songbook
Andrew Lloyd Webber: Symphonic Suites
Androcles and the Lion: Songs and Dialogue Highlights From the Television Special
Andy Capp: Original West End Cast Recording
Angels: Original Studio Cast Recording
Ann Veronica (London Cast Recording)
Anna Christie: World Premiere Recording
Annaleigh Ashford: Lost In The Stars - Live at 54 Below
Annie Live!: Original Soundtrack of the Television Event on NBC
Anthony Newley: The Last Song - The Final Recordings
Anthony Newley Sings "The Good Old Bad Old Days!"
archy and mehitabel: A Back Alley Opera (Studio Cast Recording)
Arielle Jacobs: A Leap in the Dark - Live at Feinstein's/54 Below
Artists in Residence (Various Artists)
As Long as I Have Music

 

B

Babes In Arms (1951 Studio Cast Recording)
Back to the Future: The Musical Original Cast Recording
The Bakewell Bake Off: Original Cast Recording
Bandstand: Original Broadway Cast Recording
The Beast in the Jungle: Original Score Recording
Beauty and the Beast (1991): The Legacy Collection (2018)
Bebe Neuwirth: Stories... in NYC - Live At 54 Below
Before After: A Musical Love Story: Studio Cast Recording
Ben Stock: And There Was Music
Ben Stock Sings... Noël Coward
Bend it Like Beckham: The Musical
Betty Driver: I'll Take Romance
Big Fish: Original Broadway Cast Recording
Billy the Kid: A New Musical (National Youth Music Theatre)
Blackbirds of 1928 / Shuffle Along (1953 Studio Cast Recording)
Blondel: Original Cast Album
Blue Jupiter: Twisted Broadway - Vol. 1
Bobby Conte Thornton: Along the Way
Bombshell: The New Marilyn Musical From Smash
Bonnie & Clyde (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
Bonnie and Clyde and a Whole Lotta Jazz - Live at 54 Below
The Boy Who Danced on Air: Original Cast Recording
Bravo Giovanni (1962 Original Broadway Cast Recording)
Brian Stokes Mitchell: Plays With Music
Brigadoon (Original 1957 Studio Cast Recording)
Broadway & Beyond: Live at Feinstein's/54 Below (Marin Mazzie & Jason Danieley)
Broadway Soul, Vol. 1 (Kyle Taylor Parker)
Broadway Soul: Vol. 2 (Kyle Taylor Parker)
Bulldozer: The Ballad of Robert Moses: Off-Broadway Cast Recording
Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
Bumblescratch: A New Musical: London Concert Cast Recording
By Jupiter (Original 1967 Off-Broadway Cast)
Bye Bye Birdie (1963 Original Soundtrack Recording)

 

C

Cabaret (1968 London Cast Recording)
Cagney: The Musical: Original New York Cast Recording
Call Me Madam (1950 Musical Cast Recording)
Carmen Cusack: If You Knew My Story (Live at Feinstein's / 54 Below)
Carousel (1955 Studio Cast Recording)
Carousel/The Popular Music of Leonard Bernstein: 1962 Studio Cast Recording
Chaplin: The Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
Charles Busch: Live at Feinstein's / 54 Below
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Original Broadway Cast Recording
Charlotte's Web: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1973)
Chita Rivera: Chita! / And Now I Sing!
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: Original Soundtrack (1968) (2017 Vinyl Reissue)
Christiane Noll: Gifts - Live at 54 Below
Christine (Original 1960 Broadway Cast Recording)
Cleopatra: The Musical Experience: World Premiere Recording
The Clockmaker’s Daughter: Studio Cast Recording
ClownAround (The Original Show Album)
Collaborations: The Songs of Elliott Davis
The Color Purple: New Broadway Cast Recording
Comrade Rockstar: A Musical Inspired by the Life of Dean Reed
The Confession Room (Concept Recording)
Cool Rider (Original Studio Cast Recording)
Cowardy Custard (1972 Original Cast Recording)
Cry-Baby - The Musical: Original Studio Cast Recording
Cyrano: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

 

D

Danielle Hope: Bring the Future Faster - Live at 54 Below
Dames at Sea (Original London Cast Recording)
Dave Willetts: Once in a Lifetime - The 25th Anniversary Collection
David Merrick Presents Hits From His Broadway Hits
DCappella: DCappella: Favourite Disney Songs Performed A Cappella
The Desert Song (Studio Cast Recording)
Disaster!: Original Broadway Cast Recording
Disney Junior Music: Vampirina: Ghoul Girls Rock (EP)
Disney's Zombies: Original TV Movie Soundtrack
Divine Hair / Mass in F (Members of the Broadway Cast)
Doctor Zhivago (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
Dog Man: The Musical: Original Cast Recording
Donnybrook!: Original Broadway Cast Recording
Dorothy Loudon at the Blue Angel and Other Rarities
Drake's Dream: Original London Cast Album
Dreamgirls: Original London Cast Recording


E

Ernest Shackleton Loves Me: Original Cast Recording
Ed Ames on Broadway: Opening Night / More I Cannot Wish You
Elephant Steps: A Fearful Radio Show
Emily Skinner & Alice Ripley: Unattached - Live at Feinstein’s/54 Below
Emma: A New Jane Austen Musical: Original Soundstage Recording
Emojiland: The Musical: Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording
Ernest In Love (Original 1960 Off-Broadway Cast Recording)
The Essential Disney
The Essential Stephen Sondheim
Everybody's Talking About Jamie: Original West End Cast Recording
Evita: New Broadway Cast Recording (2012)


F

Faith Prince: Total Faith - Live from the Royal Room at the Colony
Fiddler on the Roof: 2016 Broadway Cast Recording
First Impressions (Original 1959 Broadway Cast Recording)
Flowers for Mrs Harris: Chichester Festival Theatre Cast Recording
Follies in Concert (1985 Concert Cast Recording)
Forbidden Drive (Jen Fellman)
Frankie! The Musical: Studio Cast Recording
Freaky Friday: Disney Channel Original 2018 Movie Soundtrack
Fred Deakin: The Lasters (Sci-Fi Concept Album)
From Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert for Orlando
From Broadway With Love: A Benefit Concert For Sandy Hook
Funny Girl: New Broadway Cast Recording
Future Demons: From Tales by Shirley Jackson

 

G

Gabriel: Studio Cast Recording
Galavant: The Complete Collection
Galavant: The Unreleased Collection
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Encores! Cast Recording)
Girl in a Crisis: Original Cast Recording
The Girl In Pink Tights (1954 Original Broadway Cast Recording)
Godspell: 40th Anniversary Celebration
Goldilocks And The Three Bears (Studio Cast Recording)
Goldstein: Original Off Broadway Cast Recording
"The Good Old Bad Old Days!" - Anthony Newley Sings...

 

H

Hairspray Live!: Original Soundtrack of the NBC Television Event
Half a Sixpence: The Original Demo Recordings
Half-Past Wednesday: The New Musical Version of Rumpelstiltskin (Original 1962 Off-Broadway Cast Recording)
Hamlisch Uncovered
The Happiest Girl In The World (Original 1961 Broadway Cast Recording)
Hayden Tee: Face to Face
Head Over Heels: Original Broadway Cast Recording
Heart of Winter: A New Song Cycle by Tim Conner and Lia Buddle
Helena Blackman: The Sound of Rodgers & Hammerstein
Hello Again: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
The Hello Girls: Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording
His Monkey Wife (1971): Original Cast Recording

 

I

I Could Use a Drink: The Songs of Drew Gasparini
I Love Paris (The Alex Hiele Paris Jazz Combo)
I'm Getting My Act Together And Taking It On The Road: Original Cast Recording
If/Then: A New Musical (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
If You Knew My Story (Live at Feinstein's / 54 Below) (Carmen Cusack)
Imaginary: Original Live Cast Recording
The Importance: Original Studio Cast Recording
In Pieces: A New Musical by Joey Contreras (Highlights)
The In-Between: A New Musical (Original Concept Album)
Isabela Moner: Stopping Time


J

James Shigeta: Scene One / We Speak the Same Language
Jay Armstrong Johnson: Live at Feinstein's/54 Below
Jeanne: The Musical
Jekyll & Hyde: 2012 Concept Recording
Jen Fellman: Forbidden Drive
Jessica Vosk: Wild and Free
Jesus Christ Superstar: Original Soundtrack of the NBC Television Event
Joe Stilgoe: Songs on Film Live
John & Jen (2015 Off-Broadway Cast Recording)
Julie Atherton: No Space For Air
Juno (Original 1959 Broadway Cast Recording)


K

Kafka's Metamorphosis: The Musical!
Kate Rockwell: Back to My Roots
Kean (1961 Original Broadway Cast Recording)
Kid Victory: Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording
King Kong: A Jazz Musical: Original London Cast Recording
Kinky Boots (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
Kinky Boots: Original West End Cast Recording
Kismet (1965 Music Theater of Lincoln Center Cast Recording)
Kyle Taylor Parker: Broadway Soul, Vol. 1
Kyle Taylor Parker: Broadway Soul: Vol. 2


L

Lady in the Dark (1963 Studio Cast Recording)
The Land of Dreams: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
The Lasters (Sci-Fi Concept Album) (Fred Deakin)
Laura Benanti: In Constant Search of the Right Kind of Attention - Live at 54 Below
Laura Osnes: Dream A Little Dream - Live At The Café Carlyle
Lea Salonga: Live in Concert With the Sydney Symphony Orchestra
Legacy: Two Song Cycles
Legends of Broadway: Julie Andrews and Carol Burnett - Live at Carnegie Hall / Live at Lincoln Center
Legends of Broadway: Liza Minnelli Live at The Winter Garden
Lesli Margherita: Rule Your Kingdom – Live at Feinstein’s/54 Below
Li'l Abner: The Original Sound-track Score from the Paramount Picture
Lightfoils: Hierarchy
The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical: Original Cast Recording
Like You Like It: The Musical - Studio Cast RADcording
Little Black Book: World Premiere Recording
The Little Fox and Other Mongolian Folktales: Concept Recording
Live at 54 Below: Aaron Tveit: The Radio In My Head
Live at 54 Below: Ahrens and Flaherty: Nice Fighting You - A 30th Anniversary Celebration
Live at 54 Below: Andrea McArdle: 70’s and Sunny
Live at 54 Below: Annaleigh Ashford: Lost In The Stars
Live at Feinstein's / 54 Below: Arielle Jacobs: A Leap in the Dark
Live at 54 Below: Bebe Neuwirth: Stories... in NYC
Live at 54 Below: Bonnie and Clyde and a Whole Lotta Jazz
Live at Feinstein's / 54 Below: Charles Busch
Live at 54 Below: Christiane Noll: Gifts
Live at Feinstein's / 54 Below: Carmen Cusack: If You Knew My Story
Live at 54 Below: Danielle Hope: Bring the Future Faster
Live at Feinstein’s/54 Below: Emily Skinner & Alice Ripley: Unattached
Live at Feinstein's/54 Below: Jay Armstrong Johnson
Live at 54 Below: Laura Benanti: In Constant Search of the Right Kind of Attention
Live at Feinstein’s/54 Below: Lesli Margherita: Rule Your Kingdom
Live at Feinstein’s/54 Below: Marin Mazzie & Jason Danieley: Broadway & Beyond
Live at 54 Below: Melissa Errico: What About Today?
Live at 54 Below: Norbert Leo Butz: Girls, Girls, Girls
Live at 54 Below: Norbert Leo Butz: Memory and Mayhem
Live at Feinstein's / 54 Below: Our Table: A New Musical
Live at 54 Below: Patti LuPone: Far Away Places
Live at Feinstein's / 54 Below: Robbie Rozelle: Songs From Inside My Locker
- Live at Feinstein’s/54 Below: Session Girls (Original Concert Cast Recording)
Live at 54 Below: Sierra Boggess: Awakening
Live at 54 Below: When I Grow Up: Broadway’s Next Generation
Losing My Mind: A Sondheim Disco Fever Dream
Lost Broadway 1961
Lost In The Stars - Live at 54 Below (Annaleigh Ashford)
Lost West End
Lost West End 2
Lost West End Revues (London's Forgotten Revues 1940-1962)
Lost West End Vintage (2 CD Set)
Lost West End Vintage 2 (2 CD Set)
Love Birds (Original Edinburgh Cast Recording)
Love, Lies & Lyrics: The Words of Lesley Ross
Lovefool (Alexis Michelle)
Lucky to be Me - A Life in Music (Alfred Drake)
Lullabies of Broadway: Act II (Mimi Bessette)
Lysistrata Jones (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

 

M

The Mad Show (Original 1966 Off-Broadway Cast Recording)
Maddie: 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition London Cast Album
Maggie Flynn (1968 Original Broadway Cast Recording)
Mario Lanza: The Toast of Hollywood
Marin Mazzie & Jason Danieley: Broadway & Beyond: Live at Feinstein's/54 Below
Marty Thomas: Slow Dancing With a Boy
Mary Poppins Returns: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Melissa Errico: What About Today? Live at 54 Below
Meredith Braun: Someone Else's Story
Meredith Braun: When Love is Gone
The Merry Widow (1964 Music Theater of Lincoln Center Cast Recording)
Michael Bruce: Unwritten Songs
Michael Longoria: Broadway Brick by Brick
Michael Mott: Abandoned Heart
Mimi Bessette: Lullabies of Broadway: Act II
Molly Wobbly's Tit Factory (Original Cast Recording)
Momentous Musicals
Mr. President (Original 1962 Broadway Cast Recording)
Mrs Henderson Presents: Original London Cast Recording
Mrs. Santa Claus (Original Soundtrack)
Ms. - A Song Cycle (Concept Recording)
My Fair Lady: 2018 Broadway Cast Recording
My Land's Shore (Studio Cast Recording)
Mythic: A New Musical: Original London Cast Recording

 

N

The Nervous Set (Original 1959 Off-Broadway Cast Recording)
Nevermore (Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording)
Nick Jonas: Songs from How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying (EP)
Norbert Leo Butz: Girls, Girls, Girls - Live at 54 Below
Norbert Leo Butz: Memory and Mayhem - Live at 54 Below
Now is the Time For All Good Men (Original 1967 Off-Broadway Cast Recording)

 

O

Oh, Captain! (Original 1958 Broadway Cast Recording)
On the Town (London Cast Recording)
On the Town & Broadway Melody: London Studio Cast Recordings
On Your Feet: Original Broadway Cast Recording
On Your Toes (Original 1952 Studio Cast Recording)
Once (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
Once on This Island: The Musical: New Broadway Cast Recording
Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical: Original Cast Recording
Our Table: A New Musical: Live at Feinstein's / 54 Below
Outlander - The Musical
Overcomer: Music from and Inspired by the Original Motion Picture
Overcomer (Score)

 

P

Paint Your Wagon: Encores! 2015 Cast Recording
Paradise Lost (Studio Cast Recording)
Pat Suzuki: Complete Album Series
Pat Suzuki: Singles and Rarities
Patti LuPone: Don't Monkey With Broadway
Patti LuPone: Far Away Places - Live at 54 Below
Patti LuPone: Matters of the Heart
Pinocchio (Original 1957 Television Cast Recording)
Platinum Girls: The Musical: Original Concept Recording
Play it Again, Marvin!: A Marvin Hamlisch Celebration
Polkadots: The Cool Kids Musical
Popeye: Music from the Motion Picture (Deluxe Edition)
The Popular Music of Leonard Bernstein/Carousel: 1962 Studio Cast Recording
Privates on Parade: Original London Cast Recording
Prodigy: A New Musical Commissioned by the National Youth Music Theatre

 

Q

Queen of the Mist (Original Cast Recording)

 

R

Rags Parkland Sings the Songs of the Future: Original Cast Recording
Ragtime: The Musical: Original Broadway Cast Recording (Vinyl)
Ramin Karimloo: Human Heart
Raven's Home: Remix: The Musical Episode (EP)
Richard Woodford: Because of You
Roald Dahl's Matilda The Musical: Soundtrack from the Netflix Film
Robbie Rozelle: Songs From Inside My Locker: Live at Feinstein's / 54 Below
Robert Goulet in the Television Soundtrack Recordings of Kiss Me, Kate and Brigadoon
Rod McKuen: A Boy Named Charlie Brown
Roslyn Kind: Give Me You / This is Roslyn Kind
Rule Your Kingdom – Live at Feinstein’s/54 Below (Lesli Margherita)
Runaways (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

 

S

The Saint of Bleecker Street (Original 1954 Broadway Cast Recording)
Salad Days: Original Cast Recording
Samson & Delilah - A Love Story (2014 Concept Recording)
Say, Darling (Original 1957 Broadway Cast Recording)
Scene One / We Speak the Same Language (James Shigeta)
Scrooge
Session Girls - Live at Feinstein’s/54 Below
Seven Come Eleven - A Gaming Gambol
Seventeen (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
Shapiro Sisters: Time Reveals (EP)
Shirley Jones and Jack Cassidy: Marriage Type Love
Sierra Boggess: Awakening - Live At 54 Below
Simply Heavenly: Original 1957 Cast Recording
Sing Street: Original Broadway Cast Recording
Sleeping Arrangements (Original Cast Recording)
Slow Dancing With a Boy (Marty Thomas)
Snapshots: A Musical Scrapbook: World Premiere Recording
Snow to Sand
Some Lovers: World Premiere Recording
Somewhere in My Mind: The Songs of Joe Sterling
Song of Solomon: Original Concept Recording
Songs from Comrade Rockstar: A Musical Inspired by the Life of Dean Reed
The Sound of Music: Music from the NBC Television Event
Speech & Debate: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Spoon River Anthology (1963)
Stage Fright (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Star Wars: A Musical About Star Wars: Original Cast Recording
Stars of The London Stage perform... The Essential Disney
Struck: Original Studio Cast Recording
Swan Esther (Original Concept Album)
Sweet Charity: Original 1967 London Cast Recording

 

T

Tangled: The Series: Original TV Series Soundtrack
Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Original Cast Recording)
The Three Billy Goats Gruff: Studio Cast Recording
The Three Little Pigs (Studio Cast Recording)
The Time Traveller's Wife: The Musical: Original Cast Recording
To Broadway, With Love (Original 1964 New York World's Fair Cast Recording)
Tomorrow Morning: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Tracie Bennett Sings Judy: Songs from the Broadway Production End of the Rainbow and other Garland Classics
Two Cities: Original London Cast Recording
Two's Company (Original Broadway Cast)

 

U

Ushers: The Front of House Musical: Original Cast Recording

 

V

Vampirina: Ghoul Girls Rock (EP): Disney Junior Music
Van Winkle - A Folk Musical (Concept Recording)
Various: Artists in Residence
The Visit (Original Broadway Cast Recording)

 

W

Wanda's World: Studio Cast Recording
War Horse: Original Music and Songs from the National Theatre Production
We Are the Tigers: Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording
We Speak the Same Language / Scene One (James Shigeta)
What About Today? Live at 54 Below (Melissa Errico)
When I Grow Up: Broadway’s Next Generation - Live at 54 Below
Where the Sky Ends: The Songs of Michael Mott
Who's Your Baghdaddy?: Original Cast Recording
Wild and Free (Jessica Vosk)
The Wild & Whimsical Worlds of David Mallamud
Will Barratt: Confessions of a Justified Sinner
Wonderland (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
Words Shared With Friends
Working (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
Worzel Gummidge: The Musical (Original London 1981 Cast Album)

 

X


Y

Yankee Doodle Dandy!: Studio Cast Recording
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown: 2016 Off-Broadway Cast Recording