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The Theory of Relativity
A New Musical
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 - a joyous musical exploration of the communities we build out of our shared experiences.
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A New Brain
2015 New York Cast
A "miracle" and "revelatory" is how New York Magazine greeted this 2015 New York City Center Encores! Off-Center production. Audiences and critics alike welcomed the opportunity to revisit this deeply personal show, featuring some canny rewrites by William Finn and James Lapine, which had been largely neglected since it premiered. This recording features Broadway, film and television star Jonathan Groff (Hamilton, Frozen, Looking), Ana Gasteyer (Saturday Night Live, Wicked), Aaron Lazar (A Little Night Music, The Light in the Piazza) and Christian Borle (Something Rotten!)
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On the Twentieth Century
New Broadway Cast
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 with Tony and Emmy Award-winner Kristin Chenoweth and Golden Globe-winner and Tony Award nominee Peter Gallagher. 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."
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The Golden Apple
First Full Length Recording
THE GOLDEN APPLE was hailed as "the most original musical since Oklahoma!" (The Washington Post) and "the best thing that has happened in and to the theatre in a very long time" (New York Daily News) and had all but slipped into obscurity until November of 2014 when 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, this deluxe two-disc cast recording gives new life to a musical milestone of the American theatre.
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Audra McDonald:
Lady Day
at Emerson's Bar & Grill
Original Broadway Cast
Experience on disc the performance that won Audra McDonald her unprecedented sixth Tony Award. "One of the greatest performances I ever hope to see" is how New York Magazine described McDonald's portrayal of Billie Holiday in the dramatization of one of the final concerts in the beloved singer's extraordinary, tragic life. Now, "the best 90 minutes you'll ever witness" (NY1) have been preserved on disc giving audiences the chance to savor "not just one but two of the most extraordinarily gifted dramatic vocalists America has produced" (Los Angeles Times).
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Philip Chaffin
Somethin' Real Special
The Songs of Dorothy Fields
For his fourth solo disc, actor-singer Philip Chaffin turns to one of the most
gifted songwriters of Broadway's Golden Age, the great lyricist Dorothy Fields. As Tony Award-winning composer Maury Yeston notes in the
album's liner notes, "There's an elegance, exuberance and effortlessness to Fields'
lyrics; the same could be said of Chaffin's performing style. For some reason, few
men have taken on the Fields catalog; this album turns out to be a perfect match of
singer and songwriter."
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Maury Yeston
Tom Sawyer
A Ballet in Three Acts
PS Classics continues its collaboration with Tony Award-winning composer-lyricist Maury Yeston (Nine: The Musical, Titanic, Death Takes a Holiday) with the premiere recording of Yeston’s TOM SAWYER - A BALLET IN THREE ACTS, adapted from Mark Twain’s classic novel. Martin West conducts the seventy-piece San Francisco Ballet Orchestra in this two-disc world premiere recording.
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Passion
2013 New York Cast
The first fully-staged New York revival of PASSION has grown in both critical and popular esteem to become what many consider to be Sondheim’s deepest and most powerful evening of musical theatre, stars Judy Kuhn as Fosca and Ryan Silverman. The New York Daily News proclaimed “Musical theater scores don’t come more glorious!” Now PS Classics, home to a dozen Sondheim discs, is proud to preserve this new PASSION in an expansive two-disc set.
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Laura Osnes
IF I TELL YOU - Songs of Maury Yeston
Broadway’s newest star, Laura Osnes takes on the work of Tony-winning composer Maury Yeston - one of the Great White Way's most celebrated composer-lyricists on the first solo album devoted to his songs drawn from Osnes's sold-out performances at 54 Below in November of 2012. Now that memorable performance is lovingly preserved in a new studio recording.
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Noël and Cole
Cole Porter and Noël Coward were born on opposite sides of the Atlantic, but both won renown for their wit, sophistication, and memorable melodies. NOËL AND COLE cleverly alternates songs by these two musical-theatre masters, as it compares and contrasts their views on show business, high society, civic pride, and of course, love and loss.”
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Rebecca Luker
I GOT LOVE (Songs of Jerome Kern)
Broadway star and three-time Tony-nominee Rebecca Luker gives voice to the work of legendary theatre composer Jerome Kern in her new album I GOT LOVE - Songs of Jerome Kern. Drawn and expanded from her acclaimed performances at NYC’s 54 Below, which Bloomberg News proclaimed “as perfect a show as one could ask for.”
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Cheyenne Jackson
Renaissance
Grammy Award-nominated Cheyenne Jackson brings his radiant personality and stunningly flexible voice to RENAISSANCE, an album adapted and expanded from his solo concert Music of the Mad Men Era. Featuring a 22-piece orchestra and a guest appearance by Tony Award-winner Jane Krakowski, Renaissance includes songs in a wide variety of popular styles of the era.
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Tony Yazbeck
The Floor Above Me
Having conquered Broadway with a string of acclaimed roles – from Gypsy to White Christmas to On the Town – triple-threat Tony Yazbeck sets his sights on reinventing the solo album with this studio recording, adapted and expanded from his one-man show. Blending song, dance and personal narrative, Yazbeck breathes new life into not only the time-honored tale of the Broadway dreamer but the solo album as well, with ecstatic tap dancing and a moving story that deepens the emotional impact of Yazbeck's carefully curated program.
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Fun Home
A New Broadway Musical
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.
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Judy Kuhn
Rodgers, Rodgers & Guettel
Four-time Tony Award–nominee Judy Kuhn delivers a master class on three generations of Broadway songwriters: Richard Rodgers, his daughter Mary Rodgers, and her son Adam Guettel. Drawn from Kuhn's sold-out American Songbook concert, RODGERS, RODGERS & GUETTEL gives Kuhn the opportunity to make musical and thematic connections that span generations which The New York Times hailed as "a top-of-the-line singer whose approach might be described as one of passionate restraint… conveying as much insight and empathy as more overtly dramatic singers without straining for a show-stopping theatricality; her delivery is refined but not prim, her intonation impeccable."
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Violet
Original Broadway Cast
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 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. preserving Roundabout Theatre Company's acclaimed production in a deluxe two-disc set.
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Yank!
Original Off-Broadway Cast
This love song to Hollywood's "it takes one of every kind" platoon flicks, tells the story of Stu, a scared Midwestern kid who becomes a reporter for (the real) Army magazine Yank, faces his fear in battle, and perhaps even scarier for him, finds love with a fellow soldier named Mitch. With a lively and tuneful score inspired by the theatre and pop sounds of the 1940's, the show captures the spirit and exuberance of the World War II era even as it explores questions of prejudice, courage and survival.
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Far From Heaven
Original Cast
Based on the 2002 motion picture, FAR FROM HEAVEN is a powerful story of romance, betrayal and intolerance, as a woman grapples with her identity in a society on the verge of upheaval. PS Classics is proud to preserve Frankel and Korie's lush new score - both jazz-inflected and hauntingly lyrical - in its original cast recording.
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Jerome Kern: The Land Where the Good Songs Go
Using the astonishingly fresh music of Jerome Kern and the lyrics of over a dozen of his collaborators, including Oscar Hammerstein II, Dorothy Fields, and P.G. Wodehouse, this new revue, weaves the stories of three couples into a theatrical song cycle that sparkles with wit, tenderness, and warmth with a cast of top Broadway talents.
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Anthony Rapp -
Without You
a one-man show
Anthony Rapp's New York Times best-selling memoir becomes a stunning one-man show about grief, hope and triumph. WITHOUT YOU begins in 1994, with Rapp about to audition for a new musical called Rent. From there, Rapp movingly intertwines two stories: his experience as part of the original production of Rent and the shared grief when its young composer Jonathan Larson died suddenly the night before the musical’s off-Broadway premiere -- and Rapp's achingly beautiful relationship with his mother, who was battling cancer during this turbulent time.
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Christine Andreas
The Carlyle Set
PS Classics is proud to reissue THE CARLYLE SET, an album so musically rich, so beautifully sung and produced that USA Today picked it as one of the top ten albums of 2003, praising Andreas’s “bell-like tone” and exclaiming, “it’s refreshing to hear this material handled with the intuition and class it deserves.”
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