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Recording Broadway : A Life in Cast Albums by Gayden Wren and Thomas Z. Shepard (2024, Hardcover)

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Recording Broadway: A Life in Cast Albums by Shepard, Thomas Z., Wren, Gayden [Hardcover]

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Product Identifiers

PublisherApplause Books

ISBN-10149308125X

ISBN-139781493081257

eBay Product ID (ePID)4061610702

Product Key Features

Book TitleRecording Broadway : Alife in Cast Albums

Number of Pages408 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicGenres & Styles / Musicals, Theater / Broadway & Musicals, History & Criticism, General

Publication Year2024

IllustratorYes

GenreMusic, Performing Arts

AuthorGayden Wren, Thomas Z. Shepard

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight25.6 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2024-014125

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"Grammy Award-winning producer Shepard throws open the door to the recording booth in his exuberant and fine-grained debut memoir. Teaming up with journalist Wren, Shepard traces his obsession with recorded sound from his New Jersey childhood (his grandfather bought him a phonograph when he was three years old) through a career spent making studio and original cast recordings of such Broadway musicals as 1776, Company, Sweeney Todd, and Chicago. Interwoven throughout are insights into such technological innovations as the 1948 introduction of the 33 1/3 rpm long-playing record, the addition of sound effects and other atmospheric touches to recordings, and the rocky transition to digital recording in the 1980s and '90s. Shepard and Wren delve into the nitty-gritty of making a Broadway cast recording with genuine affection, though the minutiae sometimes detract from more colorful and accessible anecdotes about working with Julie Andrews, Angela Lansbury, Barbra Streisand, Elaine Stritch, and other stars (at 24, Streisand had 'as canny an ear as any veteran I'd ever worked with,' recalls Shepard of a recording session where she correctly identified the take on which the orchestra had played best). Broadway aficionados will find plenty to enjoy." -- Publishers Weekly

Dewey Decimal782.14092

Synopsis"Grammy Award-winning producer Shepard throws open the door to the recording booth in his exuberant and fine-grained debut memoir.... Broadway aficionados will find plenty to enjoy." - Publishers Weekly RECORDING BROADWAY: A LIFE IN CAST ALBUMS of the making of fifty-plus years' worth of show albums, featuring up-close-and-personal stories of his work with pretty much everyone who was anyone on Broadway, including Julie Andrews, Leonard Bernstein ("truly awesome but very complicated"), Sheldon Harnick ("as warm and decent as he was talented"), Barbara Cook ("one of my favorites"), Placido Domingo, Gregory Hines, John Kander, Fred Ebb, Danny Kaye, Angela Lansbury ("so gifted and so easy to be with and to work with"), Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Chita Rivera, Stephen Sondheim ("a genius, and very easily bruised"), Barbra Streisand ("as professional at 24 as any veteran I've ever worked with"), Andrew Lloyd Webber, and many more. Alongside this unforgettable saga is the tale of Shepard's childhood as a small-in-stature piano prodigy from East Orange, New Jersey, and his emergence into the world as a recording producer of, first, classical music and then Broadway cast recordings. Told with verve in Shepard's inimitable voice-- a striking combination of Broadway glitz and classical-music elegance--his journey makes for a uniquely compelling story, whether or not you're among the millions of musical lovers around the world for whom his recordings are a vital link to Broadway at its best., Recording Broadway: A life in Cast Albums is veteran producer Thomas Z. Shepard's first-person account of the making of fifty plus years' worth of show albums, featuring up-close-and-personal stories of his work with pretty much everyone who was anyone on Broadway, including Julie Andrews, Leonard Bernstein ("truly awesome but very complicated"), Sheldon Harnick ("as warm and decent as he was talented"), Barbara Cook ("one of my favorites"), Placido Domingo, Gregory Hines, John Kander, Fred Ebb, Danny Kaye, Angela Lansbury ("so gifted and so easy to be with and to work with"), Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Chita Rivera, Stephen Sondheim ("a genius, and very easily bruised"), Barbra Streisand ("as professional at 24 as any veteran I've ever worked with"), Andrew Lloyd Webber, and many more. Alongside this unforgettable saga is the tale of Shepard's childhood as a very short piano prodigy on the middle-class streets of East Orange, New Jersey, and his emergence into the world as a recording producer of, first, classical music and then Broadway Original Cast recordings, Shepard has a unique voice, a striking combination of Broadway glitz, classical-music elegance and New Jersey street kid, and his book will be compelling even to someone not among the millions of Broadway lovers around the world for whom his recordings are a vital link to Broadway at its best., Recording Broadway: A life in Cast Albums is veteran producer Thomas Z. Shepard's first-person account of the making of fifty plus years' worth of show albums, featuring up-close-and-personal stories of his work with pretty much everyone who was anyone on Broadway, including Julie Andrews, Leonard Bernstein ("truly awesome but very complicated"), ......

LC Classification NumberML429.S463A3 2024