For an allegedly dead art form, the musical theater certainly keeps turning out, on compact disc, evidence of life. Anybody can produce a CD inexpensively these days, but the current blizzard of show albums infallibly suggests a market that some producer or conglomerate thinks is worth investing in. Recordings of current shows have souvenir and promotional value, but discs of small-scale, limited-run, or even one-weekend concert stagings are now often recorded long after the fact. Presumably someone buys them, or the practice wouldn't go on. Ascribe it to what cause you will, it's an amazing turnaround from the era when even many Broadway shows... More >>>