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Tyne Daly, Justin Guarini, Melissa Manchester, Alice Ripley Featured on Trio of STAGE Concert Recordings

Kritzerland will release live recordings of three all-star annual STAGE benefits in May. Each concert and album celebrates the work of a different composer: Stephen Sondheim, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Burt Bacharach. The discs will be available for purchase at the end of May.

The By Side By Side By Side By Side By Stephen Sondheim concert will be released as a two disc set and features such performers as Betty Garrett, Ann Hampton Callaway, Len Cariou, Sally Ann Howes, Felicity Huffman, Michael Nouri, Charlotte Rae, Alice Ripley, and KT Sullivan.

Among the selections on the two-disc The Perfect Year recording, celebrating Webber’s musical are Tyne Daly‘s “If This Is What We’re Fighting For,” Ken Page’s “The Addressing of Cats,” Carole Cook’s “On the Balcony of the Casa Rosada,” Valerie Perri’s “As If We Never Said Goodbye,” Lee Lessack’s “Other Pleasures,” and Sean McDermott’s “Gethsemane (I Only Want to Say).”

The Blame It on Bacharach concert will be released on a single disc and includes “Alfie,” performed by Valerie Pettiford; “What the World Needs Now,” performed by Marilyn Maye, “The Look of Love,” performed by Justin Guarini; “A House Is Not a House,” performed by Donna McKechnie; and “Anyone Who Had a Heart,” performed by Melissa Manchester, among others.

Click here to pre-order the STAGE concert discs.