Broadway cast albums have made a clean sweep of this year’s Grammy nominations for Best Musical Theater Album
That means, among other things, that Stephen Sondheim will squaring off against Michael Jackson and Billy Crystal.Girl From The North Country
repping the New York industry that was still recovering from the Covid shutdown . The year prior included a mix of Broadway , London and Off Broadway. In 2020,, and 2019 saw NBC’sThis year’s list of nominees features a well-balanced roster of new music and older music revisited. The Jeanine Tesori-Tony Kushner musicalfeatures performers Sharon D Clarke, John Cariani, Caissie Levy and Samantha Williams in a revival of the 2004 musical.
Entirely new music in the category includes composer and lyricist Michael R. Jackson’s critically lauded Pulitzer & Tony winnerAlso making the roster:, the Toby Marlow-Lucy Moss musical about the wives of Henry VIII. Although a studio cast recording featuring a London cast was released in 2018, this year’s nominated album features the Broadway cast recorded live on Oct. 3, 2021.
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