Masterworks Broadway continues to open its vaults with more classic cast recordings previously unavailable in the CD era. Babes in Arms (1951 Studio Cast) and Blackbirds of 1928/Shuffle Along (1953 Studio Cast) are joined by a new reissue of Stephen Sondheim's Follies in Concert (1985 Concert Cast) and the first digital release of Jerry Herman's TV musical Mrs. Santa Claus (1996 TV Soundtrack). All releases will be accompanied by new album pages and photos available on the Masterworks web site.

Babes in Arms was the first serious attempt to record one of the most successful, hit-laden original Broadway scores created by composer Richard Rodgers and lyricist Lorenz Hart. The recording was due to the popularity of Rodgers' second, collaboration with Oscar Hammerstein II. The Babes in Arms recording honors the original score and generally follows the original order of the songs.  The October 24 release, the first authorized since the LP era using the original mono master, will be available as a digital download and as disc-on-demand, with the original cover art and new liner notes (available at Arkivmusic.com and Amazon.com).

In celebration of the acclaimed new Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim's Follies, a new 2-CD eco-friendly softpack of Follies in Concert will be released on October 24.  Recorded live at Avery Fisher Hall in New York City on September 6 -7, 1985, Follies in Concert finally gave one of Sondheim's most ravishing scores it's complete due, and revealed the previously neglected show as a masterwork of the American musical theater.  Featuring an all-star cast recruited by the composer, Follies in Concert quickly passed into theatrical legend and is now referred to in the same manner as a major historical event.

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