New tunes and a classic musical are among the fresh batch of recordings for your pleasure. Maia Sharp, Kristen Ford, Joviale, Dagger Polyester and –Here she is, boys!– the double LP “Gypsy: 2024 Original Broadway Cast Recording.”

In the interest of full disclosure, “Gypsy” is not my favorite musical. It doesn’t matter if Mama Rose is played by Bette Midler, Patty LuPone, Bernadette Peters, Tyne Daley, Angela Lansbury, Ethel Merman, or Rosalind Russell. The book by gay, Tony Award-winning playwright and director Arthur Laurents, is a musical dramatization of the life of a stage mother from hell and her two daughters, from vaudeville to the burlesque circuit.

Deeply unlikeable characters? Check! But here’s where things get juicy. The musical has at least 10 songs, co-written by gay Tony Aw

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