SH-K-BUZZ from Sh-K-Boom & Ghostlight Records

It was a good morning to be a Sh-K-Boom & Ghostlight artist! Nominations were just announced for the 2008 Drama Desk awards, and several of our shows and solo artists received nods for their work this year.

Passing Strange received a nod in the Best Musical category and Make Me a Song was recognized as one of the most Outstanding Revues of the year.

And three of the six nominees in the Outstanding Actress in a Musical category have recorded their solo albums with us! Congrats to Patti LuPone (Gypsy), Kelli O’Hara (South Pacific) and Alice Ripley (Next to Normal).

For a complete list of nominees, visit Playbill.com.

As a special thanks for being such loyal Sh-K-Boom & Ghostlight Records fans, you can now get all three of our spring titles — the two-disc set of Make Me a Song, Kelli O’Hara’s Wonder in the World and Christine Ebersole & Billy Stritch’s Sunday in New York — for just $49.99. As always, order with us and everything ships for free. Click the banner below to place your order:

Many thanks to Michael Portantiere for these awesome photos from last week’s Passing Strange recording, live on stage at the Belasco Theatre:

Thanks to All That Chat poster pgenre for the shout out on the chat board over at TalkinBroadway.com! He says…

Firstly, Sh-K-Boom rocks me amadeusly for shipping out Kelli O’Hara’s WONDER IN THE WORLD and Finn’s MAKE ME A SONG two weeks early… what a pleasant suprise it was to discover these discs in my mailbox on Monday! They are TRULY the best cast album company we have (shout outs to PS CLASSICS and KRITZERLAND as well!), recording shows that otherwise would most probably have fallen through the cracks. Their quality level is supreme… SEE WHAT I WANNA SEE and BERNARDA ALBA may be the best SOUNDING cast albums I have ever heard, the shows and performances themselves notwithstanding (though I adore those as well)…

He goes on to rave about Kelli’s new CD, which we certainly won’t argue with! Read the full post here.

We work hard not only to produce the best quality recordings possible, but also get them into your hands as fast as we can. Nice to know it’s being noticed! Many thanks to pgenre and all the other Sh-K-Fans out there.

-Katie (the Marketing guru)

Broadway.com has posted a great new video interview with Kelli O’Hara about her new Ghostlight album, Wonder in the World, including some footage of her recording session. Click on the Kelli collage to check it out:

News flash! Ghostlight Records artist David Yazbek will pen the lyrics for an upcoming Broadway musical about the great magician, Houdini. The new musical is scheduled to hit the Great White Way in spring 2010.

Read more on Broadway.com.

South Pacific star Kelli O’Hara’s debut solo CD is here! You can now place your order for Wonder in the World on Sh-K-Boom.com.

Kelli’s album features a mix of unexpected covers and pop songs, with several original songs, including a duet penned by and performed with her Pajama Game costar, Harry Connick Jr.

Click here to get your copy of Wonder in the World with free shipping.

Ready for your Finn fix? We’re now taking orders for Make Me a Song, exclusively through Sh-K-Boom.com! Be the first to get this must-have in your CD collection.

In case you missed it off-Broadway, the album features songs from composer William Finn’s catologue, which includes musicals like Falsettos and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, sung by a quartet of glorious singers.

Click here to purchase the two-disc live recording of Make Me a Song with free shipping on Sh-K-Boom.com now.

Feel the real. We’re thrilled to announce that Ghostlight Records will record and release the Original Broadway Cast album of Broadway’s critically-acclaimed new show, Passing Strange. The album comes out in June 2008, but email us now to get an alert when it goes on sale for Ghostlight fans.

Because the live experience is the heart of the show, Stew, Heidi and the gang will record the show in front of a live audience at the Belasco Theatre. It promises to be a one-of-a-kind recording for a beyond-unique show!

And what could possibly be more exciting than that? You can be there with when we record! Go to PassingStrangeonBroadway.com NOW and enter your email address to get your chance to be in the audience for the live recording session this coming Monday, April 14 from 2pm-5pm. (All lottery winners will be asked to donate $20 to BC/EFA, to share in this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.)

Can’t wait to see you there!

Just a quick note to let you know that Ghostlight Records Will Release Sutton Foster’s debut solo album, Wish, next year!

Check Playbill.com for more on the Sutton news.

Yay! Finally.

Sutton will be previewing some of the songs she’ll record for the album at Joe’s Pub on April 28th at 11:30. Get your tickets at joespub.com.