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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SONY MASTERWORKS LAUNCHES MASTERWORKSBROADWAY.COM
A COMPREHENSIVE BROADWAY SITE “WHERE SHOW TUNES TAKE CENTER STAGE”
SITE LIVE ON APRIL 1ST – KICKS OFF WITH 30-DAY SWEEPSTAKES
SONY MASTERWORKS announces the launch of MASTERWORKSBROADWAY.COM
– a comprehensive Broadway
site “Where Show Tunes Take Center Stage.” A celebration and testament
to America’s unique art form, MASTERWORKSBROADWAY.COM documents the history
of the cast album from Finian's Rainbow (1947) to last year’s critically
acclaimed Grammy® and Tony® Award-winning revival of West Side Story.
The site goes live on April 1. To celebrate the launch, MASTERWORKSBROADWAY.COM
will give away highly coveted prizes throughout the month in the “You
Gotta Get A Gimmick” sweepstakes.
MASTERWORKSBROADWAY.COM preserves the history of music from the “Great
White Way” providing a comprehensive experience for the Broadway community
and its fans. The site will include a catalog of more than 400 Broadway
cast recordings – together receiving over 265 Tony® Awards, 450 Tony®
nominations and 27 Grammy® Awards. Elements of the site will include hundreds
of never-before-seen recording session photos, a weekly blog by noted theater
journalist/author Peter Filichia (Newark Star Ledger, Theatremania.com),
an enormous streaming library of cast recordings, as well as podcasts with
Broadway notables including Stephen Sondheim, Angela Lansbury, Bernadette
Peters and others.
On the launch date of April 1st, MASTERWORKSBROADWAY.COM will
begin the “You Gotta Get A Gimmick” sweepstakes during which time the
site will give away a daily prize.
Some of the extraordinary prizes
include: A trip for two to NYC to see a Broadway show, the entire Masterworks
Broadway catalog (over 275 CDs!), signed copies of Kristin Chenoweth’s
book “A Little Bit Wicked” and her latest CD “A Lovely Way To Spend
Christmas,” and a rare framed pigment print of Gwen Verdon
from the Sony Music archives/ICON
Collectibles. Every Tuesday and Friday the site will feature a prize related
to the work of Jerry Herman and Stephen Sondheim respectively, including
an autographed CD collection of their works. New prizes will continue to
be announced throughout the month. Visitors can enter the daily drawing
by visiting MASTERWORKSBROADWAY.COM
and signing up for free membership.
The Masterworks Broadway catalog includes some of the most prestigious
shows including South Pacific, Anything Goes, The Sound of Music, My
Fair Lady, Sweet Charity, Annie, Hello, Dolly!, Fiddler on the Roof, A
Little Night Music, Hair, Sweeney Todd, A Chorus Line, Hairspray, Cabaret,
Avenue Q, 1776, Camelot, Nine, Gypsy, Chicago, Oliver!, The Producers,
La Cage Aux Folles, The Who's Tommy and the biggest stars including
Patti LuPone, Nathan Lane, Ethel Merman, Alfred Drake, Mary Martin, John
Raitt, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jason Alexander, Danny Kaye, Barbara Cook,
Raul Julia, Dick Van Dyke, Chita Rivera, Richard Burton, Robert Goulet,
Liza Minnelli, Carol Channing, Julie Andrews, Rex Harrison, Glenn Close,
Jerry Orbach, Matthew Broderick, Yul Brenner, Audra McDonald, Mandy Patinkin,
Idina Menzel, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Matthew Morrison, Kelli O’Hara, Elaine
Stritch, Barbra Streisand and more!
RCA Red Seal, Sony Classical, deutsche harmonia mundi, Masterworks
Broadway and
Masterworks Jazz are labels of Sony Masterworks. For email updates and
information regarding RCA Red Seal, Sony Classical, deutsche harmonia mundi,
Masterworks Broadway and Masterworks Jazz artists, promotions, tours and
repertoire, please visit http://www.sonymasterworks.com
.
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For more information, please contact:
Beth Krakower, CineMedia Promotions Angela Barkan &
Larissa Slezak, Sony Music
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