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Broadway Cast Recordings on Tap for 'Aladdin,' 'If/Then' and 'Bullets over Broadway'
'Tis the season for original Broadway cast albums. Disney's 'Aladdin' and Masterworks Broadway's 'If/Then' and 'Bullets Over Broadway' are some of the latest releases. All Quiet on the Western Front: Nancy Van de Vate's Opera Gets Full, Middling New York Performance for Memorial Day
'All Quiet on the Western Front' had a most fitting presentation the Saturday before Memorial Day, in the centennial year of the outbreak of World War I. Nancy Van de Vate's opera, based on the famous novel by Erich Maria Remarque, premiered in Osnabrück, Germany in 2003 (followed by a partial performance at New York's Opera Vox showcase.)
