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BROADWAY MUSICALS 2023-2024
CITY CENTER ENCORES! 2024
CITY CENTER GALA PRESENTATION - 2023
For me, 2024 wasn’t a good year for new musicals. There were plenty of new scores, but with few exceptions they failed to conquer me. Many were too modern for my traditional Broadway taste, while others sound too much alike.
So here are my choices among the 77 (more or less) new Musical recordings released in 2024 that I listened to. In order to get an idea of my Musical tastes, take a look at my 20 FAVORITE SCORES of all time.
First, the “Jorge’s Place Awards”; then my “Top Twelve” new recordings of 2024, in alphabetical order and not including reissues.
If you like this, take a look at my choices of 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 and 2012.
This year I decided to take some liberties with my choice for best song, so it’s not really from a musical, but from a “song-only” recording with which I fell in love, “Start with a Bang”. I also decided to create a new award, “Best Discovery”, which is attributed to a score that has been released in a previous year but I only discovered it later, or a score that I rediscovered; THE VIOLET HOUR is the first winner of that award.
For my joy, in 2023 a few happy new scores in the traditional Broadway style were released, and it was about time for that to happen. The world is becoming too gloomy with wars happening everywhere, people seeing their rights revoked, corruption/dictator politicians in high places and denialists trying to erase so many important things from the History of the World. So, we all need happy musicals like SOME LIKE IT HOT, THE BIG TIME or the delicious second season of SCHIMAGADOON!
And now my choices among the 79 (more or less) new Musical recordings released in 2023 that I listened to. In order to get an idea of my Musical tastes take a look at my 20 FAVORITE SCORES of all time.
First, the “Jorge’s Place Awards”; then my “Top Twelve” new recordings of 2023, in alphabetical order and not including reissues.
If you like this, take a look at my choices of 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013 and 2012.
MY TOP TWELVE RECORDINGS OF 2022 (in alphabetical order)
