Recording Broadway: A Life in. This item is unavailable.Recording Broadway: A Life in

If your alley is Shubert, then Recording Broadway: A Life in Cast Albums is definitely for you, as it will be for every Broadway fan. For the first time, the alchemy behind the production of "The Original Cast Album" is told—and no one is better positioned to do so than Tom Shepard.

Thomas Z. Shepard is the 12-time Grammy-winning producer of the cast albums for such shows as Ain’t Misbehavin’, Annie, La Cage aux Folles, Chicago, Company, Crazy for You, Dames at Sea, Follies in Concert, 42nd Street, Jelly’s Last Jam, The King and I, Kiss of the Spider-Woman, A Little Night Music, Marry Me a Little, Me and My Girl, Merrily We Roll Along, No No Nanette, Pacific Overtures, Porgy and Bess, The Secret Garden, 1776, Song and Dance, Sunday in the Park with George, Sweeney Todd, Victor/Victoria, Zorba and many, many more. In a 60-year career that has included stints as the lead Broadway producer at Columbia Records, RCA and MCA, he’s left a hallmark on Broadway that will never be erased, and worked with everyone who was anyone on the Great White Way.

Gayden Wren is the former entertainment editor forThe New York Times Syndicate and artistic director of the New Punctuation Army, Inc. He is also a playwright whose produced works include A Gilbert & Sullivan Christmas Carol (1994) and Very Truly Yours, Gilbert & Sullivan (1997).