Shepard's debut memoir, RECORDING BROADWAY: A LIFE IN CAST ALBUMS, offers an exuberant and fine-grained look at the making of fifty-plus years worth of show albums, featuring up-close-and-personal stories of his work with Broadway legends.

Format: Hardback
Length: 376 pages
Publication date: 19 January 2025
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press

RECORDING BROADWAY: A LIFE IN CAST ALBUMS

Grammy Award-winning producer Shepard throws open the door to the recording booth in his exuberant and fine-grained debut memoir. Broadway aficionados will find plenty to enjoy.

RECORDING BROADWAY: A LIFE IN CAST ALBUMS

of the making of fifty-plus years worth of show albums, featuring up-close-and-personal stories of his work with pretty much everyone who was anyone on Broadway, including Julie Andrews, Leonard Bernstein ("truly awesome but very complicated"), Sheldon Harnick ("as warm and decent as he was talented"), Barbara Cook ("one of my favorites"), Placido Domingo, Gregory Hines, John Kander, Fred Ebb, Danny Kaye, Angela Lansbury ("so gifted and so easy to be with and to work with"), Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters, Chita Rivera, Stephen Sondheim ("a genius, and very easily bruised"), Barbra Streisand ("as professional at 24 as any veteran I've ever worked with"), Andrew Lloyd Webber, and many more.

Alongside this unforgettable saga is the tale of Shepards childhood as a small-in-stature piano prodigy from East Orange, New Jersey, and his emergence into the world as a recording producer of, first, classical music and then Broadway cast recordings. Told with verve in Shepards inimitable voice—a striking combination of Broadway glitz and classical-music elegance—his journey makes for a uniquely compelling story, whether or not youre among the millions of musical lovers around the world for whom his recordings are a vital link to Broadway at its best.

Weight: 738g
Dimension: 159 x 236 x 31 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781493081257