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Editor Kris Vire’s picks for the theater aficionado.

Kris Vire

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Version 3.0. Contemporary Asian American Plays

Shaw thing The Lincoln Center Theater cast recording of A Minister’s Wife ($15.95) preserves Josh Schmidt’s understated score for the musical adaptation of Shaw’s Candida. Kate Fry reprises the title role she played in the show’s 2009 debut at Writers’ Theatre. Available at psclassics.com and iTunes.
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Day by day by day by day With a new revival just opened on Broadway, the two-disc 40th anniversary reissue of Godspell ($14.99) offers dual takes on Stephen Schwartz’s poppy passion play: the original Off Broadway cast recording and the 1973 film soundtrack. Available at amazon.com and iTunes.
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Sondheimania Stephen Sondheim completists will be poring over Look, I Made a Hat (Knopf, $45), the second volume of the composer’s collected and annotated lyrics, due out Tuesday 22 and covering everything from 1984’s Sunday in the Park with George through the present. Available at amazon.com.
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Crazy cool Longtime Seattle Times theater critic Misha Berson thoroughly dissects one of the classic musicals in Something’s Coming, Something Good: West Side Story and the American Imagination (Applause Theatre and Cinema Books, $19.99). The book offers a comprehensive contextualization of the Sharks and the Jets. Available at amazon.com.
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Specific overtures “While these playwrights continue to wrestle with the same issues of the first two generations of writers, they feel that race and ethnicity are mere jumping-off points in addressing multifaceted experiences of being an Asian American,” writes Victory Gardens artistic director Chay Yew in his introduction to Version 3.0: Contemporary Asian American Plays (Theatre Communications Group, $22.95), the new anthology of work by so-called third-wave Asian-American playwrights. Edited by Yew, the book includes plays by Julia Cho, Diana Son and Sunil Kuruvilla. Available at tcg.org.
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Shaw thing The Lincoln Center Theater cast recording of A Minister’s Wife ($15.95) preserves Josh Schmidt’s understated score for the musical adaptation of Shaw’s Candida. Kate Fry reprises the title role she played in the show’s 2009 debut at Writers’ Theatre. Available at psclassics.com and iTunes.

11/14/2011