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Camelot (Play) Harmony (Play) Here We Are (Play) How to Dance in Ohio (Play) Merrily We Roll Along (Play) New York, New York (Play) Parade (Play) Shucked (Play) Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Play) Theater Theater (Broadway)

Cast Album Roundup: ‘Sweeney Todd,’ ‘Parade,’ ‘Camelot’ and More

Recordings of Broadway musicals are often better than the shows they preserve. Here’s a ranking of last year’s crop, with samples and bonus tracks.

By Jesse Green

Iglehart, James Monroe Jazz Renshaw, Christopher Studio 54 Theater Theater (Broadway)

Louis Armstrong Musical ‘A Wonderful World’ Set for Broadway

“A Wonderful World,” featuring Armstrong’s songs, is set to begin previews at Studio 54 in October after previous runs in Miami, New Orleans and Chicago.

By Michael Paulson

Chicago Shakespeare Theater Dancing Diaz, Gaby (Dancer) Drury, Jackie Sibblies Illinoise (Dance (Non-Ballet)) Park Avenue Armory (Manhattan, NY) Peck, Justin Stevens, Sufjan Theater

In Justin Peck’s ‘Illinoise,’ Dance On and Feel It

This narrative dance musical, set to Sufjan Stevens’s album, is a coming-of-age story and a meditation on death, love, community, politics and zombies.

By Melena Ryzik

Candy Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Book) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Movie) Children and Childhood Dahl, Roald Facebook Inc Families and Family Life Glasgow (Scotland) Police Scotland Theater Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Movie)

Parents Outraged After Willy Wonka Event in Glasgow

Families traveled to Glasgow for an event that claimed to channel the magic of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.” They got a couple of jelly beans.

By Amanda Holpuch