Playbill.com correspondent Ben Rimalower offers a collection of the most exciting recordings by Broadway leading lady Sherie Rene Scott.

This week's column discusses the original Broadway cast album of the 1960 revue A Thurber Carnival and a special item from the 1964 RCA catalog, "David Merrick Presents Hits from His Broadway Hits."

This week's column discusses the original Broadway cast album of the 1960 revue A Thurber Carnival and a special item from the 1964 RCA catalog, "David Merrick Presents Hits from His Broadway Hits."

This week's column discusses the original cast album of the new musical Spring Awakening and Barbara Fasano's recording of Arlen songs, "Written in the Stars."

This week's column discusses the original cast album of the new musical Spring Awakening and Barbara Fasano's recording of Arlen songs, "Written in the Stars."

Let the rest of the media obsess on Mary J. We're here to remind you about MTT.

This week’s column discusses the new musical comedies The Drowsy Chaperone and The Wedding Singer.

This week’s column discusses the new musical comedies The Drowsy Chaperone and The Wedding Singer.

The holiday season has arrived once more, so here are recommended Broadway-related CDs of the past year.

The holiday season has arrived once more, so here are recommended Broadway-related CDs of the past year. In last year's column I was able to state that "happily, there are far more recommendable titles than in recent years." Not this year, I'm afraid. But if there are less items on our list, the top picks of the year are better suited for repeated listening than anything on last year's list.

Hello, diva lovers. I'd like to dedicate today's column to one of the most gifted comedic actresses of her time, Madeline Kahn, who lost her battle with ovarian cancer last week. Kahn, who received a Tony Award for her riotous portrayal of Dr. Gorgeous Teitelbaum in Wendy Wasserstein's The Sisters Rosensweig, was equally at home on the stage or on screen, earning Tony nominations for her work in In the Boom Boom Room, On the Twentieth Century and Born Yesterday while meriting Academy Award nominations for such screen roles as "Blazing Saddles" and "Paper Moon." Though difficult to choose from her eclectic array of characters, I think my favorite Kahn performance was in the aforementioned "Paper Moon" as the good-bone-structured Trixie Delight, opposite the father-and-daughter team of Ryan and Tatum O'Neill. The operatically-trained performer had the ability to make you laugh with a simple inflection of the voice, and she could also move you in both song and the spoken word. This unique, multi-talented actress will be much missed. In lieu of flowers, Kahn's family asks that donations be made to the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund (One Penn Plaza, Suite 1610, New York, NY 10001).

Hello, diva lovers. I'd like to dedicate today's column to one of the most gifted comedic actresses of her time, Madeline Kahn, who lost her battle with ovarian cancer last week. Kahn, who received a Tony Award for her riotous portrayal of Dr. Gorgeous Teitelbaum in Wendy Wasserstein's The Sisters Rosensweig, was equally at home on the stage or on screen, earning Tony nominations for her work in In the Boom Boom Room, On the Twentieth Century and Born Yesterday while meriting Academy Award nominations for such screen roles as "Blazing Saddles" and "Paper Moon." Though difficult to choose from her eclectic array of characters, I think my favorite Kahn performance was in the aforementioned "Paper Moon" as the good-bone-structured Trixie Delight, opposite the father-and-daughter team of Ryan and Tatum O'Neill. The operatically-trained performer had the ability to make you laugh with a simple inflection of the voice, and she could also move you in both song and the spoken word. This unique, multi-talented actress will be much missed. In lieu of flowers, Kahn's family asks that donations be made to the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund (One Penn Plaza, Suite 1610, New York, NY 10001).

Well, dahhhling, those are the breaks.
Tallulah's Party, a new show about actress-turned-diva Tallulah Bankhead, will close Mar. 29, after eight previews and 12 regular performances. After numerous false starts trying to find an Off-Broadway venue, the show began previews at the Kaufman Theatre Mar. 12 and opened there Mar. 19. Poor reviews are cited for the quick close.

If you're going to be a prude during this interview, this is not going to work," drawled Tovah Feldshuh after she'd opened a phone conversation with a particularly raunchy wisecrack. Of course, it wasn't the Tovah we all know from Yentl or recent TV appearances on "Law & Order." She was now in character as Tallulah Bankhead, the grand actress with an even grander public persona.

The Old Wicked Songs currently filling Off-Broadway's Promenade Theatre, has words by Jon Marans (1957-) and music by Robert Schumann (1810-1856) -- an odd coupling but an excellent one, despite the 101 years that separate them. In tandem, their Old Wicked Songs gave the Rent tunes a good run for the Pulitzer Prize last year.