Playbill Records is an American

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 record label

Record label

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, and subsidiary

Subsidiary

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 of Sony Music Entertainment

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History

Playbill

Playbill

Playbill is a monthly U.S. magazine for theatregoers. Although there is a subscription issue available for home delivery, most Playbills are printed for particular shows to be distributed at the door...

, the internationally recognized and authoritative publication for theatre, music and the performing arts expanded the reach of its famous yellow and black trademark logo with this newly minted record label in the summer of 2006. Launched in conjunction with Sony BMG's Legacy Recordings

Legacy Recordings

Legacy Recordings is Sony Music Entertainment's catalog division. It was founded in 1990 by CBS Records under the leadership of Jerry Shulman, Richard Bauer, Gary Pacheco and Amy Herot to handle reissues of recordings from the vast catalogues of Columbia Records, Epic Records and associated...

 and Sony BMG Masterworks

Sony BMG Masterworks

Sony Masterworks is a record label. It is the result of a restructuring of Sony Music Entertainment's classical music division. Before the acquisition of Bertelsmann's shares in the former Sony BMG, the label was known as Sony BMG Masterworks....

, the label's primary goal is to develop a broad fan-base for amazing artists, while at the same time introducing new audiences to the extraordinary recordings contained in Sony BMG's vast archiveshttp://www.playbillrecords.com/aboutpbr.htm. Playbill's first artists signed were Broadway veterans Brian Stokes Mitchell

Brian Stokes Mitchell

Brian Stokes Mitchell is an American stage, film and television actor. A powerful baritone, he has been one of the central leading men of the Broadway theatre since the early 1990s...

 and Betty Buckley

Betty Buckley

Betty Lynn Buckley is an American theater, film and television actress and singer. She is a Tony Award winner and Grammy Award nominee.-Early life:...

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Playbill Records plans to offer three different categories of recordings on their labelhttp://www.playbill.com/news/article/98594.html.
First is original music. The second will be the creation of compilations, which will go under the heading of Playbill Editors' Choice. The third part of the joint venture between Playbill

Playbill

Playbill is a monthly U.S. magazine for theatregoers. Although there is a subscription issue available for home delivery, most Playbills are printed for particular shows to be distributed at the door...

 and Sony BMG is the re-releasing of remixed and remastered Broadway recordings.

Playbill Artists

Artists on the current Playbill Records roster include (listed alphabetically):

• Betty Buckley
  Betty Buckley
  Betty Lynn Buckley is an American theater, film and television actress and singer. She is a Tony Award winner and Grammy Award nominee.-Early life:...
  
  
• Brian Stokes Mitchell
  Brian Stokes Mitchell
  Brian Stokes Mitchell is an American stage, film and television actor. A powerful baritone, he has been one of the central leading men of the Broadway theatre since the early 1990s...
  
  

External links

• Playbill Records – Official website
• Sony BMG Masterworks, Parent Company of Playbill