PRESERVING CAST RECORDINGS IN THE AGE OF FREE MUSIC
As ticket prices for Broadway musicals consistently rise, independent record labels like Sh-K-Boom, which preserves musical theater scores, must grapple with the proliferation of free music: specifically, web services such as YouTube and Spotify that cannibalize CD sales and iTunes downloads. "There have to be the purchases," Sh-K-Boom President Kurt Deutsch said Aug. 3 at the Upper East Side Barnes [&…