Ghostlight Releases Extra LuPone 'Torch' Tracks on iTunes

Ghostlight Records will release six bonus tracks from Patti LuPone's CD "The Lady with the Torch," available beginning Tuesday, November 21 on iTunes and other digital media. 

The tracks, recorded last December during the sessions for "The Lady with the Torch," which has orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick and musical direction by Chris Fenwick, were produced by Joel Moss and Kurt Deutsch.  The concert of "The Lady with the Torch," upon which the new cd is based, was conceived and directed by Scott Wittman.

The new tracks are:

"Make It Another Old Fashioned Please" (Cole Porter)

"C'est Magnifique" (Cole Porter)

"I Love Paris" (Cole Porter)

"Me and My Shadow" (Dave Dreyer, Al Jolson, Billy Rose)

"Frankie and Johnny" (Fred Karger/Alex Gottlieb/Ben Wiseman)

"Find Me A Primitive Man" (Cole Porter)

"Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas"

LuPone has been one of Broadway's foremost leading ladies since her star-making performance in 1979's Evita, for which she won a Tony Award.  She was also recently nominated for her turn in Sweeney Todd.  The star, who graduated from Julliard and was a member of John Houseman's famed Acting Company in the '70s. Broadway credits include Noises Off, The Old Neighborhood, Master Class, Anything Goes (Tony nomination), Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Oliver!, Working, The Three Sisters, The Robber Bridegroom (Tony nomination) and The Beggar's Opera; she has also starred in Pal Joey and Can-Can at Encores! Additionally, she originated the role of Fantine in the London production of Les Miserables, starred as Norma Desmond in the 1993 West End production of Sunset Boulevard (her last appearance in a fully-staged musical), and played Genevieve in the original production of The Baker's Wife.

In addition to being available digitally, the recordings are also available on cd by contacting www.ghostlightrecords.com