QUEEN OF THE MIST Original Cast Recording Released Today

By: Jun. 19, 2012
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Ghostlight Records, alongside Transport Group Theatre Company, has just released the Original Cast Recording of Michael John LaChiusa's critically-acclaimed new musical, QUEEN OF THE MIST. The recording, which was made possible with generous support from The Shen Family Foundation, is available today everywhere music is sold.

Song samples, CD sales and more information can be found at http://sh-k boom.com/queenofthemist.shtml.

QUEEN OF THE MIST features music and lyrics by five-time Tony nominee Michael John LaChiusa (The Wild Party, Marie Christine, Hello Again). The show, originally commissioned and produced by Transport Group, received the 2012 Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Musical. 

QUEEN OF THE MIST's cast recording features performances by original cast members D.C. Anderson, Stanley Bahorek,Theresa McCarthy, Julia Murney, Andrew Samonsky, Tally Sessions and Mary Testa. Queen of the Mist was directed by five-time Drama Desk nominee Jack Cummings III (Hello Again, See Rock City & Other Destinations, The Boys in the Band). Orchestrations are by Tony Award winner Michael Starobin. The album was produced by Joel Moss, Kurt Deutsch andMichael John LaChiusa. This release marks the fourth collaboration between Sh-K-Boom & Ghostlight Records and LaChiusa. Previous releases include the cast recordings of See What I Wanna See, Little Fish and Bernarda Alba.

The full track listing for QUEEN OF THE MIST is as follows:

1. Act One Opening

2. There Is Greatness In Me (Pt. One)

3. There Is Greatness In Me (Pt. Two)

4. Letter To Jane/The Tiger

5. Charity

6. Glorious Devil/The Waters

7. The Barrel/Cradle Or Coffin

8. Types Like You

9. Do The Pan

10. Floating Cloud

11. Laugh At The Tiger

12. On The Other Side

13. Act One Finale

14. The Quintessential Hero

15. Million Dolla' Momma

16. Expectations

17. Bookings (Pt. One)

18. Break Down The Door

19. The Green

20. Bookings (Pt. Two)

21. Postcards

22. The Fall/Act Two Finale

Based on an astounding and outrageous true story, two-time Tony nominee Mary Testa stars in QUEEN OF THE MIST as Anna Edson Taylor, who, in 1901 at the age of 63, set out to be the first woman to shoot Niagara Falls in a barrel of her own design. Navigating both the treacherous Falls and a fickle public with a ravenous appetite for sensationalism, this unconventional heroine vies for her legacy in a world clamoring with swindling managers, assassins, revolutionaries, moralizing family, anarchists and activists. Convinced that there is greatness in her and determined not to live as ordinary, she sets out to battle her fear and tempt her fate.

With a soaring score that incorporates turn of the century themes with LaChiusa's signature complexity and insight, QUEEN OF THE MIST is the story of a single great fall, and how one woman risked death so that she could live. QUEEN OF THE MIST continues the long collaboration between Transport Group and Mr. LaChiusa, which includes the critically acclaimed Drama Desk-nominated productions of First Lady Suite and Hello Again.



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