The 2006 Broadway cast recording of the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning musical A Chorus Line will be released Tuesday, October 10, 2006 by Masterworks Broadway.
Produced by Grammy award winning producer David Caddick,
A Chorus Line was recorded Monday, August 14, 2006 at the state-of-the-art Skywalker Sound Studio in Marin, CA, with
A Chorus Line composer
Marvin Hamlisch, director
Bob Avian, choreographer Baayork Lee, orchestrator
Jonathan Tunick and producer John Breglio in attendance for the one day recording session.
"The new Broadway cast recording is the most complete recording ever of the record-breaking musical, mixed and mastered to create the most expansive and lifelike audio
A Chorus Line experience. Running over an hour long, the 2006 Broadway cast recording contains the full lyrics, along with more dialogue and orchestral music then previous recordings, and restores the musical numbers to the order in which they are performed in the Broadway production to give the listener a sense of their context in the show," according to press materials. The famed montage sequence is also described as the most complete version ever recorded.
The 2006 recording also contains more complete versions of "I Hope I Get It," "The Music and The Mirror" and "One." In addition, bonus karaoke tracks of "What I Did For Love" and "One (reprise) / Finale" will be available as an exclusive iTunes download. Also, the previously unrecorded musical number, "And", will be available as an exclusive rhapsody download.
A Chorus Line played a six-week pre-Broadway engagement at San Francisco's Curran Theatre where it opened Wednesday, August 2, 2006, to rave reviews.
A Chorus Line will begin previews at the
Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre (236 W 45th St) Monday, September 18, and will open on Thursday, October 5, 2006.
"The
recent merger of Sony BMG, combining the Sony Classical/Columbia
Masterworks and RCA Victor labels, led to the formation of Masterworks
Broadway, which houses one of the most formidable catalogues of cast
albums anywhere."
Directed by its original Tony Award winning co-choreographer Bob Avian, A Chorus Line was conceived and originally choreographed and directed by Michael Bennett, and features a book by James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante, music by Marvin Hamlisch and lyrics by Edward Kleban. Baayork Lee re-stages the original choreography. A Chorus Line is produced by John Breglio for Vienna Waits Productions.The company features Ken Alan (Bobby), Brad Anderson (Don), Michael Berresse (Zach), Natalie Cortez (Diana), Charlotte D'Amboise (Cassie), Mara Davi (Maggie), Jessica Lee Goldyn (Val), Deidre Goodwin (Sheila), Tyler Hanes (Larry), James T. Lane (Richie), Paul McGill (Mark), Heather Parcells (Judy), Michael Paternostro (Greg), Alisan Porter (Bebe), Jeffrey Schecter (Mike), Yuka Takara (Connie), Jason Tam (Paul), Chryssie Whitehead (Kristine) and Tony Yazbeck (Al) in a cast of 29 that includes Michelle Aravena, David Baum, Mike Cannon, E. Clayton Cornelious, Joey Dudding, Lyndy Franklin, Nadine Isenegger, Pamela Jordan, Lorin Latarro, and Grant Turner.
The new production features scenery by Robin Wagner, costumes by Theoni V. Aldredge, lighting by Tharon Musser adapted by Natasha Katz and sound by Acme Sound Partners. Musical direction and supervision is by Patrick Vaccariello, orchestrations are by Jonathan Tunick, Billy Byers and Hershey Kay and vocal arrangements are by Don Pippin.The original production of A Chorus Line opened
at the Public Theater's Newman Theatre on May 21, 1975 and transferred
to Broadway's Shubert Theatre on July 25th, opening there on October
19th of that year. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, nine Tony
Awards, including Best Musical, Score and Book, and the New York Drama
Critics Circle Award. It ran for nearly 15 years, closing on April 28,
1990 after 6,137 performances. A Chorus Line remains the longest running American musical in Broadway history.Tickets for A Chorus Line
on Broadway are available through Telecharge, (212) 239-6200 or
www.telecharge.com. In previews, performances will be Tuesday through
Saturday evenings at 8:00 p.m., with matinee performances on Wednesday
and Saturday at 2:00 p.m. and Sunday at 3:00 p.m. (The week of
September 18, the show will play Monday rather than Tuesday.)
Beginning October 16, the show will play Monday through Saturday at
8:00 p.m. with matinee performances on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 2:00
p.m. Tickets prices are $110.00 and $85.00. Premium seating is
available.
For more information on A Chorus Line, please visit www.achorusline.com.
