Ghostlight Records to Release LuPone's Lady with a Torch CD in April

By: Dec. 06, 2005
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Ghostlight Records will produce a new studio recording by Tony Award-winning actress Patti LuPone--it will be her first in seven years.

The actress, currently starring to critical acclaim in the hit Broadway revival of Sweeney Todd, will record a new CD based on her latest one-woman show The Lady With The Torch, which will be performed December 11th through 13th in New York. The recording, which will be produced by Ghostlight Records President Kurt Deutsch and Joel Moss, will be released in April.

LuPone developed The Lady With The Torch through engagements at New York's Feinstein's at the Regency, Los Angeles' Cinegrill and San Francisco's Plush Room, before performing the show as her third sold-out solo concert at Carnegie Hall last March. Conceived and directed by Scott Wittman (Hairspray), The Lady with The Torch has orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick and musical direction by Chris Fenwick. For the recording, Fenwick will once again direct a ten-piece band performing Tunick's orchestrations of an eclectic collection of torch songs by such composers and lyricists as Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn, Harold Arlen, Billy Barnes, Johnny Mercer, Jessie Mae Robinson, Cole Porter and George and Ira Gershwin. The tracks will include "Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry," "Something Cool," "A Cottage for Sale," "Ill Wind," "I Wanna Be Around," "The Other Woman," "The Man I Love," "Make It Another Old Fashioned, Please," "Me and My Shadow," "Do It Again," "I'm Through with Love," "So In Love," "I Love Paris," "C'est Magnifique," and "Body and Soul."

LuPone's previous studio recording, Matters of the Heart (named one of the best recordings of 1999 by both Time Out New York and The Times of London) was based on her one-woman show of the same title which she has performed extensively throughout the United States, in New York at Lincoln Center Theater and in London at the Donmar Warehouse. LuPone's previous recordings include Patti LuPone Live and Heat Wave, a collection of Irving Berlin songs performed with John Mauceri and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. Her most recent original cast recording is of the hit revival of Sweeney Todd which will be released in January.

Ghostlight Records' recording of Patti LuPone's The Lady With The Torch marks the first anniversary of the label, a division of SH-K-Boom Records. Under the leadership of Kurt Deutsch, Ghostlight Records has released Broadway Cast Recordings, as well as solo recordings by Broadway artists. Its recent releases include the original cast recordings of the hit Tony-nominated musicals Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and the upcoming original cast recording of See What I Wanna See.

LuPone  has been one of Broadway's foremost leading ladies since her star-making turn in 1979's Evita, for which she won a Tony Award. 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.

For more information, visit  www.ghostlightrecords.com.

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