'Knickerbocker Holiday' Concert CD w/ O'Hara, Garber Now Available for Pre-Sale on Ghostlight Label

"Knickerbocker Holiday", a performance by The Collegiate Chorale recorded live at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center on January 25 & 26, 2011 is now available for pre-sale from Ghostlight Records. According to sh-k-boom.com, the concert featured Victor Garber as Stuyvesant, Ben Davis as Brom, Bryce Pinkham as Washington Irving, David Garrison as Tienhoven, Kelli O'Hara as love interest Tina, and Christopher Fitzgerald as faithful sidekick Tenpin. Broadway's multi-talented Ted Sperling, winner of both Tony and Drama Desk awards, directed the event, and The Chorale's Music Director, James Bagwell, conducted. 

The romantic comedy was created by Kurt Weill and Maxwell Anderson and was first performed in 1938. With Walter Huston in the role of Peter Stuyvesant, the work is considered one of Weill's theater masterpieces and combines both operetta and musical theater. Anderson, one of the most important playwrights of the early 20th century, added political satire that gave the show an edgier tone. The famous pop standard, "September Song," first appeared in "Knickerbocker Holiday".

The featured tracks on the CD include:

ACT ONE
1. Introduction & Washington Irving Song
2. Clickety-Clack
3. Entrance Of The Council
4. Hush Hush
5. There's Nowhere To Go But Up!
6. It Never Was You
7. Bachelor's Song
8. How Can You Tell An American?
9. Will You Remember Me?
10. One Touch Of Alchemy
11. The One Indispensible Man
12. Young People Think About Love
13. September Song
14. Act One Finale

ACT TWO
15. Ballad Of The Robbers
16. Sitting In Jail
17. We Are Cut In Twain
18. Reprise: There's Nowhere To Go But Up!
19. To War!
20. Our Ancient Liberties
21. May And January
22. The Scars
23. Dirge For A Soldier
24. No, Ve Vouldn't Gonto Do It
25. Finale - Reprise: How Can You Tell An American?

The CD is set to arrive in stores on June 28th.

For more information, please visit: http://sh-k-boom.com/knickerbockerholiday.shtml