PASSION Cast Album Recorded Today

The CSC cast album of PASSION records today, May 13th, for a July 2nd release. Subbing on the album for Melissa Errico will be Rebecca Luker.

PS Classics, home to a dozen Sondheim cast albums, will record and release the cast recording of its critically-acclaimed new production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Tony Award-winning musical Passion, directed by John Doyle. The two-disc set will be produced by PS Classics co-founder Tommy Krasker, who has helmed over a dozen Sondheim albums, including Grammy-nominated cast recordings of Assassins, Sweeney Todd, Company, A Little Night Music, Sondheim on Sondheim and Follies.

The album is currently available for pre-order at the label's website, www.psclassics.com.

PASSION, which ran through Friday, April 19 at CSC (136 East 13th Street), starred Melissa Errico (Clara), Judy Kuhn (Fosca) and Ryan Silverman (Giorgio). The production also features Stephen Bogardus (Colonel Ricci), Jeffry Denman (Lieutenant Barri), Jason Michael Evans (Private Augenti), Ken Krugman (Lieutenant Torasso), Orville Mendoza (Sergeant Lombardi), Tom Nelis (Doctor Tambourri), Will Reynolds (Major Rizzoli/Ludovic), John Antony (understudy) and Amy Justman (understudy).

The production was directed and designed by John Doyle, with music direction by Rob Berman, orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick, costumes by Ann Hould-Ward, lighting by Jane Cox and sound by Dan Moses Schreier.