Photo Flash: THE CONCRETE JUNGLE Celebrates International Cast Recording Release at The Cutting Room

The concert featured: Kate Shindle (Legally Blonde, Cabaret, Wonderland) as Vanessa, Marissa Rosen (Bedbugs) as Abby, Jason Gotay (Bring It On) as Simon, Anne Brummel (Wicked) as Claire, Nick Dalton (Legally Blonde) as Guy, Geoffrey Kidwell (Rated RSO) as Dunkan; plus guest performances by: Gerard Canonico (Bare, American Idiot, Spring Awakening), Mallory Bechtel (Home), Wade Dooley, Jessica Wagner, and cast members of the 2012 Alec Baldwin Fellowship winner 'Til Death Do Us Part: Ward Billeisen (Anything Goes, Curtains), Jackie Vanderbeck, Lizzie Hagstedt (Southern Comfort), Brett Teresa, Jodi Blustein, Brett Dameron, Erik Sisco, Michael Armstrong Barr, & Candice Oden.

Musical direction by WILLIAM DEMANIOW (Daybreak, W2ML, 'Til Death Do Us Part). Arrangements by Michael Haslam, Drew Overcash, Bobby Cronin, and RJ Tancioco.

With music & lyrics by Bobby Cronin, a book by Bobby Cronin & Crystal Skillman, additional material by Brett Teresa, and musical direction & arrangements by Michael Haslam, THE CONCRETE JUNGLE INTERNATIONAL STUDIO CAST CD will be available on iTunes & Amazon in early March, 2013. The recording, produced by Burlington Productions in assoc. with Nick Lloyd Webber & James D. Reid, will be released on the Great White Wax label featuring: Rebecca Trehearn (Ghost, We Will Rock You), Alex Gaumond (Top Hat, Legally Blonde Olivier Nom), Dean Chisnal (Shrek), Danielle Hope (Wizard of Oz, Les Mis), Kate Shindle (Legally Blonde), Nick Adams (Priscilla Queen of the Desert), Olivia Phillip (Book of Mormon, Ghost), Ross Hunter (Rock of Ages), & Jos Slovick (Spring Awakening). Michael Haslam served as musical director and Will Burton of David Grindrod Associates.

THE CONCRETE JUNGLE is a contemporary take on the Cyrano de Bergerac, with a female twist. Set within the hustle and bustle of New York City, the romantic comedy follows Abby, a nearing-thrity poet who is the head bartender at The Concrete Jungle Bar & Grill on the Upper West Side, where her friends (and foe, Vanessa) hang out, searching for love. When Abby receives a random phone call, her life is changed forever as hilarity and mistaken identity infiltrate The Concrete Jungle. Can Abby find the strength to tell her romantic interest the truth or will she continue sleeping sideways in her lonely bed, letting her soul mate say "I love you" to the wrong woman?