R&H Theatricals/Ghostlight Records Announces Adam Gwon's ORDINARY DAYS 9/21

R&H Theatricals, a division of Rodgers & Hammerstein: An Imagem Company, has acquired the performance rights to Adam Gwon's musical ORDINARY DAYS, and will begin accepting applications for professional productions starting Tuesday, September 21. On the same day, Ghostlight Records will release the Original Cast Album CD of ORDINARY DAYS.

Gwon has been hailed as "a promising newcomer to our talent-hungry musical theater" by the New York Times, and his musical ORDINARY DAYS has already received productions Off-Broadway (by the Roundabout Theater Company in late 2009), in London (Finborough Theatre, 2008) and regional theaters (Adirondack Theatre Festival, June 2009; South Coast Repertory, January 2010; Human Race Theatre Company, Dayton, Summer 2010).

"I heard about ORDINARY DAYS from some of my colleagues," says Ted Chapin, President of Rodgers & Hammerstein, "and when I saw it at Roundabout Underground, I understood why people had been raving about it. I became an instant fan and decided it was just the kind of show that R&H Theatricals should have. It's so honestly about young people in New York today, and I found it smart and knowing. The recording is a wonderful representation of the show, and I know people who weren't lucky enough to see it at Roundabout will fall for it."

ORDINARY DAYS is an original musical with a contemporary sound about making real connections in the city that never sleeps (but probably should at some point.) ORDINARY DAYS tells its story of four young New Yorkers entirely through song. Lives intersect as they search for fulfillment, happiness, love - and cabs. Through a score of vibrant and memorable songs, the musical "captures with stinging clarity that uneasy moment in youth when doubts begin to cloud hopes for a future of unlimited possibility" (New York Times).

The Original Cast Recording of ORDINARY DAYS features Off-Broadway cast members Lisa Brescia, Hunter Foster, Jared Gertner and Kate Wetherhead, with Vadim Feichtner on piano. The album is produced by Scott Lehrer and Kurt Deutsch. Album Executive Producer is Ted Chapin. For more information on the album, visit www.ghostlightrecords.com.

About Adam Gwon

Adam Gwon is a rising musical theater writer named one of "50 to Watch" by The Dramatist magazine. He won the 2008 Fred Ebb Award for excellence in musical theater songwriting and has been hailed "an extremely talented composer and lyricist" who "is seriously going places." (The New York Sun, StageSpace.com). Adam's musical ORDINARY DAYS was produced in the 2009-10 season at Roundabout Theatre Company, South Coast Repertory, Adirondack Theatre Festival, and Human Race Theatre Company. ORDINARY DAYS was previously produced at Pennsylvania Centre Stage, the Finborough Theatre in London, and at universities across the country, and was selected for the 2008 NAMT Festival of New Musicals. His other shows include THE BOY DETECTIVE FAILS (book: Joe Meno), BERNICE BOBS HER HAIR (book/lyrics: Julia Jordan), and ETHAN FROME (book: Michael Ruby). His work has been seen and developed at Roundabout Theatre Company, Primary Stages, the York Theatre, Signature Theatre, the Kennedy Center, Ars Nova, New Dramatists, NAMT, NYMF, the Johnny Mercer Foundation/American Music Theatre Project, Symphony Space, the Disney/ASCAP Musical Theatre Workshop, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, The Flea Theater, and many others. Adam's other honors include the ASCAP Harold Adamson award, the MAC John Wallowitch award and a MAC Award nomination for best song, as well as commissions from Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA (as part of its American Musical Voices Project: The Next Generation), South Coast Repertory, Broadway Across America, and the EST/Sloan Project. Adam has been a MacDowell Colony fellow, a musical theater fellow at the Dramatists Guild, and an artist-in-residence at Weston Playhouse. He is a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, and a member of ASCAP and the Dramatists Guild.

About R&H Theatricals

R&H Theatricals represents the stage performance rights to over 100 musicals by more than 200 writers. These include works by Rodgers & Hammerstein (including OKLAHOMA!, SOUTH PACIFIC and THE SOUND OF MUSIC), Rodgers & Hart (PAL JOEY, BABES IN ARMS), and Kern & Hammerstein (SHOW BOAT), as well as musicals by Irving Berlin (ANNIE GET YOUR GUN, WHITE CHRISTMAS), Andrew Lloyd Webber (CATS, THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA), Adam Guettel (THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA, FLOYD COLLINS), Kurt Weill (THE THREEPENNY OPERA, LADY IN THE DARK), such perennials as BIG RIVER, ONCE UPON A MATTRESS, and FOOTLOOSE, and the longest-running revues in the history of Broadway -- SMOKEY JOE'S CAFÉ -- and Off-Broadway -- I LOVE YOU, YOU'RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE. Recently added titles include IN THE HEIGHTS, A CATERED AFFAIR, IT'S ONLY LIFE, [title of show], LOVE MUSIK, FACE THE MUSIC, REEFER MADNESS, ALTAR BOYZ, BERNARDA ALBA, MID-LIFE! THE CRISIS MUSICAL, and BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY. R&H Theatricals is an Imagem company: www.rnh.com.

About Ghostlight Records/Sh-K-Boom Records

Founded 10 years ago by Kurt Deutsch and Sherie Rene Scott, Sh-K-Boom and its imprint Ghostlight Records has become the leading independent force in musical theatre recording-shining a light towards its future while continuing to honor its past. The label is renowned for its efforts to encourage and support the music of the most innovative new voices on Broadway, to help bridge the gap between pop/rock and musicals, and to preserve the scores of important works. Ghostlight Records received a 2009 Grammy Award for their double-CD release of IN THE HEIGHTS (already a Tony Award Winner for Best Musical and Best Score) and was also Grammy-nominated for the new cast recording of Broadway's HAIR, which debuted at #1 on the Broadway Billboard Chart. In addition to IN THE HEIGHTS and HAIR, Ghostlight's releases of the OCRs for Tony and Pulitzer-Prize winning NEXT TO NORMAL, PASSING STRANGE, and the single release featuring the winner of MTV's LEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL competition, have brought the label acclaim for their innovative marketing techniques and their efforts to reach the next generation of Broadway music fans via iTunes, music videos and more. Also featured amongst the label's over 75 titles are the popular cast albums of LEGALLY BLONDE, THE LAST FIVE YEARS, HAIR, DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS, [title of show], Irving Berlin'S WHITE CHRISTMAS, BERNARDA ALBA, BRIGHT LIGHTS BIG CITY, ALTAR BOYZ, and THE 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE. Most recently, Ghostlight Records released the Original Cast Recording of EVERYDAY RAPTURE and this fall will release BLOODY BLOODY Andrew Jackson Original Cast Recording. Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight Records also features recordings from major Broadway artists like Patti LuPone, Sutton Foster, Kelli O'Hara, Christine Ebersole, Alice Ripley and Adam Pascal.

Media contact for Ghostlight Records: sethcohenpr@earthlink.net

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