STAGE TUBE: Hunter Parrish Records 'Beautiful City' for GODSPELL Cast Album - Inside the Studio!

By: Dec. 20, 2011
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The New Broadway Cast Recording of the revival of GODSPELL is being released digitally today, December 20, 2011 on Ghostlight Records. Produced by Stephen Schwartz, Michael Holland and Kurt Deutsch with Executive Producer Ken Davenport, the CD will be available in stores on Tuesday, January 31, 2012. Click below to go inside the recording studio to hear Hunter Parrish's rendition of "Beautiful City". 

GODSPELL's Tony nominated score features music and lyrics by Academy and Grammy Award winner Stephen Schwartz, and features instantly recognizable hits including "Day by Day," "Turn Back, O Man," "Learn Your Lessons Well," "Prepare Ye," "Light of the World" and many more.

To hear song previews and to pre-order the CD, visit www.godspell.com or http://sh-k-boom.com/godspell.shtml.

The complete listing for the New Broadway Cast Recording of GODSPELL is:

1. Tower of Babble -- Company
2. Prepare Ye -- Wallace Smith and Company
3. Save the People -- Hunter Parrish and Company
4. Day by Day -- Anna Maria Perez de Tagle and Company
5. Learn Your Lessons Well -- Celisse Henderson and Company
6. Bless the Lord -- Lindsay Mendez and Company
7. All for the Best -- Hunter Parrish, Wallace Smith and Company
8. All Good Gifts -- Telly Leung and Company
9. Light of the World -- George Salazar and Company
10. Turn Back, O Man -- Morgan James and Company
11. Alas for You -- Hunter Parrish
12. By My Side -- Uzo Aduba and Company
13. We Beseech Thee -- Nick Blaemire and Company
14. Beautiful City -- Hunter Parrish
15. On the Willows -- Wallace Smith and the Band
16. Finale -- Hunter Parrish and Company

Bonus Tracks include Beautiful City -- Performed by John Ondrasik of Five for Fighting; and Learn Your Lessons Well (After Hours), performed by Telly Leung, Lindsay Mendez and Wallace Smith

The CD booklet contains full lyrics and liner notes from composer/lyricist Stephen Schwartz and from Paul Shaffer of "The Late Show with David Letterman," who served as the musical director of the original Broadway production of GODSPELL 40 years ago.

Directed by Daniel Goldstein and choreographed by Tony Award nominee Christopher Gattelli (South Pacific), GODSPELL stars an incredible and diverse company of 10 young actors, lead by Hunter Parrish as Jesus and Wallace Smith as Judas, and co-starring Uzo Aduba, Nick Blaemire, Celisse Henderson, Morgan James, Telly Leung, Lindsay Mendez, Anna Maria Perez de Tagle and George Salazar. Understudies are Joaquina Kalukango, Eric Michael Krop, Corey Mach and Julia Mattison.

For tickets and more, visit www.godspell.com.



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