'The Last Starfighter' To Go On Record

By: Aug. 10, 2005
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According to Bruce Kimmel on HainesHisWay.com, The Last Starfighter will get a recording on the Kritzerland Label. The show, (a science fiction musical based on the 1984 film) had a short but highly lauded run in the 2004-05 season at Off-Broadway's Storm Theatre.  (reviewed on SciFi.com)

According to the show's press release, "In a small town nestled in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1983, Alex Rogan is about to discover the adventure of a lifetime. An 18-year-old with an uncertain future, Alex becomes the master of a video game only to discover that Centauri, a huckster trying to save his vulnerable galaxy and make a little money in the process, put it on Earth as a testing ground. Centauri offers Alex membership in an elite cadre of space pilots charged with protecting the universe. Alex must find a way to reach his potential, while a great danger looms out in space, waiting for him."

Bruce Kimmel, who will produce the CD on his Kritzerland Label writes,"the score is by one of my favorite unsung composers, Mr. Walter "Skip" Kennon, who wrote a wonderful score to the musical of Time and Again. And the book is by Mr. Fred Landau. The score is quite wonderful, and it really captures the flavor of the screenplay to the 1984 film, which was the final film of the legendary Robert Preston. The show (and album) features Charlie Pollack (Urinetown) as Alex, DeeGee Brandemour, Brad Coolidge, Eduardo De Paula (Jesus on TV's Rescue Me), Jan Leigh Herndon (La Cage Aux Folles), Paul Jackal (Broadway's The Secret Garden), Hugh Brandon Kelly, Joseph Kolinski, Julia Motyka, Georga Osborne, William Parry (Broadway's Assassins, Passion, Sunday In The Park With George, and Dessa Rose), Catherine Remmert, Jonathan Richard Sandler, Heather Spore, and Travis Walters." 

The CD is expected to be out late October/early November, 2005.

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