Cast Albums Blog

The Broadway production of Chaplin will assemble to record an original cast album on November 5. A release date has not yet been announced by Masterworks Broadway, who will produce the recording.

Ghostlight Records has released the cover art for its upcoming cast recording of Now. Here. This., the latest show from the Title of Show crew. The recording is available for pre-order on Amazon and is listed as having a December 12 release date.

Without You, Anthony Rapp's one-man show based on his NY Times best-selling memoir, was recorded by PS Classics on September 17. The show, which documents Rapp's experience in RENT and his mother's battle with cancer, most recently played London’s Menier Chocolate Factory. The album will be released on November 27.

Additionally, PS Classics is re-releasing Christine Andreas' 2003 recording The Carlyle Set. Based on Andreas’s sold-out engagement at New York’s Café Carlyle, the album features an irresistible blend of theater and pop songs, highlighted by soaring and emotive performances of such songs as the Legrand/Bergman classic "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?," a heartbreaking version of Marvin Hamlisch and Ed Kleban’s "At the Ballet," jazzy, playful takes on Lerner & Loewe’s "Show Me" and Rodgers & Hart’s "It’s Got to Be Love," and a bittersweet take on Duke Ellington’s "In a Sentimental Mood," among others.

The company of the off-Broadway musical The Last Smoker in America, which recently played the Westside Theatre, is heading into the recording studio to make a The Last Smoker in America [2012 Off-Broadway Cast]cast album[/r]. The production is raising money for the recording online (indiegogo.com/lastsmoker) and contributors can receive autographed Playbills, posters, or other items in addition to copies of the recording.

The production starred Farah Alvin, Natalie Venetia Belcon, John Bolton, and Jake Boyd and features a book & lyrics by Bill Russell and music by Peter Melnick.

Visit http://t.co/v4eZrIqt to be part of our cast album! Contribute as little as $1. A $20 contribution gets you a free album!

— Last Smoker (@LastSmoker) September 17, 2012

Following the preview of "And Eve Was Weak," Entertainment Weekly has posted an exclusive preview clip of In, the first track from the upcoming Off-Broadway cast recording of CARRIE. The clip combines performance footage with video of the cast in the recording studio.

'Carrie' musical gets cast recording, behind-the-scenes video for 'In' - EXCLUSIVE