Ghostlight Records will soon release the original cast album of the world premiere musical FIRST DAUGHTER SUITE, written by Michael John LaChiusa. A release date has not yet been announced, but it is currently available for preorder HERE.
This recording marks
The Public Theater's ninth album in collaboration with Ghostlight, including the previously released Bloody Bloody
Andrew Jackson, Hair, See What I Wanna See, Giant, A Second Chance, Venice, Love's Labour's Lost and The Fortress of Solitude. This is also the label's sixth album with
Michael John LaChiusa (Giant, Queen of the Mist, See What I Wanna See, Bernarda Alba, and Little Fish).
The complete cast of FIRST DAUGHTER SUITE features
Alison Fraser (Nancy Reagan,
Betty Ford);
Rachel Bay Jones (
Laura Bush,
Rosalynn Carter);
Caissie Levy (
Patti Davis, Julie Nixon);
Theresa McCarthy (Robin Bush, Hannah Nixon);
Betsy Morgan (Trisha Nixon, Susan Ford);
Isabel Santiago (Anita Castelo);
Carly Tamer (
Amy Carter);
Mary Testa (
Barbara Bush); and
Barbara Walsh (Pat Nixon).
Tony nominee
Michael John LaChiusa imagines the inner lives and dreams of America's best-known daughters with a funny and moving follow-up to his 1993 Public musical First Lady Suite. A historical fantasia in four parts, FIRST DAUGHTER SUITE follows Patricia Nixon and daughters Tricia and Julie, Rosalynn and
Amy Carter, Betty and Susan Ford,
Patti Davis and mom Nancy Reagan, and
Barbara Bush and daughter-in-law Laura as they strive to live meaningful lives in the public eye, while dealing with the complex private relationships all of us face with our parents and children. Directed by
Kirsten Sanderson, this wholly captivating new musical with a lush, sweeping score is a deeply felt new work about mothers, daughters and the surprising discoveries we make about one another as we grow.
