New ANNIE Cast Recording Featuring Jane Lynch Goes on Sale at Palace Theatre Tonight

Shout! Broadway has announced that the New 2012 Broadway Cast Recording for ANNIE is available for purchase at the Palace Theatre (1564 Broadway between 46th and 47th Streets), beginning tonight, May 7. The merchandise stand is open to the public one hour prior to performance. Digital release will be on Tuesday, May 28. The recording will be released to national retail outlets on Tuesday, July 2.

The New 2012 Broadway Cast Recording for ANNIE is produced by 12-time Grammy Award winner Thomas Z. Shepard, Douglas Denoff and Dennis J. Grimaldi, and features the original Broadway cast of the acclaimed new production of ANNIE, as well as bonus tracks, featuring Emmy Award-winning "Glee" star Jane Lynch, who assumes the role of Miss Hannigan on May 16 on Broadway at the Palace Theatre.

The track listing for the New 2012 Broadway Cast Recording of ANNIE follows:

1. Overture

2. Maybe

3. It's the Hard Knock Life

4. It's the Hard Knock Life (reprise)

5. Tomorrow

6. We'd Like to Thank You Herbert Hoover

7. Little Girls

8. Little Girls (reprise)

9. I Think I'm Gonna Like It Here

10. N.Y.C.

11. Easy Street

12. You Won't Be an Orphan For Long / Act One Finale

13. Entr'acte / Maybe (reprise)

14. You're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile

15. Easy Street (reprise)

16. Tomorrow (reprise)

17. Something Was Missing

18. Annie / We Got Annie

19. I Don't Need Anything But You

20. Maybe (reprise)

21. A New Deal for Christmas

22. Bows

BONUS TRACKS with Jane Lynch

23. Little Girls

24. Little Girls (reprise)

25. Easy Street

ANNIE, winner of seven 1977 Tony Awards including Best Musical, features a book by Thomas Meehan, music by Charles Strouse and lyrics by Martin Charnin, with all three authors receiving Tony Awards for their work. The new Broadway production of ANNIE is directed by Pulitzer Prize and three-time Tony Award-winner James Lapine and choreographed by Tony Award-winner Andy Blankenbuehler. The new production opened November 8, 2012 at the Palace Theatre (1564 Broadway, between 46th and 47thStreets), where it is currently playing.

The album was recorded on March 3, 4 and 11 at the historic Kaufman Astoria Studios. Bonus tracks were recorded on April 8 at Entourage Studios, Los Angeles. The album is available for pre-order at the Palace Theatre and fans who wish to order online can reserve their copy at www.anniethemusicalshop.com.

ANNIE was one of the biggest Broadway musical hits of the 1970s, running for almost six years and playing 2,377 performances. The score for ANNIE includes "Maybe," "It's the Hard Knock Life," "You're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile," "Easy Street," "I Don't Need Anything But You" and the eternal anthem of optimism, "Tomorrow". The GRAMMY Award-winning original 1977 Broadway cast album has gone platinum, selling over one million copies to date. The current Broadway production at the Palace Theatre is a clear hit, breaking the house record at the Palace Theatre with a gross of $2.05 million for the week of Christmas, 2012.

ANNIE stars Katie Finneran as Miss Hannigan, Anthony Warlow as Daddy Warbucks and Lilla Crawford as Annie, with Brynn O'Malley as Grace Farrell, Clarke Thorell as Rooster Hannigan, and J. Elaine Marcos as Lily St. Regis. The Orphans are Madi Rae DiPietro as July, Georgi James as Pepper, Junah Jang as Tessie, Tyrah Skye Odoms as Kate, Taylor Richardson as Duffy, Emily Rosenfeld as Molly, Brooklyn Shuck as standby for Molly, Kate, Tessie, July and Duffy, Sadie Sink as standby for Annie, Tessie, Duffy, July and Kate and Jaidyn Young as standby for Annie, Pepper, Duffy and July. The production also features Ashley Blanchet, Jane Blass, Jeremy Davis, Fred Inkley, Merwin Foard, Joel Hatch, Danette Holden, Amanda Lea LaVergne, Gavin Lodge, Desi Oakley, Keven Quillon, David Rossetti, Sarah Solie, Dennis Stowe and Ryan VanDenBoom.

ANNIE features new orchestrations by Michael Starobin, additional orchestrations by Doug Besterman and Alex Lacamoire, vocal arrangements and musical direction byTodd Ellison and dance arrangements by Alex Lacamoire. ANNIE is produced by Arielle Tepper Madover, Roger Horchow, Sally Horchow, Roger Berlind, Roy Furman, Debbie Bisno, Stacey Mindich, James M. Nederlander, Jane Bergère/Daryl Roth and Eva Price/Christina Papagjika. Executive Producer and General Manager is 101 Productions/Wendy Orshan and Jeffrey M. Wilson.

Shout! Broadway, created by Broadway Producers Douglas Denoff and Dennis J. Grimaldi, is an imprint of Shout! Factory, LLC a diversified multi-platform media company devoted to producing, uncovering, preserving and revitalizing the very best of pop culture. In 2012, Shout! Broadway released the Grammy-nominated Original Broadway Cast Album of the hit musical, Nice Work If You Can Get It starring Matthew Broderick and Kelli O'Hara. Shout! Factory founders Richard Foos, Bob Emmer and Garson Foos have spent their entire careers sharing their music, television and film favorites with discerning consumers the world over. Shout! Factory's DVD and Blu-Ray offerings serve up feature films, classic and contemporary TV series, animation, live music and comedy specials in lavish packages crammed with extras. Shout's audio division boasts GRAMMY-nominated box sets, Broadway cast albums, new releases from storied artists, lovingly assembled album reissues and indispensable "best of" compilations. In addition, Shout! Factory maintains a vast digital distribution network which delivers video and audio content to all the leading digital service providers in North America. Shout! Factory also owns and operates Timeless Media Group, Biograph Records, Majordomo Records, HighTone Records and Video Time Machine. These riches are the result of a creative acquisition mandate that has established the company as a hotbed of cultural preservation and commercial reinvention. Shout! Factory is based in Santa Monica, California. For more on Shout! Broadway and Shout! Factory, visit www.shoutbroadway.com.

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