A TALE OF TWO CITIES PBS Concert to Be Released on CD and DVD
By: Jeff Dennhardt Nov. 18, 2009
The PBS concert version of A TALE OF TWO CITIES will get a DVD and cast recording to be released in the upcoming months. The concert was filmed this past summer at England's Theater Royal Brighton that will be Broadcast on PBS stations, beginning November 26. The concert production features an international cast including James Barbour, Brandi Burkhardt, Natalie Toro, and Kevin Earley from the Broadway production.
The PBS concert will be a 90-minute version, cut down from the 2-and-a-half hour production that played on Broadway. The CD and DVD will be made available during the donation pledge program, a standard of PBS programming. The cast recording was made at the Sphere Studios in London. This will be the second released recording of the show, with a concept album released in 2002.
A Tale of Two Cities played 33 previews and 60 regular performances during its short Broadway run before closing on November 9th, 2008 at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre. The musical moved the date of closing up a week from the originally announced final performance of November 16th.
The Broadway production starred James Barbour, Craig Bennett, Brandi Burkhardt, Kevin Earley, Gregg Edelman, Michael Hayward-Jones, Miles Kath, Aaron Lazar, Katherine McGrath, Les Minski, Catherine Missal, Natalie Toro and Nick Wyman. Featured in the cast were Drew Aber, Catherine Brunell, Alison Cimmet, Jennifer Evans, William Thomas Evans, Randy Glass, Kevin Greene, Michael Halling, Tim Hartman, Fred Inkley, Georgi James, Miles Kath, Jay Lusteck, Raymond Jaramillo McLeod, Catherine Missal, James Moye, Walter Winston Oneil, Dan Petrotta, Devin Richards, Rob Richardson, Rebecca Robbins, Jennifer Smith, Anne Tolpegin, Eric Van Tielen, Mollie Vogt-Welch, and Alison Walla.
Set against the epic backdrop of the French Revolution and based on the classic Dickens novel, A Tale of Two Cities is a musical about injustice, vengeance and the redemptive power of love.
The show's book, music and lyrics are by Jill Santoriello.
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