TV: Rocking Out With Making Of Teen Witch The Musical CD

By: BWW News Desk May. 12, 2007

Produced and Edited by Craig Brockman
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While Xanadu gets ready to tread the boards on Broadway, Teen Witch - a late 80s cult film - is working towards a professional production in the near future by releasing a Studio Cast Recording. Teen Witch the Musical helmed by original producers of the music for the film, Larry Weir and Tom Weir, have released the album on their newly formed Caption Records label. Check out this special behind the scenes look at the making of this album featuring Broadway alum, Sara Niemietz.

Teen Witch (the movie), has had ongoing airings on the Disney Channel, HBO, Showtime and ABC Family Channel, and has been packing midnight showings from New York to Seattle. The enduring popularity of the music prompted the film's writer/producer Alana Lambros to get together with the Weir Brothers and develop a full scale (Broadway bound) musical as a vehicle for the songs and the story's timeless message.

Determined to give the fans what they wanted, Larry and Tom decided to re-create the magic and re-record the original songs. The first single, Finest Hour, features recording artists Sara Niemietz (Akeelah and the Bee, 13 the Musical) and Blake Ewing (Little Rascals, Ragtime, Full House), and is already in the Top 10 at New Music Weekly and on the IMN Top 30 countdown.

"We've been asked about an official release of the songs ever since the film came out, but the original masters weren't available," commented Grammy winning producer/engineer Tom Weir, who owns Studio City Sound where the album was recorded.

The full-length CD album is available at Amazon.com and iTunes worldwide. Distribution for Caption Records and Teen Witch the Musical is by Burnside Distribution Corporation, and digitally by INgrooves.

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