Fame Becomes Me Cast Album Set for April 10 Release

Ghostlight Records, a division of Sh-K-Boom Records, will release the original cast album of the recent Broadway hit Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me on April 10th.

The show's original cast--Short, Brooks Ashmanskas, Mary Birdsong, Capathia Jenkins, Nicole Parker and Marc Shaiman--recorded the album on November 20th, 2006 at Sear Sound Studios in Manhattan.

"As the producer of the Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me Original Broadway Cast Album, I have the serious goal of taking a group of performers who rely on oversized props and nightly shameless mugging for a laugh, and creating an exciting aural representation of the show," stated Shaiman. "Luckily, I'm equal to the task! And without needing to worry about the bladders of our older audience members, we are even inserting some of the golden material we were forced to cut on our way into New York. More Marty! More Capathia Jenkins! More of those other people in the show! Harkening back to classic radio shows and The Firesign Theatre, Monty Python and National Lampoon comedy albums, our plan is to create a unique cast album that fully represents the style and energy of the show that is currently knockin' 'em dead at The Bernie Jacobs Theatre. Please buy it. Buy two."

Fame Becomes Me, which opened at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre on August 17th and closed on January 7th, 2007 after a critically acclaimed limited run, featured "Short in a comic tour de force guiding us through an improbable version of his life story. Backed by a brilliant cast of top Broadway performers (who constantly steal focus from Mr. Short when he's not looking), Short's transparent play for love and attention asks the burning question, does an autobiography really have to be true?," state press materials.

Photo of Martin Short as Jiminy Glick by Walter McBride/Retna Ltd.