GIANT Original Cast Album Released Today!

Ghostlight Records will release the Original Cast Recording of the acclaimed epic musical GIANT online and in stores today, May 21, 2013. GIANT had its New York Premiere at The Public Theater last fall, and was a co-production with Dallas Theater Center. GIANT features music and lyrics by Michael John LaChiusa, and a book by Sybille Pearson, based on the novel by Edna Ferber. This production was directed by Michael Greif and had choreography by Alex Sanchez. To pre-order the album, please visit www.sh-k-boom.com/giant.html.

The two-disc cast album - produced by Kurt Deutsch, Joel Moss and Michael John LaChiusa - includes a 44 page, full-color booklet with the entire libretto and liner notes by Oskar Eustis, The Public Theater's Artistic Director. GIANT boasts a company of 26 actors, a 17-piece orchestra, and lush orchestrations by Bruce Coughlin, with additional orchestrations by Larry Hochman.

This recording marks The Public's fourth album in collaboration with Ghostlight Records, including the previously released Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Hair, and See What I Wanna See. This is also the label's fifth album with Michael John LaChiusa (Queen of the Mist, See What I Wanna See, Bernarda Alba, and Little Fish). The GIANT original cast recording has been supported by the Shen Family Foundation. TheaterMania.com, a sponsor of the recording, is presenting exclusive online content featuring a documentary which chronicles the story of GIANT against the backdrop of the cast album recording sessions, also including interviews with the cast and creative team.

The Wall Street Journal raved "Giant is the most important new musical to come along since The Light in the Piazza. It's a show of immense and fully realized promise. LaChiusa is one of the most prodigiously gifted musical-theater songwriters since Stephen Sondheim."

The Public Theater has a long history of producing new musicals, and is the only theater in New York City that presents Shakespeare and the classics, musicals, new works, and experimental theater in equal measure. GIANT is a new American musical that spans generations in an epic chronicle of the state that's like no place else on earth: Texas. Amid a turbulent culture of greed, bigotry and money, a powerful cattleman, his new East Coast bride, their family and friends - not to mention their enemies - embrace and confront the joys and sorrows that loom as large as the state they call home.

The GIANT cast included Enrique Acevedo, Raul Aranas, Becca Ayers, Mary Bacon, Kate Baldwin, Xavier Cano, Miguel Cervantes, Natalie Cortez, Rocío Del Mar Vallés, John Dossett, Jon Fletcher, PJ Griffith, Michael Halling, Brian d'Arcy James, Mackenzie Mauzy, Melissa Mitchell, Doreen Montalvo, Michele Pawk, Allison Rogers, Isabel Santiago, Tally Sessions, Martín Solá, Bobby Steggert, Matthew Stocke, Katie Thompson, and William Youmans.

GIANT featured scenic design by Allen Moyer; costume design by Jeff Mahshie; lighting design by Kenneth Posner; sound design by Brian Ronan; hair and wig design by David BrIan Brown; and musical direction by Chris Fenwick.

TRACK LISTING

ACT 1

1. Aurelia Dolores
2. Did Spring Come to Texas?
3. Your Texas
4. No Time for Surprises
5. Private Property
6. Outside Your Window
7. He Wanted a Girl
8. Heartbreak Country
9. Ruega por Nosotros
10. Look Back/Look Ahead
11. Topsy Turvy
12. When to Bluff13. One Day
14. My Texas
15. A Stranger
16. Act One Finale

ACT 2

17. Our Mornings/That Thing
18. Jump
19. There is a Child
20. Un Béso, Béso!
21. Place in the World
22. Midnight Blues
23. The Dog is Gonna Bark
24. Juana's Prayer
25. The Desert
26. Aurelia Dolores Reprise/Act Two Finale