Ghostlight Records will record the world premiere recording of
Lincoln Center Theater's production of Michael John LaChiusa's new
musical Bernarda Alba, on Monday, March 20. The production, which is
directed and choreographed by Graciela Daniele, opened
at Lincoln Center Theater on March 6 and will continue its run at the
Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater through Sunday, April 9. Ghostlight Records
will release the CD in late spring.
The recording, which will
be produced by
Joel Moss and Ghostlight Records founder
Kurt Deutsch,
will feature the Lincoln Center Theater cast,
Yolande Bavan, Judith
Blazer,
Candy Buckley,
Nikki M. James,
Sally Murphy,
Phylicia Rashad,
Daphne Rubin-Vega,
Saundra Santiago,
Laura Shoop and Nancy Ticotin,
performing Michael Starobin's orchestrations under the musical
direction of Deborah Abramson.
Earlier this week, Ghostlight
Records released the world premiere recording of Michael John
LaChuisa's musical
See What I Wanna See, which opened late last year at
the Public Theater.
Bernarda Alba, an adaptation of the Federico Garcia Lorca masterpiece about a mother's oppressive reign over her five lonely daughters, marks the latest
collaboration between composer/lyricist
Michael John LaChiusa and
director/choreographer Graciela Daniele. The team collaborated on the
Lincoln Center Theater productions of
Hello, Again, Chronicles of a
Death Foretold and
Marie Christine. In addition to
Bernarda Alba,
Lincoln Center Theater's current productions include the Tony Award-winning musical
The Light in the Piazza at the Vivian Beaumont Theater
and a new production of the Clifford Odets' classic
Awake and Sing!,
directed by
Bartlett Sher, which begins performances Friday, March 24
on Broadway at the Belasco Theatre.
Ghostlight Records, a division of SH-K-Boom Records which recently
celebrated its first anniversary, has become a leader in Broadway cast recordings, as well as solo recordings by Broadway artists. This
year, Ghostlight Records earned three Grammy nominations for its
original cast recordings of
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The 25th Putnam
Country Spelling Bee and the Actors' Fund benefit concert of
Hair. In
April, it will release
Patti LuPone's new solo CD "The Lady With The
Torch."
For more information on Ghostlight Records, visit
www.sh-k-boom.com.
