Ghostlight Records to Record LaChiusa's Bernarda Alba for Spring Release

Ghostlight Records is set to go into the studio on March 27th to record the new production of Michael John LaChiusa's Bernard Alba for a release this Spring.  Lincoln Center Theater is currently presenting the world premiere production of BERNARDA ALBA, a new musical with words and music by Michael John LaChiusa and direction and choreography by Graciela Daniele, adapted from the play The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca. BERNARD ALBA opened at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater (150 West 65 Street) on Monday, March 6.

Adapted from Federico García Lorca's final play which is widely acknowledged as a masterpiece of 20th century dramatic literature, BERNARDA ALBA is the story of a newly-widowed mother (played by Tony Award-winner Phylicia Rashad), who enforces her iron will on her large household, only to have her daughters (played by Nikki M. James, Sally Murphy, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Saundra Santiago) overwhelm her tyranny.

The cast of BERNARDA ALBA also features Yolande Bavan, Candy Buckley, Laura Shoop and Nancy Ticotin and has sets by Christopher Barreca, costumes by Toni Leslie-James, lighting by Stephen Strawbridge, orchestrations by Michael Starobin and musical direction by Deborah Abramson.

Composer/lyricist Michael John LaChiusa and director/choreographer Graciela Daniele are frequent collaborators whose past LCT productions include Marie Christine, Chronicle of a Death Foretold and Hello, Again. Ms. Daniele, an Associate Director of Lincoln Center Theater, also directed and choreographed LCT's productions of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty's Dessa Rose and William Finn's A New Brain and Elegies: A Song Cycle. Mr. LaChuisa was currently represented off-Broadway with his new musical See What I Wanna See at the Public Theatre.

Phylicia Rashad, who made her Lincoln Center Theater debut in BERNARDA ALBA, won the Tony Award for her performance in the Broadway revival of A Raisin in the Sun, and last season was nominated for a Tony Award for her performance in August Wilson's Gem of the Ocean. She began her career in the theater, appearing in such Broadway musicals as Ain't Supposed To Die A Natural Death, Dreamgirls and The Wiz, before starring opposite Bill Cosby in the highly popular TV series The Cosby Show and its follow-up Cosby. Her other Broadway credits include Jelly's Last Jam and Into The Woods.