Ghostlight to Release CD with Coast of Utopia Score

Ghostlight Records will release a CD of of composer Mark Bennett's award winning original score of Lincoln Center Theater's production of the Tom Stoppard trilogy The Coast of Utopia on Tuesday, June 12.  The recording, produced by Mark Bennett and Curtis Moore,  will feature the score from all three parts of the award winning production, which was directed by Jack O'Brien.

Lincoln Center Theater's production of Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia is the recipient of 10 Tony Award nominations including Best Play, the most nominations ever received by a dramatic production in the history of the Tony Awards.  In addition, The Coast of Utopia is the winner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, Drama-League Award, Outer Critics Circle Award and Drama Desk Award for Best Play.  Composer Mark Bennett's score also won a Drama Desk Award for Best Original Score written for a Play.  The Coast of Utopia  marks the fourth Lincoln Center Theater production of a Tom Stoppard work, following the award winning productions of Stoppard's Hapgood, Arcadia and The Invention of Love.  This fall, Lincoln Center Theater will be  a co-producer of the Broadway premiere of the playwright's most recent work, Rock 'n' Roll.

On Tuesday, June 12 at 5:30pm, Barnes & Noble Lincoln Square (Broadway at 66th Street) will host a special event on The Coast of Utopia recording featuring composer Mark Bennett, and cast members including Martha Plimpton (winner of the Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award and a Tony nominee for her performance in the production) and Felicity LaFortune and David Pittu, both of whom can be heard on the recording.

Ghostlight Records, created by Sh-K-Boom co-founders Kurt Deutsch & Sherie Rene Scott, was honored with a special 2006 Drama Desk Award for dedication to the preservation of musical theatre through cast recordings, as well as Grammy Award nominations for Best Musical Show Album: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Hair (The Actors' Fund Of America Benefit Recording), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and most recently The Drowsy Chaperone.  Other recent recordings include Lincoln Center Theater's production of Bernarda Alba by Michael John LaChiusa.  Ghostlight Records is distributed by Razor & Tie Entertainment. 

For more information, visit www.GhostlightRecords.com or www.sh-k-boom.com.