Photo Coverage: Red Eye Of Love CD Release

Ghostlight Records yesterday released the cast album of the new musical comedy RED EYE OF LOVE. The studio cast recording of the show - which is based on an original play by Arnold Weinstein, with music bySam Davis and book and lyrics by Arnold Weinstein and John Wulp - features the Tony Award-winning Broadway star Kelli O'Hara (The King & I, South Pacific), Tony Award winner Brad Oscar (Something Rotten!, The Producers), and Josh Grisetti(Honeymoon in Vegas), in addition to a cast of Broadway favorites. The booklet includes studio photography, a synopsis and a special note from John Wulp. As of September 2, customers that pre-order the album on iTunes will receive an immediate download of the title track. To pre-order the physical album, please visit www.sh-k-boom.com/red-eye-of-love-studio-cast-recording.

RED EYE OF LOVE is a girl-meats-boy love story. Selma Chargesse is torn between her love of great wealth and her passion for idealism and the two men in her life who offer her one or the other-Wilmer, a naïve young dreamer and O.O. Martinas, the proprietor of the world's largest meat department store. Could she have both? Don't miss this rare musical ready for prime time that tugs at the heart and tickles the funny bone. Any way you slice it, this is red meat for musical theater lovers and that's no bum steer.

The cast also features Sam Bolen, Sarah Corey, Nikki Renee Daniels, Christine DiGiallonardo, John Morton, Greg Roderick, Leah Stuart, and Matthew Zimmerman. The album features a 12-piece band led by music director Greg Jarrett. Orchestrations are by Bruce Coughlin.

"RED EYE OF LOVE is written in the language of burlesque using puns and allegory, word play and stock phrases to make its points," says co-writer John Wulp. "It's not a conventional musical. It is an extended metaphor - a history of America. The story of the rise ofO.O. Martinas' Meat Emporium roughly parallels the story of America, except that the play begins at the turn of the century - a time that could be encompassed within the lifetime experiences of Arnold Weinstein and myself."

When RED EYE OF LOVE opened in New York City in September 2014 at the Dicapo Theater, The New York Times called it "what The Fantasticks might be like if it developed a social conscience." It was praised as a "madcap musical" by Playbill, "enjoyable" by Theater Lifeand "amusing" by Talkin' Broadway. Theater is Easy said "the score is a pastiche wonder that expertly brings to mind the stage shows of the early Twentieth Century" with Curtain Up calling it "a throwback to the post-Vaudeville escapist song and dance shows."

"RED EYE OF LOVE" TRACK LIST

1. Good Old O.O.

2. Park Scene

3. I'm Going to the Movies

4. Rain

5. Dolls

6. Open Your Eyes

7. Seize the Opportunity

8. How Much?

9. The Meat Ballet

10. What Happened?

11. Yes, Well, Anyway

12. Say, Fella

13. The Word on the Street

14. Two Fat Cats

15. Red Eye of Love

16. Among the Navajo

17. Three's the Key Finale