Tracklist Released for SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM CD

PS Classics has announced at updated song listing for the original cast recording of SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM.  The album is available for pre-order now; pre-ordered albums will be shipped August 10, while the album will not be generally released until August 31.   The track listing is as follows:

Disc One:

1. "My name is Stephen Joshua Sondheim..."
2. Invocation / Forget War
3. Love Is in the Air
4. Comedy Tonight
5. Take Me to the World
6. "Ten years after I was born..."
7. Talent / When I Get Famous
8. Something's Coming
9. "My first professional show..."
10. So Many People
11. "For many years, Hal Prince..."
12. You Could Drive a Person Crazy
13. The Wedding Is Off
14. Now You Know
15. "Hal Prince and I did six shows together..."
16. Franklin Shepard, Inc.
17. Good Thing Going
18. "Sometimes a song changes its shape..."
19. Waiting for the Girls Upstairs
20. The Best Thing That Ever Has Happened
21. "My first serious relationship..."
22. Happiness
23. Fosca's Entrance (I Read)
24. Is This What You Call Love?
25. Loving You

Disc Two:

1. God
2. "If you ask me to write a love song..."
3. Losing My Mind / Not a Day Goes By
4. "A lot of people think..."
5. Opening Doors
6. "We had three endings to Company..."
7. Multitudes of Amys
8. Happily Ever After
9. Being Alive
10. Something Just Broke
11. The Gun Song
12. "Jule Styne and I realized with Gypsy..."
13. Smile, Girls
14. "I suppose if there is one that's closest..."
15. Finishing the Hat
16. Beautiful
17. "I had a lot of trouble with my mother..."
18. Children Will Listen
19. "To me, teaching is a sacred profession..."
20. Send in the Clowns
21. "I've often been asked why don't I write..."
22. Company / Old Friends
23. Anyone Can Whistle

To listen to musical samples and to pre-order the album, visit psclassics.com.  

SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM, which played Broadway in a limited run from March 19 to June 27 (with an official opening on April 22) starred Barbara Cook, Vanessa Williams, Tom Wopat, Leslie Kritzer, Norm Lewis, Euan Morton, Erin Mackey & Matthew Scott. The production was conceived & directed by James Lapine, with music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim.

The two-disc set will be produced by PS Classics co-founder, Tommy Krasker, who has twelve Sondheim cast albums to his credit, including the current Broadway production of A Little Night Music, and Roundabout Theatre Company's productions of Assassins and Pacific Overtures. PS Classics co-founder Philip Chaffin, and Alan D. Marks and Stephen Moore, of The Marks-Moore Group, will serve as Executive Producers.

Although millions of fans know his songs by heart, few know much about Stephen Sondheim himself. Until now. SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM is an intimate portrait of the famed composer in his own words... and music. Through the use of exclusive interview footage, audiences got an inside look at Sondheim's personal life and artistic process. A cast of Broadway's best performed brand-new arrangements of over two dozen Sondheim tunes, ranging from the beloved to the obscure. The SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM creative team included David Loud (Music Direction & Arrangements), Michael Starobin (Orchestrations) and Dan Knechtges (Musical Staging).

SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM was nominated for two Tony Awards including Best Featured Actress in a Musical (Barbara Cook) and Best Sound Design of a Musical (Dan Moses Schreier). The show also received a Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Musical Revue, four Outer Critics Circle Nominations for Outstanding New Broadway Musical, Outstanding Actress in a Musical (Barbara Cook), Outstanding Set Design (Beowulf Boritt) and Outstanding Lighting Design (Ken Billington), one Drama League Award for Distinguished Production of a Musical and two Drama League nominations for Distinguished Performance (Barbara Cook & Vanessa Williams).

Special funding for this recording has been provided by The Shen Family Foundation, HRH Foundation, The Benjamin M. Rosen Family Foundation, Peter and Leni May, Daryl Roth Productions, Barry Diller, Perry and Marty Granoff Foundation and R. Martin Chavez.

PS Classics has preserved many Sondheim productions including A Little Night Music, Company, Frogs, Road Show and the Roundabout productions of Assassins, Pacific Overtures and Sunday in the Park with George.

Roundabout has a long relationship with Stephen Sondheim having produced five Tony Award® nominated Sondheim revivals including Company (1995), Follies (2001), Tony Award® winning Assassins (2004), Pacific Overtures (2004) and Sunday in the Park with George (2008). This production of Sondheim on Sondheim marks the fourth Sondheim musical produced by Roundabout Theatre Company at Studio 54, where Assassins, Pacific Overtures and Sunday in the Park with George all played. In 2005, Roundabout honored Sondheim with the Jason Robards Award for Excellence in Theatre for the indelible impact his life's work has made on the Theatre World. In 2009 Roundabout presented a one-night only gala concert reading of A Little Night Music at Studio 54 starring Natasha Richardson, Victor Garber and Vanessa Redgrave. Roundabout celebrated Sondheim's 80th birthday and contribution to the theatre by renaming the Broadway theatre located on 43rd Street and Broadway, the Stephen Sondheim Theatre.

Founded in 2000 by Tommy Krasker & Philip Chaffin, and a four-time Grammy nominee (for its cast albums of Assassins, Nine: The Musical, Grey Gardens and Company), PS Classics celebrates the heritage of Broadway and American popular song through its award-winning cast recordings; solo albums by such luminaries as Maureen McGovern, Victoria Clark, Jessica Molaskey and Christine Andreas; and recordings drawn from rare sound archives, including "Sondheim Sings." Its most recent releases include solo albums by Liz Callaway, Rebecca Luker and Kate Baldwin, and cast albums of Finian's Rainbow and A Little Night Music. Visit www.psclassics.com.