Ryan Scott Oliver Musical JASPER IN DEADLAND, Featuring Matt Doyle, to Receive Cast Album

Jasper in Deadland,a new musical with music by Ryan Scott Oliver and book by Hunter Foster, will be recorded on a cast album and distributed by Sh-K-Boom Records.

The album will feature MATT DOYLE as the title character, along with original cast members of the Prospect Theatre Company and 5th Avenue Theatre productions: SYDNEY SHEPHERD, LOUIS HOBSON, ANDI ALHADEFF, BRANDI MASSEY, BONNIE MILLIGAN, F. MICHAEL HAYNIE, JOHN-MICHAEL LYLES and KYLE CARTER.

The musical will feature orchestrations by John Clancy. The album is produced by Oliver and Clancy, with Nessie Nankivell, Kailey Marshall and Solomon Hoffman as associate producers. Will van Dyke serves as Music Supervisor with Rich Silverstein as co-Music Director with Oliver. Ethan Pakchar, Jeremy Yaddaw, Brian Sanders, Rodney Bush, and Hiroko Taguchi complete the band, which has keyboard programming by David Pascal.

The J?asper in Deadland?cast recording will be recorded at the John Kilgore studio and will be released with a launch concert at Feinstein's/54 Below, scheduled for February 12, 2016.

Jasper in Deadland?was originally directed by Brandon Ivie and choreographed by Lorin Latarro. It tells the story of 16-year-old Jasper, who journeys into the Afterlife to rescue his recently deceased best friend, Agnes. But in this version of the hereafter - known as "Deadland," a hybrid of mythology, religion, and superstition - the dead forget Life... And so, too, will Jasper, if he can't get past the seven circles of Deadland, fearsome Cerberus, heavenly Beatrix, mysterious Mr. Lethe, and ultimately himself. Can Jasper bring his best friend back from the dead, or will he join the dead forever?

"Jasper in Deadland" was developed as a commission for the Pasadena Musical Theatre Program in 2011. Prospect Theater Company presented the New York City premiere and in May of 2015, J?asper in Deadland opened at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre. Said David Armstrong, 5th Avenue Theatre's Executive Producer and Artistic Director, "Ryan Scott Oliver and Hunter Foster are two of the most exciting young talents working in the theatre today and The 5th has a very successful track record in providing emerging theatre artists like these with a large scale playing field in which they can thrill and amaze us. What R?ent?is to La Bohe?me, this show is to the Orpheus myths and legends."