GHOSTLIGHT RECORDS TO RELEASE
NEW BROADWAY CAST RECORDING FOR
ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY’S
ANYTHING GOES
(New York, NY) – Ghostlight Records will release the new Broadway cast recording of Roundabout Theatre Company’s (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director) critically acclaimed new Broadway production ANYTHING GOES.
Tony® Award winner Sutton Foster (Reno Sweeney) and Tony® and Academy® Award winner Joel Grey (Moonface Martin) and performances from the entire Broadway cast will be preserved singing some of Cole Porters’s most memorable musical theatre standards, including “You're the Top,” “Blow, Gabriel, Blow,” “It’s De-Lovely,” “I Get A Kick Out of You,” and “Anything Goes.”
The new Broadway production is directed & choreographed by Tony® Award winner Kathleen Marshall. Music & lyrics by Cole Porter; original book by P.G. Wodehouse & Guy Bolton and Howard Lindsay & Russel Crouse; New book byTimothy Crouse and John Weidman.
The recording will be available for purchase at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre (124 West 43rd Street), on-line (http://sh-k-boom.com/anythinggoes.shtml) and digitally in late summer 2011.
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The creative team includes Bill Elliott (Additional Orchestrations), Rob Fisher (Musical Director) and David Chase (Dance Arranger). The design team includes Derek McLane (Sets), Martin Pakledinaz (Costumes), Peter Kaczorowski (Lights) and Brian Ronan (Sound).
The cast features John McMartin as “Elisha Whitney”, Jessica Walter as “Evangeline Harcourt.” Colin Donnell as “Billy Crocker”, Adam Godley as “Lord Evelyn Oakleigh,” Laura Osnes as “Hope Harcourt,” Jessica Stone as “Erma,” Walter Charles as “Captain,”Robert Creighton as “Purser,” Andrew Cao as “Luke,” and Raymond J. Lee as “John,”.Additional cast members include Clyde Alves, Ward Billeisen, Joyce Chittick, Nikki Renée Daniels, Margot De La Barre, Kimberly Fauré, Josh Franklin, Justin Greer, Daniel J. Edwards, Tari Kelly, Shina Ann Morris, Linda Mugleston, Kevin Munhall, Adam Perry, William Ryall, Jennifer Savelli, Anthony Wayne, Kristen Beth Williams.
ALL ABOARD for this saucy and splendid new production of Cole Porter’s musical romp across the Atlantic. When the S.S. American heads out to sea, etiquette and convention head out the portholes as two unlikely pairs set off on the course to true love… proving that sometimes destiny needs a little help from a crew of singing sailors, an exotic disguise and some good old-fashioned blackmail.
This will be the fifth time Sutton Foster has appeared on a Ghostlight/Sh-K-Boom record. Cast albums include Little Women and The Drowsy Chaperone. Solo albums include “Wish” and “An Evening with Sutton Foster – Live at the Café Carlyle.”
ANYTHING GOES has been nominated for nine Tony® Awards including Best Revival of a Musical, Best Actress in a Musical (Sutton Foster), Best Featured Actor in a Musical (Adam Godley), Best Direction of a Musical (Kathleen Marshall), Best Choreography (Kathleen Marshall), Best Scenic Design of a Musical (Derek McLane), Best Costume Design of a Musical (Martin Pakledinaz), Best Lighting Design of a Musical (Peter Kaczorowski) and Best Sound Design of a Musical (Brian Ronan).
ANYTHING GOES has won the following Awards: five Drama Desk Awards including Outstanding Revival of a Musical, Outstanding Choreographer of a Musical (Kathleen Marshall), Outstanding Actress in a Musical (Sutton Foster), Outstanding Set Design (Derek McLane) and Outstanding Sound Design (Brian Ronan); four Outer Critics Circle Awards including Outstanding Revival of a Musical, Outstanding Choreographer of a Musical (Kathleen Marshall), Outstanding Actress in a Musical (Sutton Foster), Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical (Adam Godley); A Drama League Award for Distinguished Revival of a Musical and a Fred & Adele Astaire Award for Best Female Dancer on Broadway (Sutton Foster).
Roundabout Theatre Company is a not-for-profit theatre dedicated to providing a nurturing artistic home for theatre artists at all stages of their careers where the widest possible audience can experience their work at affordable prices. Roundabout fulfills its mission each season through the revival of classic plays and musicals; development and production of new works by established playwrights and emerging writers; educational initiatives that enrich the lives of children and adults; and a subscription model and audience outreach programs that cultivate loyal audiences.
The Roundabout Theatre Company production of ANYTHING GOES was sponsored by Bank of America. The production was supported by Roundabout’s Musical Theatre Fund with gifts from Marty and Perry Granoff, HRH Foundation, Ted and Mary Jo Shen, Peter and Leni May, Tom and Diane Tuft, The Kaplen Foundation, and one anonymous donor. Roundabout also gratefully acknowledges partial production underwriting from Goldman Sachs Gives at the recommendation of R. Martin Chavez. Major support provided by The Blanche and Irving Laurie Foundation. We thank the Henry Nias Foundation, courtesy of Dr. Stanley Edelman, for their support of Anything Goes.
This new Broadway Cast Recording is made possible by The Areté Foundation, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, Goldman Sachs Gives at the recommendation of R. Martin Chavez, Harry E. Gould, Jr., and David and Mary Solomon.
More About Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight Records:
Sh-K-Boom with its imprint Ghostlight Records has become the leading independent force in Original Broadway Cast Recordings – building a library of over 100 records the last 10 years, featuring the most successful Broadway musicals and solo albums by Broadway’s biggest stars. Founded by Kurt Deutsch and wife Sherie Rene Scott, the label was created by and for the Broadway community and has garnered acclaim not only for their high-quality recordings, but for their innovative marketing techniques and efforts to reach the next generation of Broadway music fans via iTunes, music videos and more. The label (and President Kurt Deutsch) earned their first ever GRAMMY AWARD for the Tony Award-winning musical In the Heights. In recent Broadway seasons, Ghostlight has also preserved the scores of some of Broadway's biggest musicals, including Next to Normal, Hair, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Legally Blonde, Everyday Rapture, Passing Strange, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and The Drowsy Chaperone. Just released on the label are the OCRs of Sister Act, Catch Me If You Can, as well as solo albums from Tony winners Sutton Foster, Alice Ripley, Christine Ebersole and Ben Vereen. Coverage of their albums has ranged from Rolling Stone to USA TODAY to The New York Times, from Blender Magazine to Playbill to Billboard, from AP Radio to Entertainment Weekly, from New York Magazine to Variety to NY-1 TV, from Time Out NY to Paper Magazine to The Advocate to The NY Daily News and much more. President Kurt Deutsch was interviewed by PLAYBILL, regarding the label's embrace of 'Broadway's Digital Age':http://www.playbill.com/features/article/118331.html. The company is recognized for reinventing the musical theatre recording landscape, and creating a new type of ‘United Artists’ environment for Broadway producers and artists to participate in the funding and co-ownership of their albums. Visit www.ghostlightrecords.com
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