CONCORD THEATRICALS TO RELEASE CAST RECORDING OF THE FINAL STEPHEN SONDHEIM MUSICAL THIS SPRING
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, PLEASE
CONCORD THEATRICALS RECORDINGS
TO RELEASE ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING OF
STEPHEN SONDHEIM’S FINAL MUSICAL
“HERE WE ARE”
FEATURING
FRANCOIS BATTISTE
TRACIE BENNETT
BOBBY CANNAVALE
MICAELA DIAMOND
AMBER GRAY
JIN HA
RACHEL BAY JONES
DENIS O’HARE
STEVEN PASQUALE
DAVID HYDE PIERCE
AND
JEREMY SHAMOS
DOWNLOAD VIDEO FROM RECORDING SESSION HERE
New York, NY (January 10, 2024) – Producers Tom Kirdahy, Sue Wagner, John Johnson, and The Stephen Sondheim Trust announced today that the critically acclaimed world premiere production of Here We Are, the new musical from David Ives and Stephen Sondheim, will release an original cast recording. The album was recorded earlier this week at Power Station at BerkleeNYC and will be released by Concord Theatricals Recordings in spring 2024. The production is currently playing at The Shed’s Griffin Theater (545 W 30th St) through Sunday, January 21st.
The album is produced by Sean Patrick Flahaven and Bill Rosenfield. Flahaven, who is Chief Theatricals Executive for Concord, worked with Sondheim for 25 years in various musical capacities, including on over a dozen albums, and won a GRAMMY Award® for producing the 2022 Broadway revival cast recording of Into the Woods. Rosenfield is responsible for, among others, the original recordings of Sondheim’s Assassins and Putting It Together, as well as over 60 other original cast recordings.
“I am deeply honored to collaborate with David, Joe, Alex, Jonathan, Bill, and the show producers to bring the original cast recording of this landmark musical to listeners worldwide,” said Flahaven. “Steve was a friend, colleague, and mentor to many of us, and this album will continue to remind everyone why he was our finest theatre composer-lyricist.”
To download a video from the cast recording session, please click here.
To download album art, click here.
Now playing through January 21, Here We Are is directed by two-time Tony Award winner Joe Mantello, and features Francois Battiste, Tracie Bennett, Bobby Cannavale, Micaela Diamond, Amber Gray, Jin Ha, Rachel Bay Jones, Denis O’Hare, Steven Pasquale, David Hyde Pierce, and Jeremy Shamos.
The understudies for Here We Are are Adante Carter, Lindsay Nicole Chambers, Bradley Dean, Mehry Eslaminia, Adam Harrington, and Bligh Voth.
The musical features a book by Tony Award nominee David Ives, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and is inspired by two films, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and The Exterminating Angel, by Luis Buñuel.
Here We Are includes choreography by Sam Pinkleton, set design and costume design by David Zinn, lighting design by Natasha Katz, sound design by Tom Gibbons, orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick, music supervision and additional arrangements by Alexander Gemignani, hair design by Robert Pickens and Katie Gell, and casting by The Telsey Office.
Here We Are is co-presented by The Shed (Artistic Director Alex Poots, President and COO Maryann Jordan, and Chief Executive Producer Madani Younis).
Oscar Arce serves as Associate Producer.
Recent albums released by Concord Theatricals Recordings include the GRAMMY Award®-winning Into The Woods, starring Sara Bareilles, and the GRAMMY®-nominated, Tony Award-winning hit, Some Like It Hot (Original Broadway Cast Recording) by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman; as well as the GRAMMY®-nominated Mr. Saturday Night, starring Billy Crystal;Jaime Lozano & The Familia’s Songs By An Immigrant Vol. 2; Shaina Taub’s As You Like It (Original Public Works Cast Recording) and Antonio Banderas and Teatro del Soho CaixaBank’s Spanish-language cast albums of Company, A Chorus Line, and Godspell. Additional recordings include the GRAMMY®-nominated cast albums of Come From Away, Amélie (Original London Cast Recording) and the 2018 revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel, in addition to The Big Time, starring Santino Fontana and Debbie Gravitte; The Visitor, starring David Hyde Pierce; DRAG: The Musical (The Studio Recording); and Jason Robert Brown’s Coming From Inside The House, featuring Ariana Grande and Shoshana Bean.
BIOGRAPHIES
Concord is the independent, worldwide leader in the development, management and acquisition of sound recordings, music publishing, theatrical performance rights and narrative content. Headquartered in Nashville with additional offices in Los Angeles, New York, London, Berlin and Miami, Concord also has staff in Toronto, Tokyo and Melbourne. The Company’s catalog consists of nearly 900,000 songs, composed works, plays, musicals and active recordings which are licensed in virtually every country and territory worldwide.
Concord Theatricals is the world’s most significant theatrical company, comprising the catalogs of R&H Theatricals, Samuel French, Tams-Witmark and The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection, plus dozens of new signings each year. Our unparalleled roster includes the work of Irving Berlin, Agatha Christie, George & Ira Gershwin, Marvin Hamlisch, Lorraine Hansberry, Kander & Ebb, Kitt & Yorkey, Ken Ludwig, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Dominique Morisseau, Cole Porter, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Thornton Wilder and August Wilson. We are the only firm providing truly comprehensive services to the creators and producers of plays and musicals, including theatrical licensing, music publishing, script publishing, cast recording and first-class producing. www.concordtheatricals.com
Beginning in 1990 with the original cast recording of Sondheim’s Assassins until the award-laden 2009 revival of Hair, Bill Rosenfield was responsible for approximately 65 original cast recordings including: Chicago, Ragtime, The Full Monty, The Last Five Years, Caroline or Change, Bring in da Noise, The Color Purple, The Who’s Tommy, Guys and Dolls, A New Brain, Curtains and Titanic. Now a playwright living in London, his plays include 46 Beacon (Trafalgar Studios, Concord Plays) and Another America (Park Theatre, TRW Plays). His adaptations include Frank Loesser’s The Most Happy Fella for New York City Center Encores! Series and Noel Coward’s The Rat Trap. For his work on Musical Theatre recordings he has received numerous awards including two from the Drama Desk (in 1992 and 2002). He is one half of the popular web series Old Show Queens. www.oldshowqueens.com
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