ORIGINAL SPANISH CAST RECORDING OF ANTONIO BANDERAS’ ACCLAIMED PRODUCTION OF “A CHORUS LINE” AVAILABLE TODAY
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, PLEASE
ORIGINAL SPANISH CAST RECORDING OF
ANTONIO BANDERAS’
ACCLAIMED PRODUCTION OF
“A CHORUS LINE”
AVAILABLE TODAY ON CRAFT RECORDINGS / CONCORD THEATRICALS
ALBUM INCLUDES SPECIAL BONUS TRACK FEATURING
TONY AWARD® WINNER LAURA BENANTI
AND MALAGA CAST MEMBERS
SINGING “WHAT I DID FOR LOVE” IN SPANISH
New York, NY (March 18, 2022) – Today, Craft Recordings / Concord Theatricals released the cast album of Antonio Banderas, Teatro del Soho CaixaBank and John Breglio’s acclaimed Spanish production of A Chorus Line, the first-ever Spanish language recording of the iconic musical, on CD in Spain and on streaming and digital platforms worldwide.
The album includes a special bonus track featuring Tony Award® winner Laura Benanti, who starred opposite Banderas in the Tony Award-winning 2003 Broadway revival of Nine, singing “What I Did For Love” in Spanish. A new music video featuring their performance was released today and can be viewed HERE.
Banderas produced, co-directed with Baayork Lee, and starred as Zach in A Chorus Line, which first played at Teatro del Soho CaixaBank in Malaga, Spain in 2019 and is now touring Madrid at Teatro Calderón through April 17, followed by a run in Barcelona at Teatro Tívoli from April 23-May 29. The production was a finalist in the category of Best Musical Show at the 2020 MAX Awards.
Banderas said, “The past two years have given all of us a deeper appreciation for the performing arts. A Chorus Line celebrates the perseverance of artists and the singular joys of this cherished artform. I’m thrilled we now get to share the music of this production with the world. Being able to release the first ever Spanish-language recording of A Chorus Line is momentous and I hope everyone will cherish this recording.”
“We are very excited to release this wonderful album of Antonio’s production,” said Sean Patrick Flahaven, Chief Theatricals Executive for Concord. “Hearing this iconic score in Spanish with these terrific performers and a substantial orchestra reminds us of the power of musical theatre to transcend barriers.”
A Chorus Line (Original Spanish Cast Recording) features Malaga artist Antonio Banderas and cast members (in alphabetical order) Angie Alcázar, Kristina Alonso, Albert Bolea, Anna Coll, Daniel Délyon, Alberto Escobar, Roberto Facchin, Diana Girbau, Cassandra Hlong, Aaron Cobos, Fran Moreno, Beatriz Mur, Ivo Pareja-Obregón, Pablo Puyol, Estibalitz Ruiz, Fran Del Pino, Lorena Santiago, Sarah Schielke, Miguel Ángel Belotto, Juan José Marco, Fernando Mariano, Graciela Monterde, Lucrecia Petraglia, Zuhaitz San Buenaventura, Aida Sánchez, Lucía Castro, Marcela Nava, Pol Galcerá, Luis Ochoa and Elena Rueda.
The Spanish production of A Chorus Line has music by Marvin Hamlisch, lyrics by Edward Kleban and a book by James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante. Music direction is by Arturo Díez-Boscovich, Spanish lyric translation by Roser Batalia, and Spanish libretto translation by Ignacio García May. Orchestrations are by Jonathan Tunick, Bill Byers and Hershy Kay. A Chorus Line was conceived, originally directed and choreographed by Michael Bennett.
Album cover artwork and digital media kit is available for download HERE with full permission granted for press use (Credit: Courtesy of Craft Recordings & Concord Theatricals). The album was produced by Antonio Banderas and Teatro del Soho CaixaBank, and executive produced by Marc Montserrat-Drukker. It was edited and mixed by David Ruiz, Daniel Pineda and Francisco Oliva, and mastered by Oscar Zambrano.
Album Track List:
- Espero Conseguirlo (Opening: I Hope I Get It)
- La Linea (The Line)
- Yo Lo Sé Hacer (I Can Do That)
- En El Ballet (At The Ballet)
- Cantar (Sing!)
- Montaje 1 (Montage Pt. 1)
Hola Doce (Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen, Hello Love) - Montaje 2 (Montage Pt. 2)
Nada (Nothing) - Montaje 3 (Montage Pt. 3)
Madre (Mother) - Montaje 4 (Montage Pt. 4)
Pásamela (Gimme The Ball) - Baile, Diez. Look, Tres (Dance: Ten; Looks: Three)
- Música Y Espejos (The Music And The Mirror)
- One (Ensayos) (One)
- Lo Que Hice Por Amor (What I Did For Love)
- One (Saludos) (Reprise/Finale)
- BONUS: What I Did For Love (featuring Laura Benanti)
Concord Theatricals licenses A Chorus Line worldwide for live stage performance by professional and amateur theatres. Theatres interested in licensing the show should visit https://concordsho.ws/PerformAChorusLine.
BIOGRAPHIES
A Chorus Line, featuring unforgettable music by Marvin Hamlisch and lyrics by Edward Kleban, won nine Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Award for Drama in 1976. A stunning concept musical originally conceived, directed and choreographed by Michael Bennett capturing the spirit and tension of a Broadway chorus audition, A Chorus Line explores the inner lives and bittersweet ambitions of professional Broadway performers, and features one powerhouse number after another. Memorable musical numbers include “What I Did for Love, “One,” “I Can Do That,” “At the Ballet,” “The Music and the Mirror” and “I Hope I Get It.” A brilliantly complex fusion of song, dance, and compellingly authentic drama, A Chorus Line was instantly recognized as a classic.
Opening Off-Broadway at the Public Theater on April 15, 1975, A Chorus Line, originally starring Donna McKechnie, Sammy Williams, Robert LuPone and Kelly Bishop, transferred to the Shubert Theatre on Broadway on July 25, 1975 and ran for 6,137 performances before closing on April 28, 1990. On September 29, 1983, A Chorus Line became the longest-running show in Broadway history. In London, it played 903 performances at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. It was revived at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre on Broadway in 2006 and played for 759 performances.
Antonio Banderas (producer, co-director, star)
Since his introduction to American cinema, Banderas has been one of the most outstanding international actors of his generation. He has received critical acclaim for his roles in film, television and theatre, as well as for his work behind the camera as a director.
He has worked with some of the best directors and actors in Hollywood: Robert Rodriguez’s Desperado opposite Salma Hayek and the sequel Once Upon a Time in Mexico, opposite Johnny Depp; Original Sin with Angelina Jolie; Alan Parker’s Evita opposite Madonna (for which he received his first Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor); The Mask of Zorro, by Martin Campbell, opposite Catherine Zeta-Jones (second Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor), and the sequel The Legend of Zorro; Neil Jordan’s Interview with the Vampire with Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt; Jonathan Demme’s Philadelphia alongside Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington; Bille August’s House of the Spirits with Meryl Streep and Glenn Close; and Femme Fatale by Brian de Palma. He was nominated for his third Golden Globe Award for Best Actor for his performance as the infamous Pancho Villa on HBO’s “And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself” in 2003. In 2005 he was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
In 2003, he was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for Nine, his Broadway debut, a Roundabout Theatre Company production inspired by Fellini’s 8 1/2, and which garnered him a Drama Desk Award for Best Actor, as well as Outer Critics Circle, Drama League and Theater World Awards.
He has also starred in “Genius: Picasso” (2018), the National Geographic limited series for which he received Primetime Emmy, Golden Globe, Critic’s Choice and SAG Award nominations for Best Actor in a Limited Series. He recently won the Best Actor Award at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival for his compelling performance as Salvador Mallo in Pedro Almodóvar’s autobiographical drama Pain and Glory, his eighth film with Almodóvar and one that earned him rave reviews.
Marvin Hamlisch (music)
For Broadway, Hamlisch wrote the music for his groundbreaking show A Chorus Line, as well as They’re Playing Our Song, The Goodbye Girl and Sweet Smell of Success. Additional theatrical scores include Jean Seberg and The Nutty Professor. He was the composer of more than 40 motion picture scores, including his Oscar-winning score and song for The Way We Were and his adaptation of Scott Joplin’s music for The Sting, for which he received a third Oscar. His prolific output of scores for films includes original compositions and/or musical adaptations for Sophie’s Choice, Ordinary People, The Swimmer, Three Men and a Baby, Ice Castles, Take the Money and Run, Bananas, Save the Tiger and The Informant!
Hamlisch was musical director and arranger of Barbra Streisand’s 1994 concert tour of the U.S. and England as well as of the television special “Barbra Streisand: The Concert” (for which he received two of his Emmys). He held the position of principal
pops conductor for the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Pasadena Symphony and Pops, Seattle Symphony, San Diego Symphony, the Buffalo Philharmonic and the National Symphony Orchestra in Washington, D.C.
Edward Kleban (lyrics)
Edward was the lyricist of A Chorus Line, for which he won the 1975 Tony Award, the Pulitzer Prize, Drama Desk and Olivier Awards. His score for the musical A Class Act, produced posthumously, was nominated for the 2001 Tony and Drama Desk Awards and won an Obie Award. A Class Act is a musical biography of Kleban, with a score comprised of his own music and lyrics. A New York revival recently ended its run on Theatre Row.
Kleban was a graduate of the High School of Music and Art and of Columbia College, where he wrote the music for the Varsity Show of 1960 with a book by Terrance McNally. Upon graduation from Columbia, Kleban was hired as a record producer by Columbia Records. Throughout the sixties he produced original cast albums while developing his own musicals in Lehman Engel’s BMI Musical Theatre Workshop. Every song that he wrote for A Chorus Line was tested in the BMI Workshop. During the 1980s he carried on Engel’s tradition and taught songwriting in the workshop.
Kleban died in December 1987 at the age of 48, after a two-year bout with a cigarette-related cancer. In his will, he created and endowed the Kleban Prize, a unique grant that is bestowed not for a writer’s previous achievements, but for the promise of creativity to come, chosen by a panel of Broadway’s most respected artists. Recipients have gone on to garner four Tony Awards, 30 Tony nominations, 10 Drama Desk Awards and four Obies.
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PARA SU PUBLICACIÓN INMEDIATA, POR FAVOR
GRABACIÓN DEL ELENCO ORIGINAL DE
“A CHORUS LINE” ESPAÑA
LA ACLAMADA PRODUCCIÓN DE ANTONIO BANDERAS
DISPONIBLE YA EN CRAFT RECORDINGS / CONCORD THEATRICALS
El ÁLBUM INCLUYE LA CANCIÓN ADICIONAL EXCLUSIVA “WHAT I DID FOR LOVE” EN ESPAÑOL, CANTADA POR ANTONIO BANDERAS, LAURA BENANTI (GANADORA DEL PREMIO TONY) Y LA COMPAÑÍA DEL TEATRO DEL SOHO CAIXABANK
Nueva York, NY (18 de marzo, 2022) – Craft Recordings / Concord Theatricals ha lanzado hoy el álbum de la aclamada producción española de A Chorus Line, producido por Antonio Banderas, Teatro del Soho CaixaBank y John Breglio. La primera grabación en español del icónico musical está disponible ya en CD en España y en todas las plataformas digitales de música a nivel mundial.
El álbum incluye la canción adicional exclusiva “What I Did For Love” con Laura Benanti, ganadora del Premio Tony, quien protagonizó en 2003 junto a Banderas la reposición del musical Nine que se hizo en Broadway. Benanti la interpreta junto a Antonio Banderas y la compañía del Teatro del Soho CaixaBank, acompañados por la Orquesta Filarmónica de Málaga (OFM) y bajo la batuta de Arturo Díez-Boscovich, responsable de los arreglos y la orquestación de esta versión. Desde hoy está disponible un nuevo video musical con la actuación “What I Did For Love” y lo puedes disfrutar AQUÍ.
Banderas produjo y codirigió el musical con Baayork Lee e interpretó el papel de Zach en A Chorus Line, que se estrenó en el Teatro del Soho CaixaBank en Málaga, España en 2019. Ahora se está representando en el Teatro Calderón de Madrid hasta el 17 de abril y en el Teatro Tívoli de Barcelona estará desde el 23 de abril hasta el 29 de mayo. La producción fue finalista en la categoría de mejor espectáculo musical en los Premios Max de las Artes Escénicas 2020.
Banderas comentó, “Los últimos dos años nos han dado una apreciación de las artes más profunda. A Chorus Line celebra la perseverancia de los artistas y la alegría que nos brinda esta forma de arte tan querida. Estoy muy contento de que por fin podamos compartir la música de esta producción con todo el mundo. Es muy significativo tener esta oportunidad de salir con la primera grabación completamente en español de A Chorus Line y espero que todos puedan apreciarla.”
“Estamos muy contentos de presentar este maravilloso álbum de la producción de Antonio”, dijo Sean Patrick Flahaven, el Director Ejecutivo de Obras Teatrales de la empresa Concord. “Escuchar esta icónica música en español con intérpretes tan excelentes y una orquesta sustancial nos recuerda el poder que tiene el teatro musical en su capacidad de trascender barreras”.
Los intérpretes que participan en el álbum de ACL España son Antonio Banderas (y por orden alfabético) Angie Alcázar, Kristina Alonso, Albert Bolea, Anna Coll, Daniel Délyon, Alberto Escobar, Roberto Facchin, Diana Girbau, Cassandra Hlong, Aaron Cobos, Fran Moreno, Beatriz Mur, Ivo Pareja-Obregón, Pablo Puyol, Estibalitz Ruiz, Fran Del Pino, Lorena Santiago, Sarah Schielke, Miguel Ángel Belotto, Juan José Marco, Fernando Mariano, Graciela Monterde, Lucrecia Petraglia, Zuhaitz San Buenaventura, Aida Sánchez, Lucía Castro, Marcela Nava, Pol Galcerá, Luis Ochoa y Elena Rueda.
La producción española de A Chorus Line incluye música de Marvin Hamlisch, letra de Edward Kleban y libreto de James Kirkwood y Nicholas Dante, cuenta con la dirección musical es de Arturo Díez-Boscovich, la traducción de la letra al español es de Roser Batalla, y la traducción del texto al español es de Ignacio García May. La orquestación es de Jonathan Tunick, Bill Byers y Hershy Kay. A Chorus Line fue concebido, originalmente dirigido y coreografiado por Michael Bennett.
La portada del álbum, arte y media kit digital está disponible para descargar AQUÍ con autorización para uso en medios de prensa (Crédito: Cortesía de Craft Recordings y Concord Theatricals). El álbum ha sido producido por Antonio Banderas y Teatro del Soho CaixaBank, con producción ejecutiva de Marc Montserrat-Drukker. El montaje y la mezcla de sonido fueron realizados por David Ruiz, Daniel Pineda y Francisco Oliva, y masterizado por Oscar Zambrano.
Lista de Canciones:
- Espero Conseguirlo (Opening: I Hope I Get It)
- La Línea (The Line)
- Yo Lo Sé Hacer (I Can Do That)
- En El Ballet (At The Ballet)
- Cantar (Sing!)
- Montaje 1 (Montage Pt. 1)
Hola Doce (Hello Twelve, Hello Thirteen, Hello Love) - Montaje 2 (Montage Pt. 2)
Nada (Nothing) - Montaje 3 (Montage Pt. 3)
- Madre (Mother)
- Montaje 4 (Montage Pt. 4)
- Pásamela (Gimme The Ball)
- Baile, Diez. Look, Tres (Dance: Ten; Looks: Three)
- Música Y Espejos (The Music And The Mirror)
- One (Ensayos) (One)
- Lo Que Hice Por Amor (What I Did For Love)
- One (Saludos) (Reprise/Finale)
- BONUS: What I Did For Love (featuring Laura Benanti)
Concord Theatricals licencia A Chorus Line en todo el mundo para representaciones teatrales por grupos profesionales y amateur. Los teatros que quieran licenciar el espectáculo deben visitar https://concordsho.ws/PerformAChorusLine