LoveMusik original Broadway cast recording now on sale
Ghostlight Records' Broadway cast recording of the Manhattan Theatre Club�s production of LoveMusik, which recently completed its run at MTC�s Biltmore Theatre, is now on sale.
Tony Award winning stars Michael Cerveris and Donna Murphy and the original Broadway cast recorded the score, which features the songs of Kurt Weill. The recording is produced by Joel Moss. Kurt Deutsch serves as Executive Producer.
Suggested by the letters of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya, LoveMusik features a book by Pulitzer and Tony Award-winner Alfred Uhry (Driving Miss Daisy, Parade). Musical staging was provided by Patricia Birch (A Little Night Music), and direction by 21-time Tony Award winner Harold Prince (The Phantom of the Opera, Cabaret, and Sweeney Todd).
LoveMusik follows the lives of the unlikeliest of lovers � the brilliant, intellectual German composer Kurt Weill (Michael Cerveris) and the woman who became his muse and star, Lotte Lenya (Donna Murphy). LoveMusik is an epic romance, set in Berlin, Paris, Broadway and Hollywood, spanning 25 years in the lives of this complicated couple.
Cerveris and Murphy both received Tony Award nominations for their performances in LoveMusik.
The cast also features Outer Critics Circle Award winner, and Tony Award nominee David Pittu (Bertolt Brecht) and John Scherer (George Davis), with Judith Blazer, Edwin Cahill, Herndon Lackey, Erik Liberman, Ann Morrison, Graham Rowat, Rachel Ulanet and Jessica Wright.
LoveMusik was honored with four Tony Award nominations; 12 Drama Desk nominations, receiving two awards for Donna Murphy�s performance and Jonathan Tunick�s orchestrations; and five Outer Critics Circle nominations, receiving two awards for Donna Murphy and David Pittu�s performances.
LoveMusik features the lyrics of Maxwell Anderson, Bertolt Brecht, Howard Dietz, Roger Fernay, Ira Gershwin, Oscar Hammerstein II, Langston Hughes, Alan Jay Lerner, Maurice Magre, Ogden Nash, Elmer Rice and Kurt Weill.
Orchestrations are by Jonathan Tunick, musical supervisor is Kristen Blodgette, music coordinator is Seymour Red Press, additional vocal arrangements are by Milton Granger and conductor is Nicholas Archer.
LoveMusik was produced by Manhattan Theatre Club by special arrangement with Marty Bell, Aldo Scrofani, Boyett Ostar Productions, Tracy Aron, Roger Berlind/Debra Black, Chase Mishkin, and Ted Snowdon.
About Ghostlight:
It is a standing practice in the theatre that a ghostlight � a floor lamp holding a single bare light bulb � be lit on stage after everyone has left for the night, so that the theatre never goes dark. In the same spirit, Ghostlight Records, created by Sh-K-Boom co-founders Kurt Deutsch & Sherie Rene Scott, ensures that music of the theatre by composers old and new will always be enjoyed.
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