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Stephanie J. Block gives herself a spritz of Entertainer’s Secret throat spray before stepping in front of the microphone.
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Stephanie J. Block shows off proper posture for recording a cast album.
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Tony Award winner Chita Rivera and Stephanie J. Block sing their hearts out!
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Chita Rivera and Stephanie J. Block try to settle the score in front of the mics.
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Jessie Mueller, who portrays Helena Landless, shows of her personal technique for laying down a musical track.
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The brother and sister duo of Helena and Neville Landless – better known as Jessie Mueller and Andy Karl – share a laugh before they sing “A British Subject.”
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Jessie Mueller and Andy Karl debate “A British Subject” for our camera.
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Andy Karl, who plays Neville Landless in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, gets into the spirit of the score at KAS Recording.
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Betsy Wolfe, Drood’s virginal Rosa Bud, flashes us a smile before laying down a track for the cast recording.
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Tony Award winner Jim Norton knows a thing or two about recording a cast album.
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Peter Benson prefers to wear purple sunglasses in the recording studio.
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Robert Creighton (right) and Nicholas Barasch play the father-son duo of Durdles and the Deputy.
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Spencer Plachy, Stephanie J. Block, Jessie Mueller, Alison Cimmet, Janine DiVita, Jenifer Foote, and Gregg Edelman get ready to record “Ceylon.”
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The main men behind the Drood cast recording: musical director Paul Gemignani and the show’s creator, Rupert Holmes.
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In a different studio entirely, the handle-bar mustachioed Will Chase channels his inner grunge rocker.
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The cast of Roundabout Theatre Company's revival of Rupert Holmes' The Mystery of Edwin Drood headed from Broadway to KAS Recording in Astoria, Queens on Monday, December 10 to lay down tracks for the production's upcoming cast album, which is expected to be released this coming January by DRG Records. Grammy Award winner Hugh Fordin produces the disc, with Paul Gemignani as musical director.

Running at Studio 54 through March 10 under the direction of Scott Ellis, the musical features a Tony Award-winning book and score by Holmes. Inspired by the final, unfinished novel of the same name by Charles Dickens, the work follows a group of English musical hall actors as they present their version of the tale, with the audience determining the murderer of the title character, the identity of mysterious detective Dick Datchery, and the two characters who will become lovers.

The double-disc cast recording will feature the musical's new second-act opener, "An English Music Hall," the previously unrecorded "Jasper's Vision/Smoke Ballet," and eight separate tracks featuring the confessions of each potential murderer.

Tony Award-winners Chita Rivera (Chicago) and Jim Norton (The Seafarer) lead the company as The Princess Puffer and The Chairman, respectively, with Stephanie J. Block (The Boy From Oz) as Edwin Drood, Will Chase (High Fidelity) as John Jasper, Betsy Wolfe (Everyday Rapture) as Rosa Bud, Jessie Mueller (Into the Woods) as Helena Landless, Andy Karl (Legally Blonde) as Neville Landless, Gregg Edelman (Wonderful Town) as the Reverend Mr. Crisparkle, Robert Creighton (Anything Goes) as Durdles, Peter Benson (The Pajama Game) as Bazzard, and Nicholas Barasch (West Side Story) as Deputy. The ensemble includes Alison Cimmet, Nick Corley, Janine DiVita, Jenifer Foote, Justin Greer, Shannon Lewis, Spencer Plachy, Kiira Schmidt, Eric Sciotto, Jim Walton, and Cody Williams.

Click here for more information and tickets to The Mystery of Edwin Drood.

Click here for more information on the DRG Records.