Jason Alexander, Florence Henderson, Patti LuPone, Catherine Zeta-Jones, et al. Featured on Poetic License CD

Patti LuPone, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Michael Cerveris, Florence Henderson, Kate Mulgrew, James Barbour, Harriet Harris, Cynthia Nixon, Kathleen Turner, and Jason Alexander are among the artists featured on Poetic License, the inaugural release from the newly formed CD label, GPR Records. The disc, which features over 100 poems read by 100 performers, will be available on April 2.

The poems, selected by the performer, range from Shakespeare’s sonnets to works by Margaret Atwood, W.H. Auden, William Blake, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Ruyard Kipling, Tony Kushner, John Milton, William Wordsworth, and Walt Whitman.

Other performers featured on Poetic License are Glen Seven Allen, Nancy Anderson, Linda Balgord, Christine Baranski, Brent Barrett, John Belhamm, Reed Birney, Charles Busch, Danny Burstein, Zoe Caldwell, Ann Hampton Calloway, Alan Campbell, Douglas Carpenter, Len Cariou, Donna Lynne Champlin, Philip Casnoff, Chuck Cooper, Donald Corren, Veanne Cox, Tyne Daly, Daniel Davis, Paige Davis, Ed Dixon, Mike Doyle, Melissa Errico, Francesca Faridany, Barbara Feldon, Lauren Flanigan, Peter Friedman, Penny Fuller, David Garrison, Joanna Gleason, Amanda Green, Roxanne Hart, Edward Hibbert, George S. Irving, Dana Ivey, Beth Howland, Moises Kauffman, Cady Huffman, Gregory Jbara, Byron Jennings, Judy Kaye, Lauren Kennedy, Charles Kimbrough, Marc Kudisch, Claire Lautier, Michael Learned, Judith Light, Rebecaa Luker, Ramona Mallory, Jeff McCarthy, Carolyn McCormick, Roberta Maxwell, Tom McGowan, Keith McDermott, Michael Minarek, Julia Murney, Dierdre O’Connell, Ciaran O’Reilly, Nancy Opel, Daniel Okulitch, Patrick Page, Peter Paige, Guy Paul, Michele Pawk, Dean Pitchford, Alice Playten, Paul Provenza, Sam Robards, John Rubinstein, Michael Rupert, Chris Sarandon, Lynn Sherr, Paul Schoeffler, Matthew Schechter, Emily Skinner, Douglas Sills, Carole Shelley, Bobby Steggart, James Patrick Stewart, Richard Thomas, Maria Tucci, Harriet Walter, Tony Walton, Brenda Wehle, Chandler Williams, JoBeth Williams, Geraint Wyn Davies, Michael York, Chip Zien, and Louis Zorich.

GPR Records will record and distribute Broadway, classical, spoken word, and children’s music. Future discs from GPR Records include a performance by The InterSchool Orchestra performing two concert pieces based on Margaret Wise Brown’s classic children’s books Goodnight Moon / Runaway Bunny, which will feature guest narrators and vocalists to be announced shortly; a new album from opera star Daniel Okulitch, which will celebrate new American composers such as Ricky Ian Gordon, Jake Heggie and Lowell Leiberman; and The Great New York Pianists, which will bring together such artists as Dick Hyman, Lee Musiker, and Robbie Kandor, among others to be announced.

For further information, visit: www.gprrecords.com.