Water for Elephants Original Broadway Cast Recording to Be Released
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Ghostlight Records has announced that Water for Elephants: Original Broadway Cast Recording, with a score by PigPen Theatre Co., will be released in streaming and digital formats on Friday, May 17. The first two singles, “Wild” and “Silver Stars,” are available now. A CD is being planned for later this year.
Based on the bestselling novel by Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants is currently running at the Imperial Theatre. The new musical has a book by three-time Tony Award nominee Rick Elice (Jersey Boys) and is directed by Tony Award nominee Jessica Stone (Kimberly Akimbo). The album is produced by Mary-Mitchell Campbell and Ian Kagey and is available for pre-order here.
The cast stars Grant Gustin (The Flash), Isabelle McCalla (The Prom), four-time Tony Award nominee Gregg Edelman (City of Angels), Drama Desk and Outer Critic Circle Award nominee Paul Alexander Nolan (Bright Star), Stan Brown, Joe De Paul, Sara Gettelfinger, and Wade McCollum, and features Brandon Block, Antoine Boissereau, Rachael Boyd, Paul Castree, Ken Wulf Clark, Taylor Colleton, Gabriel Olivera de Paula Costa, Isabella Luisa Diaz, Samantha Gershman, Keaton Hentoff-Killian, Nicolas Jelmoni, Caroline Kane, Harley McLeish, Michael Mendez, Samuel Renaud, Marissa Rosen, Alexandra Gaelle Royer, Asa Somers, Charles South, Sean Stack, Matthew Varvar, and Michelle West.
Water for Elephants features circus design by Shana Carroll, choreography by Jesse Robb and Shana Carroll, scenic design by Takeshi Kata, costume design by David Israel Reynoso, lighting design by Bradley King, sound design by Walter Trarbach, projections by David Bengali, hair and makeup design by Luc Verschuren for Campbell Young Associates, puppetry design by Ray Wetmore and JR Goodman, and Camille Labarre, music supervision and arrangements by Mary-Mitchell Campbell and Benedict Braxton-Smith, orchestrations by Daryl Waters, Benedict Braxton-Smith, and August Eriksmoen, music direction by Elizabeth Doran, and fight direction by Cha Ramos.
