| GHOSTLIGHT RECORDS TO RECORD PATTI LuPONE'S "THE LADY WITH THE TORCH" DECEMBER 11 - 13 RELEASE OF TONY AWARD WINNER'S NEW STUDIO RECORDING SET FOR APRIL |
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Patti LuPone developed The Lady With The Torch through engagements at New York's Feinstein's at the Regency, Los Angeles' Cinegrill and San Francisco's Plush Room, before performing the show as her third sold-out solo concert at Carnegie Hall last March. Conceived and Directed by Scott Wittman, The Lady with The Torch has orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick and musical direction by Chris Fenwick. For the recording Fenwick will once again direct a ten-piece band performing Tunick's orchestrations of an eclectic collection of torch songs by such composers and lyricists as Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn, Harold Arlen, Billy Barnes, Johnny Mercer, Jessie Mae Robinson, Cole Porter and George and Ira Gershwin. When it premiered in Los Angeles early last year, The Los Angeles Times called The Lady With The Torch "a beautifully paced, marvelously delivered torch-song exploration of the pleasures and pains of love," adding "LuPone's remarkable, larger than life qualities and stunning musicality are distilled in the pure essence of art." Patti LuPone's previous studio recording, Matters of the Heart (named one of the best recordings of 1999 by both Time Out New York and The Times of London) was based on her one-woman show of the same title which she has performed extensively throughout the United States, in New York at Lincoln Center Theater and in London at the Donmar Warehouse. Miss LuPone's previous recordings include Patti LuPone Live and Heat Wave , a collection of Irving Berlin songs performed with John Mauceri and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. Her most recent original cast recording is of the hit revival of Sweeney Todd which will be released in January. Ghostlight Records recording of Patti LuPone's The Lady With The Torch , marks the first anniversary of the label, a division of Sh-K-Boom Records. Under the leadership of Kurt Deutsch, Ghostlight Records has become the leader of Broadway Cast Recordings, as well as solo recordings by Broadway artists. Its recent releases include the original cast recordings of the hit Tony-nominated musicals Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and The 25 th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and the upcoming original cast recording of See What I Wanna See. Following is the tentative song list for the recording of The Lady With The Torch: Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out to Dry (Jule Styne/Sammy Cahn) For more information contact www.ghostlightrecords.com. |
Ghostlight Records will produce a new studio recording by Tony Award winning actress Patti LuPone, her first in seven years. The actress, currently starring to critical acclaim in the hit Broadway revival of Sweeney Todd , will record a new CD based on her latest one-woman show The Lady With The Torch, December 11 - 13 in New York. The recording, which will be produced by Ghostlight Records President Kurt Deutsch and Joel Moss, will be released in April.