NewsPHOTO CALL: Broadway's Godspell in the Recording StudioCast members from the current Broadway revival of Godspell, featuring Hunter Parrish, Lindsay Mendez, Telly Leung and Wallace Smith, headed into the recording studio Nov. 14 to lay down vocals for the show's upcoming cast album.
By
Matthew Blank
November 15, 2011
Kurt Deutsch and composer-lyricist Stephen Schwartz are producing the album. An early January 2012 in-store release date is the goal, though the disc will likely be available at the Circle in the Square Theatre before then.
Daniel Goldstein directs the first-ever Broadway revival of Stephen Schwartz's pop-rock take on the Gospel of Matthew, which was originally conceived and directed by book writer John-Michael Tebelak. Godspell opened Nov. 7 after previews that began Oct. 13.
Standouts in the Tony-nominated score include "Day By Day," "All Good Gifts," "Save the People," "O Bless the Lord," and "Beautiful City." The revival reflects updated orchestrations and vocal arrangements by Michael Holland. Musical director is Charlie Alterman.
The 2011 revival cast features Parrish (Spring Awakening, "Weeds") as Jesus, Smith (American Idiot) as Judas, as well as Mendez (Everyday Rapture, Grease), Leung (Rent, "Glee"), Uzo Aduba (Coram Boy), Nick Blaemire (Cry-Baby), Celisse Henderson ("The Electric Company," In Transit), Morgan James (Wonderland, The Addams Family), Anna Maria Perez de Tagle ("Hannah Montana," "Fame") and George Salazar (Spring Awakening national tour).
The production will include Bernstein’s incidental music for Lillian Hellman’s adaptation of The Lark, and Menotti’s The Unicorn, The Gorgon, and The Manticore.
Based on the novel and film by Frank Cottrell Boyce, the new musical will reunite Guettel with Tony-winning Light in the Piazza director Bartlett Sher.