The new musical features book and lyrics by Spencer Green and Gary Stockdale and music by Stockdale. The cast comprises Nadia Ahern, Brad Blaisdell, Matthew Garland, David Goldsmith, Michael Lanahan, Cason Murphy, Fleur Phillips and Lauren Rubin. Bukowsical, according to press notes, is presented in "the form of a backer’s audition of a new musical about the one and only Charles Bukowski, presented by a fictional Los Angeles-based theatre company called The Sacred Angel Fist Circle Of Note Gang Theatre." The musical is described as "raunchy."
The complete track listing for the new CD follows:
• Bukowsical! Opening
Art Is Pain
Take Me
• The Derelict Trail
Get Dirty (The Writing Lesson)
• Chaser of My Heart
Chaser of My Heart (Reprise)
Slippery Slope
• Love Is (a Dog From Hell)
Postal
• That’s Los Angeles
The Derelict Trail (Reprise)
• Bestseller
Through a Glass, Barfly
Remember Me
Elegy/The Furies
12 Steps of Love Prelude
12 Steps of Love
Bukowsical! Finale
The CD, which is priced $17.98, is scheduled to ship by the third week of December; however, preorders placed directly through Kritzerland usually ship one to five weeks earlier. For more information visit www.kritzerland.com.
