NewsPhoto Call: Kate Baldwin and Conor Ryan Record a New John & Jen Cast AlbumThe Off-Broadway revival of Andrew Lippa's musical John & Jen closed April 4 and two days later headed into the recording studio to make a new cast album of the 1995 musical.
By
Matthew Blank
April 07, 2015
Kate Baldwin and Conor Ryan comprise the entire cast of this musical about a brother and sister who grow up close to one another in an abusive household. They grow apart, John goes away to war and doesn't come back, and Jen focuses all her protectiveness on her son, also named John.
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Kate Baldwin and Conor Ryan Record a New John & Jen Cast Album
The show has lyrics by Tom Greenwald, and a book by Lippa and Greenwald. Produced by Lippa and Michael Croiter, the new recording is scheduled to be released June 16 on Broadway records.
Lippa's musicals include The Wild Party, The Addams Family and Big Fish.
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.