NewsPHOTO CALL: Broadway's First Date Heads Into the Recording StudioThe cast of the new Broadway romantic musical comedy First Date, starring Zachary Levi and Krysta Rodriguez, headed into a recording studio to preserve the Alan Zachary and Michael Weiner score Aug. 12.
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Matthew Blank
August 13, 2013
Executive-produced by Altar Identity Studios, the album will be released by Yellow Sound Label, produced by Michael Croiter and Dominick Amendum, later in the fall. The recording will be available through Amazon, iTunes and everywhere music is sold.
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Broadway's First Date Heads Into the Recording Studio
Directed by Bill Berry, First Date has a book by Austin Winsberg, musical staging by Josh Rhodes, with orchestrations by August Eriksmoen and musical supervision, vocal and incidental arrangements by Dominick Amendum.
First Date began performances July 9 and officially opened Aug. 8 at Broadway’s Longacre Theatre (220 West 48th Street).
"When tightly wound Aaron (Zachary Levi) is set up with serial-dater Casey (Krysta Rodriguez) a quick drink at a busy New York restaurant turns into a hilarious, high-stakes dinner," according to press notes. "As the date unfolds in real time, the couple quickly finds they are not alone on this date as Casey and Aaron’s inner critics take on a life of their own when other restaurant patrons and the wait staff get into the act. Dinner is served with sides of Google background checks, fake emergency phone calls, supportive best friends, manipulative exes and protective parents, who sing and dance them through ice-breakers, appetizers and potential conversational land mines."
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