Ghostlight Records have released the original London cast recording of the Donmar Warehouse’s critically acclaimed UK premiere production of Next to Normal as a special two-CD set.
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Music Review: Next To Normal – Original London Cast Recording
Music Review: Next To Normal – Original London Cast Recording (Ghostlight Records). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★.Tom Kitt’s music and Brian Yorkey’s lyrics perfectly complement each other to propel the story forward via a superbly crafted score.
Music Review: Your Lie in April The Musical – London Cast Recording
Your Lie in April The Musical – London Cast Recording (Ghostlight Records). Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ With any luck, this cast recording will inspire the musical theatre powers-that-be to revive the show in some capacity in the future.
Music Review: Maybe Happy Ending – Original Broadway Cast Recording
Maybe Happy Ending – Original Broadway Cast Recording (Ghostlight Records). Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ The sheer novelty of the concept and material should be very highly commended.
Exclusive: Listen to ‘One Hundred Thousand Million Stars’ from the Your Lie in April Original London Cast Recording
Thanks to our friends at Ghostlight Records, we can share with you an exclusive listen to the track ‘One Hundred Thousand Million Stars’ performed by Mia Kobayashi and Zheng Xi Yong from the forthcoming Original London Cast Recording of Frank Wildhorn’s Your Lie in April: The Musical.
CD Review: Mrs Doubtfire The Musical
MRS DOUBTFIRE THE MUSICAL – Original Broadway Cast (Ghostlight Records – download) Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ Mrs Doubtfire, that vehicle for Robin Williams back in the 90s, was an entertaining film and should really have been left as such. But Wayne Kirkpatrick and Karey Kirkpatrick (music and lyrics) and book by Karey […]
CD Review: A Strange Loop – Original Broadway Cast
A STRANGE LOOP – Original Broadway Cast (Ghostlight Records and Yellow Sound Label – download) Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ What an absolute joy! No wonder A Strange Loop is nominated for 11 Tony Awards this year. Meet Usher: A Black, queer writer writing a musical about a Black, queer writer […]
CD Review: A Pony For Christmas – Todd Almond
A PONY FOR CHRISTMAS – Todd Almond (Ghostlight Records – digital download) Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ I didn’t really know what to make of this album until I read the background to it. The album started as an idea from Todd’s mother: “Every year for, oh, twenty-something years, she has […]
CD Review: Unknown Soldier – Original Cast Recording
UNKNOWN SOLDIER – Original Cast Recording (Ghostlight Records – digital album) Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Written by Michael Friedman and Daniel Goldstein and produced on stage two and a half years after Friedman’s untimely death from AIDS at the age of 41, this is a beautiful piece of theatre written […]
CD Review: A Perfect Little Death – Eleri Ward
A PERFECT LITTLE DEATH – Eleri Ward (Ghostlight Records – digital) Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ A combination of two deep loves: the expansive, one of a kind canon of Stephen Sondheim and the sweet, melancholic sounds of Sufjan Stevens – Eleri Ward has come up with a most beautiful album. Acoustic […]
CD Review: Fangirls – World Premiere Cast Recording
FANGIRLS – World Premiere Cast Recording (Ghostlight Records) Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Edna, a teenage girl obsessed with Harry, lead singer of global sensation boyband True Connection who won a TV talent show in Britain. When the band announces an Australian tour, Edna hopes to meet her number one crush – […]
CD Review: Ride The Cyclone – Original Cast Recording
RIDE THE CYCLONE – Original Cast Recording (Ghostlight Records – Downloads) Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ When a new musical recording is sent to me to review I wonder what is in store as I press play? Well, I can tell you – I have never enjoyed listening to a new […]
CD Review: Beetlejuice: The Demos! The Demos! The Demos! – Eddie Perfect
BEETLEJUICE: The Demos! The Demos! The Demos! – Eddie Perfect (Ghostlight Records – Digital Album) Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Last year I was sent the original cast recording of Beetlejuice to review and I loved it – still do. So, I was more than interested to receive this album to review. Eddie […]
CD Review: (I Am) Nobody’s Lunch – Original Cast
(I AM) NOBODY’S LUNCH – Original Cast (Ghostlight Records – download) Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ What a wonderful concept. This show is: “A cabaret about how we know what we know when nobody knows if everyone else is lying and when someone or something wants to have you for lunch.” The […]
CD Review: The Liz Swados Project – Various Artists
THE LIZ SWADOS PROJECT – Various Artists (Ghostlight Records, digital and streaming formats) Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ I feel dreadful – I have to admit I don’t think I had ever heard of Liz Swados and, having heard this album I am mad I haven’t been listening to her music until […]
London cast recording of Rags – release date announced
Ghostlight Records will release Rags – The Musical: Original London Cast Recording in digital and streaming formats on 15 May 2020 with a physical CD to be made available later in the year. The first recording of the show since Sony’s 1991 album of the Broadway cast and the first to include the newest version […]
CD Review: The Prince Of Egypt – Original London Cast
THE PRINCE OF EGYPT – Original London Cast (Ghostlight Records: 791558460131) Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ ✩ ✩ When I started playing this album I was a little impressed – I thought to myself ‘If the rest of this cast recording is as powerful as the opening number, ‘Deliver Us’, then we are in […]
Prince Of Egypt cast album to be released
Ghostlight Records will release the original cast recording of the new musical The Prince Of Egypt on digital and streaming formats on Friday (3 April 2020). Produced by DreamWorks Theatricals (a division of Universal Theatrical Group), Michael McCabe and Neil Laidlaw, the new stage musical based on the much-loved animated film opened at London’s Dominion […]
Cast recording of Close to You – Bacharach Reimagined to be released
The original London cast recording of the West End show Close to You – Bacharach Reimagined will be released on digital format next month ahead of the July release of a two-disc physical copy. Kyle Riabko’s re-working of the greatest hits of the legendary songwriter Burt Bacharach began Off-Broadway, transferred to London’s Menier Chocolate Factory and then […]
