Thursday, June 5, 2014

If/Then Original Broadway Cast Album - Out June 3

MASTERWORKS BROADWAY RELEASES
THE ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST RECORDING OF

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Starring Tony Award Winner Idina Menzel

Recording Available Nationwide June 3, 2014

Music by Tom Kitt - Book & Lyrics by Brian Yorkey

2014 Tony Awards Nominations - Best Actress in a Musical & Best Original Score

“Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey’s score is invested with melodic urgency, bringing you to tears or breathlessness.” -Washington Post

MASTERWORKS BROADWAY releases the Original Broadway Cast Recording of If/Then: A New Musical. Produced by Steve Epstein, Tom Kitt and David Stone, the album will be available nationwide on June 3, 2014. Visit MasterworksBroadway.com for more information. 

Idina Menzel returns to Broadway for the first time since winning the Tony Award for Wicked in If/Then, an original Broadway musical which reunites Tom Kitt (music), Brian Yorkey (book and lyrics), and Michael Greif (director), the creative team behind the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning musical, Next to Normal. If/Then is being produced by David Stone, who produced both Wicked andNext to Normal.

If/Then is an original new musical that follows Elizabeth as she rebuilds her life in New York, a city of infinite possibilities.  By the Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning creators of Next to Normal, this contemporary musical is set where choice and chance collide.  In one moment, Elizabeth will lead parallel lives.  This is the story of both.
The company of If/Then features Idina Menzel (Tony Award-winner for Wicked, original cast of Rent, Disney’s Frozen), LaChanze (Tony Award-winner for The Color Purple)Anthony Rapp (original cast of Rent), James Snyder (Cry-Baby), Jerry Dixon (tick, tick…Boom!, Once On This Island), Jenn Colella (Chaplin, High Fidelity), Jason Tam (A Chorus Line, Lysistrata Jones), Tamika Lawrence (Matilda), and Jackie Burns (Wicked).

The production also features Joe CassidyMiguel CervantesCurtis HolbrookStephanie KlemonsTyler McGeeRyann RedmondJoe Aaron Reid, Ann Sanders, Marc delaCruz, Charles Hagerty, Janet Krupin and Pearl Sun.

If/Then features choreography by Larry Keigwin, set design by Tony Award-Nominee Mark Wendland, costume design by Emily Rebholzlighting design by Tony Award-Winner Kenneth Posner and sound design by Tony Award-Winner Brian Ronan. The production features musical direction by Carmel Dean, vocal arrangements by Annmarie Milazzo, and orchestrations by Tony Award-Winner Michael Starobin.

If/Then opened on Broadway on Sunday, March 30, 2014 at the Richard Rodgers Theatre (226 West 46th Street). To purchase tickets please visit ifthenthemusical.com or Ticketmaster.com or call 877-250-2929.

Masterworks Broadway is a label imprint of Sony Music Masterworks.  For email updates and information on Masterworks Broadway please visit www.masterworksbroadway.com.  For more information on the musical, please visit www.IfThenTheMusical.com.

TRACKLISTING

1.      Prologue
2.      What If?
3.      It’s a Sign
4.      A Map of New York
5.      You Never Know
6.      Ain’t No Man Manhattan
7.      What the F**k?
8.      Here I Go
9.      You Don’t Need To Love Me
10.  No More Wasted Time
11.  Surprise
12.  This Day / Walking by a Wedding
13.  Hey, Kid
14.  Some Other Me
15.  Best Worst Mistake
16.  I Hate You
17.  A Map Of New York (Reprise)
18.  You Learn To Live Without
19.  The Moment Explodes
20.  Love While You Can
21.  What Would You Do?
22.  Always Starting Over
23.  What If? (Reprise)

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