The 2015 Encores! revival of Lerner and Loewe's Paint Your Wagon will get its long-awaited cast album on Sony's Classical Masters label. Release date is May 27.
Jack Viertel, artistic director of the Encores! series, announced plans to record the show nearly a year ago.
Several of the Encores! revivals have had successful cast albums over the years, including Do Re Mi, , and .
Tony Award nominee and co-starred in the New York City Center Encores! staging of the 1951 Lerner and Loewe musical Paint Your Wagon, which was presented March 18-22, 2015.
(Beautiful) directed, and (Honeymoon in Vegas) choreographed. Paint Your Wagon features music by and book and lyrics by .
Rob Berman was music director. Carradine (The Will Rogers Follies, Hands on a Hardbody) and Socha (Fun Home Off-Broadway) 聽co-starred as father and daughter in the production.
The cast also featured , , , , , , , , , Darien Crago, Steve Czarnecki, Nicolas Davila, , , , , , Jenny Laroche, Melissa Hunter McCann, Harris Milgrim, , , , Jason Simon, , and .
Paint Your Wagon, according to Encores!, is "a rousing 1951 musical about a dreaming gold prospector (Carradine) whose daughter (Socha) finds gold鈥攁nd love鈥攃hanging their lives forever."
The musical, which preceded Lerner and Loewe's My Fair Lady and Camelot, opened on Broadway November 12, 1951, and ran for 289 performances. Songs include "They Call the Wind Maria," "I Talk to the Trees" and "Wand'rin' Star."
