John Yap鈥檚 JAY Records will release the first complete recording of Michael Valenti鈥檚 1972 musical Lovesong this fall.
Jenn Gambatese (Broadway's upcoming Mrs. Doubtfire musical), Lauren Molina (Sweeney Todd, The Skivvies), Matt Bogart (Jersey Boys), and Jeff Kready (Tootsie) will head into a Manhattan recording studio in May.
Valenti utilized the poems of Dorothy Parker and Sir Walter Raleigh for an original song cycle that posed the question, "What is love?" Feinstein's/54 Below recently presented an evening of songs from the musical.
The Off-Broadway musical includes such numbers as 鈥淲hat Is Love?,鈥� 鈥淥ne and Twenty,鈥� 鈥淏id Me Love,鈥� 鈥淎 Birthday,鈥� 鈥淪ophia,鈥� 鈥淢aryann,鈥� 鈥淭o My Dear and Loving Husband,鈥� 鈥淚 Remember,鈥� 鈥淎pril Child,鈥� 鈥淪ong,鈥� 鈥淲hat Is a Woman Like?,鈥� 鈥淯nhappy Bella,鈥� 鈥淭heatre,鈥� 鈥淟et the Toast Pass,鈥� 鈥淓cho,鈥� 鈥淎 Roundelay,鈥� 鈥淛ust Suppose,鈥� 鈥淥pen All Night,鈥� 鈥淵oung I Was,鈥� 鈥淛enny Kissed Me,鈥� and 鈥淭he Fair Dissenter Lass.鈥�
