Stereophonic, currently running Broadway at the Golden Theatre, releases its cast album digitally May 10. A physical release will follow June 14.
In celebration of the production's The Tonight Show performance, a double-sided single was released early for streaming, which included "Masquerade" and one of the multiple versions of the song "Bright."
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Featuring Will Brill, Andrew R. Butler, Juliana Canfield, Eli Gelb, Tom Pecinka, Sarah Pidgeon, and Chris Stack, the work invites audiences to be a fly on the wall in a 1976 music studio as an up-and-coming rock band records a new album that could catapult them to superstar status. The play became the most Tony-nominated play in Broadway history when nominations were revealed April 30. Stereophonic picked up 13 nods, including for Best Play.
As Adjmi told Playbill in a previous interview: “I definitely knew from the beginning that I wanted it to feel very granular. I wanted them to talk about very mundane things, because that is what a collaborative process is like. And even though people look really glamorous and really blown out on stage, I can channel this profound energy of when they're living their lives—doing laundry and frying an egg. I'm really interested in that duality. And I just didn't want to do a boilerplate depiction of rock stars.”
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The full Off-Broadway cast reprises their performances from the premiere, including Brill as Reg, Butler as Charlie, Canfield as Holly, Gelb as Grover, Pecinka as Peter, Pidgeon as Diana, and Stack as Simon.
The production is supported by understudies Cornelius McMoyler, Benjamin Anthony Anderson, Sofia Deler, and Lily Ganser. Casting is by Alaine Alldaffer and Taylor Williams.
Also back from the Off-Broadway premiere: director Daniel Aukin and his entire creative team, including costume designer Enver Chakartash, lighting designer Jiyoun Chang, sound designer Ryan Rumery, music director Justin Craig, and voice, text, and dialect coach Gigi Buffington.
The Broadway run is produced by Sue Wagner, John Johnson, Seaview, Sonia Friedman Productions, Linden Productions, and Ashley Melone & Nick Mills.
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