Cast Recordings & Albums
Claybourne Elder Will Release Debut Solo Recording, If the Stars Were Mine
The Company and Gilded Age star will celebrate the new album with concerts at 54 Below.
March 03, 2026 By Andrew Gans
Claybourne Elder, best known for his work on Broadway in Company and on TV in HBO's The Gilded Age, will release his debut solo album in April.
Entitled If the Stars Were Mine, the recording will be available in digital and streaming formats from Center Stage Records April 3, on CD April 10, and on vinyl later in the year. Pre-add or pre-save the digital album, or pre-order the CD or vinyl here.
Bryan Perri and Rodney Bush serve as music directors for the new recording and also provide arrangements and orchestrations. Elder and Andrew House produce with Perri as co-producer.
If the Stars Were Mine features tunes from Sunday in the Park with George, Floyd Collins, Into the Woods, and If/Then, as well as songs made famous by Whitney Houston, Eartha Kitt, and Melody Gardot, while weaving in themes of sex, fatherhood, and religion.
The complete track listing follows:
1. "Something’s Coming" (Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim, from West Side Story)
2. "I Wanna Dance with Somebody" (George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam)
3. "I Wanna to Be Evil" (Lester Judson and Raymond Taylor)
4. "Moments in the Woods" (Stephen Sondheim, from Into the Woods)
5. "On the Street Where You Live" (Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, from My Fair Lady)
6. "If the Stars Were Mine" (Melody Gardot)
7. "Hey, Kid" (Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey, from If/Then)
8. "It’s So Nice to Have a Man Around the House" (Harold Spina and John Elliot)
9. "Till There Was You" (Meredith Wilson, from The Music Man)
10. "Finishing the Hat" (Stephen Sondheim, from Sunday in the Park with George)
11. "Lonesome Goodbye" (Mike Henderson and Chris Stapleton)
12. "How Glory Goes" (Adam Guettel, from Floyd Collins)
13. "Paving the Runway" (JJ Heller, David Heller and Ross King)
Elder will celebrate the album with three concerts at 54 Below April 3, April 4, and April 15. For tickets, click here. Prior to these shows, the actor will star in the New York City Center Encores! production of Michael John LaChiusa’s The Wild Party March 18-29.
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