Wanted: The Studio EP, featuring five songs from the Broadway-aimed musical Wanted, is available in digital and streaming formats beginning August 1.
Performed by Solea Pfeiffer, Liisi LaFontaine, and the Wanted studio cast, the five-track EP features the songs “Wide Open Plains,” “The Train,” “Gun & Powder,” “The Way I Am,” and “Freedom.”
Listen to Pfeiffer perform "The Way I Am" above, and stream the entire EP by clicking here.
Wanted, formerly titled Gun & Powder, features music by Ross Baum and lyrics by Angelica Chéri. Ian Kagey serves as the recording engineer for the EP with mixing by Tim Latham and mastering by Randy Merrill.
Workshop presentations of the new musical Wanted, which previously announced a 2026 Broadway debut, were presented June 26 at New 42 Studios starring Pfeiffer as Mary Clarke, LaFontaine as Martha Clarke, Will Swenson as Jesse, Luke James as Elijah, Jeannette Bayardelle as Tallulah, Jennie Harney-Fleming as Flo, and Aurelia Williams as Sissy with Reed Campbell, Aaron Harrington, Timothy Hughes, Mary Claire King, Rayshun LaMarr, Tiffany Mann, MiMi Scardulla, Brad Sharp, Danielle Summons, Hailey Thomas, Katie Thompson, Harris Matthew Turner, and Jisel Soleil Ayon. Cody Renard Richard served as the production stage manager and Alejandro Senior as music director for the workshop.
Obie winner and Tony nominee Stevie Walker-Webb is directing the new musical, inspired by the true story of sisters Mary and Martha Clarke. A Broadway theatre and dates have yet to be announced.
The production previously announced that TRATE Productions’ Robyn and Evan Coles joined the producing team, and Chelsey Arce is the new choreographer.
Featuring a book and lyrics by Chéri, who is a descendant of the Clarke sisters, and music by Baum, Wanted follows Mary and Martha Clarke, Black twin sisters who take extraordinary measures to settle their mother’s sharecropper debt and save her home in 1893 Texas.
Under its original title, Gun & Powder, the musical played the Paper Mill Playhouse in spring 2024. The cast included LaFontaine (West End's Dreamgirls) as Martha Clarke, Ciara Renée (Waitress) as Mary Clarke, Jeannette Bayardelle (Girl From the North Country) as Tallulah Clarke, Aaron James McKenzie (A Beautiful Noise) as Elijah, and Hunter Parrish (To Kill a Mockingbird) as Jesse Whitewater. Tiffany Rea-Fisher was the choreographer. See photos from the Paper Mill run below.
The ensemble of Gun & Powder
Liisi LaFontaine
Katie Thompson and the ensemble of Gun & Powder
Hunter Parrish and the ensemble of Gun & Powder
Ciara Renée, Jeannette Bayardelle, Liisi LaFontaine, and the ensemble of Gun & Powder
Ciara Renée and Liisi LaFontaine
Aurelia Williams and Zonya Love
Aaron James McKenzie
Liisi LaFontaine and Ciara Renée in Gun & Powder at the Paper Mill
Jeanette Bayardelle
Ciara Renée
