Elspeth Collard and Sam Rosenblatt's new musical, Like The Wind, will receive a concept album later this month.

Getting a streaming release January 25, the record will feature Sonya Balsara (Aladdin), Kennedy Kanagawa (Into the Woods), Hawley Gould (Suffs), Kalonjee Gallimore (A Beautiful Noise), Jonathan Christopher (Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street), and Brittany Zeinstra (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child).

Featuring eight songs from the musical, the concept album will be the latest development step for the piece, which has been workshopped and presented at The New Musicals Lab, The Brick, SoHo Playhouse, York Theatre, and 54 Below. The musical began as a two-person, five-minute musical commissioned by Shotgun Players for their 3030 Vision Project in 2021.

Like the Wind centers on two queer teenagers, Bennie and Cai, who are running away from a conversion therapy facility in the summer of 2018. Told partially through flashback, the pair choose to change the fate that society has set for them, breaking through the constraints of expectations and rules. 

“We’re entering a scary time for queer youth in America,” said Collard and Rosenblatt in a joint statement. “As two queer artists, we feel it’s important to create stories with the representation we wish we’d seen as young people. It’s mind-boggling and terrifying to us that conversion therapy is still legal in so many states; we hope that telling this story brings harsh light to the dangers of this experience. We also hope to share queer joy—the discovery of identity and of young love can be so beautiful and we want to highlight that beauty as well.”

Visit LikeTheWindMusical.com for more information.