We Live in Cairo, the new musical from composing team The Lazours, will release an Off-Broadway cast recording, via Center Stage Records. The show, which dramatizes the Arab Spring, ran last year at New York Theatre Workshop. The album will be released in digital formats October 24. Pre-save or pre-add the album here.

The musical starred Ali Louis Bourzgui (The Lost Boys), Nadina Hassan (Mean Girls), Michael Karadsheh (The Ally), Drew Elhamalawy (The Queen of Versailles), Rotana Tarabzouni (Alien of Extraordinary Ability), and John El-Jor, who was nominated for a 2024 Drama Desk Award for the performance. Casting was by Claire Yenson.

The album is produced by two-time Grammy and two-time Tony Award winner Charlie Rosen, with orchestrations by two-time Tony Award winner Michael Starobin.

“The cast recording is one of the more beautiful traditions in American musical theatre,” said The Lazours in a statement. “Not only does it capture an ephemeral art form, it provides us musical theatre fans an opportunity to do what we do best: to discover. To listen to a great cast album is to step into two parallel universes. We step into the universe of the story, the characters, and the songs, but we also step into a moment in time. We hear a production that only could have happened in that year, an ensemble that only could have come together at that moment. We hope all the richness and the beautiful idiosyncrasy of this experience is on full display in We Live in Cairo. When you listen to this album, you are listening to a story of youth protest and revolution. And you are listening to a production 12 years in the making. You are listening to an ensemble exploring their heritage with urgency and vitality. It is our hope that We Live in Cairo may be a record, a mission, a catalyst. We hope it lives on. Most of all, we hope it’s an absolute blast to get into your headphones.”

This season, the Lazours' Night Side Songs will play at Lincoln Center Theater February 14–March 29, 2026. Their The Lunchbox will run at California's Berkeley Repertory Theater, directed by Tony Award winner Rachel Chavkin, May 17–June 28, 2026.

We Live in Cairo featured choreography and movement direction by Ann Yee, scenic design by Tilly Grimes, costume design by Dina El-Aziz, lighting design by Bradley King, sound design by Justin Stasiw, video design by David Bengali, orchestrations by Daniel Lazour and Michael Starobin, vocal arrangements and music supervision by Madeline Benson, music direction by Mona Seyed-Bolorforosh, and voice and text coaching by Xavier Clark.

Video: See 2 Songs From We Live in Cairo, a New Musical About the Arab Spring

We Live in Cairo, which made its world premiere at American Repertory Theater, was produced at New York Theatre Workshop, by special arrangement with Madison Wells Live.

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Photos: We Live in Cairo at New York Theatre Workshop

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