Warner Music Group has released the cast recording of the recent Broadway revival of the legendary musical, Gypsy.
Starring six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald, it is available in streaming and digital formats, as well as CD and vinyl editions.
The CD featured an eight-page booklet including production notes and exclusive photography. The two-LP vinyl/book edition features a hand-numbered, limited-edition 64-page hardback book, which contains thirteen exclusive essays, exclusive production photography, and complete lyrics.
The first 500 copies of the vinyl edition also include a six inch by eleven inch, personally signed, color photograph of McDonald in the recording booth.
Gypsy, which closed earlier this month, was directed by six-time Tony Award-winning director George C. Wolfe. It starred six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald (Rose), Tony Award winner Danny Burstein (Herbie), Joy Woods (Louise), Jordan Tyson (June), Kevin Csolak (Tulsa), Olivier Award winner Lesli Margherita (Tessie Tura), Lili Thomas (Mazeppa), Mylinda Hull (Electra), Summer Rae Daney & Kyleigh Vickers (Baby Louise), Marley Lianne Gomes & Jade Smith (Baby June), Andrew Kober (Mr. Goldstone/Cigar/Bourgeron-Cochon), James McMenamin (Weber/Pastey/Phil), Jacob Ming-Trent (Uncle Jocko), Thomas Silcott (Pop), Natalie Wachen, and Tryphena Wade.
According to the record’s producers, “Gypsy, suggested by the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, is Broadway’s ultimate tale of mothers and daughters, ambition and fame, and the lengths we’ll go in pursuit of the American dream. The musical features a book by Tony Award winner Arthur Laurents; music by Tony and Academy Award winner Jule Styne; and lyrics by Tony, Grammy, Academy Award, and Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Sondheim; choreography by four-time Tony Award nominated Camille A. Brown; music supervision, music direction, and additional orchestrations & arrangements by Andy Einhorn; and additional orchestrations and arrangements by Tony Award winner Daryl Waters.”
It also had scenic design by four-time Tony Award winner Santo Loquasto, costume design by four-time Tony Award nominee Toni-Leslie James, lighting design by nine-time Tony Award winner Jules Fisher and three-time Tony Award winner Peggy Eisenhauer, sound design by Tony Award winner Scott Lehrer, hair and wig design by Academy Award winner Mia Neal, makeup design by Michael Clifton, animals by William Berloni Theatrical Animals, Inc, dialect & voice coaching by Kate Wilson, casting by Jordan Thaler CSA/Heidi Griffiths CSA, and production stage management by Rick Steiger.