DEATH BECOMES HER to release Original Broadway Cast Recording on 17 April
Concord Theatricals Recordings will digitally release the Original Broadway Cast Recording of the drop-dead hilarious, “perfect musical comedy” (Deadline), DEATH BECOMES HER, in its entirety on 17 April at midnight EST, it has been announced.
The CD and 2-LP vinyl will also be available for preorder from 17 April.
In November, Concord Theatricals Recordings made four tracks from the album available to stream, including ‘If You Want Perfection’ featuring Michelle Williams, ‘For the Gaze’, featuring Megan Hilty, ‘Tell Me, Ernest’ featuring Hilty, Jennifer Simard, and Christopher Sieber, and ‘Alive Forever’ featuring Hilty and Simard.
DEATH BECOMES HER features direction and choreography by Tony Award winner Christopher Gattelli, a book by Marco Pennette, and an original score by Julia Mattison and Noel Carey, and stars Tony Award nominees Megan Hilty as Madeline Ashton, Jennifer Simard as Helen Sharp, Christopher Sieber as Ernest Menville, and Grammy® Award winner Michelle Williams as Violet Van Horn, with Taurean Everett as Chagall and Josh Lamon as Stefan. The cast also features Marija Abney, Nick Alvino, Lauren Celentano, Sarita Colon, Kaleigh Cronin, Natalie Charle Ellis, Michael Graceffa, Kolton Krouse, Sarah Meahl, Ximone Rose, Sir Brock Warren, Bud Weber, Ryan Worsing, Warren Yang, Kristine Covillo, Kyle Brown, Lakota Knuckle, McKinley Knuckle, Johanna Moise, and Amy Quanbeck.
DEATH BECOMES HER features set design by two-time Tony Award winner Derek McLane, costumes by Tony Award winner Paul Tazewell, lighting by Tony Award winner Justin Townsend, sound by Tony Award winner Peter Hylenski, hair and wig design by two-time Drama Desk Award winner Charles LaPointe, make-up design by Joe Dulude II, fight direction by Drama Desk Award winner Cha Ramos, with music supervision by Drama Desk Award winner Mary-Mitchell Campbell, orchestrations by three-time Tony Award winner Doug Besterman, music direction by Ben Cohn, dance & music arrangements by Tony Award nominee Sam Davis, vocal arrangements by Mary-Mitchell Campbell, Julia Mattison & Noel Carey, music coordination by Kristy Norter, and casting by Tara Rubin Casting.
Madeline Ashton is the most beautiful actress (just ask her) ever to grace the stage and screen. Helen Sharp is the long-suffering author (just ask her) who lives in her shadow. They have always been the best of frenemies… until Madeline steals Helen’s fiancé away. As Helen plots revenge and Madeline clings to her rapidly fading star, their world is suddenly turned upside down by Viola Van Horn, a mysterious woman with a secret that’s to die for. After one sip of Viola’s magical potion, Madeline and Helen begin a new era of life (and death) with their youth and beauty restored…and a grudge to last eternity. Life’s a bitch and then you die. Or not!
DEATH BECOMES HER is currently booking until 2 November at Broadway’s Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.