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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, PLEASE

CONCORD THEATRICALS RECORDINGS RELEASES
WORLD PREMIERE ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING OF

JASON ROBERT BROWN,
JONATHAN MARC SHERMAN,
AND DAISY PRINCE’S
“THE CONNECTOR”
ON DIGITAL PLATFORMS WORLDWIDE

DOWNLOAD ALBUM ARTWORK HERE

DOWNLOAD PRODUCTION PHOTOS HERE

New York, NY (June 21, 2024) – Today, Concord Theatricals Recordings released the original cast recording of MCC Theater’s acclaimed world premiere production of The Connector. With a new score from composer-lyricist Jason Robert Brown, the album is now available on digital platforms worldwide. Digital sheet music for the songs, published by Concord Music Publishing and released by Hal Leonard, is also available today.

Stream or download the album, as well as purchase digital sheet music, HERE.

Watch Hannah Cruz, Scott Bakula and the cast record “The Whole World Changed” HERE.

The album is produced by four-time Emmy^® Award-winner Jeffrey Lesser and three-time Tony Award-winner Brown (Parade, The Bridges of Madison County), who also serves as arranger, orchestrator and pianist. Three-time GRAMMY^® Award-winner Sean Patrick Flahaven, Chief Theatricals Executive for Concord, is the album’s co-producer. The album was recorded by Isaiah Abolin and mastered by Oscar Zambrano with art direction by Derek Bishop.

With a book by Jonathan Marc Sherman and conceived and directed by Daisy Prince, this timely new musical tells the story of two talented young journalists: a fast-rising writer who must confront how far he’ll go for the ultimate scoop, and an editor who must decide how far she’ll go to stop him. The Connector’s world premiere production from MCC Theater ran in a limited engagement from January 12 through March 17, 2024.

The album features original cast members Scott Bakula, Max Crumm, Hannah Cruz, Ashley Pérez Flanagan, Danielle Lee Greaves, Mylinda Hull, Daniel Jenkins, Jessica Molaskey, Fergie Philippe, Eliseo Román, Ben Levi Ross, Ann Sanders and Michael Winther.

Tom Murray is the album’s music director and Kristy Norter is music coordinator. The band includes Brown, Jamie Eblen, Hidayat Honari, Adam Kaufman, Randy Landau, Todd Reynolds and Alison Shearer.

Complete production credits can be found in the album booklet HERE.

Album Track List:

1. The Whole World Changed
2. See Yourself
3. I’m Watching You
4. Success
5. So I Came To New York
6. The Voice Of My Generation
7. Cassandra
8. Wind In My Sails
9. Now What
10. Help Me Forget Everything
11. Proof
12. The Western Wall
13. There Never Was

Recent albums released by Concord Theatricals Recordings include the GRAMMY^® Award-winning Into The Woods (2022 Broadway Cast Recording), starring Sara Bareilles, and Some Like It Hot (Original Broadway Cast Recording) by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman. Additional GRAMMY^®-nominees were Mr. Saturday Night (Original Broadway Cast Recording) by Jason Robert Brown and Amanda Green and starring Billy Crystal, Come From Away (Original Broadway Cast Recording), Amélie (Original London Cast Recording) and Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel (2018 Broadway Cast Recording). Other releases include the final original Sondheim cast album, Here We Are; My Favorite Things: The Rodgers & Hammerstein 80^th Anniversary Concert (Live from Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Shaina Taub’s As You Like It (Original Public Works Cast Recording); Tom Kitt & Brian Yorkey’s The Visitor, starring David Hyde Pierce; Antonio Banderas and Teatro del Soho CaixaBank’s Spanish cast albums of Godspell, Company and A Chorus Line; and studio cast recordings of Carmel Dean’s Well-Behaved Women; Zachary & Weiner’s 17 Again, featuring Casey Likes and Eden Espinosa; Douglas J. Cohen’s The Big Time, starring Santino Fontana and Debbie Gravitte, and DRAG: The Musical (The Studio Recording). Theatre artist/songwriter albums include Jaime Lozano & The Familia’s Songs By An Immigrant Vol. 2), Sondheim In The City by Melissa Errico, and Jason Robert Brown’s Coming From Inside The House, featuring Ariana Grande and Shoshana Bean.

BIOGRAPHIES

Jason Robert Brown is the ultimate multi-hyphenate – an equally skilled composer, lyricist, conductor, arranger, orchestrator, director and performer – best known for his dazzling scores to several of the most renowned musicals of our time. These include his two previous collaborations with The Connector director Daisy Prince: the 1995 song cycle Songs for a New World and the generation-defining The Last Five Years.

The Connector is Jason’s eighth full-length musical, adding to a body of work that includes Parade, which garnered Jason the Tony Award for Best Original Score; and The Bridges of Madison County, for which Jason received two Tony Awards for Best Score and Best Orchestrations. His other musicals include Honeymoon in Vegas, 13 (which became a Netflix film in 2022), and Mr. Saturday Night starring Billy Crystal. Richard LaGravenese’s film of The Last Five Years was released in 2015. Parade has been the subject of two major revivals: the first, directed by Rob Ashford, at London’s Donmar Warehouse and then at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles; and the second, Michael Arden’s acclaimed Tony Award-winning Best Revival of a Musical, starring Ben Platt and Micaela Diamond. His newest musical, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, a collaboration with Taylor Mac, begins performances next week at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre.

As a soloist or with his band, Brown has performed concerts around the world. For six years, his ongoing monthly performances at New York’s SubCulture featured many of the music and theatre world’s most extraordinary performers, including a sold-out concert at Town Hall with Stephen Sondheim. His newest collection Coming From Inside the House, featuring Ariana Grande and Shoshana Bean, commemorates the final SubCulture concert, recorded remotely during the pandemic. His previous albums, How We React and How We Recover and Wearing Someone Else’s Clothes, are available from Ghostlight Records. He has also contributed music to the hit Nickelodeon television series “The Wonder Pets” and “Sesame Street.” He has taught at the USC School of Dramatic Arts, Harvard University, Princeton University and Emerson College.

Brown is the winner of the 2018 Louis Auchincloss Prize, the 2002 Kleban Award for Outstanding Lyrics and the 1996 Gilman & Gonzalez-Falla Foundation Award for Musical Theatre. His songs have been performed and recorded by Ariana Grande, Jennifer Nettles, Brandi Carlile, Audra McDonald, Kristin Chenoweth, Billy Porter, Betty Buckley, Renée Fleming, Jon Hendricks and many others.

Brown studied composition at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. He is married to fellow composer Georgia Stitt. www.jasonrobertbrown.com

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