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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

OCTOVERSE MEDIA & WARNER MUSIC GROUP’S ARTS MUSIC,
IN COLLABORATION WITH LINCOLN CENTER THEATER,
ANNOUNCE
THE RELEASE OF THE CD AND LIMITED-EDITION COLORED-VINYL
2-LP SET OF

“NIGHT SIDE SONGS”
THE ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING OF THE TRANSFORMATIVE NEW MUSICAL WITH A STIRRING FOLK SCORE BY THE ACCLAIMED DUO
THE LAZOURS

FEATURING ROBIN DE JESÚS, BROOKE ISHIBASHI, JONATHAN RAVIV, KRIS SAINT-LOUIS AND MARY TESTA

AVAILABLE FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20

 EXCLUSIVELY AT THE RHINO STORE

CAST ALBUM SIGNING WITH MEMBERS OF THE CAST AND DANIEL LAZOUR AT THE DRAMA BOOK SHOP ON THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19

New York, NY (Thursday, November 5) – OCTOVERSE MEDIA and Warner Music Group’s ARTS MUSIC have announced that Night Side Songs – the Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording of the transformative new musical produced by Lincoln Center Theater at LCT3’s Claire Tow Theater (Helen Gurley Brown Artistic Director of LCT3 and Producer, Maria Manuela Goyanes) will be available for the first time on CD and as a limited-edition, colored-vinyl 2-LP set on Friday, November 20. The album has been available on streaming and digital platforms since August 21. It was produced by Mara Isaacs, Todd Sickafoose, and Andy Einhorn, and co-produced by Daniel Lazour and Patrick Lazour.

Starring Robin de Jesús, Brooke Ishibashi, Jonathan Raviv, Kris Saint-Louis and Mary Testa, the album gives voice to everyone drawn into the orbit of an illness: patients, caregivers, doctors, family and strangers, reaching for one another in ways both imperfect and profound. It is a portrait of care, and also of connection: how we hold on to each other, to faith or doubt, to memory, meaning and music. These are the things that help us endure. Sometimes alone. Often together. Night Side Songs gathers audiences in the space where life shifts suddenly and irrevocably, inviting them to sing their way through it.

Inspired by Susan Sontag’s observation that “illness is the night side of life,” Night Side Songs features a stirring folk score by The Lazours, brothers Daniel and Patrick Lazour (We Live in Cairo), visionary direction by Lortel and Obie Award winner Taibi Magar, and music direction by Alex Bechtel.

In the folk music spirit, the cast was joined by an in-studio audience who sang along.

To celebrate the physical release, Drama Book Shop (266 West 39th Street, New York) will host a Night Side Songs cast album signing on Thursday, November 19 at 7:30PM, featuring members of the original cast including Brooke Ishibashi, Robin de Jesús, Jonathan Raviv, and Mary Testa along with composer-lyricist Daniel Lazour and Music Director Alex Bechtel. Fans will be among the first to take home the CD and limited-edition 2-LP set, which will be available for purchase at the event the day before their official release.

The show won a Lucille Lortel Award for “Outstanding Ensemble” and was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for “Outstanding Music,” a Drama League Award for “Outstanding Production of a Musical,” and a Lucille Lortel Award for “Outstanding Musical.”

Night Side Songs was presented by Lincoln Center Theater at LCT3’s Claire Tow Theater from February 14 to March 29, 2026, joining the ranks of the top 10 best-selling shows in the Tow’s history. The production originated in a New York premiere co-production between American Repertory Theater at Harvard University and Philadelphia Theatre Company, following a commission by American Repertory Theater. The show was further developed and presented by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in the Under the Radar Festival.

Pack shot images are available HERE.

The Night Side Songs album is supported by Gina Maria Leonetti, the Mellon Foundation, Glenn Gundersen, and Kathy Evans.

Night Side Songs was supported by The Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, The Judith Champion Playwrights’ Vision Fund and Mel Litoff, and the Laurents/Hatcher Foundation.

Octoverse Media is supported by Thomas M. Neff.

BIOGRAPHIES

The Lazours, made up of brothers Daniel Lazour and Patrick Lazour, are songwriters and music theater writers. Their original musicals include We Live in Cairo (Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle, Drama Desk nominee, American Repertory Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, dir. Taibi Magar) and Night Side Songs (Under the Radar, Philadelphia Theatre Company, American Repertory Theater, Lincoln Center Theater 2026, dir. Taibi Magar). They wrote a musical adaptation of Ritesh Batra’s film The Lunchbox (Berkeley Repertory Theatre 2026, dir. Rachel Chavkin) and wrote original songs for Caroline Lindy’s feature, Your Monster (Sundance 2023, Audience Award). Their movie musical Challenger: An American Dream is being developed with Bruce Cohen Productions and Spark Features. Original songs can be heard on their independently released albums: Two Short Songs in a Minor Key, Lullabies, Freres, Flap My Wings (Songs from ‘We Live in Cairo’), and Beth’s Homemade Cowboy Breakfast. They are Jonathan Larson Grant and Richard Rodgers Award recipients, MacDowell and Yaddo Fellows, and New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspects. Daniel holds a B.A. from Columbia University and Patrick holds a B.A. from Boston College.

BROOKE ISHIBASHI (Yasmine). Originated and developed roles in Into the Woods (2022 Broadway revival, City Center Encores!, national tour), Night Side Songs (Under the Radar Festival, American Repertory Theater, Philadelphia Theatre Company), Cambodian Rock Band (South Coast Repertory, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, Arena Stage, 5th Avenue/A.C.T.), Good Person of Szechwan (The Public Theater, La MaMa). Television: NBC/Universal’s “People Are Talking” (lead). Recipient of the Unions Power America Grand Prize. For Gavin and JB. “Don’t miss it.”

ROBIN de JESÚS (Dr. Henry Verlaine/Lillian Jones/Uncle Jere) is a three-time Tony Award nominated actor. LCT: Domesticated. Broadway: In the Heights, The Boys in the Band, La Cage aux Folles, Rent, Wicked. Television/Film: tick, tick…BOOM!; The Boys in the Band; “Black Rabbit”; “Welcome to Chippendales”; Camp; Gun Hill Road; “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”; “Santiago of the Seas”; “Big Mouth.” Off-Broadway: Homos, or Everyone in America; Patti Issues. Upcoming films: Before I Do, As a Person. Art heals Loves.

JONATHAN RAVIV (Frank) is an Emmy Award winner and original cast member of the ten-time Tony Award winner The Band’s Visit. Selected Off-Broadway: Here There Are Blueberries (NYTW), Monsoon Wedding (St. Ann’s), Hound Dog (Ars Nova), The Lightning Thief (Lucille Lortel), The Band’s Visit (Atlantic). Selected regional: Night Side Songs (A.R.T.), Kismet (Granada), Fun Home (KC Rep), Into the Woods (Barrington). Television/film: The Friend, Minyan, “Law & Order,” “NCIS: New Orleans,” “The Blacklist,” “Zero Hour,” “Pan Am.” @jonathanraviv

MARY TESTA (Desirée/Prudence of Dursley). LCT: Gardens of Anuncia, Marie Christine, A New Brain. Awards: The Legend of Off-Broadway Award, three Tony nominations, two Lortel nominations, six Drama Desk nominations, two Drama League nominations, two OCC nominations, an Obie Award and a special Drama Desk Award celebrating Queen of the Mist and “Three Decades of Outstanding Work.” Twelve Broadway Shows including Oklahoma!, Wicked, Xanadu and Chicago. Countless Off-Broadway. Numerous TV and film appearances. Opera: Anna Nicole (BAM). Little Island: Galas.

ALEX BECHTEL he/him (Music Direction and Piano Arrangements) creates new works of music, theatre and musical theatre. He is the composer/creator of the musical Penelope, which has had productions at Hudson Valley Shakespeare, Signature Theatre DC, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival/Theatre Horizon, Ancram Center for the Arts and Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater. Off-Broadway: music/lyrics for Lightning Rod Special’s The Appointment. Regional: Pig Iron Theatre Company, People’s Light & Theatre Co, Arden Theatre, Milwaukee Rep and eight seasons of new music for Shakespeare at Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival. See and hear more at www.alexbechtel.com.

Lincoln Center Theater is one of the leading nonprofit theaters in the United

States, producing an annual season of plays and musicals that have been seen by millions around the globe. Its mission is to bring exceptional theater to life. Building on a legacy of artistic excellence, LCT strives to expand what is possible: to make the magic of theater more palpable, empowering visionary artists and extending the invitation for the community to join in celebrating the power of live performance. Founded in 1985, LCT is home to Broadway’s Vivian Beaumont Theater

and Off-Broadway’s Mitzi E. Newhouse and Claire Tow theaters, which welcome nearly 300,000 audience members to its home on the Lincoln Center campus each year. Over the last four decades, LCT and its productions have received 91 Tony Awards, 101 Drama Desk Awards, 84 Outer Critics Circle Awards, 36 Obies, 13 NY Drama Critics Circle Awards and one Pulitzer Prize, as well as two Pulitzer

Prize finalists. Production highlights include Ragtime (winner of four 2026 Tony Awards including Best Musical Revival); staples in the Rodgers & Hammerstein canon such as Carousel, South Pacific and The King and I; Lerner & Loewe’s My Fair Lady; McNeal; Oslo; War Horse; The Coast of Utopia; Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; Other Desert Cities; August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone; Contact; Anything Goes; Sarafina!; Six Degrees of Separation; The Sisters Rosensweig; and Shakespearean classics Twelfth Night and Henry IV; among

many others. This production of A Few Good Men is LCT’s 237th production. Honoring its legacy, its work and the premium experiences audiences have come to know as synonymous with the institution itself, LCT continues to broaden the welcome mat to make live theater more accessible for new audiences, staying true

to the Lincoln Center founding mandate from John D. Rockefeller that the arts “are not just for the privileged few, but for the many.” Learn more at LCT.org and follow us @LCTheater on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and Threads.

NIGHT SIDE SONGS – TRACK LIST

1. Glow, Glow, Glow
2. Either Way You Gotta Keep It Together
3. The Reason
4. Miracle Song
5. Let’s Go Walking
6. A Little Wine
7. Santa Cruz
8. Into the Sky
9. When You…
10. My Stuff
11. I Will Check in On You
12. Will You Let Me Know

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