Cast Party Celebrates DROWSY CHAPERONE LP Release on Monday, March 5

[Caruso]

Posted: 3/2/07 at 11:56pm

On Monday, March 5 at 9:30, Jim Caruso’s Cast Party will be celebrating the release of the limited edition, vinyl 33 RPM long-playing record of the Grammy-nominated original cast recording of the five-time Tony-winning hit musical The Drowsy Chaperone. Many cast and crew members are scheduled to be in attendance, including Tony-winning book writer and star Bob Martin and Tony-winning composer Lisa Lambert. There will be a very special copy of the LP given to a lucky Cast Party audience member.

The re-mastered collector's item released by Ghostlight Records will mark the first time in nearly twenty years that an original Broadway cast recording is released in album format. It will be available for $50 in the Marquis Theatre lobby and on the Ghostlight Records website. A portion of the proceeds will benefit The Actors' Fund of America.

In the Tony Award-winning show now at the Marquis Theatre, a theatre maven named Man in Chair (played by Bob Martin) holds up the record sleeve of his favorite 33-rpm LP cast album — 1928's The Drowsy Chaperone — and puts a needle on the platter and shares the experience with the audience. The show comes to life around him in his dreary studio apartment. The new LP recreates Man in Chair's experience listening to his cherished cast album and features added scene dialogue, vintage cover artwork, Broadway production photographs, lyrics, liner notes and an included bonus CD of the vinyl record's content.

Jim Caruso’s Cast Party, the extreme open-mic night and impromptu variety show, has been celebrating the Broadway scene at Birdland for the past four years. Some of the A-Listers seen at Cast Party include Michael Feinstein, Fiona Apple, Phoebe Snow, Josh Groban, Betty Comden, Jason Alexander, Linda Lavin, Jon Bon Jovi, Dave Koz, Christine Ebersole, Stephen Schwartz and Liza Minnelli. Jim Caruso hosts the evening, pianist Billy Stritch holds court at the piano, Steve Doyle is on bass, and the audience is invited to participate in the musical festivities.

Jim Caruso’s Cast Party
$10 cover, $10 food/drink minimum
Birdland, 315 West 44 Street, NYC
212-581-3080
www.InstantSeats.com/Birdland
www.CastPartyNYC.com



Cast Party Website