Revised SEUSSICAL Will Get New Cast Recording

"Who's in a New York City recording studio on June 9? Exactly! JAY Records will preserve the revised score of Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty's musical Seussical for a cast album that will boast the players of the 2007 Theatreworks/USA production seen on tour and Off-Broadway.

Composer Flaherty told Playbill.com that JAY will take the troupers into a studio June 9. The single CD is expected to be released later this year.

The 75-minute disc will present the entire new version of the show, "with quite a bit of new continuity material, lyrics and some new scenes not heard on the original Broadway cast recording," the composer said.

The recording will be produced by John Yap and Ahrens and Flaherty. Yap has a history of committing the scores of lyricist Ahrens and Flaherty to disc — Dessa Rose, the London Once On This Island, Lincoln Center's A Man of No Importance and The Glorious Ones (coming this summer) are all in the JAY catalog, as is Flaherty and Frank Galati's Loving Repeating."


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I'm so excited for this! I know they reduced the story lines, but does anyone know if the Lorax is in this version?

Super excited. Will the cat be played by a man or a woman?

"I'm so excited for this! I know they reduced the story lines, but does anyone know if the Lorax is in this version?"

No, they reduced, not added, story lines. The Lorax story didn't make it beyond the Boston tryout.

"Will the cat be played by a man or a woman?"

A female.

Woohoo?

Mr. Will Blum better be on this recording. He was such a fabulous Horton with the Theatreworks tour!

Yeah, I was about to say...this is not the revised version they're licensing- it's the 75 minute version.

Don't hold your breathe for this to be released soon. Jay records still hasn't released The Glorious Ones or The Gig, which have long been in the can.

i'm super excited

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To answer some questions raised in this thread:

1) No, "The Lorax" is not on this recording.
2) The Cat is played by Shorey Walker (female) who played the Cat in the version that was at the Lortel last summer. The cast on this CD is the same cast from that production.
That production was BRILLIANT, and anyone who says they do not like the shortened version probably never saw this one, b/c it was phenomenal
3) Despite what others may think or say, THE GLORIOUS ONES cd WILL be out this summer. It may take John Yap a long time to produce CDs, but he always does a quality job that makes it worth the wait.

Trust me that this new recording is going to be GREAT...

Ronni

I've seen every incarnation of SEUSSICAL, and can honestly say that the version at the Lortel last summer was the one that made the most sense of any of them. The director, Marcia Milgrom Dodge, did a brilliant job of giving the story a context. It takes place in a schoolyard, and then all the kids "become" their Seussian counterparts. It was amazing. Of course, you don't actually see this on the CD, but still, it worked incredibly well. It was the first time that I felt like the show was seamless and not at all choppy. I didn't miss anything that had been cut, because it just flowed so smoothly.

You can hear previews for all the songs on iTunes now.

It's actually available for purchase on iTunes, despite it saying a release date of September 14. The "Buy" links are all active.