This Ain’t No Disco Will Get Long-Awaited Cast Recording

One of my guiltiest of guilty pleasures is getting an all-star cast album. Audiences would flee at intermission, but I saw it three times ... Was this on anyone's radar?!

https://playbill.com/article/this-aint-no-disco-will-get-long-awaited-cast-recording

Center Stage Records will release This Ain’t No Disco: World Premiere Recording – Songs from the Musical later this month.

Set to be released in digital and streaming formats August 21, the musical is by Stephen Trask (Hedwig and the Angry Inch) and Peter Yanowitz (The Wallflowers). The album is produced by Trask, Yanowitz, and Diane Mayer, with Van Dean serving as executive producers, and Stewart Lane and Bonnie Comley as co-producers.

Part rock opera, part impressionist tone poem set in the nightclubs and art world of 1979 New York City, This Ain’t No Disco interweaves the stories of strivers, dreamers, and drifters searching for their place at Studio 54 and Mudd Club, the art scene, and downtown lofts. In their uptown/downtown quest for revelry and kinship, this disparate group, in different stages of becoming and falling apart, find themselves and each other in a city on the verge of a massive cultural shift. The musical debuted at Atlantic Theater Company in 2018, directed by Darko Tresnjak and choregraphed by Camille A. Brown. This upcoming album will be the musical's first.

Will Connolly, Eddie Cooper, Lulu Fall, Chilina Kennedy, and Theo Stockman from the musical's original Off-Broadway cast will reprise their work on the album, newly joined by Ryan Cassata, Adam Chanler-Berat, Lilli Cooper, Austin Crute, Lena Hall, Taylor Hanson, Ryan Jarman, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Sean Ono Lennon, John Cameron Mitchell, Charlotte Kemp Muhl, Robert Schwartzman, Jake Shears, Miriam Shor, and Brandon Uranowitz.

This is one of the roughest shows I’ve had to wait to flee at intermission (myself and 4 others). Totally bizarre to record it at this point, unless they’re trying to exhume the corpse.

The one song I liked from it (“Fun”) was performed at Bryant Park and they seem to have scrubbed it from YouTube, while the original actor in the role seems also to have been recast for the recording. Odd.