The studio cast recording of Well-Behaved Women by composer and lyricist Carmel Dean is a contemporary theatrical song cycle celebrating historic women who fought to make their voices heard. This powerful album is now available on streaming and digital platforms worldwide. With music and lyrics by Dean, the new album features Tony Award®-winning artists and Broadway A-listers, including Sasha Allen, Laura Benanti, Andréa Burns, Liz Callaway, Jenn Colella, Hannah Corneau, Melissa Rose Hirsch, Dee Hoty, Judy Kaye, LaChanze, Lindsay Mendez, Bonnie Milligan, Lauren Patten, and Pearl Sun, among others. Stream or download the powerful album HERE.
What would Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Harriet Tubman, Frida Kahlo, and Malala Yousafzai sound like if you heard them sing? Well-Behaved Women brings these women, and more, to life in a new song cycle. Through these moving and often hilarious songs, the album celebrates the ways in which their rebellious behavior helped them make history. The show is available for licensing from Concord Theatricals. Learn more HERE.
In honor of the release, a series of music videos are available to watch, including:
- “Stay And Fight,” featuring Sasha Allen. View HERE.
- “On The Railroad,” featuring LaChanze. View HERE.
- “Ladies Of The Press,” featuring Jenn Colella. View HERE.
- “We Rise,” featuring the full ensemble. View HERE.
- Well-Behaved Women Album Sizzle. View HERE.
“Carmel has been a badass since I met her about twenty years ago,” said Sean Patrick Flahaven, Chief Theatricals Executive for Concord and a producer of the album, “So it’s no surprise that she wrote a badass show about badass women performed by some of the most badass vocalists and musicians in the business. It was a joy to make this album with them.”
“I wrote Well-Behaved Women in order to honor and celebrate the bold, brave, and badass women who have come before us – many of whom have not had their stories told, especially through song,” said Dean. “To have this extraordinary cast of Tony Award winners and Broadway A-listers bring these stories to life is a true embarrassment of riches. Their performances will not only blow listeners away but will also hopefully inspire and empower today’s (and future) generations to be bold, brave, and badass themselves. ‘Well-behaved women seldom make history.’ – Laurel Thatcher Ulrich”
Well-Behaved Women made its New York premiere at Joe’s Pub on January 25, 2020, in an all-star one-night concert. In 2021, the show premiered at the Hayes Theatre in Sydney, Australia and at Cadogan Hall in London.
Well-Behaved Women (Studio Cast Recording) features orchestrations by Lynne Shankel, with lyrics for “Stay and Fight” by Miriam Laube. The album is produced by Dean and Flahaven with associate producer Ali Tesluk. The album was recorded by John Kilgore, Ian Kagey, Neal Shaw, David Amien, and Josh Walton; edited and mixed by Michael Croiter; and mastered by Oscar Zambrano. Art direction and design by Derek Bishop. Complete production credits can be found in the album booklet HERE.
Album Track List:
1. In the Beginning (Eve) – Laura Benanti
2. The Warrior Queen (Boudicca) – Katie Thompson
3. On the Railroad (Harriet Tubman) –LaChanze
4. If Shakespeare Had a Sister (Virginia Woolf) – Bonnie Milligan
5. Stay and Fight (Cleopatra) – Sasha Allen
6. Ladies of the Press (Eleanor Roosevelt) – Jenn Colella
7. The Only Girl at the Table (Mary Magdalene) – Hannah Elless
8. The Water is Where (Fanny Durack & Mina Wylie) – Hannah Corneau, Melissa Rose Hirsch
9. Hey, Bobby Riggs (Billie Jean King) – Lauren Patten
10. Yo Simplemente Soy (Frida Kahlo) – Lindsay Mendez
11. A Mother’s Love (Hua-Li) – Pearl Sun
12. Papa, Are You There? (Malala Yousafzai) – Kuhoo Verma
13. One Step Closer (Janet Armstrong) – Liz Callaway
14. You Were There (Cathy Freeman) – Ursula Yovich
15. Lady Liberty (The Statue of Liberty) – Andréa Burns
16. Order in the Court (Sandra Day O’Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor & Elena Kagan) – Dee Hoty, Judy Kaye, Alma Cuervo, Anne L. Nathan
17. We Rise (All) – Ensemble
Recent albums released by Concord Theatricals Recordings include the Grammy Award®-winning Into The Woods, starring Sara Bareilles and the Grammy®-nominated Mr. Saturday Night, starring Billy Crystal, as well as the Grammy®-nominated currently-running, Tony Award-winning hit, Some Like It Hot (Original Broadway Cast Recording) by Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman; Jaime Lozano & The Familia’s Songs By An Immigrant Vol. 2; Carmel Dean’s Well-Behaved Women (Studio Cast Recording); Shaina Taub’s As You Like It (Original Public Works Cast Recording) and Antonio Banderas and Teatro del Soho CaixaBank’s Spanish-language cast albums of Company and A Chorus Line. Additional recordings include the Grammy®-nominated cast albums of Come From Away, Amélie (Original London Cast Recording), and the 2018 revival of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel, in addition to 17 Again, starring Casey Likes and Eden Espinosa; The Big Time, starring Santino Fontana and Debbie Gravitte; The Visitor, starring David Hyde Pierce; DRAG: The Musical (The Studio Recording); and Jason Robert Brown’s Coming From Inside The House, featuring Ariana Grande and Shoshana Bean.
