Recommended Album: WELL-BEHAVED WOMEN (Studio Cast Recording)

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by Connor McCormick on February 27, 2024

in CD-DVD,Theater-New York

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.

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