Joy Machine Records will release the original cast recording of the award-winning one-woman musical My 80-Year-Old Boyfriend on October 17 and celebrate with an album launch party in New York City on October 21.
Written by Christian Duhamel (Kleban Award winner for Most Promising Musical Theatre Librettist for his work on My 80-Year-Old Boyfriend) and Ed Bell (BMI and Song Foundry) and directed by Drama Desk Award winner Sean Daniels, My 80-Year-Old Boyfriend has received four critically-acclaimed regional productions, winning Best New Work and Best Actress in a Musical from the DaytonMetro Awards and Best Solo Performance from the IRNE Awards.
Recorded by Tony Award winner Scott Lehrer at 2nd Story Sound in New York City, the album features conceiver, performer, and K-State School of Music, Theatre, and Dance alumna Charissa Bertels (B. Mus. c/o ’03, Broadway’s A Christmas Story, First National Tour If/Then) and Pianist/Music Director Brett Ryback (Murder for Two). Bonus tracks on the album feature arrangements and guitar by Drama Desk Award winner Benjamin Scheuer (The Lion) and orchestrations by Simon Nathan (London Musical Theatre Orchestra Principal Orchestrator), with additional recording at RiverRock Studios in Minneapolis.
