Broadway Records to release Sondheim disco album
Yes, you read correctly. A Sondheim disco album is coming your way.
Celebrating the great composer’s 90th birthday, Losing My Mind: A Sondheim Disco Fever Dream will take some of Sondheim’s greatest hits and puts a funky 70s spin on them. With idea by Joshua Hinck and arrangements by Scott Wasserman (Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen), the album will feature both stand-alone arrangements and mashups of over 40 Sondheim songs.
The recording cast features Alison Luff (Waitress, Wicked), Blaine Krauss (Pose, Great Comet), Aneesa Folds (Freestyle Love Supreme), Charity Angél Dawson (Waitress), Vishal Vaidya (Groundhog Day), Brittnie Price (Postmodern Jukebox), Juwan Crawley (Aladdin), Deonté L. Warren (Aladdin), Joshua Hinck (Hail Oblivion), Aili Venho (50 Shades! The Musical), and Onyie Nwachukwu (Rent Natl Tour), as well as a special cameo from Chip Zien. They will be accompanied by a 13-piece orchestra
The tracklisting is as follows:
1. Opening (Doors)
2. There Are Giants Somewhere
3. Hello Pretty Lady / Lovely Moments By the Sea
4. Unworthy of Your Love
5. Our Time
6. No One Is Alone
7. The Miller’s Son
8. Artists Are Bizarre
9. Color and Light
10. It’s Hot Up Here in This City on Fire
11. Losing My Mind
12. Megamix: Take Me to the World
The album will be released digitally on March 20th on the Broadway Records site.