New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Ghostlight Records) - Ghostlight Records is proud to confirm a
September 21st release date for their Original Cast Recording of The Public Theater's Production of BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON. The show, which has been hailed by Rolling Stone's
Peter Travers as 'The best original musical of the theater season,' by The New York Times' Ben Brantley as "The most entertaining and most perceptive political theater of the season," and by Time Out NY's
David Cote as 'a new breed of rock musical,' will soon move to Broadway (The CD will be released to coincide with previews, which begin
September 20 at The Bernard B Jacobs Theatre.)
With music & lyrics by Michael Friedman, and as written and directed by Alex Timbers, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson stars Benjamin Walker in a bravura performance as the former President of the United States. Get pre-order details and learn more about the Ghostlight OCR, which was produced by Kurt Deutsch and Dean Sharenow, here: https://sh-k-boom.com/bloodybloodyandrewjackson.shtml
READ THE PLAYBILL EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW, WITH AUDIO SAMPLES:
https://www.playbill.com/news/article/141809-Bloody-Bloody-Andrew-Jackson-Cast-Album-Sets-Sept-21-Release-Exclusive-Audio-Preview
Of the music, Rolling Stone Magazine's Peter Travers wrote 'zap this killer score into your iPod and let it blow your mind. If Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson wants to start a revolution in musical theater, count me in'. Here's what he had to say about the show: 'Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson': The Best Original Musical of the Theater Season
6/24/10 https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/peter-travers/blogs/thetraverstake-May2010/121198/49670
'...Now can we talk about the show that really is the best original musical of the season? That would be Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, written and directed by Alex Timbers with music and lyrics by Michael Friedman. This is not your history teacher's view of the seventh President of the United States (elected in 1829). But then again this knockout of a show isn't the traditional view of anything. It uses its emo-punk score to put the hormones back into history.
The opening number, "Populism, Yea, Yea!," sets the tone just like "America, Fuck Yeah" did for Team America: World Police from South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Jackson's scandalous history as a frontier kid, brutal soldier, husband to a woman who was still married and racist Indian fighter are all grist for this wild, surreal ride of a show.
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson will finish up its run at Manhattan's Public Theater on June 27th, with (fingers crossed) a Broadway run in its future. The show's dynamo of a star Benjamin Walker plays the hot-headed and hot-blooded Jackson with such a rock-star hard-on that you don't want to miss him. "You're so hot," he tells the audience at the top of the show, "I want to put it in you."
Luckily, you can hear Walker's hormonal take on Bloody Andrew on the original cast album, out soon on the Sh-K-Boom & Ghostlight Records label (Kurt Deutsch and Dean Sharenow produced the hell out of it). These songs show you what a musical can do when you plug in a livewire and use the past to illustrate how we got so fucked-up in the present. To hear Jackson sing, "I'm Not That Guy" and then "I'm So That Guy" is a lesson in political compromise as timely as today's headlines. Andrew and his wife cut each other and puke to feel something. Just give a listen to "Illness As Metaphor" (can't wait till the Glee cast tackles that one).
Timbers (artistic director of Les Freres Corbusier) and Friedman (house composer of The Civilians ) are social satirists working at a creative fever pitch. And boy do we need them now. My advice is: zap this killer score into your iPod and let it blow your mind. If Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson wants to start a revolution in musical theater, count me in."
BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON OCR LINER NOTES & CREDITS:
Recorded April 26th 2010 at MSR Studios NYC
Mixed at Chaparral, NYC, by Dean Sharenow
Produced by Kurt Deutsch and Dean Sharenow
The album features BENJAMIN WALKER as Andrew Jackson, as well as THE PUBLIC THEATER CAST, in alphabetical order: RIVER AGUIRRE, JAMES BARRY, MICHAEL CRANE, MICHAEL DUNN, GREG HILDRETH, JEFF HILLER, LUCAS NEAR-VERBRUGGHE, MARIA ELENA RAMIREZ, KATE CULLEN ROBERTS, BEN STEINFELD, , COLLEEN WERTHMANN, EMILY YOUNG, BAND
JUSTIN LEVINE - MUSIC DIRECTOR,
PIANO & GUITAR, VOCALS
KEVIN GARCIA - DRUMS
CHARLIE ROSEN - BASS, VOCALS
BEN STEINFELD - ADDITIONAL GUITARS
JAMES BARRY - TELECASTERON' ROCKSTAR'
& DOBROON' CRISIS ADVERTED'
TRACK LIST:
1. POPULISM YEA YEA
2. I'M NOT THAT GUY
3. ILLNESS AS METAPHOR
4. I'M SO THAT GUY
5. TEN LITTLE INDIANS
6. THE CORRUPT BARGAIN
7. ROCK STAR
8. THE GREAT COMPROMISE
9. PUBLIC LIFE
10. CRISIS AVERTED
11. THE SADDEST SONG
12. SECOND NATURE
13. THE HUNTERS OF KENTUCKY
PRESS QUOTES FROM PUBLIC THEATER PRODUCTION:
NEW YORK TIMES CRITICS' PICK! "The most entertaining and most perceptive political theater of the season." -Ben Brantley, The New York Times
CLICK HERE to read the full NY Times review.
'A NEW BREED OF ROCK MUSICAL. This fist-pumping historical travesty has something for every disenfranchised groupie.' -David Cote, Time Out New York
"An intriguing, often outrageous look at American history, filtered through the satiric eye of ALEX TIMBERS and MICHAEL FRIEDMAN's pulsating rock score." - Michael Kuchwara, Associated Press
'BENJAMIN WALKER is a sexy bundle of narcissism and fury. The energetic young cast play multiple roles with fearless verve. A rocking and roaring staging by Alex Timbers.' -David Sheward, Backstage
'Benjamin Walker has tons of rockstar sex appeal! Friedman's score bursts with energized, instantly catchy pop tunes.' - David Cote, NY
