Masterworks Broadway To Release Androcles And The Lion - Original Television Cast Recording Available On CD For The First Time May 13

New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ CineMedia Promotions) Masterworks Broadway springs forward with the release of three unexpected album from the vault previously unavailable on CD - Marriage Type Love by Shirley Jones & Jack Cassidy (April 15), Androcles and the Lion (May 13), Ed Ames: Opening Night / More I Cannot Wish You (June 17).

Based on George Bernard Shaw's play, the 1967 television special Androcles and the Lion recounts the story of Androcles, the simple-hearted Christian tailor whose friendship with a lion saves himself and his friends from martyrdom in the Roman Colosseum. Set to music by Richard Rodgers, the cast includes British comedian Norman Wisdom as Androcles, Noël Coward as Caesar and features Ed Ames, John Cullum and Geoffrey Holder. Androcles and the Lion will be released exclusively for purchase via MasterworksBroadway.com on May 13 in a limited quantity of Manufacture-On-Demand CDs as well as digital download. The CD will be available through Arkiv Music on June 10, plus downloads through digital service providers the same day.