LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts/ CineMedia Promotions) Broadway Records announced today that
Laura Osnes:
Dream A
Little Dream - Live At The Café Carlyle will be available on iTunes and other major digital retailers on Friday,
September 14, 2012. The CD release date is Tuesday,
September 18, 2012 and pre-orders are now being taken at amazon.com at https://amzn.com/B008TAVUA2.
The album features songs recorded live during Ms. Osnes' June 2012 engagement at the legendary Café Carlyle and features special guests
Jeremy Jordan (Bonnie & Clyde, Newsies) and Tom Wopat (Catch Me If You Can) as well as her husband, Nathan Johnson. The album consists of an evening of songs culled from Broadway, the Great American Songbook, as well as from the worlds of jazz and folk. Her quartet was led by her Musical
Director Fred Lassen on piano and featured Marc Copely on guitars, Pete Donovan on bass and Larry Lelli on drums. The engagement at the Carlyle was directed by Joe Langworth.
"Getting to perform at the Café Carlyle, following in the footsteps of women like Elaine Stritch,
Barbara Cook, Christine Ebersole, Kelli O'Hara, and so many of my other idols, is nothing short of a dream come true," enthused Ms. Osnes.
The album is produced by Fred Lassen and
Aaron Ankrum and executive produced by Van Dean and Kenny Howard. The track listing is as follows:
1. How 'Bout A Dance
2. Intro: Nervous
3. I Have Confidence
4. Intro:
Dream Role
5. Till There Was You
6. Intro: My Story
7. Born to Entertain/Don't Rain On My Parade
8. Fever
9. Intro: Understudies (special guest: Nathan Johnson)
10. A Whole New World (special guest: Nathan Johnson)
11. All The Things You Are
12. Intro: Surrounded By Men
13. Femininity
14. Intro: Pipe
Dream (special guest: Tom Wopat)
15. Baby It's Cold Outside (special guest: Tom Wopat)
16. I Think It's Going to Rain Today
17. Sunrise
18. Intro: Words With
Friends (special guest: Jeremy Jordan)
19. Anything You Can Do (special guest: Jeremy Jordan)
20. Intro: Frank in the House
21. Must Be My Lucky Day
22. Intro: Best Seat in the House
23. When She Loved Me
24. Blue Medley
25.
Dream a
Little Dream of Me
26. Bonus Track: In My Own
Little Corner
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LAURA OSNES is returning to Broadway in January as the title role in Cinderella.
Laura starred in two other Rodgers and Hammerstein productions this past spring - the first NY revival of Pipe
Dream for Encores! and a one night only concert of The Sound Of
Music at Carnegie Hall. She was recently seen on Broadway as Bonnie Parker in Bonnie and Clyde (Tony® Award Nomination) after originating the role at Asolo Repertory Theatre and La Jolla Playhouse (San
Diego Theatre Critics Circle Award- Outstanding Lead Female Performance in a Musical). Her other Broadway credits include Hope Harcourt in the Tony-winning revival of Anything Goes (Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Astaire Award nominations), Nellie Forbush in Lincoln Center Theatre's production of South Pacific and her Broadway debut as
Sandy in the most recent revival of Grease, after having won the role on NBC's reality competition "Grease: You're The One That I Want." Many regional credits, including Kim McAfee in Broadway: Three Generations (Kennedy Center). Television: HBO's pilot "The Miraculous Year" written by John Logan and directed by Kathryn Bigelow, "Sondheim: The Birthday Concert" at Avery
Fisher Hall (available on DVD), the 2011 Kennedy Center Honors Salute to
Barbara Cook and the Las
Vegas Smith Center Gala Opening that will air on PBS this fall.
