Upcoming Broadway Cast Recordings

By Amy Somensky May 3, 2005, 15:22 GMT

The upcoming weeks will see eight new Broadway cast recordings released.

4/26
Forbidden Broadway SVU: Special Victims Unit
The stars sweat with spoofs of Wicked, Assassins, Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Lion King, The Tony Awards, Avenue Q and Hairspray. There are also spoofs of Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman and Idina Menzel.

5/3 
Monty Python's Spamalot
The legendary tale of King Arthur, the Knights of the Round Table and the quest for the Holy Grail are told through a chorus line of legless knights, men in tights (with killer legs), killer rabbits, and sexy dancing divas.

Little Women
Louisa May Alcott's classic novel in musical form. The March sisters and their mother Marmee must cope with the world during the Civil War while their father is away at war.

5/10
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels centers on two con men living in the French Riviera. The first, a small-time crook named Freddy Benson, swindles women by waking their compassion with fabricated stories about his grandmother's failing health. The other is suave, sophisticated con artist Lawrence Jameson, who also makes his living by talking rich ladies out of their money, but on a much grander scale. After meeting on a train, they unsuccessfully attempt to work together only to find that this small French town isn't big enough for the two of them.

Pacific Overtures
In 1853 Japan opened up trade relations with the U.S changing the country forever. "Pacific Overtures" is the euphemism used by Commodore Matthew Perry to describe the trading. This westernization of Japan in the late 1800's is explored through the Japanese perspective.

5/17
Altar Boyz
A struggling Christian boy band brings its act to New York City. 

5/24
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Ten spellers (six actors and four audience members) compete for the title of Putnam County Spelling Bee Champion.

The Light in the Piazza
Set in the summer of 1953, The Light in the Piazza, tells the story of a mother and daughter traveling through Italy, the daughter's romance with a romantic Florentine, and the mother's determined efforts to keep the two apart.

6/24
Sweet Charity
Charity Hope Valentine is a taxi dancer with a heart of gold. She dreams of meeting the right man and settling down, but keeps waisting her affections on losers. Her luck starts to change when she meets a suave Italian movie star, but things really start to look up when she runs into a shy but sweet guy in a night-school elevator. Could this finally be her Prince Charming?

All of the cast recordings can be purchased through amazon.com.