World Premiere cast recording of "Sherry!" released 24 Feb 2004

Mon 19 Jan 2004 World Premiere cast recording of "Sherry!" released 24 Feb 2004 World Premiere cast recording of the long lost musical Sherry!, with Book & Lyrics by James Lipton, music by Laurence Rosenthal, will be released 24 Feb 2004 by Angel Records Executive produced by James Lipton and produced by Robert Sher, the cast is lead by Nathan Lane, Carol Burnett, Bernadette Peters, Tommy Tune, with special appearance by Mike Myers. The double CD, comes with enhanced video footage. This 1967 musical was thought to have been lost forever. As tradition has it, the morning after a Broadway show closes, two things generally happen. The set is loaded onto a truck and taken to New Jersey where it is unceremoniously burnt and the show's score is carefully packed in a trunk and sent to the writer's publisher. When the score for SHERRY! failed to arrive at its proper destination, there seemed to be only one answer as to its whereabouts... it was inadvertently put on the wrong truck and incinerated along with the set. Presumably lost forever. Then, in the Fall of 1999, producer Robert Sher called James Lipton to inquire about recording rights to SHERRY! Sadly, Lipton recounted the saga of the lost score. In an act of determination, Sher called a colleague at the Library of Congress. Lo-and-behold, there it was..every last note. Upon hearing the thrilling news, Lipton and collaborator Laurence Rosenthal set to work assembling the necessary components for a long overdue recoding; 52 piece orchestra and a cast that includes Nathan Lane, Carol Burnett, Bernadette Peters, Tommy Tune, Mike Myers, Siobhan Fallon, Tom Wopat, Lillias White, Keith David, Phylis Newman. The enhanced video portion of the double CD features footage from Bravo's "Profiles: Sherry!" about the lost score and making of the album ("Profiles: Sherry!" to air on Bravo in late Feb 2004) as well as clips from "Inside The Actors Studio" including interviews with principal cast members. "SHERRY!" is based on the classic American comedy "The Man Who Came To Dinner", Written by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, the play is an homage to their circle of friends - the literati and glitterati of their time. The basis for the central character, 'Sheridan Whiteside' (aka 'Sherry') was Alexander Woollcott, whom they described as an "intimate friend of the great and near-great." The compelling question "What would happen if Whiteside/Woolcott were trapped for some reason in the home of a middle-class, middle-western, middle-brow family who idolized him, but whom he cordially loathed?" is the heart of the play.