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Laura Osnes, Corey Cott, and Cast of Bandstand Sign Original Cast Recording

The new musical is preserved on Broadway Records.

Laura Osnes, Corey Cott, and Beth Leavel show off their Bandstand CDs.
Laura Osnes, Corey Cott, and Beth Leavel show off their Bandstand CDs.
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The stars of Bandstand signed copies of their new cast recording this afternoon at the Upper East Side Barnes & Noble. The album is available starting today on the Broadway Records label.

Alex Bender, Joe Carroll, and Brandon James Ellis hold up CDs bearing their signature.
Alex Bender, Joe Carroll, and Brandon J. Ellis hold up CDs bearing their signature.
(© David Gordon)

Directed by Tony winner Andy Blankenbuehler (Hamilton), Bandstand features music by Richard Oberacker and a book and lyrics by Robert Taylor and Oberacker. The cast is led by Tony Award nominee Laura Osnes and Corey Cott, alongside Tony Award winner Beth Leavel, Alex Bender, Joe Carroll, Brandon J. Ellis, James Nathan Hopkins, and Geoff Packard.

James Nathan Hopkins and Geoff Packard represent Bandstand.
James Nathan Hopkins and Geoff Packard represent Bandstand.
(© David Gordon)

Set in the smoke-filled, swing-fueled nightclubs of 1945, the musical tells the against-all-odds story of singer and songwriter Donny Novitski (Cott) and his band of mismatched fellow World War II veterans. When a national radio contest to find America's next big swing band offers a chance at instant fame and Hollywood fortune, Donny must whip his wisecracking gang of jazzers into fighting shape. Teaming up with the beautiful young war widow Julia (Osnes) as their singer, they struggle to confront the lingering effects and secrets of the battlefield that threaten to tear them apart.

Orchestrator Greg Anthony Rassen and writers Robert Taylor and Richard Oberacker are proud of the Bandstand cast recording.
Orchestrator Greg Anthony Rassen and writers Robert Taylor and Richard Oberacker are proud of the Bandstand cast recording.
(© David Gordon)

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