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World Premiere Music Video Previews Latin/Salsa/Hip-Hop-Infused Original Broadway Cast Recording for “In The Heights"

13 TONY NOMINATIONS TOP THE FIELD

Broadway.com's Exclusive Video Goes Live Today

Two-CD Set Out June 3rd

A World Premiere video for showstopper '96,000' serves as a dynamic preview of the 'In The Heights' Original Broadway Cast recording. Nominated for 13 TONY Awards -- including Best Musical and Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) -- 'In The Heights' features Latin, Salsa and Hip-Hop-infused music, conceived and written by emerging superstar Lin-Manuel Miranda. Ghostlight Records will release the OCR on June 3rd, as a 23-track, two-CD package, complete with a 68-page booklet containing cast photos and song lyrics. The exclusive video was shot by Broadway.com.

Footage for the Behind-the-Scenes video was shot at the actual recording sessions for the OCR, on March 23rd and 24th in New York City. The double album was produced by Andres Levin (proclaimed"the master chef of Urban fusion" by The LA Times,) and by Ghostlight President Kurt Deutsch.

Here is Broadway.com's Exclusive video for “96,000"



The 'In The Heights' double-CD is available for pre-order now:



Ghostlight Records is committed to bringing the music of the 'New Broadway' to a contemporary audience, using modern technology, innovative marketing and artist involvement. Utilizing music videos, digital downloads and other aggressive strategies new to the Broadway arena, Ghostlight continues to be on the vanguard of interacting with the next generation of Broadway music consumers.

ABOUT 'IN THE HEIGHTS':

'In The Heights' is the quintessential New York musical, about a vibrant and tight-knit community at the top of the island of Manhattan. The music pulses with the hopes and dreams of three generations as they struggle to forge an identity in a neighborhood on the brink of transition.

Conceived by Lin-Manuel Miranda; book by Quiara Alegra Hudes; music and lyrics by Mr. Miranda; Orchestrations by Alex Lacamoire and Bill Sherman; 'In The Heights' is directed by Thomas Kail and choreographed by Andy Blankenbuehler; music director, Alex Lacamoire. Broadway open March 9, 2008.

'In The Heights' is currently playing at the Richard Rodgers Theatre in New York City. The show's three lead producers, off and on Broadway, are Kevin McCollum, Jeffrey Seller and Jill Furman. McCollum and Seller are also the producers of Rent and Avenue Q.

IN THE HEIGHTS - ORIGINAL BROADWAY CAST RECORDING: Produced by Kurt Deutsch and Andres Levin. About Producer Andres Levin: Proclaimed “the master chef of Urban fusion" by the LA Times, Andres Levin has established himself as one of the world's top multi-cultural young film composers and music producers. His distinctive sound that developed over multiple albums for the Red Hot Organization has since carried Levin to even greater critical acclaim with his own Grammy-nominated band YERBA BUENA, his continued role as producer for many leading Latin & World music artists, and most recently, as a film composer for several motion pictures- including El Cantante, Ladron que roba Ladron, Borderland and more.

TRACK LISTING:
In The Heights
Breathe
Benny's Dispatch
It Won't Be Long Now
Inutil
No Me Diga
96,000
Paciencia y Fe (Patience and Faith)
When You're Home
Piragua
The Club
Blackout
Sunrise
Hundreds of Stories
Enough
Carnaval del Barrio
Atencion
Alabanza
Everything I Know
Piragua (Reprise)
Champagne
When The Sun Goes Down
Finale

ABOUT GHOSTLIGHT RECORDS:

Sh-K-Boom Records and its imprint Ghostlight Records is a Grammy-nominated record label, a producer of recorded and live entertainment, and an interactive community at www.sh-k-boom.com, and ghostlightrecords.com. Since being founded seven years ago by Kurt Deutsch and Sherie Rene Scott, Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight is the leading producer of Original Broadway and Off Broadway cast albums, and solo recordings by the new generation of Broadway stars and composers. Their winning philosophy has been to work in close partnership with performers and producers, to create product that comes from directly within the community of Broadway artists. With over 50 albums in their catalogue, titles include: The Smash Broadway Hit Legally Blonde, Grammy and Tony Nominated Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Grammy nominated and Tony Winning The Drowsy Chaperone, Grammy nominated and Tony Winning The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, the Grammy nominated all-star benefit recording of Hair for The Actors' Fund of America, as well as The Last 5 Years, Irving Berlin's White Christmas, Bright Lights, Big City (with Patrick Wilson and Jesse L. Martin), and Michael John LaChiusa's See What I Wanna See and Bernarda Alba. Solo Artists include: Patti LuPone, Billy Porter, Jason Robert Brown, Christine Ebersole, Adam Pascal (original star of Rent), Sherie Rene Scott (star of Aida and The Little Mermaid), and Kelli O'Hara's debut solo album, Wonder in the World. On May 27, Ghostlight will release the Passing Strange OCR as the first-ever Digital Exclusive release via iTunes for a Broadway show.

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