Michael Friedman – This Beautiful City World Premiere Recording (2019) FLAC

FLAC tracks | Soundtrack | 27:25 | 159 Mb

Ghostlight Records and The Civilians have joined together to release The Michael Friedman Collection, a long-term project which will comprise the premiere recordings of nine musicals from the beloved late Obie Award-winning songwriter Michael Friedman.

This Beautiful City, with music and lyrics by Michael Friedman, and co-written by Steve Cosson, Jim Lewis and from interviews by the original company (Emily Ackerman, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Brad Heberlee, Stephen Plunkett, and Alison Weller), is a play with music that explores the Evangelical movement in Colorado Springs, its unofficial U.S. capital. While the company was conducting interviews in the city, a battle over gay marriage led to some unexpected outcomes, primarily the revelation about New Life Church’s politically influential pastor Ted Haggard’s secret life of gay sex and crystal meth, which quickly became an international news sensation. The Civilians project looks at this event and others in Colorado Springs as a microcosm of issues facing the country as a whole — the shifting line between church and state, and conflicting ideas of freedom between civil society and religious groups that attempt to shape our world according to their beliefs. The New Yorker praised the show as “Vivid, agenda-free and marked by a benevolent irony.”
Tracklist:
01. Stephen Plunkett – Colorado (2:15)
02. This Beautiful City Original Cast Recording Ensemble – This Beautiful City (1:20)
03. Marsha Stephanie Blake – Whatever (1:55)
04. Brad Heberlee – An Email from Ted (1:22)
05. Alison Weller – End Times (2:10)
06. Conor Ryan – Demons (2:18)
07. Stephen Plunkett – Doubting Thomas (1:17)
08. This Beautiful City Original Cast Recording Ensemble – Take Me There (2:44)
09. Emily Ackerman – Freedom (2:21)
10. Alison Weller – Urban Planning (2:42)
11. Brad Heberlee – Another Email from Ted (1:46)
12. Stephen Plunkett – Pikes Peak (A Model of Christian Charity) (3:01)
13. Conor Ryan – Freedom (Early Version) (2:14)

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