We’ve got a first listen to a track from the upcoming studio cast album of This Ain’t No Disco, set to get a digital release August 21 via Center Stage Records. Hear Broadway favorite and Scissor Sisters frontman Jake Shears sing “Be Like a Son” from the Stephen Trask (Hedwig and the Angry Inch)-Peter Yanowitz (The Wallflowers) musical above.
Part rock opera, part impressionist tone poem set in the nightclubs and art world of 1979 New York City, This Ain’t No Disco interweaves the stories of strivers, dreamers, and drifters searching for their place at Studio 54 and Mudd Club, the art scene, and downtown lofts. In their uptown/downtown quest for revelry and kinship, this disparate group, in different stages of becoming and falling apart, find themselves and each other in a city on the verge of a massive cultural shift.
The musical debuted at Atlantic Theater Company in 2018, directed by Darko Tresnjak and choreographed by Camille A. Brown. This upcoming album will be the musical’s first.
The album is produced by Trask, Yanowitz, and Diane Mayer, with Van Dean serving as executive producers, and Stewart Lane and Bonnie Comley as co-producers.
Will Connolly, Eddie Cooper, Lulu Fall, Chilina Kennedy, and Theo Stockman from the musical’s original Off-Broadway cast will reprise their work on the album, newly joined by Ryan Cassata, Adam Chanler-Berat, Lilli Cooper, Austin Crute, Lena Hall, Taylor Hanson, Ryan Jarman, Rebecca Naomi Jones, Sean Ono Lennon, John Cameron Mitchell, Charlotte Kemp Muhl, Robert Schwartzman, Shears, Miriam Shor, and Brandon Uranowitz.
Pre-save the full release here.