{"id":151067,"date":"2026-03-03T15:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/151067\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T15:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:19:08","slug":"claybourne-elder-will-release-debut-solo-recording-if-the-stars-were-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/151067\/","title":{"rendered":"Claybourne Elder Will Release Debut Solo Recording, If the Stars Were Mine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Claybourne Elder<\/a>, best known for his work on Broadway in Company<\/a> and on TV in HBO’s\u00a0The Gilded Age, will release his debut solo album in April.<\/p>\n

Entitled\u00a0If the Stars Were Mine, the recording will be available in digital and streaming formats from Center Stage Records April 3, on CD April 10, and on vinyl later in the year.\u00a0Pre-add or pre-save the digital album, or pre-order the CD or vinyl here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bryan Perri<\/a> and Rodney Bush serve as music directors for the new recording\u00a0and also provide arrangements and orchestrations.\u00a0Elder and Andrew House\u00a0produce with\u00a0Perri as co-producer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If the Stars Were Mine features tunes from Sunday in the Park with George, Floyd Collins, Into the Woods, and If\/Then, as well as songs made famous by Whitney Houston, Eartha Kitt<\/a>, and
\nMelody Gardot, while weaving in themes of sex, fatherhood, and religion.<\/p>\n

The complete track listing follows:
1. “Something\u2019s Coming” (Leonard Bernstein<\/a> and Stephen Sondheim<\/a>, from West Side Story)
2. “I Wanna Dance with Somebody” (George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam)
3. “I Wanna to Be Evil” (Lester Judson and Raymond Taylor)
4. “Moments in the Woods” (Stephen Sondheim, from Into the Woods)
5. “On the Street Where You Live” (Alan Jay Lerner<\/a> and Frederick Loewe<\/a>, from My Fair Lady)
6. “If the Stars Were Mine” (Melody Gardot)
7. “Hey, Kid” (Tom Kitt<\/a> and Brian Yorkey<\/a>, from If\/Then)
8. “It\u2019s So Nice to Have a Man Around the House” (Harold Spina<\/a> and John Elliot)
9. “Till There Was You” (Meredith Wilson, from The Music Man)
10. “Finishing the Hat” (Stephen Sondheim, from Sunday in the Park with George)
11. “Lonesome Goodbye” (Mike Henderson and Chris Stapleton)
12. “How Glory Goes” (Adam Guettel<\/a>, from Floyd Collins)
13. “Paving the Runway” (JJ Heller, David Heller and Ross King)<\/p>\n

Elder will celebrate the album with three concerts at 54 Below April 3, April 4, and April 15. For tickets, click here<\/a>.\u00a0Prior to these shows, the actor\u00a0will star in the New York City Center Encores! production of Michael John LaChiusa<\/a>\u2019s The Wild Party March 18-29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Claybourne Elder, best known for his work on Broadway in Company and on TV in HBO’s\u00a0The Gilded Age,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-151067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}