{"id":326755,"date":"2026-08-21T16:34:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T16:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/326755\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T16:34:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T16:34:24","slug":"get-a-1st-listen-to-brooke-ishibashi-singing-will-you-let-me-know-from-the-lazours-night-side-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/326755\/","title":{"rendered":"Get a 1st Listen to Brooke Ishibashi Singing &#8216;Will You Let Me Know?&#8217; From The Lazours&#8217; Night Side Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the August 21 digital release for the Off-Broadway cast album of <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/the-lazours\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Lazours<\/a>&#8216;\u00a0<a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/production\/night-side-songs-off-broadway-claire-tow-theater-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Night Side Songs<\/a>, get a first listen to <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/brooke-ishibashi-performer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brooke Ishibashi<\/a> singing &#8220;Will You Let Me Know?&#8221; above.\u00a0Pre-save the full album from\u00a0Octoverse Media and Warner Music Group&#8217;s Arts Music <a href=\"https:\/\/octoversemedia.lnk.to\/NightSideSongs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>. Physical CD and vinyl editions are expected later this year.<\/p>\n<p>The release captures <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/lincoln-center-theater-producer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lincoln Center Theater<\/a>&#8216;s Off-Broadway production that performed earlier this year with a cast also including\u00a0Robin de Jes\u00fas, <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/jonathan-raviv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Raviv<\/a>, Kris Saint-Louis, and <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/mary-testa-vault-0000043053\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mary Testa<\/a>.\u00a0Directed by <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/taibi-magar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Taibi Magar<\/a> (We Live in Cairo), the work is inspired by an insight from writer Susan Sontag that &#8220;illness is the night side of life.&#8221; In the show, Ishibashi plays a woman diagnosed with cancer and her interactions with loved ones and medical professionals.<\/p>\n<p>The score was developed with Madeline Benson. The album is produced by <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/mara-isaacs-vault-0000001389\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Mara Isaacs<\/a>, <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/todd-sickafoose\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Todd Sickafoose<\/a>, and <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/andy-einhorn\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Andy Einhorn<\/a>, and co-produced by Daniel Lazour and <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/patrick-lazour-vault-0000127048\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Patrick Lazour<\/a>. Music direction is by <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/alex-bechtel-musician\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Bechtel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The production stars de Jes\u00fas (The Boys in the Band, In The Heights) as Dr. Henry Verlaine\/<a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/lillian-jones-vault-0000046068\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lillian Jones<\/a>\/Uncle Jere, Ishibashi (Into the Woods) as Yasmine, Raviv (The Band&#8217;s Visit) as Frank, Testa (Oklahoma!, 42nd Street) as Desir\u00e9e\/Prudence of Dursley, and Saint-Louis (Mexodus) as Pilgrim\/Nurse\/Harris Reading. Casting was by <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/the-telsey-office-casting\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Telsey Office<\/a>&#8216;s Taylor Williams.<\/p>\n<p>Night Side Songs originated in a world premiere co-production between <a data-crosslink=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/playbill.com\/person\/american-repertory-theater\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">American Repertory Theater<\/a> at Harvard University and Philadelphia Theatre Company, following a commission by American Repertory Theater. The show was further developed and presented by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in the Under the Radar Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/lct.org\/\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">LCT.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of the August 21 digital release for the Off-Broadway cast album of The Lazours&#8216;\u00a0Night Side Songs, get&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-326755","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\/326755","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=326755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}