Grammy Nominees Include Five Musicals Currently on Broadway

The cast recordings of five musicals currently running on Broadway will go head to head for Best Musical Show Album honors at the 2009 Grammy Awards, to be presented on February 8 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. The nominees in a total of 110 categories were announced on December 3.

Because the eligibility period for this year’s Grammys ran from October 1, 2007, to September 30, 2008, two songs from the movie musical Enchanted made the cut for Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television or other Visual Media and the soundtrack of Sweeney Todd was nominated for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Motion Picture, Television or other Visual Media.

This year’s nominees include:

BEST MUSICAL SHOW ALBUM
Gypsy
2008 Broadway Cast with Patti LuPone and Others; Time Life
Robert Sher, producer; Jule Styne, composer; Stephen Sondheim, lyricist

In The Heights
Original Broadway Cast with Lin-Manuel Miranda and Others; Razor & Tie Entertainment/Ghostlight Records
Kurt Deutsch, Alex Lacamoire, Andrés Levin, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Joel Moss & Bill Sherman, producers; Lin-Manuel Miranda, composer/lyricist

The Little Mermaid
Original Broadway Cast with Sierra Boggess, Tituss Burgess and others; Walt Disney Records
Bruce Botnick, Michael Kosarin, Alan Menken & Chris Montan, producers; AlanMenken, composer; Glenn Slater and Howard Ashman, lyricists

South Pacific
New Broadway Cast with Kelli O'Hara, Paulo Szot and Others; Masterworks Broadway
David Caddick, David Lai & Ted Sperling, producers; Richard Rodgers, composer; Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist

Young Frankenstein
Original Broadway Cast with Roger Bart, Megan Mullally, Sutton Foster & Others; Decca Broadway
Doug Besterman, producer; Mel Brooks, composer/lyricist

BEST COMPILATION SOUNDTRACK ALBUM FOR MOTION PICTURE, TELEVISION OR OTHER VISUAL MEDIA
American Gangster, Def Jam

August Rush, Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax

Juno, Fox Music/Rhino

Mamma Mia!, Decca Records

Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street, Nonesuch Records

BEST SONG WRITTEN FOR MOTION PICTURE, TELEVISION OR OTHER VISUAL MEDIA
"Down To Earth" From Wall-E
Peter Gabriel & Thomas Newman, songwriters Peter Gabriel

"Ever Ever After" From Enchanted
Alan Menken & Stephen Schwartz, songwriters Carrie Underwood

"Say" From The Bucket List
John Mayer, songwriter John Mayer

"That's How You Know" From Enchanted
Alan Menken & Stephen Schwartz, songwriters Amy Adams

"Walk Hard" From Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
Judd Apatow, Marshall Crenshaw, Jake Kasdan & John C. Reilly, songwriters John C. Reilly