Grammy Noms Announced; Ghostlight Garners Three Out of Five Musical Nods

The National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences announces Grammy nominations in over 100 categories every year. There is one category that Broadway fans tend to care about the most: Best Musical Show Album. Ghostlight Records produced three of the five nominees this year.

"Ghostlight is only a year old," Kurt Deutsch, who runs Ghostlight and the five-year-old label, Sh-K-Boom, told Broadway.com, "and this kind of legitimizes the work that we're doing. It's nice to be recognized and I'm so proud of David Yazbek and Bill Finn. I'm also especially happy about Hair because it's for charity. It's really great that a little label with two employees can do this."

Here are the 2005 nominees:

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Billy Straus & David Yazbek, producers
David Yazbek, composer/lyricist
Ghostlight Records

Hair
Kurt Deutsch & Joel Moss, producers
Galt MacDermot, composer/James Rado & Gerome Ragni, lyricists
Ghostlight Records

The Light In The Piazza
Steven Epstein, producer
Adam Guettel, composer/lyricist
Nonesuch

Monty Python's Spamalot
John Du Prez & Eric Idle, producers
John Du Prez, composer; Eric Idle, composer/lyricist
Decca Broadway

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee
Kurt Deutsch & Joel Moss, producers
William Finn, composer/lyricist
Razor & Tie/Ghostlight Records The 48th Annual Grammy Awards will be held on Wednesday, February 8 at Staples Center in Los Angeles.