One-Night-Only Broadway Musical Glory Days Gets Cast Album

Glory Days, the Broadway musical that famously played just one performance last season, will be preserved with an original cast recording. The four-member company—Steven Booth, Andrew C. Call, Jesse JP Johnson and Adam Halpin--will reunite in the studio in July for the album, expected to be released later in the year.

The rock musical features a score by Nick Blaemire (who is also a performer, having appeared in Cry-Baby) and a book by James Gardiner. Directed by Eric Schaeffer, Glory Days premiered at the Tony-winning Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia in January 2008 to positive reviews. Plans were quickly announced for the small-scale show to land at Broadway’s Circle in the Square Theatre, where it started performances on April 22, 2008. The show opened on May 6, 2008 to negative reviews (although Ben Brantley in The New York Times offered that the show's authors were “gifted”), with word emerging the following day that musical’s opening night performance had also been its closing.
 
Glory Days is the story of four best friends who meet on their old high school football field a year after having graduated and moved on to separate colleges. In the year they’ve spent away from each other, they’ve begun to grow apart in ways that they don’t notice until they’re finally back together, on the field that made them friends in the first place.

The original cast recording of Glory Days will be distributed by Friends of Ghostlight, an extension of Sh-K-Boom and Ghostlight Records.