Broadway Records has released the world premiere concept recording of Some Lovers, adapted by Burt Bacharach and Steven Sater from the O. Henry short story “The Gift of the Magi.” The album features performances from musical headliners Christy Altomare, Kristin Chenoweth, Lilli Cooper, Auli’i Cravalho, Santino Fontana, Molly Gordon, Jonathan Groff, Jennifer Holliday, Ramin Karimloo, Derek Klena, Katrina Lenk, Lea Michele, Laura Osnes, Ashley Park, Graham Phillips, Conrad Ricamora, Colton Ryan, Ari’el Stachel, and Ethan Slater, as well as Tracie Thoms and Betsy Wolfe, whom you can hear perform the show’s title track below.
The work is Bacharach’s first new theater score since Promises, Promises (1968). Some Lovers had its world premiere at San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre in 2011, after which Sater and Bacharach revised the work, which they previewed in a 2016 concert at Lincoln Center. Below, you can watch the Old Globe’s trailer (featuring Jenni Barber, Jason Danieley, Michelle Duffy, and Andrew Mueller) and a clip of “Hold Me” from the Lincoln Center concert with Jenni Barber, Andrew Mueller, and Jessica Phillips.
The show was then staged at London’s Other Palace in 2017 and at Adirondack Theatre Festival a year later. Below, you can see Aaron Kavanagh, Ben Richards, Gemma Wardle, and Jenna Innes in the Other Palace trailer and hear Sandra DeNise, Chris Hoch, Emily Schultheis, and Andrew Mueller in the Adirondack Theatre Festival trailer.