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Concord Theatricals Recordings announced today that it will release the original cast recording of MCC Theater’s acclaimed world premiere production of The Connector. Featuring a new score from composer and lyricist Jason Robert Brown, the album was recorded at The DiMenna Center for Classical Music. With a book by Jonathan Marc Sherman and conceived and directed by Daisy Prince, this timely new musical follows two talented young journalists on increasingly diverging paths. Set in the late 1990s amid a rapidly changing media landscape we meet a fast-rising writer, Ethan Dobson, and an assistant copy editor, Robin Martinez, at the revered magazine The Connector. In a world that values the next big sensation, Ethan’s writing prowess and ambition force him to confront how far he’ll go for the ultimate scoop and Robin to consider how far she’ll go to stop him. The album is produced by four-time Emmy® Award-winner Jeffrey Lesser and three-time Tony Award-winner Brown (Parade, The Bridges of Madison County), who also serves as arranger, orchestrator and pianist. Three-time GRAMMY® Award-winner Sean Patrick Flahaven, Chief Theatricals Executive for Concord, is the album’s co-producer. “This score is a huge leap forward for me musically, and it’s so exciting to record it with this remarkable cast and these fantastic musicians. This is a real passion project for everyone involved, getting to explore ideas that really matter to us, and you can hear that passion pour out in these tracks. I just feel so lucky to be in the room with this level of talent, an entire studio filled with musicians at the peak of their interpretive powers. Creating this show with Jonathan and Daisy has been a dream – recording it with Tom and Jeffrey and Sean really takes it all to the next level.” - Jason Robert Brown