Snow White & Me: A New Musical – Original Cast Recording

JOY MACHINE RECORDS has announced the release of Snow White & Me: A New Musical – Original Cast Recording, available on streaming and digital platforms Friday, May 29. The full album is available to STREAM now.

With Music and Lyrics by West End composer Pippa Cleary and Book by Philip LaZebnik and Ronald Kruschak, Snow White & Me is a new family musical that brings a contemporary twist to the world of classic fairytales.

 

 

LaZebnik’s screenwriting credits include Disney’s Pocahontas and Mulan, and DreamWorks’ The Prince of Egypt and The Road to El Dorado. Cleary’s West End credits include The Great British Bake Off Musical, The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ The Musical and the Olivier-nominated My Son’s a Queer (But What Can You Do?), created by Rob Madge which played New York City Center last year.

Kruschak, a German-based writer, producer and filmmaker, initiated Snow White & Me as both a musical and film project; his musical A Little Peace, written with German composer-producer Ralph Siegel, premiered at Festival Hall Neuschwanstein and Deutsches Theater Munich in 2024.

Following many successful productions across Europe, including Czechia and Germany, Snow White & Me received its first English-language production at the Conservatory for the Performing Arts at Stephens College in Columbia, Missouri, directed by Lisa Brescia, whose Broadway performing credits include Dear Evan Hansen, Mamma Mia!, and Wicked.

 

 

This new original cast recording brings together that Missouri cast with West End musicians and a London-based musical creative team. Scott Schwartz was dramaturg on the project and crucial to the show’s development.

The album features Rob Madge as the Magic Mirror, and Director Lisa Brescia on the album’s final bonus track “My Sister,” performed with Cleary. Gea Rose Henry stars as Daisy, Angelina Nazario as Alex, Joe Murphy as Prince Jeremy, Kylie Howard as Endora, Matthew Kischer as Rumpelstiltskin, and Quinten Loveland as the Wolf.

 

 

Ensemble vocals feature students from Stephens College, including Keira Anderson, Chloe Anderson, Zack Anderson, Gabriel Beech, Stella Brown, Macie Bruderer, Josh Crowley, Isabella Clutter, Vivian K. Dick, Olivia Evans, Molly Foster, Carina Galloway, Devin Michael Leming, Wyatt Logan, Lily Mace, Wyatt Munsey, Hugh Paul, Sophia Poole, Isaac Robinson, Libby Serber, Kaley Sikora, Sydnee Sisk, Olivia Starnes, Kylie Steinhauser, Sarah Whitehead, Mallory Womeldorff and Nicholas Youngstead.

In Snow White & Me, two girls from the real world, Alex and Daisy, are pulled into a fairytale kingdom where stories are being rewritten by the evil Queen Endora.

 

 

With the help of a hapless prince, a cast of familiar fairytale figures, and a little courage, they must save Snow White and discover that they have the power to shape their own stories. Full of heart, comedy, adventure, and sweeping family-musical emotion, the score draws on Cleary’s lifelong love of Disney, with influences including Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz.

Cleary:

As a composer, this has been one of the most fulfilling creative journeys I have undertaken.I have always been a Disney fanatic and I’ve really relished the opportunity to embrace the sweeping melodies and irresistible, upbeat numbers that define a great family fantasy musical. The theme of finding your own story is what first drew me to the project, and working alongside such an incredible company of performers as well as the best music team I could have wished for has been a true delight.

This international recording was created between Missouri and London. Vocals were recorded in Missouri by Pete Szkolka, with West End players recorded at Auburn Jam Music in London. The album features orchestrations by Joe Davison and Simon Nathan, with Musical Direction by Nollie Moore and Joe Davison. Davison also handled supervision, production, mixing and mastering for the album.

Working with Pippa and her team has been such an incredible collaboration for us at Joy Machine Records. Pippa is a fresh voice in the Musical Theater landscape, and we’re so excited to help get her music out in the world.

Originally commissioned by Bettina Weyers of Berlin-based Gallissas, Snow White & Me has been developed internationally over nearly a decade by Cleary, LaZebnik and Kruschak, and now looks ahead to further life in the United States.

 

 

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