Auburn Jam Records has released the concept album of major new musical Broken Wings, an autobiographical tale of tragic love based on Lebanese-born poet Kahlil Gibran’s 1912 masterpiece.
The show is written by West End star Nadim Naaman (The Phantom of the Opera) and Dana Alfardan, one of the Middle East’s leading contemporary composers, and with orchestrations by Joe Davison.
The album release was marked with a celebration and performance at the Lebanese embassy in London recently, and it reached No 4 in the iTunes soundtrack chart.
The concept album cast is headed by Rob Houchen (Les Misérables, Titanic) and Hiba Elchikhe (Princess Jasmine in Disney’s Aladdin) as teenage protagonists Gibran and Selma, with composer Nadim Naaman (Raoul in the West End’s The Phantom of The Opera) as Gibran’s older self, the show’s narrator.
Adam Linstead (Les Misérables, Cats) plays Selma’s father, with Nadeem Crowe (School of Rock) as Gibran’s friend Karim, and Soophia Foroughi (Lady of the Lake, Spamalot) as Mother. The album also features Gillian Budd, Joseph Claus, Siubhan Harrison, James Hume, Irvine Iqbal, Nikita Johal, Sami Lamine, Leo Miles and Lauren James Ray.
Writer Gibran, whose seminal work The Prophet was an international best-seller, remains the third best-selling poet of all time, behind Shakespeare and Laozi.
The events in Broken Wings “highlight key social issues of the time - the fight for gender equality, the freedom to love who we love, tradition versus modernity, wealth versus happiness, immigration and the importance of ‘home’ - yet these themes are increasingly relevant today, over a century later”, a press statement notes.
Broken Wings: The Original Concept Album is now available for download via all major online retailers, including iTunes, AmazonMP3 and GooglePlay. Physical CD copies, complete with photographs of the workshop and recording cast, as well as concept art by designer Claudio Rosas, can be ordered for worldwide delivery from http://brokenwings.auburnjam.co.uk
Broken Wings will premiere as a semi-staged production with a nine-piece orchestra, directed by Bronagh Lagan and produced by Ali Matar, at the Theatre Royal Haymarket from August 1 to 4, where CDs will be available to purchase. The cast is to be announced.
The album release was marked with a celebration and performance at the Lebanese embassy in London recently, and it reached No 4 in the iTunes soundtrack chart.
The concept album cast is headed by Rob Houchen (Les Misérables, Titanic) and Hiba Elchikhe (Princess Jasmine in Disney’s Aladdin) as teenage protagonists Gibran and Selma, with composer Nadim Naaman (Raoul in the West End’s The Phantom of The Opera) as Gibran’s older self, the show’s narrator.
Adam Linstead (Les Misérables, Cats) plays Selma’s father, with Nadeem Crowe (School of Rock) as Gibran’s friend Karim, and Soophia Foroughi (Lady of the Lake, Spamalot) as Mother. The album also features Gillian Budd, Joseph Claus, Siubhan Harrison, James Hume, Irvine Iqbal, Nikita Johal, Sami Lamine, Leo Miles and Lauren James Ray.
Writer Gibran, whose seminal work The Prophet was an international best-seller, remains the third best-selling poet of all time, behind Shakespeare and Laozi.
The events in Broken Wings “highlight key social issues of the time - the fight for gender equality, the freedom to love who we love, tradition versus modernity, wealth versus happiness, immigration and the importance of ‘home’ - yet these themes are increasingly relevant today, over a century later”, a press statement notes.
Broken Wings: The Original Concept Album is now available for download via all major online retailers, including iTunes, AmazonMP3 and GooglePlay. Physical CD copies, complete with photographs of the workshop and recording cast, as well as concept art by designer Claudio Rosas, can be ordered for worldwide delivery from http://brokenwings.auburnjam.co.uk
Broken Wings will premiere as a semi-staged production with a nine-piece orchestra, directed by Bronagh Lagan and produced by Ali Matar, at the Theatre Royal Haymarket from August 1 to 4, where CDs will be available to purchase. The cast is to be announced.