Original Broadway Cast Recording

Masterworks Broadway is reissuing the original cast recording of 1963's Spoon River Anthology.  The show was a not a full musical but rather a play with music based upon the poems of Edgar Lee Masters.  Charles Aidman conceived, starred, directed and wrote the lyrics for the show.  The music was by Naomi Caryl Hirshhorn, who also performed as a singer in the show.  Spoon River opened in September 1963 at the Booth Theater and eventually transferred to the Belasco Theater where it closed in January 1964 after 111 total performances.  This reissue will mark the album's first appearance in the digital era as a MOD CD-R and DD.