Musical by Marvin Hamlisch, Carole Bayer Sager and Neil Simon They’re playing our song has received a new cast recording in Spanish from Concord Theatricals Recordings via Teatro del Soho CaixaBank in Malaga, Spain. The album documents the company’s 2024 production of the musical under the direction of theater founder and artistic director Antonio Banderas.
called Let’s play our song in Spanish, the musical stars Miquel Fernandez and Maria Adamus as a composer and lyricist whose work collaboration develops into a tumultuous relationship. The work had a successful run on Broadway in 1979, initially starring Robert Klein and Lucie Arnaz.
The Spanish album is produced by Banderas, music director Arturo Diez Boscovich, Puerto Records Estudio’s Manolo Toro and Concord Theatricals CEO Sean Patrick Flahaven. Mark Montserrat-Drucker and Noelia Ortega are executive producers. The album was recorded, edited and mixed by Manolo Toro and mastered by Oscar Zambrano.
“It is my true pleasure to continue our valued relationship with Antonio and Teatro del Soho CaixaBank with the release of our fourth new Spanish-language album of the classic American musical,” Flahaven said in a statement. “Both the production and the recordings are always of the highest quality – the talent in Spain is remarkable.”
“In the two leading roles, we are lucky and privileged to have the sweet, funny, sassy and charming Maria Adamus and Miquel Fernandez, who perfectly understood the comic sensibility of Neil Simon, one of the greatest masters of American comedy, and were able to create a character in the tradition of such performers as Jack Lemmon, Steve Martin and Matthew Broderick, together with their amazing singing voice, undoubtedly one of the best male voices in Spanish musicals. theater,” adds Banderas.