Sh-K-Boom Records

Infobox Company
company_name = Sh-K-Boom Records /
Ghostlight Records
type = Independent Record Label
company_
foundation = 2000
location = New York, NY, USA
key_people = Kurt Deutsch, Sherie Rene Scott
homepage = [http://www.sh-k-boom.com]

Sh-K-Boom Records is a record label, a producer of recorded and live entertainment, and an interactive community at www.sh-k-boom.com — all devoted to the mission of bridging the gap between pop music and theater. Founded by Kurt Deutsch and Sherie Rene Scott in 2000, Sh-K-Boom has over 40 albums in its catalogue, produced over 50 live concerts in their Sh-K-Boom Room Concert Series, and is developing new and innovative projects for the stage and screen. In 2004 Sh-K-Boom created their second imprint, Ghostlight Records a label dedicated to the preservation of traditional musical theater.

Sh-K-Boom has produced and released the debut solo albums of Broadway stars such as Adam Pascal, Sherie Rene Scott, Patti LuPone, Kelli O'Hara, Alice Ripley, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Judy Kuhn, Christine Ebersole, Julia Murney and Klea Blackhurst.

Sh-K-Boom has also produced and released cast albums, some of which include: the World Premiere Recording of Michel Legrand’s musical "Amour" (9 Drama Desk nominations and 5 Tony Award nominations); Jason Robert Brown’s musical, "The Last Five Years" (winner of the 2002 Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Music and Outstanding Lyrics); the debut CD for the hit off-Broadway sensation "Altar Boyz"; the Tony Award-winning production of "The Drowsy Chaperone"; the off-Broadway revival of "The Fantasticks", as well as "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Little Women, and White Christmas".

Sh-K-Boom Records most recently released the Original Broadway Cast Albums for the critically acclaimed "Passing Strange" as well as the smash hit and winner of the 2008 Tony Award for Best Musical In the Heights (musical). The Original Broadway Cast Album for In the Heights (musical) debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Top Cast Albums chart and arrived on The Billboard 200 at No. 82.

Sh-K-Boom Records has been nominated four times for a Grammy Award; their first for "Great Joy! A Gospel Christmas" by Michael McElroy’s acclaimed Broadway Inspirational Voices. Sh-K-Boom is also developing original Broadway and Off-Broadway musicals, as well as other recording projects with New Generation Broadway artists and composers.

Albums

2001-2004
*Sherie Rene Scott - "Men I've Had"
*Adam Pascal - "Model Prisoner"
*Alice Ripley - "Everything's Fine"
*"The Last Five Years"
*""
*"Amour"
*"Great Joy: A Gospel Christmas"
*"A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant"
*Adam Pascal - "Civilian"
*Christine Ebersole - "In Your Dreams"
*"Finian's Rainbow"
*"The New Moon"

2005
*"Hair (musical) - The Actors’ Fund of America Benefit Recording"
*"Little Women (musical)"
*"Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (musical)"
*"Altar Boyz"
*"The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee"
*"Bright Lights, Big City"
*Jason Robert Brown - "Wearing Someone Else’s Clothes"
*Billy Porter - "Live At the Corner of Broadway + Soul"
*"The Immigrant"

2006
*"The Great American Trailer Park Musical"
*"See What I Wanna See"
*"Songs from an Unmade Bed"
*Kevin Cahoon - "Doll"
*Patti LuPone - "The Lady With The Torch"
*Julia Murney - "I'm Not Waiting"
*"The Drowsy Chaperone"
*"George M. Cohan Tonight"
*"title of show"
*"Bernarda Alba"
*Klea Blackhurst - "Autumn in New York: Vernon Duke’s Broadway"
*Daphne Rubin-Vega - "Redemption Songs"
*"Irving Berlin’s White Christmas"
*"The Fantasticks"
*"Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris"

2007
*"Orpheus & Euridice"
*"Happy End (musical)"
*"The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin"
*Martin Short - "Fame Becomes Me"
*"High Fidelity (musical)"
*"The Coast of Utopia"
*""
*Judy Kuhn - "Serious Playground: The Songs of Laura Nyro"
*"LoveMusik"

2008
*"Gone Missing" - The Civilians
*Kelli O'Hara - "Wonder in the World"
*David Yazbek - "Evil Monkey Man"
*"Make me a Song": The Music of William Finn (2-disc)
*Christine Ebersole & Billy Stritch - "Sunday in New York"
*"In the Heights (musical)" Original Broadway Cast Recording (2-disc)
*"Passing Strange" Original Broadway Cast Recording
*"Little Fish" World Premiere Recording
*Bailey Hanks - "So Much Better" (Single)
*Toby Lightman - "Waiting" (Single)
*Lea DeLaria - "The Live Smoke Sessions"
*"Frankenstein - A New Musical" - Original Cast Recording
*Orfeh - "What Do You Want From Me"
*"13" - Original Broadway Cast Recording
*Patti LuPone - "Les Mouches"
*Sutton Foster - "Wish"

Links

* [http://sh-k-boom.com/ Sh-K-Boom Records]
* [http://www.myspace.com/shkboomrecords Sh-K-Boom's MySpace]
* [http://www.ghostlightrecords.com/ Ghostlight Records]
* [http://www.broadwayspace.com/profile/ShKBoomRecordsGhostlightRecords/ Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight on BroadwaySpace]