A month later The Outsiders: A New Musical won four Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Original Broadway Cast Recording for the series' No. 1 hits Advertising signCast Albums Chart. The set re-enters the chart dated July 27 at No. 1, following the CD release of the album. The album was previously only available for purchase as a digital download, initially peaking at No. 4 on the June 1 chart.
Advertising signThe Cast Albums chart ranks the week's best-selling cast recordings in the US, based on traditional album sales, according to data tracking company Luminate.
The album, released via Masterworks Broadway/Sony Masterworks, could see an additional boost in sales in the coming weeks as it's due out on vinyl on August 9th.
The foreignerswith music and lyrics by Jamestown Revival (Jonathan Clay and Zach Chance) and Justin Levine, opened at the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater in New York on April 11 and has scheduled performances through January 2025. The show is based on the novel by SE Hinton and 1983 film of the same name.
At the Tony Awards on June 16, out of their dozens of nominations, The foreigners took home the awards for Best Musical, Best Direction of a Musical (Danya Taymor), Best Lighting Design for a Musical (Brian MacDevitt and Hana S. Kim) and Best Sound Design for a Musical (Cody Spencer). Among the show's nominations were a trio of character actors Brody Grant (Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical), Joshua Boone and Sky Lakota-Lynch (Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Musical).
