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Your Lie in April Stage Musical Soundtrack With London Cast Will Be Released Online On Aprll 4

On April 4, Ghostlight Records will release the soundtrack for the London version of the stage musical version of Your Lie in April, based on Naoshi Arakawa's manga. The soundtrack will be released on platforms including Spotify, Amazon Music (Streaming), Apple Music, iTunes, Pandora, Deezer, Tidal and YouTube Music.

One song from the musical, entitled "Catch a Shooting Star," can already be streamed.

The musical ran at The Harold Pinter Theatre in London's West End, from June 28 to August 11 2024, following a concert version which ran at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane on April 8 and 9 the same year.

The UK cast from June to August included Zheng Xi Yong as Kosei Arima, Mia Kobayashi as Kaori Miyazona, Rachel Clare Chan as Tsubaki Sawabe and Dean John-Wilson as Ryota Watari.

Frank Wildhorn, an American composer known for songs sung by Whitney Houston ("Where Do Broken Hearts Go?") and Natalie Cole, scored the musical. Wildhorn also previously sored musical versions of Death Note and Fist of the North Star, and is a Broadway veteran of such hit musicals as Jekyll & Hyde and The Scarlet Pimpernel. Tracy Miller Schell and Carly Robyn Green co-wrote the lyrics with Wildhorn. Composer Jason Howland (Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Jekyll & Hyde) was in charge of the arrangement and orchestration for the musical. Ikko Ueda directed the musical, while Riko Sakaguchi (The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, Mary and The Witch's Flower) wrote the book.

Arakawa's original manga follows Kōsei Arima, a former child prodigy who lost his ability to play the piano when his mother died. His daily life is monochrome, but it begins to gain color when he meets a female violinist by chance. Kaori Miyazono is an audacious go-getter who is overflowing with personality. Enchanted by the girl, Kōsei begins to rediscover his love for piano when Kaori invites him to be her accompanist for a competition.

The manga debuted in Kodansha's Monthly Shonen Magazine in 2011, and ended in February 2015. The series won the Best Shōnen Manga category in Kodansha's 37th Annual Manga Awards in 2013. Kodansha Comics released the manga in North America, and released the 11th and final volume in December 2018.

A television anime series of Arakawa's manga premiered in 2014, animated by A-1 Pictures. The manga also received a live-action film, which opened in Japan in September 2016. An earlier non-musical stage play debuted in 2017.

Source: Anime Bluray UK