Recording of Alex Wyse Solo Musical Picking Up Speed Released August 8

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Recording of Alex Wyse Solo Musical Picking Up Speed Released August 8

The new musical played the Royal Family Performing Arts Center in December.

The cast recording of Picking Up Speed, a new solo musical written and performed by Alex Wyse, is released August 8 by Rialto Records and is available on all major streaming services and digital music retailers.

Picking Up Speed,
which had a sold-out run at the Royal Family Performing Arts Center in
December, is a solo musical about infidelity
between friends and the whirlwind relationships that define us.

Kyle Brenn serves as orchestrator and music director with Myrna Conn on piano/keyboard, David Mayers on guitars, Ana Lei on cello, Amanda Ruzza on bass, Andrew Golub on saxophone, Michael Golub on trumpet, Blake Carey on trombone, and Kyle Brenn on drums/percussion.

“Picking Up Speed
began as a letter to a long-lost friend that eventually snowballed into
a full-length solo musical. Now it is a cast album, a story-slam, and a
solo record all in one,” said creator Wyse in a statement. “But despite
the word ‘solo,’ this show represents a small village of collaborators
who
allowed their passions to meet mine…And whether or not that long-lost
friend ever hears it, it now belongs to you, the listener, and I hope it
inspires you to sing your own stories as well.”

The album is produced by Cody Lassen and Wyse, co-produced by Kyle Brenn and James Forbes Sheehan, executive-produced by Jesse Stalnaker, Peter McKown, and Sean Cocchia, and associate-produced by Matthew D’Arrigo.

Picking Up Speed was recorded at The Cutting Room Studios NYC and was engineered and mixed by Zoltan Sindhu.

Wyse has appeared on Broadway in Good Night, Oscar; Waitress; Deaf West’s Spring Awakening; and Lysistrata Jones; on tour in Wicked; and Off-Broadway in A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet (which he also co-wrote), Ride the Cyclone, Bare, and Triassic Parq. This summer, he co-directed Cellino v. Barnes, which continues Off-Broadway.

For more information on the new recording, click here.