A month after The Outsiders: A New Musical took residence 4 Tony Awards, together with greatest musical, the unique Broadway forged recording of the present hits No. 1 on Billboard’s Forged Albums chart. The set re-enters the July 27-dated chart at No. 1, following the album’s CD launch. The album had beforehand been obtainable to buy solely as a digital obtain, initially peaking at No. 4 on the June 1 chart.
Billboard’s Forged Albums chart ranks the top-selling forged recordings of the week within the U.S., based mostly on conventional album gross sales, in response to knowledge monitoring agency Luminate.
The album, launched through Masterworks Broadway/Sony Masterworks, may see an extra gross sales enhance within the coming weeks, as it’s slated for launch on vinyl on Aug. 9.
The Outsiders, with music and lyrics by Jamestown Revival (Jonathan Clay and Zach Probability) and Justin Levine, opened on the Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre in New York on April 11 and has scheduled performances via January 2025. The present relies on the S.E. Hinton novel and the 1983 movie of the identical identify.
On the June 16 Tony Awards, of its dozen nominations, The Outsiders introduced residence the awards for greatest musical, greatest path of a musical (Danya Taymor), greatest lighting design of a musical (Brian MacDevitt and Hana S. Kim) and greatest sound design of a musical (Cody Spencer). Among the many present’s nominations had been a trio of nods for actors Brody Grant (greatest efficiency by an actor in a number one position in a musical), Joshua Boone and Sky Lakota-Lynch (greatest efficiency by an actor in a featured position in a musical).
