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"The Wilde Spirit"

ORIGINAL OFF-BROADWAY CAST ALBUM RECORDING ON CD

MUSIC & LYRICS 
by KERRY ASHTON

Orchestrations and Vocal Arrangements, with Orchestra Conducted & Digitally Created
by KENNETH MOORE

Starring
KERRY ASHTON as OSCAR WILDE

With Voice-Overs by:
Judith Moore as Lady Jane Wilde
George Holmes as Edward Carson and Richard D'Oyly Carte
Tony Kish as Wilde's Prison Guard
Kerry Ashton as Alfred Taylor, as the Judge, and as all Trial Witnesses
Judith Moore, Ken Moore, Melanie Vaughan, Don Bradford, Kerry Ashton as Chorale Singers
With Incidental Voices by Bruce Ward, George Holmes, and Tony Kish

MUSICAL NUMBERS & INTERLUDES
ACT  ONE

OVERTURE   (Instrumental)
INVOCATION TO A DREAM (Kerry Ashton, Ensemble)
REMEMBERING BOSIE, Interlude 1 (Kerry Ashton)
AN IRISH LULLABY (Kerry Ashton, Judith Moore)
VOICES OF CHILDHOOD (Kerry Ashton, Ensemble)
THE MAN OF MIRRORS (Kerry Ashton)
TWO LOVES (Kerry Ashton)
A LITTLE PATIENCE (Kerry Ashton, George Holmes)
AMERICAN HURRAH! (Kerry Ashton, Ensemble)
AMERICAN HURRAH! (Reprise) (Ensemble)
THE HARLOT'S HOUSE (Kerry Ashton)
CONSISTENTLY CONSTANCE (Kerry Ashton)
REMEMBERING BOSIE, Interlude 2 (Kerry Ashton)
HOMAGE TO DORIAN (Kerry Ashton)
REMEMBERING BOSIE, Interlude 3 (Kerry Ashton)
OPENING NIGHT (Kerry Ashton)
COMEDIAN (Kerry Ashton)

ACT  TWO

ENTR’ACTE (Instrumental)
THE MAN OF MIRRORS (Reprise) (Kerry Ashton)
OPENING NIGHT (Reprise) (Kerry Ashton)
DEAREST FRIEND (Kerry Ashton)
THE LOVE THAT DARE NOT SPEAK ITS NAME (Kerry Ashton, Paul Baccus, Ensemble)
WHAT HAPPENS TO THE MAN? (Kerry Ashton, Tony Kish)
DE PROFUNDIS, Interlude 1 (Kerry Ashton)
DE PROFUNDIS, Interlude 2 (Kerry Ashton)
DEAREST FRIEND (Reprise) (Kerry Ashton)
CONSISTENTLY CONSTANCE (Reprise) (Kerry Ashton)
THE ASCENSION (Kerry Ashton, Judith Moore)
FINALE  (Kerry Ashton, Ensemble)
BOWS (Instrumental)

All music recorded at Westrax Studio, New York City and registered with ASCAP;Strauss' "Weiner Blut" and Gilbert & Sullivan's "Patience" used by permission; Kerry Ashton appears through the courtesy of Actors' Equity Association and the Screen Actors Guild as well as the 
American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.
Published play, music and lyrics of THE WILDE SPIRIT © 2013 Kerry Ashton; 
Recorded Music and Lyrics Registered with ASCAP,  © 2015 Kerry Ashton. All Rights Reserved.