Broadway Records releases Ahrens & Flaherty - Nice Fighting You: A 30th Anniversary Celebration Live at 54 Below

June 03, 2014  /  Michael Moritz  /  Source

Ahrens and Flaherty - Nice Fighting You: Live at 54 Below

Esteemed composer and lyricist team, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty celebrated their 30th anniversary with a handful of live shows at 54 Below, which compiled some of their best known songs into a star studded concert series. Ahrens and Flaherty are the minds behind such musicals as Once On This Island, Ragtime, Seussical, and Anastasia, just to name a few. Michael J Moritz Jr produced and mixed this compilation album of their anniversary celebration, which was released on June 3, 2014 on Broadway Records.

Here is a clip of the live show, which features Brian Stokes Mitchell singing "The Impossible Dream" below:

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