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The Prince of Egypt (Original Cast Recording)
Manager: Anthony Field
Orchestration: August Eriksmoen
Second Violin: Daniel Bhattacharya
Drums: Daniel Ellis
Music Copier: Dave Hagen
Horn: David McQueen
Conductor: David Rose
Music Director: David Rose
Second Violin: Dominic Moore
Music Arranger: Dominick Amendum
Producer: Dominick Amendum
Music Supervisor: Dominick Amendum
Horn: Duncan Fuller
Viola: Fiona Leggat
Music Copier: Jake Parker
Recording & Mixing: Jeremy Murphy
Bouzouki, Guitar: John Gregson
Executive Producer: Kurt Deutsch
Pro Tools: Laura Becks
Cello: Magda Pietraszewska
Associate Music Director: Mark Collins
Keyboards: Mark Collins
Percussion: Murdoch MacDonald
Violin Leader: Nina Foster
Masterer: Oscar Zambrano
First Violin: Penny Ainscow
Viola: Polly Wiltshire
Double Bass: Rory Dempsey
Woodwind: Rupert Widdows
Music Copier: Ryan Driscoll
Second Violin: Sebastian Rudnicki
First Violin: Sonya Fairbairn
Producer: Stephen Schwartz
Designer: Taylor Williams
Flugelhorn, Trumpet: Tony Cross
Composer, Lyricist: Stephen Schwartz
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The Prince of Egypt is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, and a book by Philip LaZebnik. Based on the 1998 Biblical animated film of the same name, the musical follows the life of Moses from being a prince of Egypt to his ultimate destiny of leading the Children of Israel out of Egypt.
The Prince of Egypt is an adaptation of the biblical story of Moses, who grows from a Hebrew baby set adrift on the Nile by his mother Yocheved to escape genocide, to an adopted Egyptian prince, and finally into God’s deliverer of the Hebrews from the oppression of his brother, Ramses.
Musical numbers
Titles of songs which appeared in the original 1998 animated film are in bold.
| Act I “Deliver Us” – Yocheved, Queen Tuya, Young Miriam and Company “Faster” – Moses, Ramses, Hotep and Company “One Weak Link” – Seti “Footprints on the Sand” – Moses “Seti’s Return” – Company “Dance to the Day” – Tzipporah “All I Ever Wanted” – Miriam, Moses, Yocheved, Seti and Queen Tuya “Make It Right” – Ramses and Moses “Moses in the Desert” – Moses and Company “Through Heaven’s Eyes” – Jethro and Company “Faster (Reprise)” – Ramses and Moses “Never in a Million Years” – Tzipporah and Moses “Act I Finale: Deliver Us (Reprise) / All I Ever Wanted (Reprise)” – Hotep, Ramses, Nefertari, Queen Tuya, Moses, Jethro and Company | Act II “Return to Egypt” – Tzipporah, Hotep and Company “Always On Your Side” – Ramses and Moses “Simcha” – Moses, Miriam, Tzipporah and Company “Deliver Us (Reprise II)” – Aaron and Company “The Plagues” – Moses, Hotep, Ramses, Nefertari, Miriam, Queen Tuya, Aaron and Company “For the Rest of My Life” – Moses “Heartless” – Nefertari “When You Believe” – Miriam, Tzipporah, Moses and Company “Never in a Million Years (Reprise)” – Tzipporah and Moses “Act II Finale: When You Believe (Reprise) / Footprints on the Sand (Reprise)” – Miriam Moses, Yocheved, Tzipporah, Seti, Queen Tuya, Jethro, Aaron, Company |
Stephen Schwartz
Stephen Lawrence Schwartz (born March 6, 1948) is an American musical theater lyricist and composer. In a career spanning over four decades, Schwartz has written such hit musicals as Godspell (1971), Pippin (1972), and Wicked (2003). He has contributed lyrics to a number of successful films, including Pocahontas (1995), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), The Prince of Egypt (1998, music and lyrics), and Enchanted (2007). Schwartz has won the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics, three Grammy Awards, three Academy Awards, and has been nominated for six Tony Awards. He received the 2015 Isabelle Stevenson Award, a special Tony Award, for his commitment to serving artists and fostering new talent.
Major works
Schwartz, 2017
Stage
- Butterflies Are Free (1969) – title song (play and movie)
- Godspell (1971) – composer, lyricist
- Mass (1971) – English texts (in collaboration with Leonard Bernstein)
- Pippin (1972) – composer, lyricist
- The Magic Show (1974) – composer, lyricist
- The Baker’s Wife (1976) – composer, lyricist
- Working (1978) – adaptation, direction, composer, lyricist of 4 songs
- Personals (1985) – composer of 3 songs
- The Trip (1986) – children’s show – composer, lyricist
- Rags – (1986) lyricist
- Children of Eden (1991) – composer, lyricist
- Der Glöckner von Notre Dame (1999 Berlin) – lyricist to Alan Menken (stage version of Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame); Michael Kunze translated the lyrics to German; English version in 2013
- Wicked (2003) – composer, lyricist
- Tiruvasakam – 2005 English translation of selected verses of the Tamil hymn on Lord Siva by Manickavasagar; Indian composer Ilaiyaraaja wrote the music.
- Snapshots (2005)
- Captain Louie (2005)
- Mit Eventyr – My Fairy Tale (2005) – contributed 6 songs
- Séance on a Wet Afternoon (2009), opera
- The Prince of Egypt (2017) – composer, lyricist, based on the film
- Schikaneder [de] (2016), Vienna
Recordings
- Reluctant Pilgrim (1997)
- Uncharted Territory (2001)
Books
- Defying Gravity (2008) – biography
Film
- Godspell (1973) – composer, lyricist
- Pocahontas (1995) – lyricist
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) – lyricist
- The Prince of Egypt (1998) – composer, lyricist
- Enchanted – (2007) lyricist
- Wicked (2021) – co-screenwriter, composer, lyricist
- Disenchanted – lyricist
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame – lyricist
- Marley – composer, lyricist
Television
- Working – director
- Geppetto (2000) – composer, lyricist
- Johnny and the Sprites (2005) – theme song
Choral
- The Chanukah Song (We are Lights)
- Kéramos
- Thiruvasakam in Symphony (2005)
- Testimony (2012)