… that’s assuming that there are no existing issues with outstanding royalties to any of the profit participants who created the show – the director, the 3-to-7 choreographers (depending on how you count), and the 6 definitively credited co-authors.
If there are any unresolved financial matters with any of them – or for that matter, any threat of possible litigation regarding payment to those writers – then paid for or not, mixed or not, the album is almost certain to sit on a shelf until that’s all largely resolved. (I’m not saying I’ve heard rumors of lawyers getting involved, but I’m definitely not saying I haven’t.). There’s a reason it took three years for the cast album of Grand Hotel to get recorded and released back in the early 1990s - and while clearly a very different set of circumstances, some similarly complex issues apply. |
