Hear the original West End Prince of Egypt cast sing 'When You Believe'
returned to write the music and lyrics, bringing over five songs from the DreamWorks Animation film, as well as writing 10 new songs. Original screenwriter Philip LaZebnik also reprised his role on the project, writing the book for the stage adaptation.
When you were hitting on the sound overall, both back then and now, what were some of your inspirations, particularly in terms of setting or religious context? I really liked the percussion sounds, and one thing we did for for the show was rather than use a normal drum kit, we actually made a drum kit out of authentic drums of the area. So rather than a bass drum or a kick drum, there were the more ethnic drums: doumbeks and riqs and things like that. We had our drummer use those, and that's heavily featured in the score.Yes, they did.
Absolutely. It's not only purposeful, it's the reason it's coming out now — as a celebration, first of all, for Passover, because after all, this is the Passover story. And then Easter as well. The show is on hiatus in the West End, so first thought was, "Well, why bring the cast album out when the show isn't there right now?" But then we thought of it as a sort of Passover and Easter gift. It would be nice to have it out there and share the story through the music.
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