Giant (World Premiere Recording)

Based on the classic novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edna Ferber, GIANT is a new American musical that spans generations in an epic chronicle of the state that's like no place else on earth: Texas. Amid a turbulent culture of greed, bigotry and money, a powerful cattleman, his new East Coast bride, their family and friends – not to mention their enemies – embrace and confront the joys and sorrows that loom as large as the state they call home.

With a book by Sybille Pearson (the Tony-nominated author of Baby), music and lyrics by Michael John LaChiusa (the five-time Tony-nominated composer of The Wild Party and Hello Again) and direction by Michael Greif (the three-time Tony-nominated director of Rent and The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide...), GIANT will come to life in an appropriately huge production with a company of 22 actors and a 17-piece orchestra.

GIANT is a co-production with Dallas Theater Center and a project of The Public's Musical Theater Initiative. GIANT is made possible with the generous support of THE TED AND MARY JO SHEN CHARITABLE FUND

A Musical by Michael John LaChiusa

"Giant is the MOST IMPORTANT NEW MUSICAL to come along since The Light in the Piazza. It's a show of immense and fully realized promise. Michael John LaChiusa is one of the most prodigiously gifted musical-theater songwriters since Stephen Sondheim."

–Wall Street Journal

"ALREADY ONE OF THE BEST MUSICALS OF THE YEAR! Wonderfully intimate and complex, Giant reaches peaks of genuine greatness. Brian d'Arcy James and Kate Baldwin are both stars of the first order." 

–Huffington Post

"BREATHTAKING!"

–The New York Times

"GRADE: A! Michael John LaChiusa has crafted ONE OF THE FINEST NEW AMERICAN MUSICALS IN RECENT MEMORY. He and book writer Sybille Pearson establish surprising depths – it is the story and its epic but human sweep that will draw you in." 

–Entertainment Weekly

"FOUR STARS! Michael John LaChiusa's score spills over with emotion and yearning. Michael Greif has done an amazing job, and his cast is superb."

–New York Daily News

"It's big! There is much to sing about in this highly ambitious new musical. Brian d'Arcy James and the radiant Kate Baldwin deliver POWERHOUSE PERFORMANCES." 

–NY1

"An eloquent, robust new musical. A TOUR DE FORCE PERFORMANCE by Kate Baldwin."

–Associated Press