They’ve got rhythm, they’ve got music and now they’ve got an original cast recording as well.

Anita Gaffney, executive director of the Stratford Festival, confirmed a rumour that has been circulating for the past few days, that the cast of the musical Crazy For You has been busy making the first true original cast recording in the festival’s history.

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In the past, Stratford has released mini-recordings of incidental music or songs from shows such as As You Like It, Peter Pan and Twelfth Night, but they have never done a full-length version of one of the numerous Broadway musicals they’ve produced over the decades.

“I’m do delighted this is finally happening,” Gaffney told the Star. “Over the years, we’ve sold the Broadway recordings in our store and it’s kind of broken my heart that it wasn’t us, our singers, our musicians.”

That will change come mid-June when the 16-song CD of Crazy For You is available, featuring all of director-choreographer Donna Feore’s 30 cast members, as well as the 21 musicians led by conductor Shelley Hanson.

Great standards by George and Ira Gershwin like “Someone to Watch Over Me,” “Embraceable You” and “I Got Rhythm” will be heard as sung by the cast headed by Natalie Daradich, Josh Franklin and Tom Rooney.

The album was recorded Sunday in Toronto at Phase One Studios.

“It all took place because of the real enthusiasm of our actors and musicians to make it happen,” says Gaffney. “They carved out the time from their incredibly packed schedules to see that it could all take the place. And the Gershwin estate were amazingly co-operative in making it happen.”

The album is being mixed this week in London, Ont., and should be available shortly afterwards either at the festival’s numerous shops or online at iTunes through the distribution arm CD Baby. The cost will be $25.

Gaffney hopes this will be the beginning of a whole series of Stratford recordings.