Ted Shen
A Second Chance (Original Cast Recording)

The Original Cast Recording of A Second Chance features a deluxe jewel case package containing a 36-page full color booklet with lyrics, show photos, a show synopsis by composer/lyricist/bookwriter Ted Shen, and essays by The Public Theater’s Artistic Director, Oskar Eustis, and Yale University musical theater composition professor Josh Rosenblum.
A stirring musical journey, A Second Chance tells the New York story of a recent widower and a divorcée who meet in mid-life and mid-crisis. Presented with the overwhelming challenge of freeing themselves from their painful pasts, neither feels deserving of happiness. Yet, the awakening of unanticipated feelings leads them to a possibility they both least expected to find.

The music, books and lyrics are written by Ted Shen with orchestrations by Bruce Coughlin and performances by Brian and Diane Sutherland. A Second Chance opened on March 30, 2014 at The Public Theater, NYC.

1. “Dreams”
2. “Not at All”
3. “Perfectly Wrong”
4. “Tell Me When”
5. “The Museum Song”
6. “Never”
7. “Snow Globe”
8. “The Bar Song”
9. “Damaged Goods”
10. “Lullaby”
11. Waltz
12. “I Can’t Wait”
13. “Tell Me When” Reprise
14. “The Friends Song”
15. “Ghosts”
16. “Our House”
17. “Here I Go Again”
18. “You Started It!”
19. “Damaged Goods” Reprise
20. “Perfect”
21. “You Don’t Have to Worry”
22. “A Second Chance”/”Lullaby”