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Article: Show-tune kings: with cast albums ranging from Nine to the gay off-Broadway smash Zanna, Don't! life and business partners Tommy Krasker and Philip Chaffin make their PS Classics label a labor of love.(Interview)
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- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- December 9, 2003
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For music producer Tommy Krasker and actor-singer Philip Chaffin, Broadway has gone to the dogs--specifically, to their pets Please, an Australian cattle dog, and Sumner, a bull terrier, for whom Krasker and Chaffin named their successful indie label PS Classics. In much the same way they rescued their canine pals from the Pasadena, Calif., dog pound, the couple are on a joint mission of love to save select vintage musicals.
"We know we're not doing Top 40," says bookish and bespectacled Krasker, 44, who produced, among others, the Broadway cast recording of Titanic and the cast album for the early Stephen Sondheim rarity Saturday Night. "But we know we're doing ...
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