Sophia Anne Caruso has given audiences their first listen to the score of her new Off Broadway musical, and the production quietly attached a name to it. On Friday, a short black and white video appeared as a joint post from Caruso’s Instagram account and the official account for Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen, opening on a title card that reads “Sometimes in the Evening,” performed by Sophia Anne Caruso and Cory Jeacoma. From there the footage moves into the studio, where Caruso stands at the microphone in headphones with Jeacoma at her side, the two of them working through the take together. The caption offered only one line: “Soak in the beauty of the moment beginning September 25.” That is the date the show begins performances in New York.
The pairing matters. Caruso plays Colette, a young writer in Paris who turns the stories she hears at the house where she works into writing of her own, and Jeacoma plays Léon, the childhood love she has never entirely untangled herself from. A duet between those two characters is the emotional center of the piece by definition, which makes “Sometimes in the Evening” a meaningful first choice to put in front of the public rather than a throwaway teaser.
What the production has still not said is whether this is part of a full cast recording. There is no album announcement, no release date, and no streaming listing. The clip runs on original audio, so the music underneath it is the only preview available, and everything past that remains with the show. Given that a session was formal enough to produce a titled, credited performance card, a wider release seems like a reasonable expectation, but the production has not confirmed one.
The show itself features music and lyrics by Tony and Grammy winner Duncan Sheik, a book by Leah Nanako Winkler, and direction and choreography by Rob Ashford. It is adapted from the manga by Moyoco Anno and is being billed as the first manga adaptation to become an American musical, which gives it a distinct place in a season otherwise full of screen to stage transfers. Alongside Caruso and Jeacoma, the cast includes Nkeki Obi-Melekwe as Nana, Andy Bakun as Sakae, and Jenny Powers as Madame. Or Matias serves as music supervisor and arranger, with a design team that includes Scott Pask, Catherine Zuber, Brian Tovar, Cody Spencer, and Tom Watson.
Performances run at The Night Egg inside The Culture Club on West 27th Street, the space that previously housed Sleep No More. Previews begin September 25, opening night is set for October 15, and the run currently extends through January 3, 2027. The show runs ninety minutes with no intermission and is intended for mature audiences. Tickets, which went on sale in August, start at fifty four dollars.
For Caruso, a studio session is familiar territory. She originated Lydia Deetz in Beetlejuice on Broadway, sang David Bowie’s final stage songs in Lazarus, and has spent the past few years building an original music catalog alongside her theater and screen work. Screen audiences most recently saw her as Miss Goldenweek in the second season of Netflix’s One Piece. Jeacoma comes to the production from Jersey Boys, where he spent several years as Bob Gaudio.
Whatever the session ultimately produces, the video does exactly what it set out to do. It puts a Duncan Sheik melody in front of people for the first time, it pairs the two voices the show is built around, and it points everyone toward September 25. Trevor Decker News will continue following the production as more of the score makes its way out.