Video: Stereophonic Plays a Tiny Desk Concert With its Original Cast

The original Broadway cast of Stereophonic visited the NPR office earlier this year, and the fruits of their labor are finally available to the masses!

The newest member of the Tiny Desk Concert series, the cast performed five songs: "Bright (Fast)," "Seven Roads," "Drive," "In Your Arms," and "Masquerade." Check out video of their performance above.

Said Mitra I. Arthur, the producer of this episode of the series, "The process of artistic creation makes for perfect storytelling. There's the unsexy doubt and the exhilarating breakthroughs, the fortifying confirmations and the sticky pockets. It is a messy process. This whole creative affair gets stickier when the artist is a band full of complex personalities and fraught relationships.

"This is the central premise of David Adjmi's play Stereophonic, which ends its Broadway run on January 12. The play garnered a record 13 Tony nominations and took home five, including Best Play. So what is a play doing at the Tiny Desk? Well, the play features an album's worth of original music from Will Butler (formerly of Arcade Fire) whose lyrics provide insight into five people falling apart when they should be coming together creatively. The music is performed by the original Broadway cast members Will Brill (who won a Tony for his performance), Juliana Canfield, Tom Pecinka, Sarah Pidgeon and Chris Stack, who are joined here by composer Butler and music director and orchestrator Justin Craig."

NPR's Tiny Desk Concert series is produced by Arthur, and directed and edited by Joshua Bryant, with audio technical director Josh Newell. The host/series producer is Bobby Carter.

The show made history at the Tony Awards as the play with the most Tony nominations ever, and the show eventually won five Tony Awards: Best Play, Direction of a Play (Daniel Aukin), Featured Actor (Will Brill), Sound Design (Ryan Rumery), and Scenic Design (David Zinn).