THE BOY WHO DANCED ON AIR ORIGINAL CAST REC.

great cast album and a pleasure to listen to. Seeing the actual performance brings the cast album to life

The CD really surprised me. I didn’t know what to expect. The music is actually very good even though I never heard of this show.

Regardless of subject matter, I love this music. I wish I could have seen it.

I saw the surprisingly sophisticated production of The Boy Who Danced on Air at the tiny Abingdon Theatre in New York in 2017. The score was highly accomplished (akin to The Band's Visit, if you need a contemporary reference) and the cast superb, and I was pleased to see that the producers were able to make this recording. (I pre-purchased it as part of a fund-raising campaign.) The historically based subject matter is difficult to consider--and has led to knee-jerk condemnation by those who haven't seen the show--but the creators chose to explore the brutal power of cultural tradition and the complexity of the human survival instinct. Ultimately, The Boy Who Danced on Air is about the hope for love and a better life. It deserves to be heard and seen.

The music was great and the story that it told was interesting. If given the chance, one should take a listen to the songs. For me, I found then to be quite inspirational. A truly marvelous soundtrack and well done!

How the hell is amazon even selling this?!! Bacha bazi is neither an Afghan tradition nor a part of Afghan culture. Bacha Baazi, which literally translates as “playing with a boy/child”, is sexual exploitation of children, rape of young boys and abuse of minors. Wealthy warlords, often funded by foreign governments, abduct young boys in Afghanistan and turn them into sex slaves. For ANYONE to even attempt to romanticize or glorify this horrific practice is equivalent to openly supporting pedophilia and child sex abuse. TAKE THIS DOWN. No one should be making money off of child abuse!!! Disgusting!

This is disgusting and shameful. Whoever the artist is should be ashamed of himself for calling this romantic musical, this is a disgusting and traumatic Past for a lot of afghans. Bacha bazi is not an Afghan culture it is called child trafficking and I don’t get why it’s a musical. I am an Afghan and as an Afghan this disgusts me beyond than words can express.

They had no real Afghans consulting the production and romanticized pedophilia. Disgusting play.