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Giant (Ghostlight, two CDs). The original-cast album of the Public Theater’s 2012 production of the Michael John LaChiusa-Sybille Pearson stage version of Edna Ferber’s novel. I praised it in The Wall Street Journal as “the most important new musical to come along since The Light in the Piazza….Giant tells an all-American tale in a way that is well suited to the present moment. It’s a myth, but an honest one, enacted with high seriousness and great beauty” (TT).