The Yellow Sound Label will release The Billy Joel Project, the debut album from The Broadway Ensemble, July 11.
The Ensemble, an 11-member group with a combined 48 Broadway credits, has come together to record and release a new collection of Billy Joel songs that gets to the storytelling heart of his work. The album will feature Joel classics like 鈥淣ew York State of Mind,鈥� 鈥淪he鈥檚 Always a Woman,鈥� and 鈥淥nly the Good Die Young,鈥� as well as deeper cuts, such as 鈥淲here鈥檚 the Orchestra?鈥� and Joel鈥檚 latest single from last year, 鈥淭urn the Lights Back On.鈥�
The album will be released to streaming and digital formats July 11, with a CD edition to follow later in the summer. The album鈥檚 first single, 鈥淪he鈥檚 Got a Way,鈥� performed by Donna Vivino (Hell鈥檚 Kitchen, Wicked, Les Mis茅rables) is available now.
The album will feature vocal performances by Farah Alvin (The Marvelous Wonderettes), Nicholas Edwards (& Juliet, Frozen), John Treacy Egan (The Producers, The Little Mermaid), Annie Golden (Orange Is the New Black, Assassins), Lina Koutrakos (10-time MAC Award winner), Aaron Ramey (The Visit, The Bridges of Madison County), Nicholas Rodriguez (Company, The Sound of Music), Courter Simmons (Jersey Boys), Rachel Ulanet (Beauty and the Beast, Lovemusik), Vivino, and Michael Winther (Flying Over Sunset, Songs from an Unmade Bed). Music direction is by Jeremy Robin Lyons (Anastasia).
The album is produced by Phil Geoffrey Bond, the force behind Sondheim Unplugged. Listen to the single 鈥淪he鈥檚 Got a Way鈥� on and .
