BROADWAY RECORDS ANNOUNCES RE-RELEASE OF ORIGINAL CONCEPT RECORDING OF STARRY, FEATURING NEW UNHEARD TRACKS
(New York, NY – Wednesday, October 21st, 2020) Broadway Records announced today the re-release of the Original Concept Recording of Starry, a new musical by Matt Dahan and Kelly Lynne D’Angelo. This new edition of the album will feature never-before heard demos of songs not featured on the original album, performed by Dahan & D’Angelo. Physical and digital copies of the album will be available everywhere music is sold on Black Friday (November 27th). To preorder physical copies of the album, visit BroadwayRecords.com.
Set to a modernized pop-rock score, the new grassroots musical, Starry is a story about the thousands of letters between the famous painter Vincent van Gogh and his brother Theo van Gogh, and their journey together to find the power of expression. The concept album of Starry was first released in January to much acclaim and has amassed a cult following that brought over 1 Million listens on Spotify in the first month. The album topped the iTunes Pop Chart at #14 and the main iTunes Chart at #42 in February 2020 and has a social media following of over 60k.
The recording features the vocal talents of Jeff Blim, Jaime Lyn Beatty, Mariah Rose Faith, Natalie Llerena, Natalie Masini, Michael Minto, Joe Viba, Clayton Snyder, Dylan Saunders and Huck Walton. To learn more about Starry, visit starrymusical.com or follow @StarryMusical on Instagram or TikTok.
Matt Dahan’s music career started twenty years ago with a deserted upright piano and a Talkboy tape recorder in the suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts. A graduate of Berklee College of Music, he has written song and score for over a dozen films, including the musical How Sweet It Is, for which he was named an Academy Awards semifinalist (Best Original Song, Best Original Score). On stage, he composed and performed in The Babies, his first Off-Broadway credits. Matt also is involved with the online sensation Starkid theatre company as their musical director and orchestrator for both The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals and their latest production, Black Friday.
Kelly Lynne D’Angelo has done her fair share of storytelling in different mediums, including writing for television, musicals alongside her partner, Matt Dahan (Dahan & D’Angelo), film, books, and animation. Recent credits include Adult Swim’s Final Space, Cartoon Network’s Mao Mao, and Hasbro’s My Little Pony: Equestria Girls. You can catch her on various online platforms from Twitch to Youtube as a professional Dungeon Master for Dungeons & Dragons, Geek & Sundry, College Humor, Buzzfeed, and more. Hailing originally from her Haudenosaunee homelands in Upstate New York, she was also recently awarded “Writer of The Year” at the 2019 LA Skin’s Fest Annual Gala.
Broadway Records (Van Dean, President) is the GRAMMY® winning record label dedicated to preserving musical theatre and theatre vocalists. Recent releases include the Grammy® and Tony Award-winning The Color Purple (2015 revival), the Tony Award® winning and Grammy® nominated revival of Once On This Island, the Grammy® nominated Matilda The Musical, Fiddler
on the Roof (2015 revival) and My Fair Lady (2018 revival), Anastasia, Bandstand, Groundhog Day, The Lightning Thief and NBC’s television events, “The Wiz Live!” and “Peter Pan Live!”. The label’s critically-acclaimed “Live at Feinstein’s/54 Below” series features top Broadway stars including Patti LuPone, Aaron Tveit, Annaleigh Ashford, Norbert Leo Butz, Sierra Boggess, Laura Benanti, Emily Skinner & Alice Ripley, Adam Pascal & Anthony Rapp, and many others. In addition to working with mainstream Broadway artists, Broadway Records also works with pop, rock, and R&B performers connected to the Broadway community, including Micky Dolenz, Mary Bridget Davies, Ryan Shaw, Michael Mott, and more. Broadway Records launched the Broadway for Orlando initiative (in partnership with creators Seth Rudetsky and James Wesley) culminating in the all-star benefit single, “What the World Needs Now is Love,” which leaped to #1 on iTunes with no radio airplay. Broadway Records philanthropic endeavors also include the From Broadway With Love benefit concerts for Sandy Hook, Orlando (Emmy Award for Sound) and Parkland. To learn more, visit BroadwayRecords.com.
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