Audra McDonald performing with the New York
Philharmonic
Photo: Chris Lee
Sergio Mims forwards this release:
New York Philharmonic
SING HAPPY IS SET FOR RELEASE ON DIGITAL PARTNERS MAY 11, PHYSICAL FORMATS MAY 25
Decca Gold is proud to announce the forthcoming release of Sing Happy,
the live performance of the New York Philharmonic’s 2018 Spring Gala
starring Grammy, Emmy, and Tony Award winner Audra McDonald, and
conducted by Andy Einhorn. Recorded live on May 1 at David Geffen Hall
at Lincoln Center, the recording represents McDonald’s first
collaboration with Decca Gold — as well as her first solo recording with
full orchestra.
Sing Happy features many songs that are either new to
McDonald’s repertoire or have never before been recorded by her — such
as “I Am What I Am” from La Cage aux Folles, “Vanilla Ice Cream” from She Loves Me, and “Children Will Listen” from Into the Woods — and offers a sneak peek at the repertoire she’s performing on her upcoming North American concert tour. The album will be quickly mastered and sequenced and set for digital release on May 11 and physical formats on May 25.
Acclaimed by The New York Times as a “one-of-a-kind musical
super-talent,” Audra McDonald has won a record-breaking six Tony Awards,
making her the most decorated performer in American theater. The singer
and actress was named one of TIME magazine’s 100 most
influential people of 2015 and received a 2015 National Medal of Arts —
America’s highest honor for achievement in the arts — from President
Barack Obama. McDonald is currently starring in the CBS All Access drama
The Good Fight and has a series of concert dates throughout North America on which she’s presenting many of the songs from Sing Happy.
In addition to her work on stage and screen, McDonald is noted as a
passionate advocate for equal rights, LGBTQ causes, and underprivileged
youth.
Audra McDonald made her New York Philharmonic debut in May 2000 as
the Beggar Woman in the Philharmonic’s production of Stephen Sondheim
and Hugh Wheeler’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. She has since appeared with the Orchestra 20 times, including in Weill’s The Seven Deadly Sins (2001), Sondheim: The Birthday Concert (2010), and songs by Ellington at Carnegie Hall’s 120th Anniversary Gala (2011). For her Philharmonic appearance in Sweeney Todd in March 2014, she both hosted the Live From Lincoln Center
telecast of the performance, which won an Emmy Award, and made a
surprise return in the role of the Beggar Woman. Inducted into Lincoln
Center’s inaugural Hall of Fame last year, McDonald has a history with
the institution that dates back to her days as a classical voice student
at The Juilliard School and her subsequent breakthrough performance in
Lincoln Center Theater’s Carousel, for which she won her first Tony.
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