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    July 9, 2021
    4:30 pm - 6:30 pm
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How Broadway Records Kept the Music Playing Throughout the Shutdown
Friday, July 9th, 2021 at 4:30 eastern time


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In the room: Van Dean, Tony and Grammy Award-winning Broadway producer and the president and co-founder of Broadway Records talks about how his company survived, pivoted, and even expanded during the pandemic. Including high-profile COVID-inspired projects like best-selling author Jodi Picoult's Breathe musical, the all-star home-recorded Artists in Residence, a new collaboration with NY Theatre Barn of recordings of new works in development, Ahrens & Flaherty's Legacy, If The Fates Allow: A Hadestown Holiday Album, the Averno magical transmedia Universe of musicals and a current initiative with Black Theatre Coalition for an upcoming Black Writers Amplified, an album consisting entirely of new works by Black musical theatre writers.

Panelists
  • VAN DEAN

    is a Tony® Award and Grammy® Award-winning producer of 13 Broadway musicals and plays (including Jagged Little PillAnastasiaRodgers and Hammerstein’s CinderellaThe Gershwins’ Porgy & BessBig Fish, Catch Me If You Can, Evita, The Best Man, The Velocity of Autumn), 250+ musical theater-related recordings (including MatildaThe Color PurpleAnastasiaMy Fair LadyIf The Fates Allow: Hadestown Holiday AlbumThe Lightning Thief), as well as numerous Broadway/National Tours, Off-Broadway musicals, concert events, a West End production, and a documentary film. Van is President and Co-Founder of Broadway Records and his philanthropic work includes being a producer of “Broadway For Orlando: What The World Needs Now is Love”, Broadway United’s “We Are The World”, “Broadway Kids Against Bullying: I Have a Voice”, “From Broadway With Love” benefit concerts for Sandy Hook, Orlando (Emmy Award winner for sound design) and Parkland as well his work with NewArts in Sandy Hook/Newtown, CT.

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