IN HONOR OF PRIDE MONTH
BROADWAY RECORDS
ADOPTS CORPORATE PRIDE LOGO
AND CELEBRATES THEIR
LGBTQIA+ FAMILY OF ARTISTS AND STORIES
WITH MONTH-LONG
PRIDE SALE
In celebration of LGBTQIA+ Pride Month, Broadway Records announces the adoption of their new “Broadway Records Pride Logo”. This company identity features the new “Progress Pride Flag” and will be used throughout the company for the entirety of June 2021.
“Broadway Records is strongly committed to the LGBTQIA+ community”, said Van Dean, President of Broadway Records. “We are so proud of our increasingly large LGBTQIA+ family of artists and staff. Plus, we are extremely honored to tell a broad variety of LGBTQIA+ stories (including The Color Purple, Indecent, Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, A Strange Loop, and most recently, musicals in the popular Averno universe (Willow, Over and Out and this Friday’s release of Bittersummer).”
In celebration of these artists’ gifts to musical theatre, Broadway Records is proud to launch a special PRIDE SALE. Musical theatre fans can save 20% on a large collection of physical and digital recordings featuring LGBTQIA+ voices with promo code PRIDE throughout the entire month (June 1-June 30, 2021). Details of the event may be found at www.broadwayrecords.com/pride.
Broadway Records is the leading, Grammy® winning record label dedicated to releasing the most popular and current Broadway cast recordings, as well as preserving legacy musical theatre and theatre vocalists repertoire. Under the leadership of Broadway Records’ president and founder Van Dean, recent releases include: If The Fates Allow: The Hadestown Holiday Album, Lea Salonga Live In Concert with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, Breathe with an all-star cast including Tony Award-winners Kelli O’Hara and Brian Stokes Mitchell, the Broadway star-filled concept albums of Little Black Book, In Pieces and Stone Crossed, Legacy: Two Song Cycles by Ahrens and Flaherty, Georgia On My Mind with an all-star Broadway cast, Tony Award-winning revival of The Color Purple, 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, Micky Dolenz and many others. Broadway Records has partnered with the Black Theatre Coalition to create Black Writers Amplified (to be released in late 2021), an album consisting entirely of new works by Black musical theatre writers. This project to immediately take steps toward significantly increased representation of Black writers in musical theatre and support new voices and emerging Black talent. Broadway Records philanthropic endeavors also include the “Broadway For Orlando: What The World Needs Now is Love”, “We Are The World” by Broadway United and “Broadway Kids Against Bullying: I Have a Voice” music videos and From Broadway With Love benefit concerts for Sandy Hook, Orlando (Emmy Award for Sound) and Parkland. www.BroadwayRecords.com
