SHAINA TAUB ANNOUNCES SONGS OF THE GREATHILL
AWARD-WINNINGSINGER-SONGWRITER AND MUSICAL THEATER PERFORMER,
WRITER,LYRICIST, AND COMPOSER UNVEILS ATLANTIC RECORDS DEBUT ALBUM
“THELEAST” PREMIERES TODAY –
TAUB’SGROUNDBREAKING NEW MUSICAL, SUFFS, PERFORMANCES BEGIN MARCH 10THATTHE PUBLIC’S NEWMAN THEATER
SONGS OF THE GREAT HILL ARRIVES VIAATLANTIC RECORDS ON FRIDAY, APRIL 1STPRE-ORDERSARE AVAILABLE NOW HERE
“Tocall Taub — who sings, acts, plays piano and accordion and is published, likeLin-Manuel) Miranda, by Warner Chappell — prolific would be an extremeunderstatement.” – BILLBOARD
Atlantic Records is very proud to welcome award-winningsinger-songwriter Shaina Taub as the latest member of itsroster. Taub’s label debut album, Songs of the Great Hill, arriveseverywhere on Friday, April 1st; pre-orders are available now HERE.
Written during pandemic and produced by 3x GRAMMY® Award nomineeJosh Kaufman (The National, Bonny Light Horseman, The Hold Steady), Songsof the Great Hill is heralded by today’s premiere of the album’sfirst release, “The Least,” available now at all DSPs andstreaming services HERE. A delightfully idiosyncratic takeon a love song, “The Least” is joined by an official liveperformances video, via YouTube.
Shaina Taub "The Least"
Raisedin the green mountains of Vermont and based in her beloved New York City,Shaina Taub is a gifted singer-songwriter, performer, actor as well as anaward-winning writer, composer, and lyricist widely regarded among the mostexciting new voices in musical theater. With its graceful coalescence of socialcommentary and self-reflection, Songs of the Great Hill spotlightsTaub’s wildly eclectic range and incandescent talent.
The album came to life inthe bleakest days of lockdown, over the course of countless daily trips to theNorth Woods of Central Park. Taub would head to the enchanted spot of thealbum’s title with notebook in hand, working on a series of songs which bothchannel the tension of the current moment while bearing a certain charmedquality that defies time and circumstance. In sharing Songs of theGreat Hill with the world, Taub seeks to extend a feeling of communityto her audience, and ultimately provide them with a powerful antidote tocynicism and despair.
“InRebecca Solnit’s book Hope in the Dark, she talks about how hope is an activething,” says Taub. “We don’t know yet how the future is going to turnout, and in that unknowing there’s still room to act. I’d love for people toconnect with these songs and what they have to say about all the difficultthings we’ve been through collectively and individually—but I’d also love toinspire them, and leave them with that very purposeful kind of hope.”
Songsof the Great Hill is but one of a series of current projectsfor Taub, including the upcoming world premiere of her original musical, Suffs, set tobring performances at The Public’s Newman Theater on Thursday, March 10th,with performances currently scheduled through Sunday, April 24th;tickets are available now via The Public Theater HERE. Written by and featuring Taub in a leadingrole, the epic new musical takes an unflinching look at the unsung trailblazersof the American women’s suffrage movement, bringing to life a complicatedchapter in the ongoing battle for equality and the right to vote.
Directed byTony Award nominee Leigh Silverman (Violet), Suffs will see Taubstarring as Alice Paul, activist and author of the Equal Rights Amendmentwhich has yet to be adopted), alongside an all-female ensemble cast thatincludes such acclaimed stars as Emmy Award winner and Tony nominee PhillipaSoo (Hamilton, Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812),Drama Desk Award winner and Tony nominee Jenn Colella (Come From Away),and Tony Award winner Nikki M James (The Book Of Mormon, ABright Room Called Day).
Thissummer will then see the long anticipated premiere of The Devil Wears Prada, a new musical based on the novel by LaurenWeisberger and the Twentieth Century Fox motion picture featuring lyrics byTaub with music by Tony Award winner Sir Elton John (Billy Elliot, Aida)and book by Paul Rudnick (In & Out, Jeffrey) and KateWetherhead. Directed by Tony Award winner Anna D. Shapiro (August: OsageCounty), The Devil Wears Prada will have its debut inChicago on July 19th at Chicago’s James M. Nederlander Theatre.Tickets will be on sale in the coming weeks; for updates and more information,please visit devilwearspradamusical.com.
Classicallytrained in piano and voice, and self-taught on accordion, Shaina Taub has beenperforming in musical theater since age 3. Since then, her radiant work hasspanned such eclectic endeavors as starring in the original Off-Broadway castsof iconic shows like Hadestown, the Signature Theatre’s hitproduction Old Hats, and her own critically lauded original musicaladaptations of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and As YouLike It (both commissioned by the Public Theater as part of theirgroundbreaking Public Works initiative, with acclaimed productions at theDelacorte Theater in Central Park).
A massively prolific artist whose manyhonors include winning a 2014 Jonathan Larson Grant, the 2019 Kleban Prize, LucilleLortel and Drama Desk nominations, and an Emmy Award nomination alongside withSara Bareilles and Josh Groban for co-writing the opening number for the 2018Tony Awards, Taub has earned renown as a solo artist and singer-songwriter withtwo independent LPs – 2015’s Visitors and 2018’s DieHappy – as well as songs for Sesame Street and thetheme song for Julie Andrews’ Netflix series, Julie’s Greenroom. As aperformer, Taub’s work includes a breakthrough concert residency at Joe’s Pub,Lincoln Center’s acclaimed American Songbook series, and a Carnegie Hall debutplaying her music with the New York Pops. A longtime activist in addition toher demanding artistic career, Taub is a proud member of the Resistance RevivalChorus and an NYCLU Ambassador.
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