Between Renée Rapp (Imply Women), Halle Bailey (The Coloration Purple) and Ariana Grande (Depraved), the traces between Broadway, movie and pop music aren’t actually traces in any respect — and Ben Platt is able to trip that wave together with his forthcoming new album, Honeymind.
Introduced by way of his official Instagram web page final Tuesday (March 12), Honeymind marks the third studio effort from Emmy, Grammy and Tony winner. Each of his prior LPs — 2019’s Sing to Me As an alternative (No. 18) and 2021’s Reverie (No. 84) — reached the highest half of the Billboard 200.
“I’ve been engaged on this report for the final two years alongside my government producer Dave Cobb and a few good co-writers and musicians throughout Nashville, Savannah, Los Angeles and New York,” he wrote within the Instagram announcement. “I started writing it throughout a interval of main private development and transition. I wrote about all of the ways in which I’ve began to shed different folks’s notions and perceptions of who I’m, and actually settle into myself from the foundation, earnestness and all. I wrote about rising out of the naiveté and aimlessness of childhood with out resigning to the jaded and wonder-less feeling of maturity… Most significantly, I wrote about discovering actual love… and all the work we’ve got to do as people to search out safety in who we’re in order that we’re prepared for that actual love when it comes alongside.”
That very same day, Platt debuted “Andrew,” the set’s self-reflective lead single, whereas a plot-driven music video adopted just a few days later (March 15). The emotional video was crafted below the path of Sam Wrench, recognized for his directorial work on Taylor Swift‘s Eras Tour movie and Billie Eilish‘s Dwell on the O2 live performance movie.
In help of his report, Platt can even launch an 18-show live performance residency at Broadway’s newly renovated Palace Theatre. Michael Arden — the Tony-winning director with whom Platt beforehand collaborated on the 2023 Tony-winning revival of Parade — will direct the residency, which is able to final from Could 28 by June 15. Throughout his keep at The Palace, Platt will carry out choices from all three of his studio albums, in addition to just a few surprises and fan favorites.
“It’s far past my wildest creativeness to play a residency of my very own music in a home as storied because the Palace,” gushed the Pricey Evan Hansen star in a press launch. “I really feel blessed to be a part of the theater neighborhood, and to have the chance to carry out as myself and from my very own perspective on a Broadway stage is without doubt one of the best honors of my life. I can’t wait to introduce my new report on the fantastically revived stage. My hope is to bridge my musical theater roots that I maintain so pricey with the world of traditional Americana songwriting that I’ve fallen so deeply in love with.”
Watch the “Andrew” music video above and click on right here to buy tickets for Ben Platt’s upcoming Palace residency.
