GRAMMY® AND TONY AWARD® NOMINEE ANNMARIE MILAZZO TO RELEASE CONCEPT ALBUM “THE SHAPE OF THINGS: SONGS FROM JOY THE MUSICAL”; NOW AVAILABLE
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ON TUESDAY, JANUARY 7, PLEASE
GRAMMY® AND TONY AWARD® NOMINEE
ANNMARIE MILAZZO
TO RELEASE CONCEPT ALBUM
“The Shape of Things: Songs From Joy The Musical”
ON FRIDAY, JANUARY 17 ON JOY MACHINE RECORDS
DIGITAL ALBUM PRE-SALE NOW AVAILABLE HERE
“THE SHAPE OF THINGS” MUSIC VIDEO NOW AVAILABLE HERE
New York, NY (January 7, 2025) – Grammy and Tony Award nominee AnnMarie Milazzo announced today that she will be releasing “The Shape of Things: Songs From Joy The Musical,” a concept album inspired by Joy, the powerful and uplifting new musical based on the life of trailblazing businesswoman and inventor Joy Mangano, on Friday, January 17 on Joy Machine Records.
Written and performed by Milazzo, produced by Sonny Paladino, and with music supervision by Andy Einhorn, the digital album is available for pre-order HERE.
Additionally, the music video for “The Shape of Things” performed by Milazzo is now available HERE.
“Making this record was an opportunity for me to get back to my roots in the recording studio, working with my band and doing the thing I love most – writing and singing songs,” Milazzo stated.
Milazzo, a Grammy, Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle Award nominee, has worked on productions such as Spring Awakening (vocal arrangements), Next to Normal (vocal arrangements), If/Then (vocal arrangements), Finding Neverland (vocal design), Once on This Island (orchestrations), 1776 (vocal design), Almost Famous (vocal design), and A Beautiful Noise, The Neil Diamond Musical (vocal design). She is currently working on a stage musical based on Amy Bloom’s novel Lucky Us with 16-time Grammy Award winner David Foster.
Track List for “The Shape of Things: Songs From Joy The Musical”
1. Welcome To My World
- The Shape Of Things
- I Got People
- Out of Here
- The Only Mop You’ll Ever Need
- We Sell Stories (The Doo Wop Project)
- Walk With Me (Drew Gehling)
- Mother’s Daughter
- Have You Ever Felt That?
- Is This As Good As It Gets?
- Make a Miracle
Credits for “The Shape of Things: Songs From Joy The Musical”
All music, lyrics and vocals by AnnMarie Milazzo (except where noted)
Album produced by Sonny Paladino
Album executive produced by Ken Davenport
Album associate executive produced by Mary Elizabeth Dina
Album engineered and mixed by Ian Kagey
Album mastered by Oscar Zambrano
Music Direction: Andy Einhorn
Piano: Andy Einhorn and Sonny Paladino
Guitars: Ben Butler
Bass: Jeffery Allen
Drums and percussion: Rich Mercurio
Cello: Yair Evnine
Album recorded and mixed at Renaissance Studio, NYC
Music Video Credits
Videographer: Harry McFann
Editor: Katie Goffman
Creative Director: Mary Elizabeth Dina
Joy, a heartwarming and powerful biographical musical based on the life of Joy Mangano – the entrepreneur, inventor, best-selling author, and self-made millionaire. This uplifting true story is about one woman’s triumphant climb, from divorce to single motherhood and bankruptcy, to becoming a wildly successful dynamo that all started with the invention of a mop – her Miracle Mop! Joy is a feel-good musical about finding yourself through determination, imagination, and reinvention with a twist, and is sure to inspire audiences. Joy features a score by Milazzo, book by Tony Award winner Ken Davenport, and music direction by Paladino. The musical, produced by Davenport and Sandi Moran with TBD Theatricals, Jonathan and Rae Corr, Adam Riemer, Scott Abrams, Christine Petti, Sheri and Les Biller, Marco Santarelli, Michael T. Cohen & Robin Reinach, Megan Ann Rasmussen, Christine G. Williamson, and Matthew Salloway, recently had an industry reading directed by Lorin Latarro.
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