Kinky Boots Star Kyle Taylor Parker to Release Broadway Soul Album | Playbill

Cast Recordings & Albums Kinky Boots Star Kyle Taylor Parker to Release Broadway Soul Album Parker will celebrate the release of his debut solo album, featuring soulful re-imaginings of showtunes, with a cabaret performance.
Kyle Taylor Parker Joseph Marzullo/WENN

Broadway Records will release Kyle Taylor Parker's Broadway Soul, Vol. 1 digitally and in stores August 16. Inspired by Parker and Joshua Stephen Kartes' YouTube series The Soul Sessions, the album reimagines Broadway showtunes as R&B numbers, with songs from Next to Normal, Rent, Show Boat, West Side Story, The Wiz, and more.

Parker will celebrate the release with a performance at Rockwood Music Hall Stage 2 September 8 and 8:45 PM. For tickets, click here.

"I wanted to make an album that brought Broadway to the listener in a way they’d never thought of it," says Parker. "This album is dedicated to my 12-year-old self sitting on his bedroom floor eyes shut tight wanting nothing more than to be a part of it all."

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Kyle Taylor Parker: Broadway Soul, Vol. 1 Album Cover Broadway Records

Parker was an Angel in the original cast of Kinky Boots, later going on to star as Lola in the show's first national tour and as a replacement on Broadway. Other credits include Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Off-Broadway's Smokey Joe's Café, and NBC's Jesus Chrsit Superstar: Live in Concert.

Take a look at the complete track listing:
Anything
I’m Alive
Out Tonight
Think of Me
Ol’ Man River
I Feel Pretty
No Bad News
Run and Tell That
Do You Hear the People Sing?
We Are Young

 
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