The Yellow Sound Label will release The Billy Joel Project, the debut album from The Broadway Ensemble, July 11.

The Ensemble, an 11-member group with a combined 48 Broadway credits, has come together to record and release a new collection of Billy Joel songs that gets to the storytelling heart of his work. The album will feature Joel classics like “New York State of Mind,” “She’s Always a Woman,” and “Only the Good Die Young,” as well as deeper cuts, such as “Where’s the Orchestra?” and Joel’s latest single from last year, “Turn the Lights Back On.”

The album will be released to streaming and digital formats July 11, with a CD edition to follow later in the summer. The album’s first single, “She’s Got a Way,” performed by Donna Vivino (Hell’s Kitchen, Wicked, Les Misérables) is available now. 

The album will feature vocal performances by Farah Alvin (The Marvelous Wonderettes), Nicholas Edwards (& Juliet, Frozen), John Treacy Egan (The Producers, The Little Mermaid), Annie Golden (Orange Is the New Black, Assassins), Lina Koutrakos (10-time MAC Award winner), Aaron Ramey (The Visit, The Bridges of Madison County), Nicholas Rodriguez (Company, The Sound of Music), Courter Simmons (Jersey Boys), Rachel Ulanet (Beauty and the Beast, Lovemusik), Vivino, and Michael Winther (Flying Over Sunset, Songs from an Unmade Bed). Music direction is by Jeremy Robin Lyons (Anastasia).

The album is produced by Phil Geoffrey Bond, the force behind Sondheim Unplugged. Listen to the single “She’s Got a Way” on Spotify and Apple Music.