Judy Kuhn's Releases CD 10/2, plus Joe's Pub Concerts

Broadway actress and singer, Judy Kuhn, will release her new CD, "Serious Playground - The Songs of Laura Nyro," through Ghostlight Records on October 2. This is the first-ever solo CD celebrating the pioneering singer-songwriter of the 1960s and 70s. The CD was produced by Music Director Jeffrey Klitz and Joel Moss, with Klitz leading an eight-piece band. Kurt Deutsch and Kuhn serve as executive producers.

"The CD is based on her sold-out concert at the Lincoln Center American Songbook Series in January, "describe press notes, "That concert followed her Obie Award-winning role in the Off Broadway production of Eli's Comin' at the Vineyard Theatre, which inspired her passion for Nyro's music. Kuhn will perform selections from the CD at Joe's Pub in New York (October 1, 8, 15 & 22) and the Kennedy Center in her hometown of Washington DC (October 26)."

"Serious Playground" features arrangements of Nyro's best-known songs like "Stoney End," "Sweet Blindness" and "Save the Country," but also offers new interpretations of rarely-recorded songs like "To A Child," "Mother's Spiritual" and "Been On A Train."

Judy Kuhn has been nominated for three Tony Awards and three Drama Desk Awards for her work on Broadway in the hit revival of She Loves Me, the American premieres of Chess and Les Miserables and Rags. She is the singing voice of Disney's Pocahontas and co-starred in the upcoming film Day on Fire, for which she also performed the soundtrack.

Laura Nyro's compositions "which fused gospel, soul, folk, and jazz" were hit records for artists including Barbra Streisand, The Fifth Dimension, Blood Sweat & Tears, and Three Dog Night.

Judy Kuhn will perform at Joe's Pub on Mondays October 1, 8, 15 & 22 at 7PM. For tickets ($30) to the Joe's Pub concerts, visit www.JoesPub.com