TRU Community Gathering via Zoom - How Broadway Records Kept the Music Playing Throughout the Shutdown at Theater Resources Unlimited

A dependable haven for artists in isolation, Theater Resources Unlimited (TRU) is now into its second year of non-stop weekly Community Gatherings this Friday, having offered to date over 60 conversations and unlimited camaraderie since April 17, 2020. TRU hosts their Community Gatherings every Friday at 4:30pm ET via Zoom, to explore the creation of art and theater in the time of COVID-19. These crucial conversations will continue going forward as theater reopens. Ask questions, bring answers, be part of a community it's an opportunity to network with theater professionals and talk about keeping theater alive during shutdown, and what we are doing now, going forward. To receive the Zoom invitation for future meetings, emailTRUnltd@aol.comwith "Zoom Me" in the subject header. These gatherings are free for TRU members, non-members are asked to make a tax-deductible donation or consider joining TRU to support the organization during these challenging times.Friday 7/9 - How Broadway Records Kept the Music Playing Throughout the Shutdown. In the room:Van Dean,Tony and Grammy Award-winning Broadway producer and the president and co-founder of Broadway Records talks about how his company survived, pivoted, and even expanded during the pandemic. Including high-profile COVID-inspired projects likeIf The Fates Allow: A Hadestown Holiday Album,best-selling author Jodi Picoult'sBreathemusical, the all-star home-recordedArtists in Residence, a new collaboration with NY Theatre Barn of recordings of new works in development, Ahrens & Flaherty'sLegacy, Billy Recce'sLittle Black Book, Joey Contreras'In Pieces, Michael Mott'sIn The Light, theAvernomagical transmedia Universe of musicals and a current initiative with Black Theatre Coalition of the upcomingBlack Writers Amplified, an album consisting entirely of new works by Black musical theatre writers. Visit https://truonline.org/events/broadway-records/ to register, and receive the zoom link.Videos of past Community Gatherings may be viewed on TRU's YouTube channel atyoutube.com/channel/UC43rsChi4fA23dNLeloaF_A/.About the PanelistVan Deanis a Tony Award and Grammy Award-winning producer of 13 Broadway musicals and plays (includingJagged Little Pill,Anastasia,Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella,The Gershwins' Porgy & Bess,Big Fish, Catch Me If You Can, Evita, The Best Man, The Velocity of Autumn), 250+ musical theater-related recordings (includingMatilda,The Color Purple,Anastasia,My Fair Lady,If The Fates Allow: Hadestown Holiday Album,The Lightning Thief), as well as numerous Broadway/National Tours, Off-Broadway musicals, concert events, a West End production, and a documentary film. Van is President and Co-Founder of Broadway Records and his philanthropic work includes being a producer of "Broadway For Orlando: What The World Needs Now is Love", Broadway United's "We Are The World", "Broadway Kids Against Bullying: I Have a Voice", "From Broadway With Love" benefit concerts for Sandy Hook, Orlando (Emmy Award winner for sound design) and Parkland as well his work with NewArts in Sandy Hook/Newtown, CT.Theater Resources Unlimited(TRU) is the leading network for developing theater professionals,atwenty-seven-year-old 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization created to help producers produce, emerging theatercompanies to emerge healthily and all theater professionals to understand and navigate the business ofthe arts. Membership includes self-producing artists as well as career producers and theater companies. TRU publishes an email community newsletter of services, goods and productions; presents monthly panels as well as the new weekly Community Gatherings; offers a Producer Development & Mentorship Program taught by prominent producers and general managers in New York theater, and also presents Producer Boot Camp workshops to help aspirants develop business skills. TRU serves writers through the TRU Voices Play Reading Series, Writer-Producer Speed Date, a Practical Playwriting Workshop, How to Write a Musical That Works and a Director-Writer Communications Lab. Programs of Theater Resources Unlimited are supported in part by the Montage Foundation, The Storyline Project and the Leibowitz Greenway Foundation. For more information about TRU membership and programs, visitwww.truonline.org.