David Foster is dropping one other single from his upcoming Broadway present.
PEOPLE can completely premiere the 16-time Grammy winner’s newest providing from the Boop! The Musical soundtrack, “One thing to Shout About,” earlier than it is formally out March 11. Jasmine Amy Rogers who stars as the enduring Betty Boop within the stage manufacturing, sings the ballad.
Foster, 75, tells PEOPLE “One thing to Shout About” is the “11 o’clock quantity” in Boop! The Musical, opening April 5 on the Broadhurst Theatre in New York Metropolis, and marks the purpose within the present “the place everyone will get excited.”
“It is within the second act, deep into the second act. And we initially wrote this music for early on within the first act,” Foster says. “And Jerry Mitchell, the good director of ours, stated this music is simply too good to go there. I believe it may transfer to the second act and be the 11 o’clock quantity. So we adjusted it and beefed it up a little bit bit, and it actually got here out nice.”
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Foster provides that “One thing to Shout About” speaks to the broader story of the basic animated character in Boop! The Musical.
“She has all the pieces in her life, however she nonetheless has, she nonetheless wants one thing to shout about that she hasn’t discovered,” he says. “And should you see the play, you may perceive.”
The brand new single is Foster’s second launch main as much as the present, following “Where I Wanna Be.” Because the present’s opening night time approaches, he reveals the musical has been within the works for over a decade.
“It’s been so lengthy within the making,” he stated. “I first bought contacted by Mark Fleisher, individuals who personal the rights to it 15 years in the past.”
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His first Broadway musical, Boop! is the most recent addition to Foster’s repertoire, which ranges from albums David Foster in 1986 to 2020’s Eleven Phrases, and the present mark a shift into writing for him. Regardless of being a “novice,” he welcomed the brand new endeavor.
“They got here alongside, and it was good in the correct in the correct time in my life, once I was like, ‘I would like a brand new problem. I need to transfer the goalpost. This looks as if the correct transfer for me,’” Foster says.
The complete album might be out there this Spring. Boop! The Musical begins previews March 11 earlier than its April 5 opening night time. Foster’s collaborators embody Tony Award-winning director and choreographer Jerry Mitchell, lyricist Susan Birkenhead and ebook author Bob Martin.
