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Colin Donnell and Patti Murinhave hit a new milestone in their marriage.
PEOPLE can exclusively reveal that the actors, known for their roles on television (Chicago Med) and on Broadway (Anything Goes,Frozen), have collaborated on their first joint album — an LP of solo and duet covers set for release on Nov. 18 via Broadway Records.
TitledSomething Stupidafter the beloved 1967 Carson and Gaile tune, the album — which Donnell and Murin engineered their own vocals on from their newly formed home studio — is what the couple sweetly call “a slice of us.”
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Among the tracks on the album are hits from Bruce Springsteen, Sara Bareilles, Jason Robert Brown, Paul Simon and more.
“That song has always had kind of a fun place for me because of doing it onThe Affair,” he says. “And so I was super excited because, the arrangement on the album, it still had all that grit but yet I was able to put my own spin on it. It’s such an iconic song but we achieved something that’s uniquely mine, which was really cool.”
Murin agrees. “That was the one that Colin was like, ‘Oh gosh, this one’s really hard.’ And then when I heard it, I was blown away because he makes it sound so easy,” she tells PEOPLE. “It just shows a scope of Colin that people have not seen in terms of his singing ability. I got chills listening to it.”
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Donnell was equally moved to hear Murin sing “Everything Changes,” fromWaitress. In fact, listening through the album recently, that track brought him to tears.
“Patti made me cry,” he remembers of his time listening to the song, which details a new mom singing about her worldview after the birth of her daughter. “I can’t listen to that and not think about our 2-year-old daughter, Cecily, and what it’s been like watching Patti as a mom.”
“It’s such a simple song but so affecting,” Murin says. “I lovedWaitressso much, and while ‘She Used to Be Mine’ is an incredible song, I think ‘Everything Changes’ is really the most powerful song in the entire score, just because of what it represents. It’s really one of Sara Bareilles’s best songs that she’s ever written and it means so much to be able to sing it.”
Other entries on the 12-track album include the Johnny Cash and June Carter duet “Jackson,” the Sondheim classic “Finishing the Hat” (fromSunday in the Park with George) and theFrozen IIballad “The Next Right Thing” — a single dropped in February which Murin sings after originating the role of Princess Anna in the Broadway production ofFrozen.
Something Stupid’s full tracklist is as follows:
Both Donnell and Murin praise Luke Williams for bringing the album to life with his arrangements and orchestrations, as well as producer Robbie Rozelle for helping them curate the album.
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Ultimately, the couple — who wed in 2015 — say they’re anxious for fans to listen to the album. “We’re just excited for people to hear it,” Murin tells PEOPLE. “And who knows, we may do it again sometime soon, ‘cause we have certainly enough to sing about.”
Something Stupidis out Nov. 18.
source: people.com
