Performing is Ben Platt’s greatest joy.

So, when the creative master of just about everything began work on his current album, Honeymind, Platt constantly envisioned what the music would look like, while performing it.

“I think the album is designed for live performance,” Platt tells Ravinia Magazine during a Zoom interview from outside his home in New York City, his backdrop a growing curtain of summer rain. “As soon as I started writing in this more emotionally intimate, Americana folk type of space, I was really excited to get back to rooms where I could have a more direct connection to the crowd. I think being somewhere beautiful and outside and in some of the prosceniums that I’m playing, it will just give a certain sense of warmth that the music wants to have.”