Shoshana Bean and I have been yodeling, complaining, cracking each other up and messing up lyrics together for about fifteen years now. We sang together at a wedding, we sang together at a b…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 10:55PMNineteen years after I started writing 13 with Dan Elish, I have the flabbergasting joy of presenting to you… the trailer for the Netflix motion picture “13: The Musical,” which begins…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 03:36PMWhen Mr. Saturday Night opened on April 29 at the Nederlander, it marked the first time I’ve had a new full score on Broadway since Honeymoon In Vegas closed in 2015. Certainly there’s b…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 06:45PMJRB, Anastasia Talley and Cheeyang Ng in rehearsal for JRB's concert at 54 Below, May 2022.
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:33PMOne of my kids’ camp counselors needed to interview a composer for her school, so I got volunteered. I ended up kind of liking what I had to say, so I thought I’d post it here in case it…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 10:00PMNot that long ago, I did 30 to 40 concerts a year, traveling all over the country, racking up frequent flier miles and staying in weird hotels and eating a lot of late dinners by myself. Thi…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 10:04PM*|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* THE JRB HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE 2021 It’s holiday time! Let’s fling our masks aside with joyous abandon and celebrate (as long as you’ve got a second mask on underneat…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 04:06PMFour hundred and seventy-four days. I did a show in Los Angeles on March 9, 2020, and I didn’t perform in front of a live audience again for four hundred and seventy-four days. I was in To…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 01:55AMThis morning – nineteen years after I first wrote down a list of characters including “Evan Goldman” and “Archie” and “Patrice”; eighteen years after Dan Elish and I started wr…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 11:27AMOver the next several months, I’m going to be able to tell you lots of things about the movie of “13” that we’re currently rehearsing in Toronto. I’ll be able to tell you what song…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 10:04PMLake Forest Academy, Chicago IL, 16 April 2010. Jason Robert Brown, piano & vocal Randy Landau, fretless bass Gary Sieger, acoustic guitar (You can see me do the whole song here: http://www…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:12AMThe night that New York City went into lockdown, March 16, was to have been the 58th concert in my monthly residency at SubCulture, a series that has given me so much joy and fostered so muc…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 11:24AMI am overjoyed to announce the release of COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE, the remixed and remastered soundtrack of our Virtual SubCulture concert from this past April, featuring Shoshana Bean …
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 10:13AMThat year, Bill Clinton was the president, and he was younger than I am now. That year, there was only one show eligible for the Best Score Tony, and so it went to Sunset Blvd. by default. T…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 07:21PMI only ever saw Brent Carver play two roles, both of them men unjustly imprisoned. His Molina in “Kiss of the Spider Woman” was flamboyant, relentless, emotions splaying like a pinwheel.…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 07:40PMOrdinarily, the International Thespian Festival is a gathering of thousands of theater teens converging on a college campus in the Midwest to geek out about plays and musicals and connect wi…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 12:48PMI’ve found it punishingly hard to write music during these last nine weeks (nine weeks!), but I did manage to do this, a tribute to the great Bucky Pizzarelli and all the extraordinary jaz…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 02:24PMFirst we canceled the March show. We had planned a really beautiful show with Ashley Perez Flanagan, Zonya Love Johnson and Marcus Paul James for March 16, but then the social distancing ord…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 12:06AMIt's not my fault if Shawn Colvin wants to put up songs on Facebook for me to accompany.
SOURCE: YouTube at 08:32PMI’m a huge fan of Shawn Colvin, she’s an amazing singer, distinctive and exquisitely musical down to every inhale, and she’s a monster guitar player with the best right hand on the cir…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 03:35PMMonday night, April 27, at 8 PM EST, I’m proud to host the first online show of the JRB SubCulture Residency, featuring maybe the two greatest singers on the planet Earth: my muse and insp…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 11:43PMThe great Mike Titlebaum, director of jazz studies at Ithaca, joins me for a typically restrained arrangement of the Beatles's "When I'm Sixty-Four" in isolation, also featuring Mike's overz…
SOURCE: YouTube at 08:32PMJRB & Georgia Stitt and the abominable snowman.
SOURCE: YouTube at 08:32PMQuarantine does strange things to people. In this case, it compelled my old college buddy Mike Titlebaum (now the Director of Jazz Studies at Ithaca College) to reach out to me and ask if I …
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 03:25PMI have a friend who lives in Beijing, and by the time of the TADA! gala, he and his family had already been in lockdown for over a month. I remember not being able to imagine what that was l…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 10:51AMBack in those long ago days when we could all still get together and make music and celebrate, Georgia and I were honored by our favorite youth theater company, TADA!, with a gala at Tribeca…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 10:15AMBack in the early 90s, when all the musicals seemed to be Cameron Mackintosh spectacles from across the ocean, every tenor in the musical theater tried to sound like an old British rock star…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 04:59PMIn September of 2004, my friend Dan Elish and I did a private reading of the first twenty pages or so of a new musical we were working on called 13. We filled a room with thirteen kids, al…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 02:03PMA gloomy, rainy Monday night in the middle of winter in a small college town in Eastern Pennsylvania turned into a wonderful chance to make some music, tell some stories, and listen to one o…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 08:09AMBetty Buckley and I have been circling each other for over a quarter-century, always saying how much we love each other’s work and how much we’d love to collaborate, but never knowing ex…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 07:47PMI can’t predict how 2020 is going to go, but I can tell you one thing: I was more than ready to be done with 2019. Show #56 of the SubCulture Residency was designed to start the year off r…
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