176 stories by "Jason Robert Brown"
Some things involving Hal Prince really only make sense in the context of Hal Prince, so I won't take up your time attempting to explain why we did our first production of Prince of Broadway…
The world has changed a lot since my last concert in London, in 2019, and I've changed a lot with it. For reasons both obvious and not, I've gone from doing 20 to 30 concerts a year to doing…
Read more..
The post TWO MORE WEEKS OF THE CONNECTOR (and other news) appeared first on Jason Robert Brown.
What, you may ask, is "popular demand"? "Popular demand" is when we've been selling so many tickets for The Connector in its world pr... Read more..
The post "THE CONNECTOR" EXTENDS TO MARCH…
Sometimes you get so excited about the fact that tickets are on sale for your new show that you turn on a camera and talk about it for thirteen minutes.
Read more..
The post LAUNCHING "THE …
I figure I'm just gonna talk for twelve minutes about something that means the world to me. Two weeks until rehearsals start for my first show with Daisy Prince in over twenty years. THE CON…
It's been 12 years since my last trip to Indianapolis and things have sure changed. The Cabaret's new purpose-built venue is a wonder, a great room for making and listening to music, with a …
Georgia and I were honored with this year's Inspire Award by the folks at the Foundation for New American Musicals, and we decided to bring some friends along to help us celebrate (and sing …
So sometimes what happens is you hear this song on the Internet, sung by this very young writer, and you think, "Wow, she's pretty amazing," so you follow her on Twitter (back when you used …
ImprovisationI L... Read more..
The post SET LIST: MUSIC WITH THE DIGIFIDDLER, BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY, PITTSFIELD MA, 8/31-9/1/23 appeared first on Jason Robert Brown.
Pittsfield, MA " August 31 & September 1, I'm on the stage at Mr. Finn's Cabaret at Barrington Stage Company, playing every song I've ever written, in chronological order! I'll be sharin…
It's surely one of the less expected things on my résumé, but for a brief period of time in 2003, I put on a cowboy hat and boots every night and led the band of the Broadway musical, Urba…
Real big news: As of today, right now, this very instant, you can stream and/or download the 2023 Broadway cast album of PARADE! Produced by myself and Jeffrey Lesser, with B... Read more..
…
On February 21, 2023, the night of the first preview of the new Broadway production of Parade (a musical about the Leo Frank case that premiered in 1998), audience members waiting to enter t…
A gorgeous autumnal Sunday in suburban New Jersey with my magnificent band and truly one of the most amazing singers in the world. Not only did we get to play extended versions of some of ou…
An amazing weekend with the folks at Red Mountain Theater in Birmingham AL. I'm always surprised that I have this long, rich relationship with a theater in the Deep South, but Keith Cromwell…
JRB, Danielle Lee Greaves, Tasha Michelle doing another of JRB's crazy patter songs.
Sunday night, 9/11/22 at 54 Below!
To my utter astonishment, as of right now, you can turn on Netflix and see the film adaptation of my musical 13! Directed by Tamra Davis, produced by Neil Meron, with a screenplay by Robert …
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…
Nineteen 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 air…
When 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 been …
JRB, Anastasia Talley and Cheeyang Ng in rehearsal for JRB's concert at 54 Below, May 2022.
One 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 giv…
Not 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…
*|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* THE JRB HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE 2021 It's holiday time! Â Let's fling our masks aside with joyous abandon and celebrate (as long as you've got a second mask on underneath). …
