176 stories by "Jason Robert Brown"
Four 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 Toro…
This 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 writing a show a…
Over 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 songs we kept …
Lake 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…
The 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…
I 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 …
That 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…
I 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. I w…
Ordinarily, 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…
I'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 jazz …
First 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…
It's not my fault if Shawn Colvin wants to put up songs on Facebook for me to accompany.
I'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 circuit, …
Monday 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 inspir…
The 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…
JRB & Georgia Stitt and the abominable snowman.
Quarantine 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 …
I 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…
Back 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…
Back 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…
In 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, …
A 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…
Betty 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 exactl…
I 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 rig…
Yesterday, December 16, I was the musical director of a memorial for my mentor, the legendary director and producer Hal Prince, at the Majestic Theater on Broadway, where The Phantom of the …
