177 stories by "Jason Robert Brown"
My first concert in about six months, and what a pleasure to do it in front of a sold-out house here at the Columbia Club, and with Shoshana Bean singing so gorgeously all night. Thanks to L…
At some point last night, I reached 13,000 followers on Twitter. What makes that particular number extra cool is that the day I hit 13,000 is three years to the day from 13's opening night o…
There isn't much I can say about this song or the events that inspired it. I don't perform it very often anymore because it now feels like a promise that wasn't kept. But for several years a…
As you can read in the news feature I posted yesterday, the CD of The Trumpet of the Swan: A Novel Symphony is now available for purchase and download. I'm so thrilled that people are gettin…
I have been so inspired by Paul Simon for my entire creative life, and never more so than now, when he's got a spectacular new album, So Beautiful or So What, for which he's been touring aro…
Among the many problems particular to musical theatre writers is the occasional need to write a song that the audience thinks is bad. Some moment in the script will call for a delusional hac…
Production meetings, band rehearsals, sound checks, publicity shots, camera runthroughs; I just hit the ground in New York and I'm already running. Thursday night, I begin a three-night stan…
CAP21 (which was once an acronym for "Collaborative Arts Project" but now stands intriguingly undefined) has used their Spring Gala as an opportunity to celebrate great musical the…
A really lovely way to close out this tour, by returning to the city " and in fact, the very theater " where I first played Australia eight years ago. Many members in the audience were there…
Unbeknownst to me, the sound engineer in Brisbane recorded our show on Friday, and since we've been having so much fun doing the concerts, I thought I'd share some of that recording with you…
Brisbane! Who knew? Filled a 600-seat theater at the Queensland Conservatorium with raving musical theatre nerds of all stripes, and they had themselves a party. A fantastic crowd, another r…
When I was in Hamburg last September, I was interviewed by Ralf Rühmeier for Musicals Magazine, a German periodical devoted entirely to musical theatre. (Don't you love that there's one of …
A beautiful late-summer night in Perth, Western Australia, after a day spent exploring the coast (and getting sunburnt). Thanks to a very warm and supportive crowd, who helped us find some n…
Let me tell you, I highly recommend playing a concert in front of over 600 incredible fans in Sydney, Australia, if you ever get the chance. A wonderful night at the Parade Theatre at NIDA, …
Melburnians come ready to party, y'all. That was some festive audience we had tonight! I had a fantastic time (with the exception of a very unpleasant piano), and Rachael Beck sang so beauti…
Some of you may have already read Georgia's blog, in which she responds to questions about performance practice and score interpretation posed by our friend, Bruce Mayhall (who we met when h…
It takes a certain kind of guts to hire a guy to come sing showtunes on Super Bowl Sunday. In Alabama. I'm immensely grateful that Robert and Luz Ladrillono are the kind of people who would …
Hoo y'all, we had some kind of party last night at Show At Barre in Los Feliz. Shane Scheel and his great staff packed the joint to don't-tell-the-fire-marshal levels, and that crowd was roc…
