Month: August 2009
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ASK JRB: PIANO STYLE
R. M. Kennedy asks: I’m going to be playing the piano in an upcoming production of Last Five Years, and I have a few questions. First, in No. 3 [See I’m Smiling], you mark that two passages are to be “vamped,” under spoken text. In the first instance, the bar after the vamp (“…I think…
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“Songs for a New World” Concerts To Benefit Late Actor’s Foundation
Article in the ClydeFitchReport.com here. This evening kicks off a terrific, if heartbreaking, event: a four-performance, three-night run of Jason Robert Brown’s Songs for a New World at the Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row. All proceeds benefit the Patrick Michael McMurphy Foundation. The event is produced by Frank Calo’s Spotlight On Productions. For those of…
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JRB in Vancouver 8/21, and in the movies!
Hellobama, one and all! Two exciting items for you today. First, this coming Friday, August 21, I’ll be heading up to Vancouver, British Columbia, to check out Not Another Musical Co-Op’s fantastically-reviewed production of Songs for a New World, and then right after the show, I’m doing a solo concert right on the Pacific Theatre…