Month: March 2011
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JRB & Georgia Stitt Honored in Concert in NYC 4/11!
Hey all! Just back from a fantastic tour in Australia and a tremendous performance of Trumpet of the Swan at the Kennedy Center, and I’ve got news! A very cool event coming up in New York this month. On April 11, CAP21 will be honoring me and Georgia for their annual all-star benefit, and we’re…
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SET LIST 3/16/11, ADELAIDE, S. AUSTRALIA
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 back then as well, including one woman who reminded me at the signing afterwards that the concert in…
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SOUND BLOG #16: LIVE IN BRISBANE
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 all. Enjoy the sound of me mashing an unsuspecting Australian Steinway to smithereens. [For sound nerds: It’s a pretty weird recording…
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SET LIST 3/11/11, BRISBANE AUSTRALIA
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 really good piano (though my heart still belongs to Perth), and Rachael just blew the roof off with “One More Thing Than I Can Handle.” What…
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ON GERMANS, TEACHING, WILDHORN, COMPOSING, PANDERING, AGING & BROADWAY
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 those in Germany but nothing equivalent in the United States?) Because I don’t speak German, the interview was conducted in English, then translated into…