Author: Jason Robert Brown
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RESIDENCY SET LIST: RACHEL BAY JONES GETS REAL 7/23
What was the most memorable moment of this concert? Was it Rachel recounting how she once had to scream “Go to Hell!” at a lamprey eel on a television show? Was it the free jazz rendition of “Wind Beneath My Wings”? Or when Carol and Mark told us after “Fifty Years Long” that they loved…
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RESIDENCY SET LIST: A HOT NIGHT WITH THURMAN, RUFFELLE AND BEAN!
There are always surprises at these concerts, but sometimes the person who is the most surprised is me. In this case, I was caught delightedly off-guard by the juxtaposition of three masterful performers: a resplendently gifted jazz singer/saxophonist – a fearlessly theatrical and relentlessly inquisitive chanteuse – and an endlessly versatile R&B singer and Broadway…
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RESIDENCY SET LIST 5/21: HOEDOWN WITH GAVIN CREEL
Is there anyone in the entire entertainment industry who contains as much pure joy and such innate glorious musicality as Gavin Creel? Let me answer that for you: no. No, there is not. And he brought that contagious joy and stupendous mastery to the stage at SubCulture (on his night off from his Tony Award-winning…
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RESIDENCY SET LIST 4/25: BLAEMIRE, IMAN & MUPPET NERDS
The last couple shows were a little emotional, maybe, so this time I made everyone wear Electric Mayhem t-shirts (except Amber, who went with a NWA/Cookie Monster mashup deal my kids found at Target), and Nick played a new tune, and Amber did a reggae version of “Invisible” that we made up during rehearsal, and…
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SET LIST 4/11: LONDON PALLADIUM w WOLFE, LEWIS, TUCKER & the BBC Concert Orchestra
Friday Night Is Music Night has been broadcast on BBC Radio 2 continuously since 1953, devised to feature the extraordinary musicians of the BBC Concert Orchestra. It is now the longest-running orchestral radio programme in the world. I can’t imagine the founders ever planned for a quirky middle-aged American songwriter to hijack the entire thing…