Author: Jason Robert Brown
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RESIDENCY SET LIST: KELLI O’HARA 1/9/17
We could talk about the exquisite sensitivity and inescapable humanity of Kelli O’Hara singing “Christmas Lullaby,” a song which she said she couldn’t believe she hadn’t sung before… …or the crystalline brilliance of her performances from The Bridges of Madison County, recreated here with such defining authority… …or we could discuss the glories of this…
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GRATITUDE
There has been such a sense of loss pervading 2016, so many icons of our culture gone, so much debased and distorted in our sense of ourselves as a nation, so much that is uncertain and uncontained in the world. I am choosing, in these last days of this exhausting and often unkind year, to…
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HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY, MR. FRANK
In honor of the 18th anniversary of Parade‘s opening night on Broadway (at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater), here is a rarity: a private demo of the opening number, “The Old Red Hills of Home,” recorded in New York City a month after our first reading of the show (at the Plays & Players Theatre…
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FOUR YEARS LATER
The solution seems further away than ever right now, I know. But we must remember them. We must fight for them. I believe – I truly believe – that we will get there, that we will get to a place and a time and a solution where what happened to these beautiful women and children…
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RESIDENCY SET LIST 12/11: NORM LEWIS & KATIE THOMPSON
It’s a dream to play my music with these superlative musicians every month, but I have other dreams as well. I had a dream that Norm Lewis would do an Elvis Presley impression. I had a dream that Katie Thompson would sing my disco song into oblivion. I had a dream that I would get…