Author: Jason Robert Brown
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SETLIST: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 12/9/16 W SHOSHANA BEAN
I arrived at the Library of Congress building at 11 am for a video interview (which will become part of the permanent collection), and Mark Eden Horowitz, the chief archivist in charge of the Musical Theatre collections, had laid out some treasures from the archives. Here was a sketch from West Side Story in Bernstein’s…
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RESIDENCY SET LIST 11/14: EDEN ESPINOSA, MIRANDA MULHOLLAND, PATRICE E TURNER & HOPE
I woke up on November 9 as though into some dystopian thriller. I stared at the headline in the New York Times and felt woozy, like my drink had been spiked. There was a way that Election Night was supposed to go, and then there was the nightmare that ensued. Like many other New Yorkers,…
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HOPE
HOPE Music and lyric by Jason Robert Brown Sheet music available on SheetMusicDirect.com. I come to sing a song about hope. I’m not inspired much right now, but even so, I came out here to sing a song. So here I go. I guess I think That if I tinker long enough, one might appear.…
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ON ELECTION NIGHT, 2016
Because everything else notwithstanding, this is the reason I must vote for the Democratic party. I will remember their names and I will sing them to a safer place. I’m sorry if I mispronounced anything. Twenty-Six Names Charlotte Bacon, 6 Daniel Barden, 7 Olivia Engel, 6 Josephine Gay, 7 Ana M. Marquez-Greene, 6 Dylan Hockley,…
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SETLIST 10/14-15/16: DES MOINES IA W EDEN ESPINOSA
One of the unexpected blessings of having written The Bridges of Madison County is my relationship to the theater community of Des Moines. I’ve met folks at all of the local theater companies, and thanks to Jeff Chelesvig and the gang at Des Moines Performing Arts, I’ve been able to make a lot of great…