Author: Jason Robert Brown
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JRB RESIDENCY SET LIST 7/6: VOSK, NAGER, ROSEN & THE CRK
Musical fireworks last night at SubCulture, with an amazing group of musicians, all bringing exceptional new colors to my work and all of us pushing each other to new and sometimes really weird places. When Gary, Randy and I started playing trio shows together in 2002, those shows were heavily reliant on a lot of…
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THE ROLLING TIDE OF HISTORY (SETLIST: HUNTSVILLE, AL, 6/25/15)
I could not have known when I scheduled this week’s concert in Huntsville, Alabama, that we would be in the middle of a roller-coaster ride through ten historic days in this nation’s history, starting with the unspeakable horror of last week’s shooting in Charleston and ending, in what would have been unimaginable even five years…
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SET LIST: PORTLAND, OR. 6/14/15
This weekend marked my third trip to Portland, Oregon to visit the fantastic folks at Staged!PDX. I first came to town in June 2010 when they did a wonderful production of Songs for a New World at the Milagro Theater, and then Shoshana Bean and I returned in January 2012 for a sensational night at…
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ASK JRB ABOUT ALTERNATE KEYS FOR 13
Ooh, I haven’t done one of these in a while! Jason Marks writes: Getting ready to musically direct 13 this fall, and just had callbacks last night. We had lots of terrific kids who are great actors and most who are fairly strong singers. However, the role of Evan Goldman is proving to be a…
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SET LIST: JRB at the ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, LONDON 5/26/15
I am profoundly grateful for the music-making I’ve been able to do in the past six months: the SubCulture concerts, the Parade concert at Avery Fisher Hall in Feburary, the Trumpet of the Swan performances in Germany in March, and of course the run of Honeymoon In Vegas on Broadway earlier this year. Last night…