Author: Jason Robert Brown
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SET LIST: DePAUW UNIVERSITY, 3/7/15
Many thanks to a really fun crowd this afternoon in Greencastle IN, for singing your hearts out during “Caravan of Angels” and for generally putting up with my rambling patter (and for being so nice to my new song)! A whole weekend of master classes and talks will follow here at DePauw, and I’m looking…
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SET LIST: SUBCULTURE RESIDENCY CELEBRATION, 12/6/14
I don’t know what else to write about this night other than that it was one of the greatest nights of my life. To Build A Home (The Bridges of Madison County)Kelli O’Hara The Old Red Hills of Home (Parade)JRB Do It Alone (Parade)Carolee Carmello I Can Do Better Than That (The Last Five Years)Lauren…
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TWO YEARS LATER
Something broke in me two years ago, and I have sat in mute amazement that so little of any real meaning has changed in our society and culture. There have been more than 30 shootings at schools since the unimaginably terrible killings in Newtown CT two years ago. Just two days ago, a shooting at…
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THE LONG ROAD TO FIRST PREVIEW
Bergman and I started working on Honeymoon in Vegas in 2003. In the eleven years between now and then, we have benefited from the assistance, love, time and talent of an intimidatingly large number of people. I want to thank those people now, by name, for everything they brought to the process, because no one…
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SET LIST: BROADWAY CLOSE UP at MERKIN HALL, NYC (10/27/14)
I have a lot of history with Merkin Concert Hall. When I was 20 years old, my first job in New York City was as the accompanist for a community choir called the Rottenberg Chorale, which was conducted by the great Elayne Robinson Grossman. I was hired for the job by Sean Hartley, who worked…