Author: Jason Robert Brown
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“L5Y” RELEASE DATE & “BRIDGES” SITZPROBE
Two really fun bits of news today. First, we now have announced an official release date for the new Off-Broadway cast recording of The Last Five Years starring Adam Kantor and Betsy Wolfe – the CD will be available on September 24 in both stores that still sell CDs, as well as on iTunes and…
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“BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY” CROSSES OVER TO THE MUSICAL STAGE (Boston Globe, 7/27/13)
Click here to read Laura Collins-Hughes’s article. “THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY” CROSSES OVER TO THE MUSICAL STAGE By Laura Collins-Hughes, Globe correspondent July 27, 2013 NEW YORK — Robert James Waller is all of three words into his novel “The Bridges of Madison County” when he mentions music. “There are songs that come free…
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FILMING “THE LAST FIVE YEARS”
Yesterday, principal photography wrapped on the film version of The Last Five Years, adapted and directed by Richard LaGravenese (the writer of one of my favorite movies of all time, The Fisher King), and starring the luminous Anna Kendrick and the magnificent Jeremy Jordan. (Sadly, I wasn’t around for the end of the shoot, but…
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COLLABORATING WITH WILLY THE SHAKE
Last night, the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis celebrated its 50th Anniversary with a stupendous soirée featuring an ensemble of seventeen actors and twelve musicians as well as a mighty lineup of guest performers, including Whoopi Goldberg and TR Knight. The director, Peter Flynn (who I’ve known for many years both as a wonderfully gifted theatre…
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A NEW CAST ALBUM FOR “THE LAST FIVE YEARS”
Fantastic news to announce today: the new production of The Last Five Years that’s currently running at Second Stage Theatre in NYC will be recorded for a cast album, so that everyone will be able to have their own private experience of the amazing performances by Betsy Wolfe and Adam Kantor, not to mention the…