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l to r: JRB, Gary Sieger (obscured), Tituss Burgess, Brian Dunne, Shawn Galvin, Brian d’Arcy James, Randy Landau (obscured), Alice Ripley and Laura Griffith in Songs for a New World at the Strathmore Music Center, May 16, 2007Photo by Margot I. Schulman. Celia Wren’s review here. Exhilarating ‘Songs for a New World’ By Celia Wren…

Chris Slattery’s article here. Broadway on the Pike Strathmore presents – and produces – “Songs for a New World” by Chris Slattery, staff writer It’s the arts world equivalent of the house on the block where all the kids like to play: the Music Center at Strathmore in North Bethesda. Which is why the prolific…

News, news, lots of news! I go to New York on Monday to start rehearsals for the big all-star Songs for a New World concert at Strathmore. Man, I’m excited about this. Alice came over this week and was rehearsing with me and holy cats, can that woman sing. Did you buy your tickets yet?…

Brian Kellow’s review available here. I don’t have much problem with his criticism of my “onstage persona” (which is not all that different from my offstage persona, truth be told), but I do find it odd that the one part of my patter he chooses to quote as an example of what “doesn’t always play…

Jeremy Gerard’s review here. Jason Robert Brown Brings Tin Pan Alley to Midtown Jazz Bastion By Jeremy Gerard April 5 (Bloomberg) / At Birdland last night, composer and lyricist Jason Robert Brown had the crowd doing something many of his fans might find surprising: laughing. Brown won a Tony award for Parade a lynching tale…