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Among the many problems particular to musical theatre writers is the occasional need to write a song that the audience thinks is bad. Some moment in the script will call for a delusional hack or an over-the-hill ingenue to burst forth with what they think is a fantastic number, and we are immediately supposed to…

Mark Shenton’s blog for TheStage.co.uk posted here. I’ve got a singular impression things are moving too fast… By Mark Shenton on March 8, 2011 5:59 AM Is there a more in-the-moment, zeitgeist-y composer on the Broadway block than Jason Robert Brown? Catching up with him live in concert last night in Sydney, where he is…

This doesn’t happen often, but every once in a while, I’ll completely get lost while I’m performing a number, and I have to make a decision very quickly about whether to move on and pretend it didn’t happen or stop and apologize. In this case, you’ll see, I did neither. After a similar experience at…

Sitting in the Mark Taper Forum, watching the 3rd preview of Parade, 26 September 2009. [Most of what I’m paying attention to on this particular night is music and sound stuff, so the majority of the notes are marked “T” (for Tom Murray, my stalwart musical director) or “JW” (for Jon Weston, the sound designer).…

I had the delightful privilege of being interviewed for John Jacobson’s Music Express Magazine, a Hal Leonard publication for elementary school kids. You can pick up the May/June 2010 issue here, which includes simplified sheet music for “What It Means To Be A Friend” and “Thirteen”, as well as a fun article about me and…