It's surely one of the less expected things on my résumé, but for a brief period of time in 2003, I put on a cowboy hat and boots every night and led the band of the Broadway musical, Urba…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 01:10PMReal big news: As of today, right now, this very instant, you can stream and/or download the 2023 Broadway cast album of PARADE! Produced by myself and Jeffrey Lesser, with B... Read more.. …
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 02:34PMOn February 21, 2023, the night of the first preview of the new Broadway production of Parade (a musical about the Leo Frank case that premiered in 1998), audience members waiting to enter t…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 09:41PMA gorgeous autumnal Sunday in suburban New Jersey with my magnificent band and truly one of the most amazing singers in the world. Not only did we get to play extended versions of some of ou…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 12:39PMAn amazing weekend with the folks at Red Mountain Theater in Birmingham AL. I’m always surprised that I have this long, rich relationship with a theater in the Deep South, but Keith Cromwe…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 04:15PMJRB, Danielle Lee Greaves, Tasha Michelle doing another of JRB's crazy patter songs. Sunday night, 9/11/22 at 54 Below!
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:25AMTo my utter astonishment, as of right now, you can turn on Netflix and see the film adaptation of my musical 13! Directed by Tamra Davis, produced by Neil Meron, with a screenplay by Robert …
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 10:13PMShoshana Bean and I have been yodeling, complaining, cracking each other up and messing up lyrics together for about fifteen years now. We sang together at a wedding, we sang together at a b…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 10:55PMNineteen years after I started writing 13 with Dan Elish, I have the flabbergasting joy of presenting to you… the trailer for the Netflix motion picture “13: The Musical,” which begins…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 03:36PMWhen Mr. Saturday Night opened on April 29 at the Nederlander, it marked the first time I’ve had a new full score on Broadway since Honeymoon In Vegas closed in 2015. Certainly there’s b…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 06:45PMJRB, Anastasia Talley and Cheeyang Ng in rehearsal for JRB's concert at 54 Below, May 2022.
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:33PMOne of my kids’ camp counselors needed to interview a composer for her school, so I got volunteered. I ended up kind of liking what I had to say, so I thought I’d post it here in case it…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 10:00PMNot that long ago, I did 30 to 40 concerts a year, traveling all over the country, racking up frequent flier miles and staying in weird hotels and eating a lot of late dinners by myself. Thi…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 10:04PM*|MC_PREVIEW_TEXT|* THE JRB HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE 2021 It’s holiday time! Let’s fling our masks aside with joyous abandon and celebrate (as long as you’ve got a second mask on underneat…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 04:06PMFour hundred and seventy-four days. I did a show in Los Angeles on March 9, 2020, and I didn’t perform in front of a live audience again for four hundred and seventy-four days. I was in To…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 01:55AMThis morning – nineteen years after I first wrote down a list of characters including “Evan Goldman” and “Archie” and “Patrice”; eighteen years after Dan Elish and I started wr…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 11:27AMOver the next several months, I’m going to be able to tell you lots of things about the movie of “13” that we’re currently rehearsing in Toronto. I’ll be able to tell you what song…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 10:04PMLake Forest Academy, Chicago IL, 16 April 2010. Jason Robert Brown, piano & vocal Randy Landau, fretless bass Gary Sieger, acoustic guitar (You can see me do the whole song here: http://www…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:12AMThe night that New York City went into lockdown, March 16, was to have been the 58th concert in my monthly residency at SubCulture, a series that has given me so much joy and fostered so muc…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 11:24AMI am overjoyed to announce the release of COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE, the remixed and remastered soundtrack of our Virtual SubCulture concert from this past April, featuring Shoshana Bean …
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 10:13AMThat year, Bill Clinton was the president, and he was younger than I am now. That year, there was only one show eligible for the Best Score Tony, and so it went to Sunset Blvd. by default. T…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 07:21PMI only ever saw Brent Carver play two roles, both of them men unjustly imprisoned. His Molina in “Kiss of the Spider Woman” was flamboyant, relentless, emotions splaying like a pinwheel.…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 07:40PMOrdinarily, the International Thespian Festival is a gathering of thousands of theater teens converging on a college campus in the Midwest to geek out about plays and musicals and connect wi…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 12:48PMI’ve found it punishingly hard to write music during these last nine weeks (nine weeks!), but I did manage to do this, a tribute to the great Bucky Pizzarelli and all the extraordinary jaz…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 02:24PMFirst we canceled the March show. We had planned a really beautiful show with Ashley Perez Flanagan, Zonya Love Johnson and Marcus Paul James for March 16, but then the social distancing ord…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 12:06AMIt's not my fault if Shawn Colvin wants to put up songs on Facebook for me to accompany.
SOURCE: YouTube at 08:32PMI’m a huge fan of Shawn Colvin, she’s an amazing singer, distinctive and exquisitely musical down to every inhale, and she’s a monster guitar player with the best right hand on the cir…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 03:35PMMonday night, April 27, at 8 PM EST, I’m proud to host the first online show of the JRB SubCulture Residency, featuring maybe the two greatest singers on the planet Earth: my muse and insp…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 11:43PMThe great Mike Titlebaum, director of jazz studies at Ithaca, joins me for a typically restrained arrangement of the Beatles's "When I'm Sixty-Four" in isolation, also featuring Mike's overz…
SOURCE: YouTube at 08:32PMJRB & Georgia Stitt and the abominable snowman.
SOURCE: YouTube at 08:32PMQuarantine does strange things to people. In this case, it compelled my old college buddy Mike Titlebaum (now the Director of Jazz Studies at Ithaca College) to reach out to me and ask if I …
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