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Monday, March 27, 2023

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, URBAN COWBOY by Jason Robert Brown

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…

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Thursday, March 23, 2023

THE PARADE CAST ALBUM IS NOW AVAILABLE! (Also, concerts in April…) by Jason Robert Brown

Real 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.. …

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Wednesday, February 22, 2023

ABOUT THE PROTESTS OUTSIDE OF PARADE by Jason Robert Brown

On 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…

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Friday, October 21, 2022

SET LIST: SUNDAY IN THE JERZ WITH MYKAL KILGORE, AXELROD PAC, DEAL NJ, 10/16/22 by Jason Robert Brown

A 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…

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Monday, October 10, 2022

SET LIST: RETURN TO RED MOUNTAIN, 10/7-8/22, BIRMINGHAM AL by Jason Robert Brown

An 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…

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Tuesday, September 6, 2022

Lots of words, lots of notes, lots of chords. by Jason Robert Brown

JRB, Danielle Lee Greaves, Tasha Michelle doing another of JRB's crazy patter songs. Sunday night, 9/11/22 at 54 Below!

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Wednesday, August 17, 2022

13 THINGS ABOUT THE NEW MOVIE OF “13”! by Jason Robert Brown

To 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 10:13PM
Sunday, August 14, 2022

SET LIST: BROWNIE AND SHOBEAN AT 54 BELOW, 8/14/22 by Jason Robert Brown

Shoshana 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 10:55PM
Wednesday, July 13, 2022

“13: THE MUSICAL” MOVIE TRAILER! by Jason Robert Brown

Nineteen 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…

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Sunday, June 5, 2022

SETLIST: THE NEW STUFF AT 54 BELOW (5/13-15/22) by Jason Robert Brown

When 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…

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Tuesday, May 17, 2022

The JRB Country Trio by Jason Robert Brown

JRB, Anastasia Talley and Cheeyang Ng in rehearsal for JRB's concert at 54 Below, May 2022.

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A QUICK INTERVIEW by Jason Robert Brown

One 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…

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Friday, January 21, 2022

SET LIST: CLOSING OUT ’21 AT 54 (12/11/21) by Jason Robert Brown

Not 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…

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Thursday, December 2, 2021

THE JRB HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE 2021 by Jason Robert Brown

*|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…

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Thursday, July 15, 2021

SET LIST: BACK TO LIFE, 54 BELOW 6/26 & 7/12/21 by Jason Robert Brown

Four 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 01:55AM
Monday, June 7, 2021

ONE FOOT IN FRONT OF THE OTHER by Jason Robert Brown

This 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…

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Thursday, April 29, 2021

PRESENTING THE CAST OF NETFLIX’S “13”! by Jason Robert Brown

Over 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…

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Wednesday, March 3, 2021

Why I Forgot The Lyrics by Jason Robert Brown

Lake 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…

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Friday, December 18, 2020

WHY WE MADE “COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE” by Jason Robert Brown

The 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…

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Monday, December 14, 2020

NEW ALBUM “COMING FROM INSIDE THE HOUSE” RELEASED 12/18! by Jason Robert Brown

I 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 …

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Saturday, October 10, 2020

TWENTY-FIVE YEARS IN A NEW WORLD by Jason Robert Brown

That 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…

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Thursday, August 6, 2020

IN MEMORY OF BRENT CARVER by Jason Robert Brown

I 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.…

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Sunday, June 28, 2020

IN PERFORMANCE: FROM THE 2020 INTERNATIONAL THESPIAN FESTIVAL by Jason Robert Brown

Ordinarily, 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…

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Wednesday, May 13, 2020

IN THE TIME OF…, a new song by Jason Robert Brown

I’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 02:24PM
Friday, May 1, 2020

RESIDENCY CONCERT #58: GRANDE, BEAN & SOCIAL DISTANCE by Jason Robert Brown

First 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…

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Thursday, April 30, 2020

UNINVITED COLLABORATIONS Vol. 1: JRB meets SHAWN COLVIN by Jason Robert Brown

It's not my fault if Shawn Colvin wants to put up songs on Facebook for me to accompany.

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UNINVITED COLLABORATIONS, Vol. 1: SHAWN COLVIN by Jason Robert Brown

I’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…

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Thursday, April 23, 2020

MONDAY 4/27: JRB ONLINE CONCERT featuring ARIANA GRANDE and SHOSHANA BEAN! by Jason Robert Brown

Monday 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…

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Monday, April 13, 2020

When I'm Seven-Four (featuring Mike Titlebaum) by Jason Robert Brown

The 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…

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SOCIAL ISOLATION SWINGIN’: JRB & Mike Titlebaum Ruin The Beatles by Jason Robert Brown

Quarantine 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 …

SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 03:25PM

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