Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Once I finish a show, it stays finished! Done! Close the book, put it away, here the Maestro laid down his pen.
Except sometimes.
I mean, there’s always one line that I never... Read more.…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 11:05PMThursday, January 30, 2025
When I did the first concert in my SubCulture residency in December 2014, I knew I was starting a new phase in my musical life, but I didn't realize that I was actually closing a chapter as …
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 04:34PMWednesday, January 22, 2025
Creating Ethan's first published story, featuring Bruno Mars, Kathleen Marshall, Donald Fagen, the Wood Knight, the Shippensburg Greyhounds, a Yeti playing the bass, Stefan Fatsis, Miles, an…
SOURCE: YouTube at 05:54PMTuesday, November 19, 2024
I had been warned that the crowd at the early show was likely to be kind of subdued. Monday night in Pittsburgh, mostly subscribers, older folks, nothing bad but good to know in advance. To …
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 04:31PMFriday, November 1, 2024
Let's start this story by referring to the picture below this paragraph. That video still represents the real beginning of my career in the New York theater. See that dark-haired kid on the …
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 04:13PMTuesday, October 1, 2024
Let's explore Robin's song "I'm Watching You," featuring Steve Reich, cool digital art, explicit dissonance, my immodest dog, the President and Vice-President in the comforting embrace of a …
SOURCE: YouTube at 03:48PMThursday, September 12, 2024
Exploring "See Yourself," the big "I want" song, featuring Mike Nichols, an ode to Randy Landau, the versions of the song I would have written in Bizarro World, a Yeti with a five-string bas…
SOURCE: YouTube at 12:48PMWednesday, September 4, 2024
I don't know about how it works in your house, but in our little corner of show business, the first Tuesday of September feels like someone shot a starter pistol in Times Square and suddenly…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 11:27PMTuesday, September 3, 2024
Analyzing the opening number, "The Whole World Changed," featuring Yehudi Menuhin, Philip Glass, cameos from two of my previous scores, our next Commander-in-Chief cast in resin, a Yeti with…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 11:27AMSaturday, August 24, 2024
Analyzing the opening number, "The Whole World Changed," featuring Yehudi Menuhin, Philip Glass, cameos from two of my previous scores, our next Commander-in-Chief cast in resin, a Yeti with…
SOURCE: YouTube at 06:24PMWednesday, August 14, 2024
Last week, I started a new video series called "The Deep Dive," where I'm delve into the writing process of The Connector in obsessive, microscopic detail. Here's Issue #1, where I spend ab…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 06:19PMWhat I wrote before I wrote what I wrote. With special guest appearances by Everest The Yeti, Maurizio Pollini, and Sting.
Cast album and sheet music can be found here: https://found.ee/The…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:36AMTuesday, August 6, 2024
THE CONNECTOR Deep Dive Issue #1: Cluster
JRB discusses the first measure of the show in excruciating detail, along with some fun tidbits that get us up to m. 28 of the opening number.
All o…
SOURCE: YouTube at 11:13AMThursday, July 4, 2024
For over fifty years, the 92nd St. Y on the Upper East Side of Manhattan has hosted virtually every luminary of the musical theater through its Lyrics and Lyricists series. I am so proud to…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 06:29PMWednesday, April 24, 2024
Often in these pages I have spoken about seeing Closer Than Ever at the Cherry Lane Theater in 1989 and the powerful effect it had on me. Among the many repercussions of that evening was my …
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 01:05PMTuesday, April 23, 2024
Some things involving Hal Prince really only make sense in the context of Hal Prince, so I won’t take up your time attempting to explain why we did our first production of Prince of Broadw…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 03:18PMTuesday, March 26, 2024
The world has changed a lot since my last concert in London, in 2019, and I've changed a lot with it. For reasons both obvious and not, I've gone from doing 20 to 30 concerts a year to doing…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 11:10PMTuesday, March 5, 2024
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SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 04:19PMTuesday, February 6, 2024
What, you may ask, is "popular demand"? "Popular demand" is when we've been selling so many tickets for The Connector in its world pr... Read more..
The post “THE CONNECTOR” EXTENDS TO M…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 11:22PMSunday, November 19, 2023
Sometimes you get so excited about the fact that tickets are on sale for your new show that you turn on a camera and talk about it for thirteen minutes.
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The post LAUNCHING “TH…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 12:45PMI figure I'm just gonna talk for twelve minutes about something that means the world to me. Two weeks until rehearsals start for my first show with Daisy Prince in over twenty years. THE CON…
SOURCE: YouTube at 04:32AMSunday, November 5, 2023
It's been 12 years since my last trip to Indianapolis and things have sure changed. The Cabaret's new purpose-built venue is a wonder, a great room for making and listening to music, with a …
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 08:51PMSunday, October 15, 2023
Georgia and I were honored with this year's Inspire Award by the folks at the Foundation for New American Musicals, and we decided to bring some friends along to help us celebrate (and sing …
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 10:21PMSaturday, October 14, 2023
So sometimes what happens is you hear this song on the Internet, sung by this very young writer, and you think, "Wow, she's pretty amazing," so you follow her on Twitter (back when you used …
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 09:39PMSaturday, September 2, 2023
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The post SET LIST: MUSIC WITH THE DIGIFIDDLER, BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY, PITTSFIELD MA, 8/31-9/1/23 appeared first on Jason Robert Brown.
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 01:54PMTuesday, August 22, 2023
Pittsfield, MA – August 31 & September 1, I'm on the stage at Mr. Finn's Cabaret at Barrington Stage Company, playing every song I've ever written, in chronological order! I'll be shar…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 12:29PMMonday, March 27, 2023
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 01:10PMThursday, March 23, 2023
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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SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 02:34PMWednesday, February 22, 2023
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…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 09:41PMFriday, October 21, 2022
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…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 12:39PMMonday, October 10, 2022
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…
SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 04:15PM 
