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Saturday, September 10, 2011

COMING TOGETHER (Live, 2002) by Jason Robert Brown

There isn't much I can say about this song or the events that inspired it. I don't perform it very often anymore because it now feels like a promise that wasn't kept. But for several years a…

SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 07:43PM
Thursday, June 23, 2011

"THE TRUMPET OF THE SWAN" COMES TO LIFE by Jason Robert Brown

As you can read in the news feature I posted yesterday, the CD of The Trumpet of the Swan: A Novel Symphony is now available for purchase and download. I'm so thrilled that people are gettin…

SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 03:37PM
Wednesday, May 18, 2011

SING AN AMERICAN TUNE by Jason Robert Brown

I have been so inspired by Paul Simon for my entire creative life, and never more so than now, when he's got a spectacular new album, So Beautiful or So What, for which he's been touring aro…

SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 08:18PM
Wednesday, May 11, 2011

A LOVE LETTER TO A TERRIBLE SONG by Jason Robert Brown

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 hac…

SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 02:34AM
Monday, April 25, 2011

GETTIN' READY FOR HENRY STREET by Jason Robert Brown

Production meetings, band rehearsals, sound checks, publicity shots, camera runthroughs; I just hit the ground in New York and I'm already running. Thursday night, I begin a three-night stan…

SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 10:34AM
Friday, April 15, 2011

SET LIST AND REPORT, 4/11/11: JRB & GCS IN NYC by Jason Robert Brown

CAP21 (which was once an acronym for "Collaborative Arts Project" but now stands intriguingly undefined) has used their Spring Gala as an opportunity to celebrate great musical the…

SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 03:49AM
Sunday, March 20, 2011

SET LIST 3/16/11, ADELAIDE, S. AUSTRALIA by Jason Robert Brown

A really lovely way to close out this tour, by returning to the city – and in fact, the very theater – where I first played Australia eight years ago. Many members in the audience were t…

SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 07:31AM
Tuesday, March 15, 2011

SOUND BLOG #16: LIVE IN BRISBANE by Jason Robert Brown

Unbeknownst to me, the sound engineer in Brisbane recorded our show on Friday, and since we've been having so much fun doing the concerts, I thought I'd share some of that recording with you…

SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 03:32AM
Saturday, March 12, 2011

SET LIST 3/11/11, BRISBANE AUSTRALIA by Jason Robert Brown

Brisbane! Who knew? Filled a 600-seat theater at the Queensland Conservatorium with raving musical theatre nerds of all stripes, and they had themselves a party. A fantastic crowd, another r…

SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 06:30AM
Thursday, March 10, 2011

ON GERMANS, TEACHING, WILDHORN, COMPOSING, PANDERING, AGING & BROADWAY by Jason Robert Brown

When I was in Hamburg last September, I was interviewed by Ralf Rühmeier for Musicals Magazine, a German periodical devoted entirely to musical theatre. (Don’t you love that there’s one…

SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 01:47AM

SET LIST 3/9/11, PERTH, WESTERN AUSTRALIA by Jason Robert Brown

A beautiful late-summer night in Perth, Western Australia, after a day spent exploring the coast (and getting sunburnt). Thanks to a very warm and supportive crowd, who helped us find some n…

SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 01:43AM
Monday, March 7, 2011

SET LIST 3/7/11, SYDNEY AUSTRALIA by Jason Robert Brown

Let me tell you, I highly recommend playing a concert in front of over 600 incredible fans in Sydney, Australia, if you ever get the chance. A wonderful night at the Parade Theatre at NIDA, …

SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 09:28AM
Monday, February 28, 2011

SET LIST 2/28/11, MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA by Jason Robert Brown

Melburnians come ready to party, y'all. That was some festive audience we had tonight! I had a fantastic time (with the exception of a very unpleasant piano), and Rachael Beck sang so beauti…

SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 07:42AM
Monday, February 21, 2011

ASK JRB: INTERPRETING THE SCORE by Jason Robert Brown

Some of you may have already read Georgia's blog, in which she responds to questions about performance practice and score interpretation posed by our friend, Bruce Mayhall (who we met when h…

SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 11:55AM
Monday, February 7, 2011

SET LIST 2/6/11, HUNTSVILLE AL by Jason Robert Brown

It takes a certain kind of guts to hire a guy to come sing showtunes on Super Bowl Sunday. In Alabama. I'm immensely grateful that Robert and Luz Ladrillono are the kind of people who would …

SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 01:25AM
Monday, January 31, 2011

SET LIST 1/30/11, JRB & SHOBEAN IN LOS ANGELES by Jason Robert Brown

Hoo y'all, we had some kind of party last night at Show At Barre in Los Feliz. Shane Scheel and his great staff packed the joint to don't-tell-the-fire-marshal levels, and that crowd was roc…

SOURCE: Jason Robert Brown at 01:46PM
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