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SET LIST: MUSIC WITH THE DIGIFIDDLER, BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY, PITTSFIELD MA, 8/31-9/1/23

9/2/23

ImprovisationI Love Betsy from Honeymoon In Vegas (2015)The Shed Shack from Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (2024)Boat from Untitled New Project (2023)King of the World from Songs for a New World (1995)Cassandra from The Connector (2024)It’s Hard To Speak My Heart (Todd solo) from Parade (1998)Get Closer from The Bridges of Madison County (2014)Fifty Years Long from How We React and How We Recover (2018)Zohra’s Philosophy from Untitled New Project (2023)It All Fades Away from The Bridges of Madison County (2014)Wait Til You See What’s Next from How We React and How We Recover (2018)All Things InRead More »

CONCERTS IN THREE CITIES!

8/22/23

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 sharing the stage with my excellent pal Todd Reynolds on fiddle and electronics, and we’ll be making some serious music for you all! Here are the details! Hollywood, CA – October 13 & 14, I’m back at Catalina Jazz Club (where this happened the last time I was there) with a sensational band and some great guest singers to be announced in a future update. The last time IRead More »

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, URBAN COWBOY

3/27/23

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, Urban Cowboy. Today is exactly 20 years from the opening night of that show, and while the musical itself was indefensibly ridiculous, that experience was one of the best times of my life, and I celebrate the craziness of Urban Cowboy whenever I can. (For those of you under the age of 50, Urban Cowboy the Musical was based on a phenomenallyRead More »

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

3/23/23

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 Ben Platt, Micaela Diamond, Alex Joseph Grayson and the whole amazing cast AND the 24-piece City Center orchestra (featuring Georgia Stitt on the piano!), the album contains seventy-nine minutes and fifty seconds of lush, delicious and sometimes terrifying music recorded in pristine digital stereo, including several new songs written for the Donmar production and now preserved for the first time in their full symphonic orchestration. Thanks to the folks atRead More »

ABOUT THE PROTESTS OUTSIDE OF PARADE

2/23/23

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 the Bernard B. Jacobs Theater were harangued by members of a far-right White Supremacist group, “The National Socialist Movement.” Details can be found in this article on Playbill.com. The composer and lyricist of Parade, Jason Robert Brown, has written the following note in response to that event. February 22, 2023, Nyack, NY So, the Neo-Nazis. There is a website about the Leo Frank case that is notRead More »

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