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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 »

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

10/21/22

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 our favorite songs, but we also got to accompany Mykal on two glorious songs from his wonderful debut album, A Man Born Black. Also, Mykal made me join TikTok, the results of which remain to be seen. Moving Too Fast from The Last Five Years (2002)I Love Betsy from Honeymoon In Vegas (2014)Hallowed Ground from How We React and How We Recover (2018)Boat from UntitledRead More »

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

10/10/22

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 Cromwell asked me to come work with his Musical Theater students back in 2006, and it’s been a mutual admiration society ever since then. Red Mountain is deeply committed to bringing musical theater to its community at the highest possible level, which includes an incredible education department that has guided some remarkable talents – Jordan Fisher, Audrey Cardwell, Abigail Barlow and her sister Anna Grace are just aRead More »

13 THINGS ABOUT THE NEW MOVIE OF “13”!

8/18/22

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 Horn based on the original script written with Dan Elish, choreography by Jamal Sims, and new (and old) songs by me, the movie features a wonderful cast of kids from all over the US and Canada as well as Big Famous Actors like Debra Messing, Rhea Perlman, Josh Peck and Peter Hermann. Making this movie was a ridiculously complicated process that took years and yearsRead More »

SET LIST: BROWNIE AND SHOBEAN AT 54 BELOW, 8/14/22

8/15/22

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 benefit for a preschool. We sang together in Portland, in Dallas, in Indianapolis, in London, at the Library of Congress, on a private island for an audience of four. We sang together onstage with Stephen Sondheim. We were the oldest Jamie and Cathy in the history of The Last Five Years. She is the only person who has ever sung the only song I’ve ever written withRead More »

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