Jason Robert Brown

Fantastic news to announce today: the new production of The Last Five Years that’s currently running at Second Stage Theatre in NYC will be recorded for a cast album, so that everyone will be able to have their own private experience of the amazing performances by Betsy Wolfe and Adam Kantor, not to mention the unbelievably great orchestra. I’ll be producing the CD, the great Jeffrey Lesser will be recording, the amazing Andy Waterman will be mixing, and the wonderful folks at Sh-K-Boom will be putting it out this summer. I couldn’t be happier or more excited! We record onRead More »

Today – April 26, 2013 – marks the one hundredth anniversary of the murder of Mary Phagan in the basement of the National Pencil Company in Atlanta, Georgia on the day of the Confederate Memorial Day Parade. I have spent many years carrying the facts of that day around in my head, and I have always felt it was a very serious responsibility to be asked to give voice to Mary and to Leo Frank, her employer and the man falsely accused of her murder. There are people in the world today who know about this case because of theRead More »

Read Erik Piepenburg’s article in the New York Times here. By ERIK PIEPENBURG New York Times, published April 25, 2013   “The Last Five Years” is a modest musical with a huge following. Jason Robert Brown’s two-person show follows the doomed marriage of Jamie, an arrogant Jewish novelist, and Cathy, an insecure gentile actress. The story of their troubled courtship is told chronologically — backward (hers) and forward (his). Their scenes intersect in the middle, when Jamie proposes to Cathy during a boat ride in Central Park. It’s an intimate, melancholy show that has confused and alienated some audience membersRead More »

Hey all my delightful fans, friends and family! The NY Times is running an article next week about the lingering influence of “The Last Five Years” and the passionate devotion the show has inspired over the years, and they’re asking for the recollections of fans and alumni of the show, as well as photos of any mementos. I would be so grateful if you would send them some of your memories and impressions. The Times has never been very kind to this show, and it means a lot to me if we can let them see what an amazing shadowRead More »

With today’s news that The Last Five Years has now extended for a second time, to May 12, I’m getting a singular impression that tickets are moving relatively quickly. On Tuesday night, there was a girl crying at the box office because she didn’t get in to see the show after having waited for three hours on the line for cancellations. Don’t be that girl! Get your tickets now! Here’s more enticement – two more wonderful videos from the Second Stage folks featuring my gorgeous and amazingly talented cast. Previews are going so well, I hope you can come downRead More »