Monthly Archives: August 2014
JRB ON YOU CAN’T TAKE IT WITH YOU
8/27/14Kaufman and Hart’s wonderful comedy You Can’t Take It With You won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1937 and has been a staple of theaters all across America ever since. A new production started previews tonight on Broadway, starring James Earl Jones, Elizabeth Ashley and Kristine Nielsen, and I was lucky enough to write the incidental music. Ted Sod interviewed me about my score for the play earlier this month for the Roundabout Theatre Company blog, so now you can read all about my history with the Vanderhof clan, including the rather surprising role that I played in aRead More »
SET LIST: JRB & SHOSHANA BEAN AT SUBCULTURE 8/4/14
8/5/14About a year ago, Marc and Steven Kaplan opened a new venue on the Lower East Side of Manhattan called SubCulture, and it’s exactly the kind of room I love to play – 150 seats, beautiful Steinway piano, great sound system, no drink minimum. So when Shoshana Bean called me last month to tell me that she was going to be in New York for a very short time but wanted to do a concert with me, I called over there and was so lucky to find a night when the club was available and Sho and I could bothRead More »