Jason Robert Brown

7 comments

1. Congrats, JRB. Now stop making us non-LA types jealous! Since you are such a tease, I hearby sentence you to posting more demo tracks.

   Comment by steve on January 8, 2007 at 9:13 pm

   

2. Congratulations on the great review! You certainly deserve it 🙂

   Comment by Sarah on January 9, 2007 at 2:13 am

   

3. Fantastic review… congrats!!
   Now if only you could take it to Indiana where it’s set, I could roadtrip to see it!
   Hope you and your cast/band/crew are having an absolute blast!

   Comment by Mindy on January 10, 2007 at 6:33 pm

   

4. Congrats!

   Comment by Adena on January 14, 2007 at 8:56 am

   

5. Sara Niemietz’s performance of “What It Means to be a Friend” made me cry. Thanks for those lyrics. I am 40+.

   Comment by Laura on January 15, 2007 at 9:20 am

   

6. I’ve had all sorts of responses to great plays –sometimes I leave shaking, sometimes I leave enervated, sometimes I’m just in awe.
   Never have I walked out the door and then suddenly turned back and said “I wanna go again!”
   “13” is some of the most fun I’ve ever had, period. And it’s beautiful and absolutely relatable to anyone who’s been that age or raised children (I brought my mother – she and my father divorced right before I entered middle school, so the play really got to us both). And God, is it funny.
   Right now I’m hoping Disney Channel decides to steal it, because this is the kind of work that can make kids (and not just us geeks who grew up loving Sondheim) fall in love with everything that theatre can give them.

   Comment by Andrew on January 31, 2007 at 11:56 pm

   

7. Great review of JRB’s own show in the New York Times today:

   The composer Jason Robert Brown has the drive of a musical commando groomed for combat in the training camp where Broadway babies, art song composers and acolytes of Billy Joel and Randy Newman jostle for promotion. Mr. Brown has a little bit of all these influences in his songs, along with a disarming candor about his contradictory image as a cocky borderline geek.

   The reviewer mentions two songs from “Honeymoon in Vegas” and says if they’re any indication, JRB may have a huge hit on his hands!

   Comment by Lisa on February 12, 2007 at 12:06 pm