Jason Robert Brown

I’ve spent a lot of time in Las Vegas over the years – I was the music supervisor for six industrial shows for State Farm Insurance that played at the Thomas & Mack Arena – and I actually wrote a whole show about that wacky town, but I’ve never actually performed a concert there, in spite of the very healthy musical theater community that’s evolved in the Greater Las Vegas area. So I was particularly intrigued when I got a Facebook message back in January from someone named Myron Martin, who said he ran a jazz club in the SmithRead More »

Sometimes I ask what it is that the world needs from me, how can I be of service to this complicated and conflicted planet, and sometimes the answer comes with bracing clarity. On June 14, I was given the opportunity to perform at the Alden Theatre in the McLean Center in McLean, VA, exactly ten miles away from the White House, at precisely the same time as the president’s highly dubious Military Parade, and it felt like the most obvious sign: I can provide a small drop of relief for those who are thirsting for something, anything other than theRead More »

SCOTT BAKULA, HANNAH CRUZ, BEN LEVI ROSS AND THE ORIGINAL CAST AND ORCHESTRA OF THE CONNECTOR TO REUNITE FOR A ONE-NIGHT ONLY  CONCERT BENEFITTING THE COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS BOOK BYJONATHAN MARC SHERMANMUSIC AND LYRICS BYJASON ROBERT BROWNCONCEIVED AND DIRECTED BY DAISY PRINCE BENEFIT CONCERT TO FEATURE ORIGINAL CAST MEMBERS: SCOTT BAKULA, JOANNA CARPENTER, MAX MENDOZA CRUMM, HANNAH CRUZ, GEORGE DVORSKY, MYLINDA HULL, DANIEL JENKINS, MARISSA MEDINA, JESSICA MOLASKEY, FERGIE PHILIPPE, ELISEO ROMÁN, BEN LEVI ROSS, ANN SANDERS, AND MICHAEL WINTHER AND THE ORIGINAL ORCHESTRA, LED BY JASON ROBERT BROWN MONDAY JUNE 16, 2025 AT 7:30PM AT WEBSTER HALL TICKETS GO ON SALE FRIDAY,Read More »

Once I finish a show, it stays finished! Done! Close the book, put it away, here the Maestro laid down his pen. Except sometimes. I mean, there’s always one line that I never got right. Or a character whose actions don’t quite make sense. Or just something … missing. I did a blog post many years ago about all the changes Alfred Uhry and I made to Parade when we revised it for the Donmar Warehouse in 2007. There isn’t enough space on the Internet to denote all the changes Robert Horn and I have made to the various versionsRead More »

When I did the first concert in my SubCulture residency in December 2014, I knew I was starting a new phase in my musical life, but I didn’t realize that I was actually closing a chapter as well. That night was the last time that Anika Noni Rose and I performed together for ten years. Before that concert, Anika and I had performed our show at Birdland in New York, at the Garrick Theater in London’s West End, at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica CA, and for three nights at the Abrons Arts Center on the Lower East SideRead More »