Jason Robert Brown

For over fifty years, the 92nd St. Y on the Upper East Side of Manhattan has hosted virtually every luminary of the musical theater through its Lyrics and Lyricists series. I am so proud to have added my name to that roster with an epic show this past May, with a stage finally big enough for my full band, nine feet of grand piano happiness, and two of the greatest soloists in this business, the peerless Mykal Kilgore and the luminous Heidi Blickenstaff. The last time Heidi and I got to work together was twelve years ago, and since then,Read More »

Often in these pages I have spoken about seeing Closer Than Ever at the Cherry Lane Theater in 1989 and the powerful effect it had on me. Among the many repercussions of that evening was my total devotion to Sally Mayes, who took New York by storm in that show and has had a glorious career in theater and cabaret ever since. Two years later, after I had settled into my first apartment in the city so I could begin whatever my career was going to be, I was asked to write a song for a benefit concert and toldRead More »

Some things involving Hal Prince really only make sense in the context of Hal Prince, so I won’t take up your time attempting to explain why we did our first production of Prince of Broadway in Tokyo, but it’s true, we did, in 2015. (Here’s a photo of Reon Yuzuki coming down the steps for the Follies sequence.) I’d never heard of a theater on the top floor of a department store before, but that’s what the Theater Orb was, an enormous facility with 2000 seats and a stage the size of the Metropolitan Opera (and an orchestra pit toRead More »

The world has changed a lot since my last concert in London, in 2019, and I’ve changed a lot with it. For reasons both obvious and not, I’ve gone from doing 20 to 30 concerts a year to doing maybe four or five. And so when Lambert Jackson asked whether I would consider doing a solo concert at the London Palladium, I was of course excited but also a little hesitant. Did I have something to say? Did I have the chops to say it? Did anyone still want to listen? That was the challenge, then. Who am I atRead More »

I’m sitting at my desk working on mixes for the cast album of THE CONNECTOR and it suddenly occurred to me that I should let you know that we only have two weeks left – 16 more performances to watch this incredible cast and hear this incredible band at this wonderful theater on this gorgeous set. I’ll be playing all 16 shows and reveling in the magnificent music that these people make together. So if you haven’t gotten to MCC yet (or if you have and need to get another fix), I hope you’ll come join us.  This has been an absolutely magical experience. Ticket buying info is rightRead More »