Jason Robert Brown

HOPE Music and lyric by Jason Robert Brown Sheet music available on SheetMusicDirect.com. I come to sing a song about hope. I’m not inspired much right now, but even so, I came out here to sing a song. So here I go. I guess I think That if I tinker long enough, one might appear. And look! It’s here. One verse is done. The work’s begun. I come to sing a song about hope. In spite of everything ridiculous and sad, Though I’m beyond belief depressed, confused and mad, Well – I got dressed. I underestimated how much that wouldRead More »

Because everything else notwithstanding, this is the reason I must vote for the Democratic party. I will remember their names and I will sing them to a safer place. I’m sorry if I mispronounced anything. Twenty-Six Names Charlotte Bacon, 6 Daniel Barden, 7 Olivia Engel, 6 Josephine Gay, 7 Ana M. Marquez-Greene, 6 Dylan Hockley, 6 Madeleine F. Hsu, 6 Catherine V. Hubbard, 6 Chase Kowalski, 7 Jesse Lewis, 6 James Mattioli, 6 Grace McDonnell, 7 Emilie Parker, 6 Jack Pinto, 6 Noah Pozner, 6 Caroline Previdi, 6 Jessica Rekos, 6 Avielle Richman, 6 Benjamin Wheeler, 6 Allison N. Wyatt,Read More »

One of the unexpected blessings of having written The Bridges of Madison County is my relationship to the theater community of Des Moines. I’ve met folks at all of the local theater companies, and thanks to Jeff Chelesvig and the gang at Des Moines Performing Arts, I’ve been able to make a lot of great music – conducting the Des Moines Symphony at Yankee Doodle Pops with 100,000 people in the crowd; leading the pit orchestra for two glorious weeks when Bridges opened its national tour at the Civic Center; and now three concerts in the beautiful Temple Theater. EveryRead More »

UPDATE! Tonight, September 19, Ariana and I will be performing “Jason’s Song (Gave It Away)” with the Roots on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon! To celebrate, you can now purchase the track on iTunes AND you can purchase the SHEET MUSIC on SheetMusicDirect! — Once upon a time, I signed a contract with a music publisher to write pop songs. I had just gotten to Los Angeles, they offered me a nice advance, and I thought it would be a great way to see the music business from the inside. What I had assumed up until that point –Read More »

LAST NIGHT’S LAST FIVE YEARS by Jesse Green Theater review at Vulture.com A sensational concert performance of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years at Town Hall last night, starring Cynthia Erivo and Joshua Henry, started the New York fall theater season off with a bang. I use that phrase advisedly and sadly; the occasion was a benefit for the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence. (Erivo, Henry, Brown, and the five other musicians onstage all worked for free.) As if to emphasize the point, Brown began the evening not with the 2002 musical itself, but with a bitter newRead More »