Jason Robert Brown

So sometimes what happens is you hear this song on the Internet, sung by this very young writer, and you think, “Wow, she’s pretty amazing,” so you follow her on Twitter (back when you used to be on Twitter) and it turns out she’s a total musical theater girl who already follows you, so you DM her to tell her you think she’s great and you have a brief conversation about hey-maybe-we-could-make-music-sometime and that’s all that you expect to come out of that, and then you show her stuff to your daughters and they go full-on bananas and become obsessedRead More »

ImprovisationI Love Betsy from Honeymoon In Vegas (2015)The Shed Shack from Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (2024)Boat from Untitled New Project (2023)King of the World from Songs for a New World (1995)Cassandra from The Connector (2024)It’s Hard To Speak My Heart (Todd solo) from Parade (1998)Get Closer from The Bridges of Madison County (2014)Fifty Years Long from How We React and How We Recover (2018)Zohra’s Philosophy from Untitled New Project (2023)It All Fades Away from The Bridges of Madison County (2014)Wait Til You See What’s Next from How We React and How We Recover (2018)All Things InRead More »

Pittsfield, MA – August 31 & September 1, I’m on the stage at Mr. Finn’s Cabaret at Barrington Stage Company, playing every song I’ve ever written, in chronological order! I’ll be sharing the stage with my excellent pal Todd Reynolds on fiddle and electronics, and we’ll be making some serious music for you all! Here are the details! Hollywood, CA – October 13 & 14, I’m back at Catalina Jazz Club (where this happened the last time I was there) with a sensational band and some great guest singers to be announced in a future update. The last time IRead More »

Hope from How We React and How We Recover (2018)I Love Betsy from Honeymoon In Vegas (2014)The Shed Shack from Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (2022)Boat from Untitled New Musical (2021)This Is Not Over Yet from Parade (1998)MYKAL Get Closer from The Bridges of Madison County (2014)MYKAL It’s Hard to Speak My Heart from Parade (1998)MYKAL King of the World from Songs for a New World (1995)MYKAL Too Long (2019)MYKAL Invisible from How We React and How We Recover (2018)It All Fades Away from The Bridges of Madison County (2014)Hallowed Ground from How We React and HowRead More »

It’s surely one of the less expected things on my résumé, but for a brief period of time in 2003, I put on a cowboy hat and boots every night and led the band of the Broadway musical, Urban Cowboy. Today is exactly 20 years from the opening night of that show, and while the musical itself was indefensibly ridiculous, that experience was one of the best times of my life, and I celebrate the craziness of Urban Cowboy whenever I can. (For those of you under the age of 50, Urban Cowboy the Musical was based on a phenomenallyRead More »