Jason Robert Brown

Wiley DeWeese asks, in hundreds of increasingly desperate emails over the course of the last month: In your blog a few years back you mentioned that the script of the Donmar production of Parade would be the only version available to license starting in 2008; however, the MTI website still lists the 1999 touring version as the production available to license. Did the switch to the Donmar version ever happen, and if not, will it possibly happen after the LA production closes? I have an interest in doing the show, but lack the resources to do the larger production. AndRead More »

After a fantastic tryout at French Woods this summer and a sensational sold-out production at Houston’s Theater Under The Stars, “13” is now finally available for all amateur and professional and school groups to license! Check out the news from Music Theatre International! Jason Robert Brown’s 13 – Now Available For Licensing by KATH on SEPTEMBER 11, 2009 As the new academic year begins, MTI is pleased to announce that 13 is fully available for licensing! With a funny and honest book by Dan Elish and Robert Horn and an energetic pop rock score by Tony Award winner Jason RobertRead More »

Naomi Pfefferman’s article here. ‘Parade’ Takes a Second Turn BY NAOMI PFEFFERMAN September 1, 2009 When the Donmar Warehouse production of Parade opens at the Mark Taper Forum on Oct. 4, starring T.R. Knight, it will mark the musical’s triumphant return to this country since a disastrous original version failed on Broadway more than a decade ago. High hopes accompanied the opening of the original Parade at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center in December 1998. The show tells the story of the 1913 lynching of Jewish factory manager Leo Frank in Georgia, an event that became a mediaRead More »

R. M. Kennedy asks: I’m going to be playing the piano in an upcoming production of Last Five Years, and I have a few questions. First, in No. 3 [See I’m Smiling], you mark that two passages are to be “vamped,” under spoken text. In the first instance, the bar after the vamp (“…I think we both can…”) forms the end of a phrase, but if the instructions are followed, there will be an odd number of bars in the phrase. Should I jump on the first bar of the vamp to even out the break, or should it beRead More »

Article in the ClydeFitchReport.com here. This evening kicks off a terrific, if heartbreaking, event: a four-performance, three-night run of Jason Robert Brown’s Songs for a New World at the Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row. All proceeds benefit the Patrick Michael McMurphy Foundation. The event is produced by Frank Calo’s Spotlight On Productions. For those of you unaware of McMurphy or the charity that now bears his name… …The Patrick Michael McMurphy Memorial Foundation (The PM3 Foundation), which was established shortly after the tragic death of 23-year-old actor Patrick Michael McMurphy on August 30, 2008. The PM3 Foundation provides scholarships andRead More »