Jason Robert Brown

You’ve been asking lots of good questions, so I’ve been sending emails, calling, dropping by unannounced, anything I can do to get some confirmation of the rumors I’m hearing about what I’m doing in 2008. Unfortunately, I can’t get me to return a phone call, and I haven’t written myself back. No one else is willing to talk on the record either, so the stories below will just have to be considered unsubstantiated gossip until such time as I can corner myself and get me to ‘fess up. “13”: Well, if word on the street is to be believed, there’sRead More »

Steven Suskin’s review here. PARADE [First Night CASTCD 99] Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry’s Parade is the latest failed Broadway musical to find its way to a smaller, simpler and more economical version. Rob Ashford, the Southern-born director-choreographer who served as Pat Birch’s assistant on the original production in December 1998, seems to have personally shepherded the piece to the estimable Donmar Warehouse. Smaller, simpler and more economical this production was; a company of 51 actors and musicians was reduced to a mere 24. The scenic production at the intimate Donmar was, necessarily, a fragment of the grand pageantRead More »

It hadn’t occurred to me that anyone would offer to do another cast album for Parade. I figured, the 1998 recording is still in print, it sounds unbelievably good, and, given the kind of doldrums in which the recording industry finds itself these days, I’m amazed that anyone records musical theatre at all anymore. So with all that in mind, I couldn’t imagine that a version of the show with a reduced orchestra and cast with no stars that was playing a limited run in a theater with less than two hundred seats would attract the attention of any recordRead More »

More information about Lauren and her brand new album is available on LaurenKennedy.com! To purchase Lauren’s album, click here and now! Firstly, Steven Suskin’s full article here. Lauren Kennedy: Here and Now [PS-752] Review by Steven Suskin, Playbill.com, 11 November 2007 If Ms. Clark’s album is introspective, Lauren Kennedy’s “Here and Now” is bright and lively. “Here I Am” (from Dirty Rotten Scoundrels) sets the tone, and the pace never lets up. Kennedy is lesser known than Clark; her big Broadway break was as one of the stars of The Rhythm Club, which didn’t make it to Broadway. That sheRead More »

Click that subscribe button, people! You know you want to! Good day, citizens! It is I, Jason Robert Brown, one of your few entertainment options that’s not currently on strike. I would be if I could, but I’m my own employer and that’s awkward. So here I am, back in business at the ol’ ranch, and I wanted to tell you about all the exciting JRB-osity that’s coming your way. Firstly, I have to congratulate my two friends on their sensational new CD’s: Lauren Kennedy, the golden-throated thrush, has released her second album, Here and Now, on the PS ClassicsRead More »