Jason Robert Brown

I got an email on December 11, 1999. Jason, Hi. We’ve met once or twice, but I’m not sure you’ll remember me. I’m Georgia Stitt, a music director/pianist. I music directed “After The Fair” this summer and “Stars In Your Eyes” this fall. Anyway, I’m writing because I’m really, really interested in finding out about the tour of “Parade.” Have you guys hired your music staff yet? I would LOVE to go out on the road — potentially as the MD or AMD or even a keyboard player. I have heard you play several times (starting with the NAMT presentationRead More »

Jeremy Gerard’s review here. Jason Robert Brown Brings Tin Pan Alley to Midtown Jazz Bastion By Jeremy Gerard April 5 (Bloomberg) / At Birdland last night, composer and lyricist Jason Robert Brown had the crowd doing something many of his fans might find surprising: laughing. Brown won a Tony award for Parade a lynching tale that has to be one of the darkest musicals ever written. In concert, he’s very funny in a charming, self-deprecating way. And as he, accompanied by bassist Randy Landau and guitarist Gary Sieger, amply demonstrated, he knows how to rock. Brown drew heavily on aRead More »

Just a reminder: This very newsletter can come right to your e-mail inbox if you just subscribe using the handy-dandy box on the home page of this site! Hey! What are you doing this week? I mean, outside of the seders and the Easter egg decorating, what are you doing? Can’t quite figure out how to spend your voluminous free time? Just sitting around watching reruns of “Cops” all day long? Still trying to adjust to Daylight Saving Time? Me too. Alas, party’s over, I have to go to work this week, but what will make it sweeter is ifRead More »

Hi-ho! A real entry will be forthcoming, but in the meanwhile, I’ve gotten several requests like this one: Irene Garrido Pascual wrote: I’m a singing teacher in Barcelona. I teach a little girl and I played her your song “What It Means To Be A Friend”, she loves it! And of course, she wants to sing it – it’s difficult to find a song for a nearly-teenage child that isn’t from Annie or something like that, hehehe. But the problem is that I can’t find the lyrics anywhere. I can just try to write the lyrics from listening to theRead More »

A ticket to a Broadway show costs over a hundred dollars. I think for that amount of money, you should be guaranteed a flawless performance with the entire original company. (In fact, I think for that amount of money, you should get to go home with the chorus member of your choice, but that’s outside the bounds of this discussion.) The fact is, however, that you’re not guaranteed much, other than a hopefully-not-too-uncomfortable chair and a Playbill. Nathan Lane might be out, lighting cues might get missed, a piece of scenery might get stuck, Mary Poppins may not fly, theRead More »