Category Archives: Songs For A New World
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS IN A NEW WORLD
Written on October 10, 2020 at 11:21 pm, by Jason Robert Brown
That year, Bill Clinton was the president, and he was younger than I am now. That year, there was only one show eligible for the Best Score Tony, and so it went to Sunset Blvd. by default. That year, the legendary George Abbott died. Unrelated: Dua Lipa was born. As of that year, Andréa, whoRead More »
TWENTY YEARS IN A “NEW WORLD”
Written on October 13, 2015 at 1:58 am, by Jason Robert Brown
October 12, 1995, was the first performance of Songs for a New World at the WPA Theatre on W. 23rd St. in Manhattan. Almost no one saw it, the reviews were polite but dismissive, and the theater doesn’t even exist anymore. Yet Songs for a New World lives on, in its wonderful cast album (producedRead More »