165 stories from Jason Robert Brown
I'll tell you what I hear.
I hear my band in college, with a big Earth, Wind & Fire-style horn section, playing a riff that I eventually turned into "The River Won't Flow." 1988, I was e…
I have played a few concerts in my life where I felt something shift, like every concert afterward would be informed by what had happened onstage that night. The general structure of my conc…
I got asked if I would come watch a run-through of a new musical because the producers were considering replacing the musical director and wondered if I would be open to taking over. The cat…
The world I travel in is filled with gay men and women, trans people, and folks who inhabit basically every millimeter of the gender-and-sexuality spectrum. They are my collaborators, my fr…
It seems unlikely, I know, but I lived in Los Angeles for almost a decade and I really loved it, and one of the things I loved was my relationship with some of the local theater companies. …
I've spent a lot of time in Las Vegas over the years " I was the music supervisor for six industrial shows for State Farm Insurance that played at the Thomas & Mack Arena " and I actuall…
Sometimes I ask what it is that the world needs from me, how can I be of service to this complicated and conflicted planet, and sometimes the answer comes with bracing clarity. On June 14, I…
SCOTT BAKULA, HANNAH CRUZ, BEN LEVI ROSSÂ AND THE ORIGINAL CAST AND ORCHESTRA OF THE CONNECTOR TO REUNITE FOR A ONE-NIGHT ONLYÂ CONCERT BENEFITTING THE COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS
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Once I finish a show, it stays finished! Done! Close the book, put it away, here the Maestro laid down his pen.
Except sometimes.
I mean, there's always one line that I never... Read more..
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When I did the first concert in my SubCulture residency in December 2014, I knew I was starting a new phase in my musical life, but I didn't realize that I was actually closing a chapter as …
I had been warned that the crowd at the early show was likely to be kind of subdued. Monday night in Pittsburgh, mostly subscribers, older folks, nothing bad but good to know in advance. To …
Let's start this story by referring to the picture below this paragraph. That video still represents the real beginning of my career in the New York theater. See that dark-haired kid on the …
I don't know about how it works in your house, but in our little corner of show business, the first Tuesday of September feels like someone shot a starter pistol in Times Square and suddenly…
Analyzing the opening number, "The Whole World Changed," featuring Yehudi Menuhin, Philip Glass, cameos from two of my previous scores, our next Commander-in-Chief cast in resin, a Yeti with…
Last week, I started a new video series called "The Deep Dive," where I'm delve into the writing process of The Connector in obsessive, microscopic detail. Here's Issue #1, where I spend ab…
For over fifty years, the 92nd St. Y on the Upper East Side of Manhattan has hosted virtually every luminary of the musical theater through its Lyrics and Lyricists series. I am so proud to…
Often in these pages I have spoken about seeing Closer Than Ever at the Cherry Lane Theater in 1989 and the powerful effect it had on me. Among the many repercussions of that evening was my …
Some things involving Hal Prince really only make sense in the context of Hal Prince, so I won't take up your time attempting to explain why we did our first production of Prince of Broadway…
The world has changed a lot since my last concert in London, in 2019, and I've changed a lot with it. For reasons both obvious and not, I've gone from doing 20 to 30 concerts a year to doing…
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What, you may ask, is "popular demand"? "Popular demand" is when we've been selling so many tickets for The Connector in its world pr... Read more..
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Sometimes you get so excited about the fact that tickets are on sale for your new show that you turn on a camera and talk about it for thirteen minutes.
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It's been 12 years since my last trip to Indianapolis and things have sure changed. The Cabaret's new purpose-built venue is a wonder, a great room for making and listening to music, with a …
Georgia and I were honored with this year's Inspire Award by the folks at the Foundation for New American Musicals, and we decided to bring some friends along to help us celebrate (and sing …
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 …
