JASON ROBERT BROWN RETURNS TO BIRDLAND FOR A WEEK OF CONCERTS
Jim Caruso's Cast Party and TheaterMania.com are proud to present
the Tony Award-winning composer/performer Jason Robert Brown in a
very special week-long run at BIRDLAND (315 West 44th Street, NYC
- 212-581-3080 -
http://www.birdlandjazz.com/
), Wednesday through Saturday, April 4th through 7th, with shows at
9:00 & 11:00 pm nightly. Jason and his band, The Caucasian Rhythm
Kings, will be joined by some very special guest performers. This
concert is part of "Broadway at Birdland," an ongoing series of events
featuring top Broadway stars and songwriters at the legendary club.
Jason Robert Brown has been hailed by critics and
audiences alike and his music has been heard all over the world,
whether in one of his musicals or in his own concert performances.
Jason is the composer and lyricist of the musical, The Last Five
Years, which was cited as one of Time Magazine's 10 Best of 2001
and won Drama Desk Awards for Best Music and Best Lyrics. Jason
won a 1999 Tony Award for his score to Parade, a musical written
with Alfred Uhry and directed by Harold Prince, which premiered
at Lincoln Center Theatre in December 1998, and subsequently won
both the Drama Desk and New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards for
Best New Musical. Parade was also presented on a national tour in
2000, which Jason conducted.
His first musical, Songs for a New World, a theatrical
song cycle directed by Daisy Prince, played Off-Broadway at the
WPA Theatre in the fall of 1995, and has since been seen in more
than two hundred productions around the world. Jason is the winner
of the 2002 Kleban Award for Outstanding Lyrics and the 1996 Gilman
& Gonzalez-Falla Foundation Award for Musical Theatre. Jason's songs,
including the cabaret standard "Stars and the Moon," have been performed
and recorded by Audra McDonald, Betty Buckley, Karen Akers, Reǹe
Fleming, Philip Quast, Jon Hendricks and many others.
Jason's first solo album, "Wearing Someone Else's
Clothes," featuring his band The Caucasian Rhythm Kings, is available
from Sh-K-Boom Records. His collaboration with singer Lauren Kennedy,
"Songs of Jason Robert Brown," is available on PS Classics. Jason's
piano sonata, "Mr. Broadway" was commissioned and premiered by Anthony
De Mare at Carnegie Hall. His most recent theater project, 13, a
musical comedy written with Dan Elish, was developed for the Los
Angeles Center Theatre Group.
Jason is also the composer of the incidental music
for David Lindsay-Abaire's Kimberly Akimbo and Fuddy Meers, and
Kenneth Lonergan's The Waverly Gallery, and he was a Tony Award
nominee for his contributions to the score of Urban Cowboy, The
Musical. Jason currently teaches musical theater performance and
composition at the University of Southern California.
There is a $35 cover and $10 food/drink minimum.
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