Jason Robert Brown and Stephen Sondheim: Live in Concert
Jason Robert Brown & Stephen Sondheim
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Jason Robert Brown and Stephen Sondheim: Live in Concert
BIO
Jason Robert Brown is the ultimate multi-hyphenate – an equally skilled composer, lyricist, conductor, arranger, orchestrator, director and performer – best known for his dazzling scores to several of the most renowned musicals of our time, including the generation-defining The Last Five Years, his debut song cycle Songs for a New World, and the seminal Parade, winner of the 1999 Tony Award for Best Score and the 2023 Tony for Best Revival of a Musical.
This year has seen the premieres of two new JRB musicals: The Connector, created with Jonathan Marc Sherman and Daisy Prince, which completed a triumphant run at New York’s MCC Theater; and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, written with Taylor Mac based on John Berendt’s book and directed by Rob Ashford, which opened at at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre in June and will make its Broadway debut in 2025.
These musicals add to a body of work that includes Parade, which garnered Jason the Tony Award for Best Original Score; and The Bridges of Madison County, for which Jason received two Tony Awards for Best Score and Best Orchestrations. His other musicals include Honeymoon in Vegas, 13 (which became a Netflix film in 2022), and Mr. Saturday Night starring Billy Crystal. Richard LaGravenese’s film of The Last Five Years was released in 2015. Parade has been the subject of two major revivals: the first, directed by Rob Ashford, at London’s Donmar Warehouse and then at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles; and the second, Michael Arden’s acclaimed Tony Award-winning Best Revival of a Musical, starring Ben Platt and Micaela Diamond.
As a soloist or with his band, Brown has performed concerts around the world. For six years, his ongoing monthly performances at New York’s SubCulture featured many of the music and theatre world’s most extraordinary performers. His newest collection Coming From Inside the House, featuring Ariana Grande and Shoshana Bean, commemorates the final SubCulture concert, recorded remotely during the pandemic. His previous albums, How We React and How We Recover and Wearing Someone Else’s Clothes, are available from Ghostlight Records. He has also contributed music to the hit Nickelodeon television series “The Wonder Pets” and “Sesame Street.” He has taught at the USC School of Dramatic Arts, Harvard University, Princeton University and Emerson College.
Brown is the winner of the 2018 Louis Auchincloss Prize, the 2002 Kleban Award for Outstanding Lyrics and the 1996 Gilman & Gonzalez-Falla Foundation Award for Musical Theatre. His songs have been performed and recorded by Ariana Grande, Jennifer Nettles, Brandi Carlile, Audra McDonald, Kristin Chenoweth, Billy Porter, Betty Buckley, Renée Fleming, Jon Hendricks and many others.
Brown studied composition at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. He is married to fellow composer Georgia Stitt. www.jasonrobertbrown.com
Track by Track
- Franklin Shepard, Inc.
- Melinda
- Children and Art
- Another Life
- Cassandra
- Last Midnight
- A Song About Your Gun
- Nothing’s Bigger Than Kong
- I Love Betsy
- The Next Ten Minutes
- Move On
- Sondheim Introduction
- Good Thing Going
- Sondheim Interview
- It’s Hard to Speak My Heart / Reharmonization
- Not While I’m Around
- Wait ‘Til You See What’s Next
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Album Production Credits
Produced by Jeffrey Lesser and Jason Robert Brown
Co-Produced by Sean Patrick Flahaven
Edited and Mixed by Jeffrey Lesser
Recorded Live at The Town Hall – June 24, 2019
Mastered by Oscar Zambrano, Zampol Productions
Production Manager: Jill Dell’Abate
Art Direction and Design by Derek Bishop
Concert Photography by Erika Kapin
Concert Executive Producer: Marc Kaplan
Concert Production Manager: Jeff Markowitz
Concert General Manager: Elie Landau
Concert Directed by Daisy Prince
Special Thanks to Marc Kaplan & SubCulture, Kris Brown & Brady: United Against Gun Violence, The Town Hall, Larry Lees and Jody Edwards (MTI), Steven Clar, Peter Jones, Rick Miramontez and Marie Bshara (DKC/O&M)
A portion of proceeds from this album will support Brady, the national organization uniting gun owners and non-gun owners alike in the comprehensive solutions that will end the gun violence epidemic. www.bradyunited.org
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