Jason Robert Brown, whose new CD Wearing Someone Else's Clothes was recently released in stores to strong reviews, will appear in a number of concert venues over the summer.The multi-talented composer/lyricist will first travel to Los Angeles to take part in Reprise! Best of Broadway at the Ford on Saturday, July 30th at 8:30 PM. Brown will perform two songs at the Ford Amphitheatre concert, and will join Kevin Earley (Thoroughly Modern Millie), Sam Harris (The Life), Kim Huber (Marie Christine), Vicki Lewis (Chicago), Tami Tappan-Damiano (Cyrano-The Musical), and others. Reprise!, of course,
is considered the LA equivalent of Broadway's Encores!, and similarly
stages concert productions of musicals for limited runs. Brown will next make a stop at the nation's capital to perform for three nights at the legendary Washington D.C. jazz club Blues Alley (1073 Wisconsin Ave NW). Brown, frequent collaborator Lauren Kennedy (American premiere of The Last Five Years, Sunset Boulevard) and his band the Caucasian Rhythm Kings will jam on August 5th, 6th and 7th for 2 sets a night--at 8 PM and 10 PM. The concerts also promise to have a bit of a political edge; Brown is not a Republican.
Wearing Someone Else's Clothes, now available in stores as well as on the website of its release label, Sh-K-Boom, is an eclectic collection of Brown songs, ranging in style from harmonically-complex pop to jazz to light rock to swing. One of the songs, "I Could Be in Love with Someone Like You," was cut from The Last Five Years to be replaced by "Shiksa Goddess." Song tracks include the title song, "Someone To Fall Back On," "Getting Out," "Nothing in Common" and "I'm in Bizness."Brown's The Last 5 Years,
which was cited as one of Time Magazine's "10 Best of 2001," won
Drama Desk Awards for Best Music and Best Lyrics. Brown 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, subsequently winning 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 Brown conducted. Songs for
a New World opened 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. Brown provided the orchestrations and contributed songs to Urban Cowboy, as well as handling the arrangements and musical direction. 13 and Honeymoon in Vegas are his other musicals-in-progress.
Tickets to Reprise! Best of Broadway at the Ford are $27.50 and $37.50, and can be ordered by visiting the following link or by calling (323) 461-3673.
Tickets for the Blues Alley concerts are $22 and $25 and can be reserved by calling (202) 337-4141.
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