Tom Kitt, Kyle Dean Massey and Lindsay Mendez to Join Jason Robert Brown at SubCulture This Month

By: Apr. 16, 2015
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A new concert series curated by the renowned Tony Award-winning composer, lyricist, conductor, and director, Jason Robert Brown. Each unique performance will incorporate an eclectic mix of material, featuring music from throughout his acclaimed career, along with new works in development. This performance will feature Tom Kitt (Next to Normal, If/Then), Kyle Dean Massey (Pippin, Wicked, Next to Normal), and Lindsay Mendez (Wicked, Godspell) on April 20, 2015 at 10 PM.

The launch concert featured, for the first time on one stage, original cast members from every one of his New York productions, from 1995's SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD to this season's THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY, including Kelli O'Hara, Steve Pasquale, Carolee Carmello, Jessica Molaskey, Lauren Kennedy, Betsy Wolfe, Graham Phillips, Allie Trimm and Aaron Simon Gross. You never know who's going to show up at upcoming performances, so don't miss out!

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 his generation, including "The Bridges of Madison County," for which Jason received the 2014 Tony Awards for Best Score and Best Orchestrations, the recently revived "The Last Five Years", his debut song cycle "Songs for a New World", and the seminal "Parade", winner of the 1999 Best Score Tony. The New York Times refers to Jason as "a leading member of a new generation of composers who embody high hopes for the American musical."

"Honeymoon In Vegas," starring Tony Danza and based on Andrew Bergman's film, begins performances on Broadway on November 18th following a triumphant production last fall at Paper Mill Playhouse. A film version of Jason's epochal Off-Broadway musical "The Last Five Years" will be released in early 2015, starring Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan and directed by Richard LaGravenese, and a film of Jason's musical "13" is currently in development. Jason will be conducting "Parade" at Avery Fisher Hall in an all-star concert performance in February 2015, and he is in the midst of recording a followup to his solo CD, "Wearing Someone Else's Clothes."

Jason studied composition at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., with Samuel Adler, Christopher Rouse, and Joseph Schwantner. He lives with his wife, composer Georgia Stitt, and their daughters in New York City. Jason is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and the American Federation of Musicians Local 802 & 47. Visit him on the web at www.jasonrobertbrown.com.

Tom Kitt received the 2010 Pulitzer prize for Drama as well as two Tony Awards for Best Score and Best Orchestration for Next to Normal. In addition, his work on Next to Normal received the Frederick Loewe Award and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best New Score. Tom is responsible for the music supervision, arrangements, and orchestrations for Green Day's American Idioton Broadway. As a composer, credits include the Broadway shows If/Then, High Fidelity and Bring it On: The Musical, The Winter's Tale and All's Well That Ends Well (the Public's NYSF). Tom has composed songs for "Sesame Street", and with Lin-Manuel Miranda he co-wrote "Bigger", which opened the 2014 Tony Awards. As an arranger, conductor and musical director, other credits include Pitch Perfect, Everyday Rapture, 13, Laugh Whore and Debbie Does Dallas.

Kyle Dean Massey is an American actor best know for his work on Broadway in Pippin, Next to Normal, Wicked & Xanadu. In addition to his stage work, Kyle Dean has been seen on the screen in Nashville (ABC), The Good Wife (CBS), Inside Amy Schumer (CC), High Maintenance, Up All Night (NBC), Hart of Dixie (CW), Cupid (ABC), Sex And the City 2 (HBO Films) & Contest. He has also performed on Good Morning America, The CBS Early Show, Regis & Kelly & The 62nd Annual Tony Awards. While starring in Next to Normal, Kyle Dean was the star of his own popular web-blog series, Normal Life, on Broadway.com. Five years later he hosted another series, Fresh Prince, while starring in the title role of Pippin. Kyle Dean also tours with his concert group The Broadway Tenors and lends his voice as a voice-over artist for many popular cartoon shows.

Lindsay Mendez made her Broadway debut playing Jan in Grease. The big-belting singer went on to The Marvelous Wonderettes before landing a role in Sherie Rene Scott's Everyday Rapture, which she performed both off and on Broadway. After a featured part in the 2011 revival of Godspell, Mendez made her leading lady debut in off-Broadway's Dogfight. Soon, she took over the starring role of Elphaba in Broadway's Wicked.



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