Brown to Join McDonald for 'Bridge;' Also to Perform Solo

Tony Award-winning composer, lyricist and performer Jason Robert Brown will take part in two upcoming "American Songbook" events for Lincoln Center.

The series celebrates American popular song, ranging from '20s and '30s classics to contemporary standards.  Shows for this season, which will run from October 11th through February 24th, will take place in the Allen Room of the Frederick P. Rose Hall at the Time Warner Center (Broadway at 60th St.). 

Brown will first join four-time Tony Award-winner Audra McDonald for "Build a Bridge" on October 11th and 12th.  McDonald, soon to be seen in 110 in the Shade, will also be joined by Nellie McKay and Tony Award-winner Patti LuPone.  They will perform songs written by such contemporary artists as Rufus Wainwright and John Mayer, and theatre composers like Adam Guettel.  Tony Award-winner Ted Sperling will lead the 10-piece band.  McDonald's album, of the same title, was recently released by Nonesuch Records.

The concert, as previously announced, will also be broadcast on PBS on Thursday, October 12th at 8 PM as part of "Live from Lincoln Center."

Brown will also perform a solo concert as part of the "American Songbook" series.  He will perform some new material, and will also be joined by some special guests.  The concert will take place at the Allen Room on Friday, February 9th, 2007, at 8:30 PM.  Tickets will go on sale on October 11th.

With The Last Five Years, Brown won Drama Desk Awards for Best Music and Best Lyrics. Brown received a 1999 Tony Award for his score to Parade, 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. "Wearing Someone Else's Clothes" is his recently-released solo CD (available on Sh-K-Boom Records).

His new musical 13 will begin previews at the Mark Taper Forum in LA on December 22nd, 2006, and run through February 18th, 2007. With music and lyrics by Brown and a book by Dan Elish, it will be directed by Todd Graff. 13 concerns 13 thirteen year-olds making the perilous trek from childhood into adolescence at a middle school in Appleton, Indiana.

Visit www.lincolncenter.org for tickets to the upcoming events, and www.jasonrobertbrown.com for more on Jason Robert Brown.

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