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Jason Robert Brown Performs at the El Portal Theatre in Hollywood on June 10-11

By: May. 18, 2005
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Jason Robert Brown, backed up by the Caucasian Rhythm Kings, will perform at the El Portal Theatre in North Hollywood for two shows only--at 8 PM on Friday, June 10th and Saturday, June 11th.

The Tony Award-winning composer/lyricist will be making a return engagement after having recently played a sold-out concert at the LA venue. Brown will support sales of his new CD, Wearing Someone Else';s Clothes" (which will be released June 28 on Sh-K-Boom Records), and will perform songs from his show, Songs For A New World, The Last 5 Years and Parade, as well as from his upcoming world premiere musicals Honeymoon In Vegas and 13.

Brown, according to the show's press release, "has been hailed by the Philadelphia Inquirer as 'the "smartest and most sophisticated Broadway songwriter since Stephen Sondheim'." His '"extraordinary, jubilant theatre music"' (Chicago Tribune) has been heard all over the world, whether in one of the hundreds of productions of his musicals every year or in his own incendiary live performances."

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.

Tickets, which range from $25 to $35, are available by calling 818-508-4200 or 866-811-4111, or by visiting www.elportaltheatre.com .

The El Portal Theatre is located at 5269 Lankershim Blvd.




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