Tony Award-winning composer/lyricist Jason Robert Brown will greet the month of March with a number of new events.
On March 1st, Brown's official website will go live. While he writes that "it's not going to be perfect the first day out," Brown urges fans to check back until the site is fully in order.
The composer has also announced that the release of the
Jason Robert Brown Songbook (by Hal Leonard Music) has been pushed back due to editing the final copy, but that it should hopefully be available by the end of March.
Brown has also lined-up some upcoming appearances, including a performance on Sunday, February 26th at the Rubicon Theatre in Ventura, CA. Darcie Roberts (
Aida, Thoroughly Modern Millie tour) and 13 year-old Sara Niemitz, who was recently seen in the workshop of Brown's
13, will join him for the concert. A few tickets are left, and can be ordered at the following
link. In addition, he will co-chair a panel at the ASCAP/Disney Musical Theater Workshop with
Wicked composer/lyricist
Stephen Schwartz in which the two will talk about music in the theatre.
Brown also reports on the success of the
13 workshops, which began on January 25th at L.A.'s Center Theatre Group. "It was an amazing process: What was especially scary for me was the fact that I haven't presented a new show in four and a half years, and this show is very personal and important to me. Well, there's nothing but good news. We did two presentations of the show, the audience really went nuts for it, the kids did a spectacular job, and Dan Elish (the show's bookwriter) and Todd Graff (the director) and I got to do some really great work with an outstanding group of professionals supporting the cast and band."
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, 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. "Wearing Someone Else's Clothes" is his recently-released solo CD.
Brown's website can be visited at www.jasonrobertbrown.com.
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