JRB: Solo At The Beechman Plays One Night Only 12/15

Jason Robert Brown, Tony Award-winning composer/lyricist (Parade), will present his show "JRB: Solo at the Beechman" featuring brand new material as well as songs from his shows, including "The Last Five Years," "Songs for a New World," "Parade," and "13" and his "Wearing Someone Else's Clothes," on Monday, December 15 at 9:15 at the Laurie Beechman Theater.This will be a very rare up-close-and-personal evening with Jason - no band, no hype, just Brown at a piano sharing his art and his music.

Jason Robert Brown has been hailed as "one of Broadway's smartest and most sophisticated songwriters since Stephen Sondheim" (Philadelphia Inquirer), and his "extraordinary, jubilant theater 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. As Richard Ouzounian writes in the Toronto Star, "The phrase "triple threat" has become so overused in show-business circles that it's great to encounter someone who truly deserves it... a performance so filled with energy, guts and emotion that to say the near-capacity audience was blown away would be an understatement." Mark Shenton of The Stage notes: "Jason Robert Brown is both a magnificent ambassador for his own work and a great exponent of it... sitting at the piano and pounding out his powerful, haunting melodies, he is such a charismatic, commanding and demanding performer that he draws you into his world." 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." His four major musicals as composer and lyricist include: "13", a musical written with Robert Horn and Dan Elish, which began its life at the Mark Taper Forum in 2007 and opened on Broadway in 2008; "The Last Five Years", which was cited as one of Time Magazine's 10 Best of 2001 and won Drama Desk Awards for Best Music and Best Lyrics; "Parade", a musical written with Alfred Uhry and directed by Harold Prince, which premiered at Lincoln Center Theatre in 1998, and subsequently won both the Drama Desk and New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards for Best New Musical, as well as garnering Jason the Tony Award for Original Score; and "Songs for a New World", a theatrical song cycle directed by Daisy Prince, which played Off-Broadway in 1995, and has since been seen in hundreds of productions around the world. His next project is "Honeymoon In Vegas", a musical adaptation of the 1992 film, written with Andrew Bergman. An orchestral adaptation of E.B. White's novel "The Trumpet of the Swan", written with Marsha Norman, premiered at the Kennedy Center. Jason is the winner of the 2002 Kleban Award for Outstanding Lyrics and the 1996 Gilman & Gonzalez-Falla Foundation Award for Musical Theatre. Jason's songs, including the cabaret standard "Stars and the Moon," have been performed and recorded by Audra McDonald, Betty Buckley, Karen Akers, Renée Fleming, Philip Quast, Jon Hendricks and many others.

Jason's first solo album, "Wearing Someone Else's Clothes", featuring his band The Caucasian Rhythm Kings, was named one of Amazon.com's best of 2005, and is available from Sh-K-Boom Records. His collaboration with singer Lauren Kennedy, "Songs of Jason Robert Brown", is available on PS Classics. He has also contributed music to the hit Nickelodeon television series, "The Wonder Pets." Jason currently teaches musical theater performance and composition at the University of Southern California.

($30/2 drink minimum)

For reservations please call (212) 695-6909

For more information go to www.JasonRobertBrown.com

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