Jason Robert Brown Plays Birdland 12/14; Laurie Beechman 12/15

Music man Jason Robert Brown has sold out his 9:15pm solo show JRB: Solo At The Laurie Beechman prior to opening on December 15. Accordingly, he will play a second concert at Birdland entitled Jason Robert Brown: Solo, which will perform one night earlier on December 14 at 9pm. 

Both concerts are expected to be rare up-close-and-personal evenings 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, The New York Times refers to him as a leading member of a new generation of composers who embody high hopes for the American musical. 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 is currently playing to rave reviews in Los Angeles. 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 three hundred productions around the world. "Wearing Someone Else's Clothes" is his solo CD (available on Sh-K-Boom Records).

Birdland is located in Manhattan at 315 West 44th Street. For reservations call (212) 581-3080 or visit www.birdlandjazz.com.

Photo Credit: Peter James Zielinksi