Jason Robert Brown

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Jason Robert Brown is an American musical theatre composer and lyricist. His career began with the unorthodox Songs for a New World, whose original off-Broadway production ran for 28 performances at the WPA Theater in New York City in 1995. The show sits on the boundary between musical and song cycle: it is a series of largely disjoint songs with (unlike a musical) no plot or characters that continue from song to song, but the songs and production themselves are highly theatrical and character-driven.

He now has 6 major works under his belt, including Songs for a New World. His sophomore effort was the Tony award winning Parade, a musical about the 1913 murder of Mary Phagan and Leo Frank’s subsequent lynching, which ran on Broadway from December 17, 1998 to February 28, 1999.

Brown’s third work, The Last Five Years, is a powerful two-person song-cycle about a failing relationship, which is unique in that the story is told in two directions at once: Jamie, the husband, tells the story from his perspective chronologically, from the beginning to the end, whereas Cathy, the wife, tells her own perspective, beginning at the end and working her way back. The two characters exist in the same moment only once, at their wedding, which occurs exactly in the middle of the play.

He contributed five original songs to the country cover-heavy musical version of Urban Cowboy, which ran on Broadway from March 27, 2003 to May 18, 2003 and was a Tony nominee.

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1	Someone To Fall Back On	25
1	Hear My Song (From "Songs For A New World") full track	25
3	Opening: The New World (From "Songs For A New World") full track	22
4	The River Won't Flow (From "Songs For A New World") full track	19
5	Stars And The Moon	17
6	The Next Ten Minutes	13
6	Shiksa Goddess	13
8	Still Hurting	11
8	I Can Do Better Than That	11
10	I'm not afraid of anything	10
10	The Schmuel Song	10
12	A Miracle Would Happen/When You Come Home To Me	9
12	Moving Too Fast	9
14	Climbing Uphill	8
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TheHriday wrote:
12 days ago

HE IS AN AMAZING COMPOSER! =D

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TQuacky wrote:
February 2009

Jason Robert Brown did a fantastic interview over at Globecat. Check it out, he's so funny: http://globecat.blogspot.com/2009/01/aleatory-19-jason-robert-brown.html

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Impendingdoom3 wrote:
January 2009

listened to parade once and now JRB is my top artist with over 2k plays

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parade wrote:
May 2008

Come on, songs from Parade, climb up the charts!!

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corsairstw wrote:
March 2008

The man is genius.

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Cairpre wrote:
August 2006

i heard he's an absolute dick to work with. Still, I'd like to.

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