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Jason Robert Brown

Jason Robert Brown

Jason is the composer and lyricist of the musical, 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. Jason 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, and subsequently won 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 Jason conducted.

Jason's first musical, Songs for a New World, a theatrical song cycle directed by Daisy Prince, played 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. Jason's newest musical, 13, written with Dan Elish and directed by Todd Graff, premiered this January to rave reviews at Los Angeles's Mark Taper Forum, and opens on Broadway in the spring of 2008.

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.

Hear more from and about JRB on his website at http://www.jasonrobertbrown.com/. JRB Piano/Vocal scores are available for purchase online at sites such as Amazon.com.



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"A Miracle Would Happen" from The Last Five Years

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A Miracle Would Happen from The Last Five Years
  • "A Miracle Would Happen" from The Last Five Years - 02:26
  • 4.89 stars / 104
  • 25975 Views - 257 Faves
  • justgrand21
Youre Ugly and Your Mother... by Jason Robert Brown
  • "You're Ugly and Your Mother..." by Jason Robert Brown - 07:20
  • 5 stars / 21
  • 8559 Views - 48 Faves
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The Last 5 Years ~ The Next Ten Minutes
  • The Last 5 Years ~ The Next Ten Minutes - 07:45
  • 4.75 stars / 97
  • 10533 Views - 75 Faves
  • banion5
Jonathan Shew - King of the World with Jason Robert Brown
  • Jonathan Shew - "King of the World" with Jason Robert Brown - 04:26
  • 4.89 stars / 28
  • 4585 Views - 55 Faves
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Shoshana Bean & Jason Robert Brown Id Give It All For You
  • Shoshana Bean & Jason Robert Brown "I'd Give It All For You" - 05:02
  • 4.78 stars / 60
  • 16591 Views - 181 Faves
  • sapubrel
Seth Rudetsky deconstructs Norbert Leo Butz/Emily Skinner/Alice Ripley and Jason Robert Brown
  • Seth Rudetsky deconstructs Norbert Leo Butz/Emily Skinner/Alice Ripley and Jason Robert Brown - 09:16
  • 4.81 stars / 91
  • 9805 Views - 66 Faves
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Good Thing Going - The Tonics
  • Good Thing Going - The Tonics - 04:13
  • 4.69 stars / 13
  • 2383 Views - 31 Faves
  • BestArtsSondheim
Gabriel Lopez - King of the World - Songs for a New World by Jason Robert Brown
  • Gabriel Lopez - King of the World - Songs for a New World by Jason Robert Brown - 04:11
  • 4.5 stars / 12
  • 849 Views - 5 Faves
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King of the World-Songs for a New World
  • King of the World-Songs for a New World - 04:18
  • 4.57 stars / 91
  • 17965 Views - 156 Faves
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The Making of the Original Broadway Cast Recording of 13
  • The Making of the Original Broadway Cast Recording of 13 - 10:41
  • 4.89 stars / 272
  • 46097 Views - 669 Faves
  • 13TheMusical


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