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James Marino and talks with Jason Robert Brown about his new album, “How We React and How We Recover” on the Ghostlight Records label.
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Guest: Jason Robert Brown
Jason: Website | IBDB | IMDB | Twitter | Facebook
Bio: JASON ROBERT BROWN is the ultimate multi-hyphenate – an equally skilled composer, lyricist, conductor, arranger, orchestrator, director and performer – best known for his dazzling scores to several of the most renowned musicals of his generation, including the generation-defining “The Last Five Years”, his debut song cycle “Songs for a New World”, and the seminal “Parade”, for which he won the 1999 Tony Award for Best Score. [Read More]
Red Mountain Theatre Company (Birmingham, Alabama): Website | IBDB
Kimberly Akimbo is a play written in 2000 by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Lindsay-Abaire
The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence
Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting
A Brief History of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (related to song “Over”)
Projects in the works:
— The Connector – Powerhouse Theater – Vassar College
Music and Lyrics by Jason Robert Brown
Book by Jonathan Marc Sherman
Directed by Daisy Prince
— Mr. Saturday Night, musical adaptation of the film, collaborating with Billy Crystal and Amanda Green
Billy Crystal on the WTF postcast with Marc Maron
— two other projects Jason can’t talk about yet (!)
— Songs for a New World (New York City Center 2018 Encores! Off-Center Cast Recording) coming January 25, 2019 on Ghostlight Records
Interview recorded on October 15, 2018
Music:
00:00 Music Of Heaven from Wearing Someone Else’s Clothes (2005)
03:02 Hope from How We React and How We Recover (2018)
05:05 Fifty Years Long from How We React and How We Recover (2018)
07:54 Grow Old With Me from Wearing Someone Else’s Clothes (2005)
09:39 A Song About Your Gun from How We React and How We Recover (2018)
17:14 Over from Wearing Someone Else’s Clothes (2005)
21:08 Wait ‘Till You See What’s Next from How We React and How We Recover (2018)
