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Jason Robert Brown
12+ albums
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about
Jason Robert Brown is an American musical theatre composer and lyricist from Ossining, New York. 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
top songs
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Still Hurting - From "The Last Five Years"
21,1052Someone To Fall Back On
5,0163Still Hurting
4,7994Shiksa Goddess
3,8125Opening: The New World (From "Songs For A New World")
3,6806The River Won't Flow (From "Songs For A New World")
3,5567See I'm Smiling
3,5058Moving Too Fast
3,4569I Can Do Better Than That
3,24210I Could Be In Love With Someone Like You
3,106albums
Coming From Inside The House (A Virtual SubCulture Concert)
The Last Five Years (Original Cast Recording)
13 (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
Songs for a New World (New York City Center 2018 Encores! Off-Center Cast Recording)
Wearing Someone Else's Clothes
13: The Musical (Soundtrack From the Netflix Film)
The Last Five Years
Bridges of Madison County (Original Broadway Cast Recording)
How We React and How We Recover
The Last Five Years (2013 Off-Broadway Cast Recording)
Songs for a New World
The Last 5 Years