Griffith to Join Jason Robert Brown for CA Concert, June 8

Tony Award-winner Jason Robert Brown will appear with his band The Caucasian Rhythm Kings at the Rolling Hills United Methodist Church in Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA on June 8th at 7:30 PM.

Joining Brown, who is currently at work on a musical version of the hit film Honeymoon in Vegas, will be Jan Bunker and The Light in the Piazza's Laura Griffith.  The evening will be presented as part of the RHUMC Concert Series.

Griffith, most recently seen as Franca in the national tour of The Light in the Piazza, has also appeared on Broadway in that musical (understudying Franca), Oklahoma! and Sweet Smell of Success.  She recently appeared alongside Alice Ripley, Tituss Burgess and Brian D'Arcy James in a concert of Brown's song cycle Songs for a New World at the Strathmore Center in Bethesda, MD.

Brown 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.  He 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 Brown conducted. He also contributed to the Tony-nominated score of Urban Cowboy.  Brown is the winner of the 2002 Kleban Award for Outstanding Lyrics and the 1996 Gilman and Gonzalez-Falla Foundation Award for Musical Theatre.  Brown's first solo album, "Wearing Someone Else's Clothes," featuring his band The Caucasian Rhythm Kings, is available from Sh-K-Boom Records.  His 13, a musical comedy written with Dan Elish, recently played the Mark Taper Forum in L.A, and Parade will be presented later this year at London's Donmar Warehouse.

For tickets and information, call 310-377-6771 or visit this link.  Rolling Hills United Methodist Church is located at 26438 Crenshaw Blvd.
in Rolling Hills Estates, Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA.

Visit www.jasonrobertbrown.com for more information on Brown, as well as to listen to new music tracks and read his blog.