By
popular demand, Jason Robert Brown will return to the New Players
Theatre, London from Wednesday, December 7th to Sunday, December 11th.
For the first time ever in the UK, Brown will be joined by his band,
The Caucasian Rhythm Kings and some very special guests.
Brown
and his New York based band will perform a selection of his popular
songs, plus other numbers from his musical theatre repertoire. He will also
premiere new material as well as songs from his debut solo album,
'Wearing Someone Else's Clothes'. Joining them
nightly will be Olivier Award-winner Joanna
Riding and Tony Award-winner Frances
Ruffelle.Brown's The Last 5 Years,
which was cited as one of Time Magazine's "10 Best of 2001," won
Drama Desk Awards for Best Music and Best Lyrics. Brown 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, subsequently winning 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. Songs for
a New World opened 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. Brown provided the orchestrations and contributed songs to Urban Cowboy, as well as handling the arrangements and musical direction. 13 and Honeymoon in Vegas are his other musicals-in-progress.
"There
has been a huge demand for Jason to perform in London ever since his
extraordinary week at the Donmar with Philip Quast. Jason's one-off
performance at the Bridewell in 2002 sold out in a matter of hours with
a returns queue around the block. Jason received a ten-minute standing
ovation and delivered 2 encores," according to a press article. Last
year's sell-out run at the New Players featured performances
from Clare Burt, Caroline Sheen, Frances Ruffelle, Golda Rosheuvel,
Joanna Ampil, Joanna Riding, Rebecca Thornhill and Philip Quast.Jason
Robert Brown and the Caucasian Rhythm Kings will perform at the New
Players Theatre from December 7th to 11th at 8pm (6pm on 11th). Tickets are available by calling the box office at 0870 033 2626 or visiting the following link.
