Norbert Leo Butz and Caissie Levy to Join Jason Robert Brown at SubCulture Next Week

A new concert series curated by the renowned Tony Award-winning composer, lyricist, conductor, and director, Jason Robert Brown. Each unique performance will incorporate an eclectic mix of material, featuring music from throughout his acclaimed career, along with new works in development. This concert, set for March 13, 2015 at SubCulture, will feature Norbert Leo Butz* (Big Fish, Wicked) and Caissie Levy* (Ghost The Musical, Hair).

The launch concert featured, for the first time on one stage, original cast members from every one of his New York productions, from 1995's SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD to this season's THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY, including Kelli O'Hara, Steve Pasquale, Carolee Carmello, Jessica Molaskey, Lauren Kennedy, Betsy Wolfe, Graham Phillips, Allie Trimm and Aaron Simon Gross. You never know who's going to show up at upcoming performances, so don't miss out!

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 Bridges of Madison County," for which Jason received the 2014 Tony Awards for Best Score and Best Orchestrations, the recently revived "The Last Five Years", his debut song cycle "Songs for a New World", and the seminal "Parade", winner of the 1999 Best Score Tony.

"Honeymoon In Vegas," starring Tony Danza and based on Andrew Bergman's film, begins performances on Broadway on November 18th following a triumphant production last fall at Paper Mill Playhouse. A film version of Jason's epochal Off-Broadway musical "The Last Five Years" will be released in early 2015, starring Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan and directed by Richard LaGravenese, and a film of Jason's musical "13" is currently in development. Jason will be conducting "Parade" at Avery Fisher Hall in an all-star concert performance in February 2015, and he is in the midst of recording a followup to his solo CD, "Wearing Someone Else's Clothes."

Jason studied composition at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., with Samuel Adler, Christopher Rouse, and Joseph Schwantner. He lives with his wife, composer Georgia Stitt, and their daughters in New York City. Jason is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and the American Federation of Musicians Local 802 & 47. Visit him on the web at www.jasonrobertbrown.com.

NORBERT LEO BUTZ is one of Broadway's most versatile stars, he earned Tony Awards for his roles in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Catch Me If You Can. Other notable credits include Roger in Rent, his Tony-nominated turn in Thou Shalt Not, the outrageous Mark Twain farce Is He Dead? and originating the role of Fiyero in Wicked. He was most recently seen on the Great White Way in the musical adaptation of Big Fish.

CAISSIE LEVY most recently starred as Fantine in the 2014 revival of LES MISERABLES at the Imperial Theatre on Broadway. She is best known to Broadway and West End audiences for originating the roles of Molly in Ghost The Musical and Sheila in the Tony Award winning revival of Hair. Her voice can be heard on both shows' cast albums. Other credits include starring as Elphaba in the Broadway and Los Angeles productions of Wicked, Penny in the Broadway,1st National Touring, and Toronto companies ofHairspray, Maureen in the National Tour of Rent, and Sara in the off-Broadway production of Murder Ballad.Her debut solo album, With You, featuring stripped down arrangements of songs from her Broadway shows, is available on iTunes.

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