Jason Robert Brown Talks Australian Tour

Broadway composer Jason Robert Brown is set to tour Australia in February/March 2011 with performances in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth. Australian star Rachael Beck will join Brown throughout the length of the tour.

Brown recently took to his website to answer questions from fans. On upcoming projects he revealed, "Oh, my, there's a lot on my plate at the moment. Daisy Prince and I are writing a new show together, which we hope to premiere in the spring of 2012. Marsha Norman and I are hard at work on a musical version of The Bridges of Madison County, and we'll probably do a private reading of the first act early next year. Alfred Uhry and I are adapting a French musical for Kathleen Marshall to direct. I've been hired once again to write the score for the 2011 State Farm National Convention. A screenplay of 13 is currently being shopped to movie studios, and a movie of The Last Five Years is in pre-production. I'm trying to finish a new solo album for release this summer. And a German theater producer has asked me to write some songs for a musical version of a very famous fantasy novel. Not to mention Honeymoon In Vegas, which is on a path to Broadway in 2012, and a possible Broadway production of The Last Five Years which I will be directing!"

Producer, Jeremy Youett said of Browns tour: "It's a thrill to be bringing one of the worlds most acclaimed and prolific contemporary composers of Music Theatre out to Australia to perform a series of concerts across the country with one of the greatest talents of the Australian stage and screen, Rachael Beck. Jason is also excited about the opportunity to work with our home grown talent in a series of Master Classes being held across the country while he is here."

Brown's tour itinerary is as follows:

Melbourne                                                           
Monday 28^th February at 7.30pm
The National Theatre, St Kilda                                                                                   

Sydney           
Monday 7th March at 7.30pm
The Parade Theatre, NIDA

Brisbane
Friday 11th March at 7.30pm
Qld Conservatorium Theatre, South Bank

Perth                                                                       
Wednesday 9th March at 7.30pm                                                                       
The Octagon Theatre, UWA, Crawley                                                           

Adelaide
Wednesday 16th March at 7.30pm
The Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre 

The pianist, singer, and critically acclaimed composer will be performing brand new,previously unheard material, as well as a selection of songs from his shows Songs for aNew World, Parade, The Last 5 Years and 13. Jason will be accompanied by his own bandThe Caucasian Rhythm Kings, as well as a fabulous four-strong French horn section.

Jason Robert Brown is best known for spearheading the new generation of contemporaryAmerican musical theatre composers. His four major musicals as composer and lyricistare: 13, a musical written with Robert Horn and Dan Elish, which began its life in Los Angeles in 2007 and opened on Broadway in 2008; The Last 5 Years, which was cited asone of Time Magazine's 10 Best of 2001 and won Drama Desk Awards for Best Music and Best Lyrics; Parade, a musical written with Alfred Uhry and directed by Harold Prince,which premiered at Lincoln Center Theatre in 1998, and subsequently won both the Drama Desk and New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards for Best New Musical, as well asgarnering Jason the Tony Award for Original Score; and Songs for a New World, atheatrical song cycle directed by Daisy Prince, which played Off Broadway in 1995, andhas since been seen in hundreds of productions around the world.

 

 

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