Jason Robert Brown Takes To The West End Stage With Anika Noni Rose Sept 25

Following sell-out concerts in New York, Tony Award-winning composer Jason RobertBrown will make his West End concert debut for two nights only on Friday 24 September and Saturday 25 September at the Garrick Theatre, joined for the first time outside of theUS by Anika Noni Rose, the Tony Award-winning star of Caroline, or Change, the motion picture Dreamgirls, and the voice of the Princess in Disney's The Princess and the Frog, who makes her West End and UK debut alongside him.

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.

Anika Noni Rose won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, a TheatreWorld Award and the Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actress for her role as Tonya Pinkins' daughter Caroline, in the critically acclaimed Broadway production of Caroline, Or Change. In 2006, Anika starred as Lorrell Robinson alongside Beyonce Knowles, Jennifer Hudson and Eddie Murphy in the groundbreaking movie Dreamgirls andmost recently became Disney's first African American Princess when she voiced the pivotal central character of Tiana in major motion picture, The Princess and the Frog.

Produced by Neil Eckersley & Paul Spicer for Speckulation Entertainment, Jason RobertBrown has lighting design by Mike Henderson and sound design by James Tebb.

For more information on Jason Robert Brown, visit: www.jasonrobertbrown.com

Garrick Theatre, Charing Cross Road, London WC2Fri 24 & Sat 25 Sep - 20.00

Tickets: £39.50, £29.50, £25.00, £15.00

Box Office: 0844 412 4662 (24 hrs) www.jasoninlondon.com

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