Jason Robert Brown

Jim Caruso’s Cast Party and TheaterMania.com present the Tony Award-winning composer/performer Jason Robert Brown. He and his band, The Caucasian Rhythm Kings, are joined by some very special guest performers. This concert is part of “Summer In The City @ Birdland,” a series of events featuring top Broadway stars, cabaret performers and songwriters at the legendary club.
Jason Robert Brown has been hailed as “one of Broadway’s smartest and most sophisticated songwriters since Stephen Sondheim” (Philadelphia Inquirer), and his “extraordinary, jubilant theater music ” (Chicago Tribune) has been heard all over the world, whether in one of his musicals or in his own incendiary live performances. The New York Times refers to Jason as “a leading member of a new generation of composers who embody high hopes for the American musical.” Jason 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. Jason 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.