Songs for a New World

Strathmore presents a Signature Theatre concert musical of Jason Robert Brown’s Songs for a New World. The four-person cast includes Tony Award nominees Brian d’Arcy James and Alice Ripley, along with Laura Griffith and Tituss Burgess, star of Disney’s upcoming Broadway musical The Little Mermaid. Directed by Signature Theatre Associate Director Michael Baron with the Tony Award-winning composer/lyricist Jason Robert Brown at the piano, this original Off-Broadway production enjoys its equity premiere in the Washington D.C. area.

Songs for a New World is a 16-song revue that tells the stories of a diverse array of characters in the midst of emotional and physical struggles. Jason Robert Brown takes audiences on a journey from 1492 with the treacherous journey across the Atlantic to America all the way to the present day, where a young man determines that basketball is his ticket out of the ghetto and a woman whose dream of marrying rich nabs her the man of her dreams, but also a soulless marriage.