I began working on this site on Memorial Day weekend of 2000, and in only 3 days, it became one of my best website projects I've ever created. I decided to make this site in honor of Jason Robert Brown because he was kind enough to get me copies of the sheet music for a couple songs not published in Parade and advance copies of a couple songs from Songs.... This was sort of a gift in return from me to him. All of the images used on this site (for example, the entire front page, excluding his picture) were created by me using Paint Shop Pro 5.0. The actual pictures of Jason Robert Brown and other people, as well as scanned pictures of CD covers, playbill covers, are indicated with copyright labels near the bottom of each picture.

Available for Purchase

Parade and Songs... are available for purchase at your nearest CD retail store. They are both available at amazon.com. The sheet music for both are available as well, published by Hal Leonard; Parade is available for $17.95 at Sheet Music Plus (direct link) and Songs... is available for $16.95 at Sheet Music Plus as well. The Last Five Years and Urban Cowboy sheet music have not yet been published, or announced to be published. Individual songs are also found in sheet music of certain performers' albums or in the Singers' Musical Theatre Anthologies. Other Compact Discs are available that feature Brown's work as arranger, orchestrator, and/or musical director. Links to these, as well as direct links to Parade and Songs..., can be seen at the Discography portion of our site.

Other works

Jason has been working on several other projects as well as preparing The Last Five Years for its debut. Recently, Jason provided the score for a play by David Lindsay-Abaire called Kimberly Akimbo at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, CA from April 13 to May 13, 2001. The score included a swing number titled "Grow Old With Me." Starring Drama Desk award winner Marylouise Burke, Kimberly Akimbo tells the story of a teenager (Burke) struck with a rare disease that causes her to age five times faster than everyone else. Kimberly doesn't get much sympathy from her family; they're too concerned with their own problems: Mom's a hypochondriac, Dad's an alcoholic and Aunt Debra's a con. Thankfully, the very mature-looking girl finds her way to Jeff, another outcast teen with an unusual ability to create anagrams.

Jason got to wear his Western duds as he was the musical director and onstage conductor for the Broadway musical, Urban Cowboy, starring Matt Cavenaugh and Jenn Colella. The show played at the Broadhurst Theatre from March 26 to May 18, 2003. Several numbers composed by JRB wee performed in the show, and Jason even got to sing - he opened the second act with him at the piano singing a number entitled "That's How Texas Was Born."

Jason just completed working with Lauren Kennedy, his Kathleen for the Chicago World Premiere production of The Last Five Years, on her solo cd featuring eleven of his songs, four of them new on this disc, which is available at local retailers. He gets to sing here too, in a rousing duet of "I'd Give It All For You" with Kennedy from his Songs for a New World.

Speaking of The Last Five Years, since it left New York nearly a year ago, productions have been sprouting up all over the place, from here and Canada, all the way to Australia - it will be making its way to Adelaide this summer, at the Adelaide Cabaret Festival from June 18 to June 21. Lauren Kennedy and Jason Robert Brown are slated to perform in this production. Rumor has it a Korean production is coming together!

Jason is also at work with a dance musical called The Moneyman about Michael Milken and Wall Street in the '80s. This [ballet] was written in 1996, but is undergoing some book rewriting. This musical is being aimed for a Broadway run in the 2002-2003 season. Jason has also been doing concerts in and around Manhattan showcasing his work in Parade and Songs... as well as other songs he has written to be performed in The Last Five Years, The Moneyman, and an upcoming solo album.