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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><FONT size=6><STRONG>Tony Award Winning
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><FONT size=6><STRONG>JASON ROBERT BROWN!
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<DIV><FONT size=6><STRONG>MONDAY, JANUARY 18th</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=5><FONT size=4>Private workshop for the CAPS cast of 13
from 2-6pm, then there will be a</FONT> <U><STRONG>Concert, Meet and Greet
and Question and Answer session open to the public from
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<DIV><FONT color=#ff0000 size=5><STRONG>Cost: $15 for the public
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<DIV><FONT color=#ff0000 size=5><STRONG>Location: St. Mary's Church
Hall, Columbia Turnpike, Rensselaer</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#ff0000 size=5><STRONG>Tickets are VERY LIMITED as
this is a personal, intimate event, so reserve your spot early by
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<P><STRONG>JASON ROBERT BROWN</STRONG> has been hailed as "one of
Broadway's smartest and most sophisticated songwriters since Stephen
Sondheim" (<EM>Philadelphia Inquirer</EM>), and his "extraordinary,
jubilant theater music " (<EM>Chicago Tribune</EM>) has been heard
all over the world, whether in one of the hundreds of productions of
his musicals every year or in his own incendiary live performances.
<EM>The New York Times</EM> 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, "<B><A
href="http://www.jasonrobertbrown.com/theatre/show.php?showID=l5y"><FONT
color=#336699><FONT color=#0066cc>The Last Five
Years</FONT></FONT></A></B>," which was cited as one of
<EM>Time</EM> Magazine's 10 Best of 2001 and won Drama Desk Awards
for Best Music and Best Lyrics. Jason won a<FONT color=#ff0000>
<STRONG>1999 Tony Award</STRONG></FONT> for his score to "<B><A
href="http://www.jasonrobertbrown.com/theatre/show.php?showID=parade"><FONT
color=#336699><FONT color=#0066cc>Parade</FONT></FONT></A></B>", 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. "Parade" was also presented on a
national tour in 2000, which Jason conducted. Jason's first musical,
"<B><A
href="http://www.jasonrobertbrown.com/theatre/show.php?showID=songs"><FONT
color=#336699><FONT color=#0066cc>Songs for a New
World</FONT></FONT></A></B>," a theatrical song cycle directed by
Daisy Prince, played Off-Broadway at the WPA Theatre in the fall of
1995, and has since been seen in more than two hundred productions
around the world. Jason's newest musical, "<B><A
href="http://www.jasonrobertbrown.com/theatre/show.php?showID=13"><FONT
color=#336699><FONT color=#0066cc>13</FONT></FONT></A></B>," written
with Dan Elish and directed by Todd Graff, premiered this January to
rave reviews at Los Angeles's Mark Taper Forum, and opened on
Broadway in the spring of 2008. Jason is the winner of the 2002
Kleban Award for Outstanding Lyrics and the 1996 Gilman &
Gonzalez-Falla Foundation Award for Musical Theatre. Jason's songs,
including the cabaret standard "Stars and the Moon," have been
performed and recorded by Audra McDonald, Betty Buckley, Karen
Akers, Renée Fleming, Philip Quast, Jon Hendricks and many
others.<BR><BR>Jason's first solo album, "<B><A
href="http://www.jasonrobertbrown.com/music/clothes"><FONT
color=#336699><FONT color=#0066cc>Wearing Someone Else's
Clothes</FONT></FONT></A></B>," featuring his band The Caucasian
Rhythm Kings, was named one of Amazon.com's best of 2005, and is
available from Sh-K-Boom Records. His collaboration with singer
Lauren Kennedy, "<B><A
href="http://www.jasonrobertbrown.com/music/lauren/"><FONT
color=#336699><FONT color=#0066cc>Songs of Jason Robert
Brown</FONT></FONT></A></B>," is available on PS Classics. Jason's
piano sonata, "Mr. Broadway" was commissioned and premiered by
Anthony De Mare at Carnegie Hall. Also in the wings: an musical
adaptation of the 1992 film "<B><A
href="http://www.jasonrobertbrown.com/theatre/vegas/"><FONT
color=#336699><FONT color=#0066cc>Honeymoon in
Vegas</FONT></FONT></A></B>," in collaboration with
screenwriter/director Andrew Bergman. Jason is also the composer of
the incidental music for David Lindsay-Abaire's "Kimberly Akimbo"
and "Fuddy Meers," Marsha Norman's "Last Dance," David Marshall
Grant's "Current Events," Kenneth Lonergan's "The Waverly Gallery,"
and the Irish Repertory Theater's production of "Long Day's Journey
Into Night," and he was a Tony Award nominee for his contributions
to the score of "<B><A
href="http://www.jasonrobertbrown.com/theatre/show.php?showID=cowboy"><FONT
color=#336699><FONT color=#0066cc>Urban Cowboy the
Musical</FONT></FONT></A></B>." His scores are published by Hal
Leonard. Jason currently teaches musical theater performance and
composition at the University of Southern California.<BR><BR>As a
conductor and arranger, Jason's recent New York credits include
"Urban Cowboy the Musical" on Broadway; Oliver Goldstick's play,
"Dinah Was," directed by David Petrarca, at the Gramercy Theatre and
on national tour; and William Finn's "A New Brain," directed by
Graciela Daniele, at Lincoln Center Theater. Jason was the musical
director of the pop vocal group, The Tonics, with whom he performed
at the 1992 tribute to Stephen Sondheim at Carnegie Hall (recorded
by RCA Victor); he was the conductor and orchestrator of Yoko Ono's
musical, "New York Rock," at the WPA Theatre (on Capitol Records);
and he orchestrated Andrew Lippa's "john and jen," Off-Broadway at
Lamb's Theatre (Varese Sarabande). In 1994, Jason was the conductor
and arranger of Michael John LaChiusa's "The Petrified Prince,"
directed by Harold Prince, at the Public Theatre. Additionally,
Jason served as the orchestrator and arranger of Charles Strouse and
Lee Adams's score for a proposed musical of "Star Wars." Jason also
took over as musical director for the Off-Broadway hit "When Pigs
Fly." Jason has conducted and created arrangements and
orchestrations for Liza Minnelli, John Pizzarelli, Tovah Feldshuh,
and Laurie Beechman, among many others.<BR><BR>Jason studied
composition at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., with
Samuel Adler, Christopher Rouse, and Joseph Schwantner. He now
divides his time between Los Angeles, California and Spoleto, Italy.
Jason is a proud member of the Dramatist's Guild and the American
Federation of Musicians Local 802 &
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