Clarion University Theatre
SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD
Music and Lyrics by Jason Robert BrownCast
Seana Simon
Trevor Southworth
Katie Kerr
Brad Schake
Musicians
Musical director/piano - James Hollingsworth
Second keyboard - Brent Register
Drums: Ken McLaughlin
Percussion: Brian Malone
Bass - Neal Holter
Director/Choreographer - Marilouise Michel
Technical Director - Edward J.Powers
Stage manager - William Gibson
Assistant Stage manager - Erin Landis
Set Designer - Martin Savolskis
Costume Designer - Darcie Riedel
Sound operator - Robert Hoover
JASON ROBERT BROWN is the Tony Award-winning composer and lyricist of Parade, a musical written with Alfred Uhry and directed by Harold Prince, which premiered at Lincoln Center Theater in December 1998, and subsequently won both the Drama Desk and New York Drama Critics Circle awards for Best New Musical. Jason's first musical, Songs for a New World, a theatrical song cycle directed by Daisy Prince, played Off-Broadway at the WPA Theatre in the fall of 1995. Both shows were recorded for RCA Victor. Jason is also writing a dance-musical, The Moneyman. For his work on Moneyman and New World, Jason was awarded the 1996 Gilman & Gonzalez-Falla Foundation Award for Musical Theatre. Two of Jason's songs were included on Audra McDonald's debut album, Way Back to Paradise. Jason's other current projects include a two-character musical commissioned by Lincoln Center Theater, and a solo album. As a conductor and arranger, Jason's recent credits include Oliver Goldstick's play, Dinah Was, directed by David Petrarca; and William Finn's A New Brain, directed by Graciela Daniele, at Lincoln Center Theater. Jason is a member of the Dramatists Guild. His newest musical, The Last Five Years is currently playing at the Minetta Lane Theatre in New York, directed by Daisy Prince and featuring Norbert Leo Butz and Sherie Rene Scott. The original cast album is being released today, and the event is being celebrated with a revue of his work called The Last Ten Years, this evening at the Sh-K-Boom Room at the Village Theatre.
4/15/02: Clarion University: SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD
