Everyone loves a PARADE!

I've already said how much I loved the production of PARADE I saw at Oklahoma City University (see my previous post) so I'm totally bummed I won't be able to attend this one-night-only concert, produced by my friends Michael Rubinoff and Mark Selby. Sorry guys, but I'll be in Chicago for the Theatre Building Chicago Monday Night Musicals Concert Reading presentation of my musical revue NAKED IN AMERICA -- THE MUSICAL (more on that later...).

Here's the info on the Jason Robert Brown concert from the press release I received:

AN EVENING WITH TONY AWARD WINNING COMPOSER
JASON ROBERT BROWN
and the Caucasian Rhythm Kings
with Special Guests

Monday, October 16th, 2006, 8PM at Glenn Gould Studio, Toronto

Dora Award winning producer Michael Rubinoff and Mark Selby present the Canadian concert debut of TONY AWARD-WINNER JASON ROBERT BROWN on Monday, October 16, 2006, 8pm at Glenn Gould Studio in the CBC Broadcasting Centre, 250 Front Street West. Backed by his band the Caucasian Rhythm Kings, the evening will feature songs from his award winning and internationally performed musical SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD, PARADE and LAST FIVE YEARS, his recent solo album "Wearing Someone Else's Clothes" and some new material. Brown will be joined by some outstanding Broadway and Canadian talent to be announced.

JASON ROBERT BROWN has been hailed as "one of Broadway's smartest and most sophisticated songwriters since Stephen Sondheim" The New York Times refers to him as "a leading member of a new generation of composers who embody high hopes for the American musical."

With The LAST FIVE YEARS, Brown won Drama Desk Awards for Best Music and Best Lyrics. Brown received a 1999 Tony Award for his score to PARADE, which premiered at Lincoln Center Theatre in December 1998, subsequently winning both the Drama Desk and New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards for Best New Musical.

SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD opened 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. Brown provided the orchestrations and contributed songs to the Broadway production of URBAN COWBOY. "Wearing Someone Else's Clothes" is his recently-released solo CD (available on Sh-K-Boom Records).

Tickets now available at www.glenngouldstudio.com or by phone at 416.205.5555.

Ticket price is $50 plus applicable service charges. Media Contact and VIP Tickets: Michael Rubinoff 905.886.3110 x27 or mrubinoff@mrubinoff.com

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