Jason Robert Brown's Third Annual Post-Tony Extravaganza

A concert series curated by the renowned Tony Award-winning composer, lyricist, conductor, and director, Jason Robert Brown. Each unique performance will incorporate an eclectic mix of material, featuring music from throughout his acclaimed career, along with new works in development.  

Special guests in past performances from this series have included Kelli O’Hara, Steve Pasquale, Norbert Leo Butz, Tom Kitt, Tony Danza, Laura Benanti, Cynthia Erivo, Tituss Burgess, Lena Hall, Ana Gasteyer, LaChanze, Shaina Taub, Megan Hilty, Eden Espinosa, Norm Lewis, Sierra Boggess, Mykal Kilgore and more! You never know who will show up to join Jason on stage!*

JASON ROBERT BROWN is the ultimate multi-hyphenate – composer, lyricist, conductor, arranger, orchestrator, director and performer – best known for his dazzling scores to several of the most renowned musicals of his generation, including The Bridges of Madison County, for which Jason received the 2014 Tony Awards for Best Score and Best Orchestrations; the seminal chamber musical The Last Five Years, now a feature film starring Anna Kendrick and Jeremy Jordan; his debut song cycle Songs for a New World; and Parade, winner of the 1999 Best Score Tony. The New York Times refers to Jason as “a leading member of a new generation of composers who embody high hopes for the American musical.”

His other musicals include Honeymoon In Vegas and 13, a film version of which is currently in development.  His “novel symphony” The Trumpet of the Swan has been performed by the National Symphony Orchestra and around the world. Jason conducted Parade at Avery Fisher Hall in an all-star concert performance in February, 2015, and he is in the midst of recording a followup to his solo album, Wearing Someone Else’s Clothes. His sold-out series of concerts at the Abrons Arts Center in 2012 yielded a television special and accompanying album, Jason Robert Brown In Concert With Anika Noni Rose.

Jason studied composition at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., with Samuel Adler, Christopher Rouse, and Joseph Schwantner.  He lives with his wife, composer Georgia Stitt, and their daughters in New York City.  Jason is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and the American Federation of Musicians Local 802 & 47.  Visit him on the web at www.jasonrobertbrown.com.

PHILLIPA SOO is best known for her lead role in Broadway’s critically acclaimed show “Hamilton,” which she joined shortly after its inception. This Broadway phenomenon penned by Lin-Manuel Miranda and based on Ron Chernow’s 800 plus page biography of Alexander Hamilton, is predominantly focused on the trajectory of its titular character. But the Thomas Kail-directed production, which opened at the Richard Rodgers Theatre last year, is as much about the personalities surrounding the founding father, chief among them his wife ‘Eliza Schuyler Hamilton’, played by Soo. The role also garnered her the Lucille Lortel Award in 2015 for Lead Actress in a Musical during the shows sold-out run at The Public Theater before heading to Broadway. The role also earned her a 2016 Tony Award nomination in the category of “Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical.”

Soo recently ended her starring role as Amelie in "Amelie, A New Musical," based on the Academy Award-winning 2001 French film, Amelie, opening on April 3, 2017 at the Walter Kerr Theatre. Amelie follows the whimsical and charming existence of a lonely French waitress who decides to act as a secret wish-fulfiller to the people who live around her.

After graduating from Juilliard in 2012, Soo was cast as ‘Natasha Rostova’ in the Ars Nova production of Dave Malloy's Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, based on Leo Tolstoy's War & Peace; the show went on to transfer Off-Broadway to Kazino.

Previously on the small screen, Soo appeared on the NBC television series “Smash” in the role of Lexi.

Soo currently resides in New York City.

JESSE NAGER recently ended the Broadway run of MOTOWN THE MUSICAL as Smokey Robinson. Other Broadway credits include MAMMA MIA, and the original Broadway companies of MARY POPPINS, GOOD VIBRATIONS, and SCANDALOUS.  Jesse has sung with Mariah Carey and Shania Twain at Madison Square Garden, Jason Mraz at Radio City Music Hall, as well as events with Patti LaBelle, Joe Pesci, The Jacksons, and Smokey Robinson himself. Jesse can be heard on both seasons of NBC’s “Smash” as well as the “Hairspray” movie soundtrack.

Jesse is the Artistic Director of The Broadway Boys, a collection of singers who rearrange traditional musical theater with elements of pop/funk/gospel.

B.F.A. in Musical Theater from University of Michigan and a certificate in Vocal Performance from LaGuardia H.S of the Performing Arts, the school on which FAME was based.

PATRICE COVINGTON Broadway credits: The Color Purple (Squeak). National tours: Motown The Musical, The Book of Mormon, Dreamgirls (Effie), and Ain’t Misbehavin’. Encores Big River (Alice) Ms. Covington is the voice of numerous national television and radio commercials.

Her music video “Life Feels Good Right Now” and more original music is available at www.PatriceCovington.com and on iTunes.

She is the founder of The Galaxy Method and Miss Teen Galaxy Pageant. Her trademarked motto is  “Don’t be a star…be a galaxy!” Follow @SANGTrice on all social media platforms. 

*Guests are subject to change