| February 25th 10 AM – 12 PM
Psychology Auditorium
Contact: Alice Berry 901.678.3184 aeberry@memphis.edu The Department of Theatre & Dance is so pleased to have the Tony Award winning composer and lyricist of PARADE, Jason Robert Brown, as a guest artist. His visit corresponds with the production of PARADE on the UM Mainstage February 16-18 and 23-25 at 8 p.m. In addition to seeing the show and speaking to the students, Jason will be doing a performance and Q & A session Saturday, February 25th, at 10 AM in the Psychology Auditorium. This is a very special event for the city of Memphis and we would like to extend an invite anyone interested in attending to be our guest free of charge. Please call 678-3184 for more information. Also we are continuing our Lunchbox Discussion series with the Marcus W. Orr Center for Humanities February 21st at 1 PM in the Lab Theatre (TC-235). Dr. Jonathan Judaken who specializes in Cultural and Intellectual History at the University of Memphis Department of History will lead the discussion. Joining Dr. Judaken will be Dr. Beverly Bond also with the History Department and Rabbi Aaron Rubenstein. Rabbi Rubenstein lived in Macon, Georgia for a long time before coming to Memphis. The discussion will concern themes pertaining to the play, and we invite the campus community and the public to attend and participate. JASON ROBERT BROWN is the Tony Award winning composer and lyricist of PARADE, which premiered at Lincoln Center Theatre in 1998 and won the Drama Desk and New York Drama Critics Circle Awards for Best New Musical. He has been hailed as “one of Broadway's smartest and most sophisticated songwriters since Stephen Sondheim” (Philadelphia Inquirer), and his “extraordinary, jubilant theater music “ (Chicago Tribune) 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. He has worked as a composer, a lyricist, an orchestrator, an arranger, a pianist, and a music director. The New York musicals for which he wrote songs include SONGS FOR A NEW WORLD (1995), THE LAST FIVE YEARS (2002), and URBAN COWBOY (2003). In 2002 he won Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Lyrics and Music for THE LAST FIVE YEARS. In 1996, he was the recipient of the Gilman and Gonzalez-Falla Foundation Award for Musical Theatre. He also received the 2002 Kleban Award for Distinguished Lyrics. He has conducted and created arrangements for Liza Minelli, Tovah Feldshuh and Laurie Beechman. In June 2005, Brown released a solo album, entitled Wearing Someone Else's Clothes. Brown is currently working on several projects, including a dance-musical entitled THE MONEYMAN (based on the life of financier Michael Milken), a musical tentatively entitled 13 about a child's bar mitzvah, and a musical version of the hit movie Honeymoon in Vegas. He currently is playing live shows around the United States to promote his new album. Brown was born in 1970 in Tarrytown, NY, and he studied at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. He resides in New York City. PARADE
Music and Lyrics by Jason Robert Brown
Book by Alfred Uhry
Directed by Bob Hetherington
University of Memphis Department of Theatre & Dance
3745 Central Ave
Tickets: $10 and $15 678-2576
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