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Songs for a New World, Brown, J. R.
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Pfalztheater Kaiserslautern (2022)
17 Septembrie - 31 Decembrie 2022 (7 spectacole)
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Songs for a New World by Brown, J. R., De la (2022/2022), Regizat de către Astrid Vosberg, Dirijor Christoph Jk Müller, Pfalztheater, Kaiserslautern, Germany

Jason Robert Brown's first musical, which premiered on Off-Broadway in New York in 1995, is actually a scenic cycle of 16 songs, spanning the arc from the hope of emigrants in 1492 on a Spanish sailing ship to the promise of the Christmas message or the American Revolution of 1775 to everyday situations in the present. All scenes show people who are at a dramatic turning point in their lives and who have to make decisions, either for the next step into a perhaps uncertain future or for staying still. There's the wealthy New Yorker contemplating jumping out of her fancy penthouse window, or the prisoner in a cell who sees himself as the "king of the world," or Santa Claus's wife, who can no longer endure his affairs with the angels. Four actors slip into the different characters in the individual episodes, and yet the hope for a better, new world always shimmers through. The music of "Songs For A New World" shows a stylistic breadth of pop, gospel, jazz and funk. In the small band with bass, drums and percussion - as always with Jason Robert Brown - the virtuoso piano part plays a dominant role in the accompaniment of the singer-actors. The composer and songwriter Jason Robert Brown (*1970), who has meanwhile won several Tony Awards, is currently one of the most original and creative minds on the American musical scene, without submitting to the commercial laws of Broadway. His musical "The Last Five Years" about the failure of a relationship was shown in 2011 with great success at the Pfalztheater.
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