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The first critical companion to the world of multi-Tony Award-winning American musical theatre practitioner Jason Robert Brown, hailed as “one of Broadway’s smartest and most sophisticated songwriters since Stephen Sondheim” (Philadelphia Inquirer). Rather than taking a show-by-show approach, Jason Robert Brown: A Critical Companion is structured according to topics of analysis, moving through three parts: Techniques, Identities, and Adaptation. All of Robert Brown's main musicals are covered, including the song cycle Songs For a New World; chamber musical The Last 5 Years; original musicals Parade and Mr Saturday Night through to adaptions such as The Bridges of Madison County and Urban Cowboy. The book fuses together narratological analysis with musicological analysis, considering the influences on Brown’s music and the way that words and music portray protagonists, narrative, relationships and identities across his works. The final chapter gives comparative analysis to garner a portrait of Jason Robert Brown as an artist. Published in Methuen Drama's Musical Theatre Critical Companion series this book combines traditional essays with primary research and practitioner interviews that offer a fresh look at key moments of musical theatre as a form.

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Rebecca Applin Warner has been a freelance composer for theatre for 17 years, primarily writing musicals. She has taught on the Musical Theatre Writing Masters degree at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK and the Musical Theatre Writing module at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, UK. Previous publications include chapters in The Musical Theatre Composer as Dramatist (Methuen Drama), The Oxford Handbook of the British Musical and Reframing the Musical as well as publication in the Studies in Musical Theatre journal. She sits on the steering committee of the British Musical Theatre Research Institute.

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