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Jason Robert Brown

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Jason Robert Brown · Arts & Literature

What

Tony Award — Best Original Score

When

1970, Tarrytown, New York, United States

Where

United States

Biography

Jason Robert Brown is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Tony Award — Best Original Score

How & why

Brown, an American Jewish composer-lyricist, is among the most acclaimed voices of contemporary musical theatre. He won the Tony Award for Best Original Score for 'Parade' (1999), a musical dramatizing the antisemitic lynching of Leo Frank, and again for 'The Bridges of Madison County' (2014). Works such as 'The Last Five Years' are staples of modern theatre repertoire.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Recipients of the Tony Award for Best Original Score of a Musical

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Tony Award — Best Original Score

Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Recipients of the Tony Award for Best Original Score of a Musical