Jason Robert Brown Says Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Is Still Waiting for a Broadway Theatre
Jason Robert Brown Says Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Is Still Waiting for a Broadway Theatre
mitchern
Broadway Star Joined: 5/7/03
#1Jason Robert Brown Says Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Is Still Waiting for a Broadway Theatre
Posted: 12/5/25 at 3:59pm
The last we heard was coming to Broadway in 2025—but I’m guessing that’s no longer true?
No I can definitively say it’s not coming to Broadway in 2025. Nobody’s going to yell at me for saying that. Broadway is a real estate business, and we’re just waiting on the real estate people to decide that they’re going to bless us today and give us a theatre. And we’ll be ready.https://playbill.com/article/jason-robert-brown-says-midnight-in-the-garden-of-good-and-evil-is-still-waiting-for-a-broadway-theatre
ER765
Stand-by Joined: 3/12/14
#2Jason Robert Brown Says Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Is Still Waiting for a Broadway Theatre
Posted: 12/5/25 at 4:04pm
Well considering there’s less than a month left in 2025, no sh*t Sherlock.
Does he mean it’s not coming this season altogether??
theatergoer3
Broadway Star Joined: 4/13/13
#3Jason Robert Brown Says Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Is Still Waiting for a Broadway Theatre
Posted: 12/5/25 at 4:08pm
He’s being snarky but I’d bet it doesn’t. If Beaches and Titanique are coming in instead, I don’t see any room.
#4Jason Robert Brown Says Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Is Still Waiting for a Broadway Theatre
Posted: 12/5/25 at 4:42pm
I think he meant “waiting for investors willing to lose millions.”
#5Jason Robert Brown Says Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Is Still Waiting for a Broadway Theatre
Posted: 12/5/25 at 6:27pm
"Now we figure out exactly how we want to move this thing to a Broadway theatre where people have to pay $7,000 to get a second seat in the last row" - says the dude whose Broadway shows (all floperoos) have cost producers and investors something like 10,000 times that much.
[Insert that Wilde quote about irony.]
#6Jason Robert Brown Says Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Is Still Waiting for a Broadway Theatre
Posted: 12/5/25 at 7:02pm
Many investors on this show have since jumped to Cats: The Jellicle Ball. Maybe they found new ones if they’re looking for a theater, but with most swirling show rumors, I’ll have to believe it when I see it.
Even if it was a critical masterpiece (which, per out of town reviews, it was decidedly not), JRB is like Sondheim for the easy-listening crowd. He can crank out some good songs, but he’s not commercially viable.
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Alex Kulak2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/11/16
#7Jason Robert Brown Says Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Is Still Waiting for a Broadway Theatre
Posted: 12/5/25 at 7:16pm
I saw Midnight in The Garden in Chicago, and while it certainly wasn't perfect (there are some serious plotting issues with Act 1), it felt like something that had a path to Broadway. For all that JRB had to say about this being a Taylor Mac show, and wanting to lean into Taylor Mac's style, it felt like one of JRB's more accessible shows.
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