![Make Me a Song: The Music of William Finn [Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording]](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7 "Make Me a Song: The Music of William Finn [Original Off-Broadway Cast Recording]")
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William Alan Finn (born February 28, 1952) is an American composer and lyricist. He is best known for his musicals, which include Falsettos , for which he won the 1992 Tony Awards for Best Original Score and Best Book of a Musical , A New Brain (1998), and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (2005).
Aug 24, 2023 · For “A New Brain,” first seen at Lincoln Center Theater in 1998, Finn shaped the givens of his idiosyncratic songwriting style and of the stroke that nearly killed him in 1992 into a show that...
Feb 28, 2021 · Learn about the musicals by William Finn, a Tony Award winning composer and lyricist. Find out the titles, genres, plots, and awards of his shows, from Falsettos to Little Miss Sunshine.
- "What Would I Do?" (from Falsettos/Falsettoland) Just as the this list began with Falsettos' opening number, fittingly it should close with the musical's closing.
- "I'm Breaking Down" (from Falsettos/March of the Falsettos) In the first act of Falsettos, the character Trina, whose husband has left her for a man, and who, in the proceedings thus far, has played second fiddle to her son and her husband and his lover (and even to her husband's therapist), comes downstage to take the spotlight alone and stops the show cold with a song that offers as much entertainment value as the greatest old-school show business barnstormers, and yet also functions as a painfully real monologue on Trina's plight.
- "Change" (from A New Brain) The character of Lisa, the homeless woman, in A New Brain offers Finn and book-writer James Lapine a theatrical device. The idea is that homeless people are filter-less and can say crazy things.
- "Love Me For What I Am" (from In Trousers) Another gem from In Trousers is the character Trina's big ballad from the end of the show, "Love Me For What I Am."
At the start of William Finn's latest musical, ''A New Brain,'' a Finn-like songwriter named Gordon Schwinn wrestles with something called the spring song for a children's TV entertainer.
Oct 2, 2016 · The Tony Award-winning composer-lyricist of Falsettos shares the inspiration and challenges of writing the musical that spans comedy and tragedy. Learn about the origins of the songs, the characters and the revival cast of this 2016 Broadway show.
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Learn about William Finn, an American composer and lyricist of musicals who won Tony Awards for Falsettos and A New Brain. Explore his biography, shows, genres, tags and more on StageAgent.
