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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...
A New Brain is a musical with music and lyrics by William Finn and book by Finn and James Lapine. Though many of Finn's previous musicals are to some extent autobiographical, A New Brain deals directly with his own harrowing experience with an arteriovenous malformation and the healing power of art. [1]
Feb 28, 2021 · William Finn is a Tony Award winning composer and lyricist who is best known for his musicals Falsettos and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. And if you’re interested in what else he has composed, all of the William Finn musicals to date are listed below, sorted chronologically!
Finn's brilliant form combined with the absolute topicality of his social themes first bowled critics over in 1981, when his ''March of the Falsettos'' (one of the Marvin musicals) made its...
In 1992 composer William Finn collapsed crossing 45th Street after seeing Falsettos at the Golden Theatre, for which he had received two Tony Awards just three weeks earlier.
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Jun 25, 2015 · A New Brain, the killer musical about a songwriter facing a life-threatening brain condition, could only have been written by William Finn. For one thing, it’s highly autobiographical.
