Photo Coverage: Tony Award Winner William Finn's Students Create Future Broadway Winning Songs

By: Stephen Sorokoff Jun. 11, 2017

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Tin Pan Alley on 28th street in Manhattan was where many songs were composed in the early 20th century. Young composers like George Gershwin wrote the tunes we are still singing today. Now, a lot of the creative music and lyrics are coming out of William Finn's Master Class at The NYU Tisch Graduate Program in Musical Theatre Writing. Instead of these young songwriters displaying there work on the cheap upright pianos that gave Tin Pan Alley it's name. Mr. Finn, who is also the Artistic Head of the Musical Theatre Lab at Barrington Stage Company puts on a show on Barrington's Main Stage in PIttsfield Massachusetts. Titled "Songs by Ridiculously Talented Composers and Lyricists You Probably Don't Know But Should" it's one of the highlights of the summer theatre season in The Berkshires.

William Finn in his role of host and narrator is able to draw upon the incredible roster of talented actors, singers, and musicians who are up at Barrington rehearsing for it's daunting shedule of summer productions. This years "Ridiculously Talented Songwriters" was produced by Rebecca Weiss and featured song by: Wes Braver, Emily Chiu, Lily Dwoskin, Natalie Elder, Jacob Fjeidheim, Jesse Gage, Benji GOdsmith, Rebecca Hart, David Lancelle, Stefan Melnyk, Paulie Pecorella, Megan Peterson, Jack Schlesinger, Alex Syiek, Lauren Taslitz, PatRick Thompson and Danny Ursetti. Some of these names you will probably be hearing about in the future albiet spelling their names could have stumped the cast of Tony Award Winning " 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" which was originaly developed by Barrington Stage under artistic director and founder Juli Anne Boyd.

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