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A New Brain features music and lyrics by William Finn and book by Finn and James Lapine. A New Brain started as a "series of songs that Finn wrote after he left the hospital", with a concert of those songs produced at The Public Theater. A fully staged workshop production was held in 1996 and again in 1997 and the musical premiered Off-Broadway in 1998.
By the Tony Award-winning authors of Falsettos, here is an energetic, sardonic, often comical musical about a composer during a medical emergency. Gordon collapses into his lunch and awakes in the hospital, surrounded by his maritime-enthusiast lover, his mother, a co-worker, the doctor, and the nurses. Reluctantly, he had been composing a song for a children’s television show that features a frog – Mr. Bungee – and the specter of this large green character and the unfinished work haunts him throughout his medical ordeal. What was thought to be a tumor turns out to be something more operable, and Gordon recovers, grateful for a chance to compose the songs he yearns to produce.
- James Lapine
- William Finn
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Reynold's Hall (5/25 - 5/25) | |
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Come From Away
Smith Center For Performing Arts (5/14 - 5/19) | |
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CHRISTINE EBERSOLE WITH BILLY STRITCH AT THE PIANO
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Part 3-Whitesville
Open-Door Playhouse (3/11 - 3/11) | |
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Will’s Dramaturg
Open-Door Playhouse (3/11 - 3/11) | |
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Las Vegas Philharmonic Presents: Cabrera Conducts Saint-Saëns Thundering Organ Symphony
The Smith Center (5/11 - 5/11) | |
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Mothers and Other Strangers.
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(Un)Drinkable
Open-Door Playhouse (3/11 - 3/11) | |
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One Word
Open-Door Playhouse (5/16 - 6/16) | |
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Grace
Open-Door Playhouse (5/14 - 6/14) | |
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