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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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Anne Murray Tribute Concert
Arthur Newman (5/12 - 5/12) CONCERT | |
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Change The Game
McCadden (6/9 - 6/16) NEW MUSICAL
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What The Constitution Means To Me
International City Theatre (5/2 - 5/19) | |
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Spring Awakening
The Broadwater Mainstage (4/26 - 5/11) | |
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Carmen and Carnival with Dudamel
Hollywood Bowl (9/3 - 9/5) | |
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Mommie Dearest An Unauthorized Live Parody Reading
Stache West Hollywood (5/14 - 5/14) | |
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Ain't Misbehavin'
The Richard & Karen Carpenter Performing Arts Center (10/18 - 11/3) | |
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Firebird & Serenade - Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center
Redondo Beach Performing Arts Center (5/25 - 5/25) | |
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The Orphan's Revenge (or Abandoned at Cooper's Cross)
The Group Rep at the Lonny Chapman Theatre (10/4 - 11/10) | |
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