A New Brain, why not in regional/community theatre?

Reprise! did a one night only concert reading in LA on January 31st of this year.

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Samuel French holds performance rights to William Finn's musicals.

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Samuel French is truly in the business of selling scripts - their bookshop is a major part of their operation - as opposed to MTI, Tam-Witmark and Rodgers & Hammerstein, who only license their shows for production and rent you the scripts and scores. When you do a Samuel French musical, you still rent the music (piano scores, chorus books and orchestrations) but you have to PURCHASE the scripts from them.

As for why A NEW BRAIN isn't done more often in regional and community theatre - the subject matter is a turn-off to many people. I saw the original production, and when they rolled the MRI machine onto the stage, several audience members walked out.

I've seen it performed regionally in Houston and Chicago at least three times in the last 5 years.

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Wow, well, I have the OBCR for this and I listened to it, and living in a small town and doing this at our theatre would be impossible it could never sell at some community theatres.