MAKE ME A SONG!

A lot of the time, you'll find that 'song cycles' (a la, Jacques Brel...) don't have a 'story' to them. That's why they're not referred to as 'full-on musicals' or 'revues'.

If the strike takes shape, I'll book a pair to see this in a few weeks to make up for ROCK 'N' ROLL.

i'm in naked boys, and we share a hallway with the cast. i've heard snippets of the show, and it sounds great! i hope it does well...i love william finn's music.

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I know it opened last night... but I can't find the New York Times review???

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does anyone have the song list?

I snagged this off Playbill (http://www.playbill.com/news/article/112641.html), so I assume it's correct, though I don't know about the order:

The songlist of Make Me a Song includes:
"Mister, Make Me a Song" (a song written for Mandy Patinkin for an intended Finn evening);
"Heart and Music" (from A New Brain);
"Hitchhiking Across America" (written for a proposed musical about thumbing it across the U.S.);
"Republicans" (recurring comic pieces, written "either during Reagan's last term or Bush Senior's only term," now laced throughout the show and sung by the Finn persona on stage, Adam Heller);
"Billy's Law of Genetics" (from A New Brain, with an arrangement by Jason Robert Brown);
Passover (written for Elegies: A Song Cycle);
"Only One" (inspired by teachers of Finn, about from Elegies);
"I'd Rather Be Sailing"/"Set Those Sails" (from A New Brain and In Trousers, respectively);
"Change" (from A New Brain);
"I Have Found" (from the unproduced musical, The Royal Family of Broadway);
"You're Even Better Than You Think You Are" (written for a show - Songs of Innocence and Experience - to honor a new theatre built on the campus of Finn's alma mater, Williams College);
"All Fall Down" (heard in both America Kicks Up Its Heels and Romance in Hard Times);
"Stupid Things I Won't Do" (from The Royal Family of Broadway, penned for Elaine Stritch, who appeared in a developmental reading);
"That's Enough for Me" (from Romance in Hard Times);
"I Went Fishing With My Dad" (written while Finn was penning Songs of Innocence and Experience);
"When the Earth Stopped Turning" (a personal song of loss);
"Anytime" (written at request of Finn's dying friend, Monica Andress, for her funeral).

The show's Falsettos suite includes "Four Jews in a Room Bitching," "A Tight-Knit Family," "Love Is Blind," "My Father Is a Homo," "Trina's Song," "March of the Falsettos," "The Year of the Child," "The Baseball Game," "Unlikely Lovers," "Falsettoland." The vocal arrangements for the suite are by Michael Starobin, Carmel Dean and Michael Morris.

And they're talking about making a cast album, so WOOHOO to that!

A cast album would be absolutely amazing - I probably won't be able to see it but I am such a huge fan of Finn's work and the show looks great.