What is your favorite William Finn show?

[DancerGirl16]

Posted: 1/4/08 at 2:22pm

Of all of William Finn's shows which one is your favorite?

Mine is A New Brain!

[Pippin]

Posted: 1/4/08 at 2:47pm

well, I can't really say, because I have only "seen" spelling bee. But my favorite on cd would be "In Trousers"

[jaystarr]

Posted: 1/4/08 at 2:49pm

MAKE ME A SONG.

[Broadway_Bound_Star]

Posted: 1/4/08 at 2:51pm

Yes! A New Brain!

[Corine2]

Posted: 1/4/08 at 3:04pm

Elegies followed by Bee.
I LOVED BORLE IN Elegies. I love Borle in everything he does.

I didn't care for Make Me A Song. (snoreville) Updated On: 1/4/08 at 03:04 PM

[MisterRussell]

Posted: 1/4/08 at 3:15pm

Sadly, i am still waiting for a William Finn show i could sit through without growing bored.

[Elphabatize]

Posted: 1/4/08 at 3:56pm

I've only seen Spelling Bee but I've heard all of his work.

My favourite is A new brain. Just love it.

[singingbackup]

Posted: 1/4/08 at 4:00pm

Well MrR...hope no one has ever said that about your work.

And have you actually sat through every one of them?

Having sat through most of them, I would say A NEW BRAIN gets me every time. ELEGIES runs a close second.

[LostLeander]

Posted: 1/4/08 at 4:03pm

I've only seen Spelling Bee, but my favorite score is Falsettoland, specifically the March of the Falsettos section.

[MisterRussell]

Posted: 1/4/08 at 7:33pm

No, nobody has ever said that of one of my works.

[BobbyBubby]

Posted: 1/4/08 at 8:31pm

In Trousers

[ohjustjake]

Posted: 1/4/08 at 8:45pm

I am in LOVE with Elegies right now. Every single song almost - I love every single thing about it.

[Pianist3912]

Posted: 1/4/08 at 9:57pm

I've only seen Spelling Bee live, so that is my favorite show, but I also really like A New Brain and Elegies.

[SpellingBeeFan4Ever]

Posted: 1/4/08 at 10:35pm

Only seen Spelling Bee (as many of you have) but Im seeing a production of Falsettoland at Theatre Fest. So, we shall see.

[pianojohn]

Posted: 1/4/08 at 10:40pm

Hmmm....the first time I saw FALSETTOS on Broadway with the original cast I was overcome with emotion pretty much the entire 2nd act.

I also saw A NEW BRAIN in 1998 and liked it...not loved it until I got the cd and then had the pleasure of music directing it twice.

So I would say it's a tie between FALSETTOS and A NEW BRAIN. I liked SPELLING BEE too especially since I got to see it off Broadway before it moved.

[sondheimgeek]

Posted: 1/4/08 at 10:50pm

"Elegies", followed closely by "A New Brain".

[SpellingBeeFan4Ever]

Posted: 1/14/08 at 8:33pm

Now that I have seen both Spelling Bee and Falsettoland, I say Falsettoland. Question, Is the name Falsettos or Falsettoland. I have seen both.

[burntplains]

Posted: 1/14/08 at 8:35pm

ELEGIES BY A FAR

[AnnaK<3LMIP]

Posted: 1/14/08 at 8:40pm

ELEGIES!!!

My favorite song though, ever, is "Anytime"

[burntplains]

Posted: 1/14/08 at 8:44pm

Actually, Elegies is my favorite show out of all shows. William Finn is one of the best musical theater writers of all time

[InfiniteTheaterFrenzy]

Posted: 1/14/08 at 8:58pm

Elegies: A Song Cycle, In Trousers, and Falsettos are the cream of the crop of musical theatre.

[TheaterAddict7652]

Posted: 1/14/08 at 9:04pm

SpellingBeeFan, Falsettos is a two act musical that has March of the Falsettos as Act One and Falsettoland as Act Two.

March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland are considered to be two seperate musicals, but they're often combined into Falsettos. To help clear things up, March of the Falsettos was first produced Off-Broadway in 1981. Falsettoland was produced Off-Broadway in 1990. Two years later, the two musicals were brought to Broadway as one show, which was Falsettos

[SpellingBeeFan4Ever]

Posted: 1/14/08 at 9:10pm

Ahhh!

[RoseStopnikCooks]

Posted: 1/14/08 at 10:27pm

FALSETTOS.

Recently directed a production at Pace University. It is a marvelous piece.

[tazber]

Posted: 1/14/08 at 10:31pm

Romance In Hard Times.