Where is William Finn?

[walkedthroughmany]

Posted: 5/24/08 at 3:06pm

Anyone know the status of "Royal Family of Broadway," or anything else William Finn is up to these days?

I did a search, and there weren't any threads less than two years old, so I didn't want to drag up an oldie.

[carolineorchange]

Posted: 5/24/08 at 5:07pm

That fool is just enjoying his royalties from Spelling Bee and Make Me a Song. When he gets bored, he'll come out with something new. He's not going anywhere :)

[dalefully]

Posted: 5/24/08 at 5:08pm

I'm also very curious. Other than Make Me a Song, I haven't been hearing much about him lately.

[erinrebecca]

Posted: 5/24/08 at 9:04pm

Bill Finn is a busy man. Between work on The Royal Family of Broadway, some cartoon work, a couple of other projects, and his teaching at Tisch, I don't think anyone need worry about Bill being bored.

[TheActr97J]

Posted: 5/24/08 at 9:05pm

He teaches in the graduate musical theater writing program at NYU.

[walkedthroughmany]

Posted: 5/25/08 at 1:07am

But really..."Royal Family" news...anyone?

[tazber]

Posted: 5/25/08 at 1:22am

I heard that whole project was scrapped.
He needs to rework Romance In hard Times.

[ZiggyCringe]

Posted: 5/27/08 at 5:50am

Ran into him at "Pamela's First Musical" last week.

He seems to be up to nothing.

[TooDarnHot]

Posted: 5/27/08 at 10:56am

He is very busy from April - September.

He runs a professional summer theatre company in Massachusetts. The Barrington Stage Company.

It's where shows like "The Burnt Part Boys" (was scheduled to come to Broadway last year) get their start. It's a place for new composers and fresh actors. Finn acts as a guide and mentor.

Kirsten (or Kristen?) Childs, the writer of "Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chamelion Skin", usually premieres one of her new musicals there every summer.

There's 3 - 4 musicals put up every summer. It keeps Finn busy enough.

[Thomas14850ny2]

Posted: 5/27/08 at 11:51am

I have an interview that he recently did in a London pub. But, if you don't know, be NEVER diuscusses future projects.

[commasplice]

Posted: 5/27/08 at 12:33pm

"The Royal Family of Broadway" has apparently been shelved. Steve Suskin's On the Record column reviewing the Make Me a Song album mentions rights problems but doesn't say anything more than that. Too bad; I loved everything I'd heard from it.

(Link to the On the Record column - http://www.playbill.com/features/article/117156.html)

[B3TA07]

Posted: 5/27/08 at 1:10pm

He is probably convinced talking about future projects is a huge jinxer.