Where is William Finn?

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.

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

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

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

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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.

"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)