- Title Pages
- Show Tunes
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- How to Use this Book
- Part I Composers of the Early Years
- Part II New Composers of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s
- PART III New Composers of the 1970s and Beyond
- Larry Grossman
- Stephen Schwartz
- Marvin Hamlisch
- Alan Menken
- William Finn
- Maury Yeston
- Stephen Flaherty
- Michael John LaChiusa
- Jason Robert Brown
- Adam Guettel
- Jeanine Tesori
- PART IV Notable Scores by Other Composers
- Appendix 1 Chronological Listing of Productions
- Appendix 2 Collaborator Reference Listing
- Appendix 3 Bibliography
- Song Title Index
- Show Index
- People Index
William Finn
William Finn
Born: February 28, 1952, Boston, Massachusetts
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- (p.363) William Finn
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- Show Tunes
- Author(s):
Steven Suskin
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- Oxford University Press
This chapter examines the work of William Finn. Finn grew up in Natick, Massachusetts. He attended Williams College, Stephen Sondheim’s alma mater. While there, he wrote three musicals, Rape, Scrambled Eggs, and Sizzle. He won the Hutchinson Fellowship, like Sondheim before him, and endeavored to become a composer. He supported himself in the meantime as a writer for in-flight magazines, a temp worker, and a play reader for the New York Shakespeare Festival.
Keywords: William Finn, Rape, Broadway musicals, Sizzle, show tunes, Scrambled Eggs, Hutchinson Fellowship
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- Title Pages
- Show Tunes
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- How to Use this Book
- Part I Composers of the Early Years
- Part II New Composers of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s
- PART III New Composers of the 1970s and Beyond
- Larry Grossman
- Stephen Schwartz
- Marvin Hamlisch
- Alan Menken
- William Finn
- Maury Yeston
- Stephen Flaherty
- Michael John LaChiusa
- Jason Robert Brown
- Adam Guettel
- Jeanine Tesori
- PART IV Notable Scores by Other Composers
- Appendix 1 Chronological Listing of Productions
- Appendix 2 Collaborator Reference Listing
- Appendix 3 Bibliography
- Song Title Index
- Show Index
- People Index