HITS Theatre
MAINSTAGE
presents
William Finn’s
A New Brain
Thursday, August 15th at 7:00 p.m.
Friday, August 16th at 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, August 17th at 2:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m.
Music and Lyrics by William Finn
Book by William Finn and James Lapine
Directed by ADAM WAGNER
Choral Music Directed by CHARLES HARRISON
Choreographed by COURTNEY CHILTON
Stage Managed by EMILY CHILDS
A NEW BRAIN is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals. www.concordtheatricals.com
By the Tony Award-winning authors of Falsettos, here is an energetic, sardonic, often comical musical about a composer during a medical emergency. Gordon collapses into his lunch and awakes in the hospital, surrounded by his maritime-enthusiast lover, his mother, a co-worker, the doctor, and the nurses. Reluctantly, he had been composing a song for a children’s television show that features a frog — Mr. Bungee — and the specter of this large green character and the unfinished work haunts him throughout his medical ordeal. What was thought to be a tumor turns out to be something more operable, and Gordon recovers, grateful for a chance to compose the songs he yearns to produce.