Make Me a Song - The Music of William Finn
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Synopsis
Over twenty songs by composer William Finn, woven together by conceiver Rob Ruggiero.
Our Review:
7 March 2008
A long-time favourite among musical theatre buffs, American songwriter William Finn is best known to the general public, insofar as he is known to them at all, for his sprightly, sardonic show March of the Falsettos (1981), which is regularly performed on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe by American college groups.
Any fears that Finn’s ain’t what he used to be are dispelled in this beguiling, if messy to look at, cabaret conceived by Rob Ruggiero and directed by Andrew MacBean. How many singers does it take to sing “Four Jews in a Room Bitching”? Six, with pianist Matthew Brind supplying the rhythmic, eloquent, busy accompaniments on piano.
Finn is a full-on composer, whose bountiful musical invention nonetheless belies a fairly modest output. His latest Off-Broadway show is The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (2004), here represented by a dictionary song in which Nietzsche is rhymed with (and related to, apparently) Chr...
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Emma Bird - 30 March 2008:
What a fantastic show. Everyone in it was amazing and Matt Brind is fantastic. The star or the show though, was Jessie May - watch out for her in the future - she is going to go far. I was looking forward to seeing Sally Ann Triplett but glad she was unable to be on that night so I had the chance to see this wonderfully talented newcomer! - Emma 29.03.08...
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Rob Ruggiero (Author)
Junkyard Dog Productions (Producer)
Demos Bizar Entertainment (Producer)
Surefire Theatrical (in association with Larry Hirschhorn/Remmel T Dickinson/Jayson Raitt/Mariano Tolentino Jr) (Producer)
Andrew McBean (Director)
Ben M Rogers (Design)
Matt Brind (Musical Director)
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