In the early 1990s, songwriter William Finn was riding the wave of success of his Tony-winning musical Falsettos when he was struck down with an inoperable brain tumor. His experiences in the hospital (and the fact that the growth wasn't so inoperable after all) would go on to inspire his and James Lapine's 1998 off-Broadway musical A New Brain. Seventeen years after it premiered at Lincoln Center Theater, the show i…
SOURCE: YouTube at 02:52PM on June 22, 2015