Reliving a Horrible Event: William Finn on A New Brain and the Falsettos Revival
In 1992 composer William Finn collapsed crossing 45th Street after seeing Falsettos at the Golden Theatre, for which he had received two Tony Awards just three weeks earlier. He was soon diagnosed with AVM, a tangle of blood vessels in his brain, and the experience became the inspiration for his 1998 Off-Broadway musical A New Brain. Recently revived as a staged concert as part of the Encores! Off-Center seri…