A New Brain Music and Lyrics by William Finn

Cap and Bells presents “A New Brain” Music and Lyrics by William Finn. Book by William Finn and James Lapine. Directed by Casey York ’10 and Tim Lengel ’11. May 7-10, AMT.
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 spector 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.

Tickets are $5 each and can be reserved at ANewBrainWilliams@gmail.com