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BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY presents
CELEBRATING THE MUSIC OF WILLIAM FINN
Featuring Michael Linden, Anne L. Nathan, Amanda Savan
Sally Wilfert, Michael Winther, and Chip Zien
AUGUST 29-30

(PITTSFIELD, MA) Barrington Stage Company (BSC), the award-winning theatre in downtown Pittsfield, MA, under the leadership of Julianne Boyd, Artistic Director, and Tristan Wilson, Managing Director, presents Celebrating the Music of William Finn on August 29 and 30 at 8pm at the Boyd-Quinson Mainstage Stage, 30 Union Street, Pittsfield.

The two-night revue honors two-time Tony winner William Finn’s acclaimed and award-winning body of work featuring some of the most beloved songs from Falsettos, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, A New Brain, Elegies, The Royal Family of Broadway, and Songs of Innocence and Experience.

Celebrating the Music of William Finn features BSC alums Michael Linden (HAIR national tour), Anne L. Nathan (Once), Amanda Savan (Town Hall’s Broadway’s Rising Stars), Sally Wilfert (Make Me A Song, Assassins), Michael Winther (Mamma Mia!), and Chip Zien (Falsettos), with direction by Shakina Nayfack (Songs by Ridiculously Talented…) and musical direction by Joshua Zecher-Ross (BSC debut).

The design team includes Robert Brown (lighting and projections design), and Patrick Calhoun (sound design).  Lisa Klages is production stage manager.  Stephanie Yankwitt is Producer.

Tickets to Celebrating the Music of William Finn start at $20 and can be purchased in-person at the BSC box office (30 Union Street), by calling (413) 236-8888 or online at www.barringtonstageco.org.

William Finn (Music and Lyrics/Artistic Producer of the Musical Theatre Lab) At BSC: Created, workshopped and premiered The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee which moved to Broadway and won two Tony Awards, 2004, second production 2008; Falsettos, 2003; Associate Artist. Under his mentorship, ten world premiere musicals and six workshops have been produced in BSC’s Musical Theatre Lab. He has written/composed In Trousers (L.A. Drama Critics Award), Falsettos (two Tony Awards: Best Book

[with James Lapine] and Best Original Score), March of the Falsettos (Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Musical, L.A. Drama Critics Award), Falsettoland (two Drama Desk Awards and Lucille Lortel Award for Best Musical), Romance in Hard Times (Public Theater), A New Brain (Lincoln Center/Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Musical) and Elegies: A Song Cycle (Lincoln Center). He graduated from Williams College, where he was awarded the Hutchinson Fellowship in Musical Composition, and currently teaches a weekly master class at NYU’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program. His most recent project was Little Miss Sunshine with James Lapine.

About Barrington Stage Company
Barrington Stage Company, a professional award-winning Equity regional theatre located in the heart of the Berkshires, in Pittsfield, MA, was co-founded in 1995 by Artistic Director Julianne Boyd. Barrington Stage’s mission is three-fold: to present top-notch, compelling work; to develop new plays and musicals; and to find fresh, bold ways to bringing new audiences into the theatre—especially young people. Barrington Stage garnered national attention in 2004 when it workshopped, and premiered William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin’s musical hit The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, which later transferred to Broadway, where it won two Tony Awards. In 2009/2010 Barrington Stage produced the world premiere of Mark St. Germain’s Freud’s Last Session, which later moved Off-Broadway and played for two years. St. Germain’s Becoming Dr. Ruth (which premiered at BSC as Dr. Ruth, All the Way in 2012) played Off-Broadway at the Westside Theatre in fall 2013. Barrington Stage has been voted “Best Live Theatre” in 2011 and 2012 by The Berkshire Eagle readers and named “Best Theatre Company” in Metroland’s Best of the Capital Region.

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