William Finn

Quick Facts

Full Name	William Finn
Occupation	Composer
Date Of Birth	Feb 28, 1952(1952-02-28)
Age	72
Birthplace	Boston
Country	United States
Birth City	Massachusetts
Horoscope	Aquarius

William Finn Biography

William Finn is one of the most popular and richest Composer who was born on February 28, 1952 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. William Alan Finn (born February 28th 1952) is an American writer and composer of musicals. He is famous by his music Falsettos which won an award in 1992 from the Tony Award for Best Original Score and his award in 1992. Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical.

Alongside Lapine, Finn penned a musical loosely that was inspired by his near- death experiences after brain surgery, focusing on the role that music played in his life and his recovery. The central character in the musical is a man suffering from the possibility of having an arteriovenous malformation (AVM). Finn’s long-time friend, Arthur Salvadore, is played by Roger Delli-Bovi as the main character. Finn’s mother is also featured in the production. The musical A New Brain, was a hit with Malcolm Gets, Kristin Chenoweth and Chip Zien, and premiered Off-Broadway in the Lincoln Center Theater in 1998. The musical received an award in 1999, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical. The UK premiere took place at The 2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Finn is a member of the NYU Tisch Graduate Program in Musical Theater Writing faculty. He is the co-founder and artistic producer of the Musical Theatre Lab at the Barrington Stage Company in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, established in 2006.

His long-in-development show, The Royal Family of Broadway, with a book by Richard Greenberg, was based on the play by George S. Kaufman and Edna Ferber, which tells the story of a girl from a family of great Broadway actors who contemplates leaving show business and getting married. It has apparently been shelved, according to William Finn’s personal notes for Make Me a Song, Playbill magazine and an article from 2006.

Finn is most well-known for his contribution to what would become a trilogy of musicals that were to be performed Off-Broadway. The musicals, Trousers, March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland all tell the story of the main character Marvin as well as his ex-wife Trina and his lover, Whizzer, his psychiatrist, Mendel, and his son, Jason. Falsettos are the result of the two final elements in his Marvin Trilogy (March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland) began its run in Broadway in The John Golden Theater on April 29th, 1992. It was on stage over 486 times. The show was later awarded seven nominations for the 46th Tony Awards, winning two one of them: in 1992, the Tony Award for Best Original Score and the 1992 Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical which the award was shared with James Lapine.

William Finn Net Worth

William Finn is one of the richest Composer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, William Finn 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Finn’s first show was titled Sizzle and was recorded in Williams College in the fall of 1971. Finn composed the lyrics and music, as well as his friend Charlie Rubin, wrote the libretto. Sizzle is the very first original musical to be staged at Williams College. Williams College campus since Stephen Sondheim attended the school more than 20 years prior. Sizzle was an ode to growing up show about students at college, but ended in a unique way by having the main character in the production, J. Tyler Griffin, Jr. and dying on the electric chair. Sizzle performed to packed houses. Rubin has a reel-to-reel cassette that contains a selection of the show, which includes the majority all the songs.

The year 1992 was the time that Finn was suffering from a decline in vision as well as dizziness, partial paralysis and dizziness and was taken into the hospital. He was diagnosed with arteriovenous malformations, also known as AVM which was located within the brain stem. Then, in September of 1992 Finn underwent Gamma Knife surgery, which eliminated the AVM. Following the procedure, Finn experienced a year of sombre serenity, and felt as if he had an “new brain.” Finn’s musical from 1998 A New Brain was inspired by the experience of AVM and the subsequent surgery that was successful.

Finn had another Broadway success with The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, for which he wrote both music and lyrics. The show won two Tony Awards in 2005-one for Best Book of a Musical, and another for the Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical. It ran Off-Broadway, then on Broadway in 2005 and toured the United States in 2006. The show was first workshopped and produced at Barrington Stage Company (BSC) in Pittsfield, MA, where Finn later created The Musical Theatre Lab (MTL) with BSC Artistic Director Julianne Boyd. The MTL is an annual summer lab where emerging musical theatre artists are supported and new musical works are created, fine-tuned and produced under the curatorship of Finn and Boyd.

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Finn was one of a selected few composers who contributed to the song cycle Stars of David which premiered in October 2012 at the Philadelphia Theatre Company. It was based off the Abigail Pogrebin’s book Stars of David: Prominent Jews Talk About Being Jewish and starred Nancy Balbirer, Alex Brightman, Joanna Glushak, Brad Oscar and Donna Vivino. Finn also contributed to the Off-Broadway musical Mama & her Boys.

Facts & Trivia

William Ranked on the list of most popular Composer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. William Finn celebrates birthday on February 28 of every year.

He went on to attend Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts as a music major. He originally entered as a guitar major, “When I got to college I kind of transferred to the piano. I transferred what I knew on the guitar to the piano. But when I was playing the guitar I was always writing my own songs — and singing a few of — I only had one book of folk songs, a blue book, of these sad, sad folk songs. …I would start them the way they were written and then I would change them to how I wanted them….I would just use the lyrics — re-musicalize the lyrics.” He attended Williams after another future prominent musical theatre writer, Stephen Sondheim. When he graduated, he received the Hutchinson Fellowship (a musical composition award). He is also Adjunct Faculty Composer/Lyricist at New York University.

How many musicals has William Finn written?

William Finn has written 15 shows including Muscle (Bookwriter), In Trousers (Bookwriter), March of the Falsettos (Bookwriter), America Kicks Up Its Heels (Composer), Romance in Hard Times (Bookwriter), Dangerous Games (Lyricist), Falsettoland (Bookwriter), Falsettos (Bookwriter), A New Brain (Bookwriter), Love’s Fire: …

Who is William Finn?

William Alan Finn (b. February 28, 1952, Boston, Massachusetts) is an American composer and lyricist of musicals. His musical Falsettos received the 1992 Tony Awards for Best Music and Lyrics and for Best Book.

How old is William Finn?

70 years (February 28, 1952)

Is in trousers a prequel to Falsettos?

In Trousers is a musical, which premiered Off-Broadway in 1979, with book, music and lyrics by William Finn. It is the first in a trilogy of musicals, followed by March of the Falsettos and then Falsettoland.

How do I watch falsettos?

Falsettos has been available for online streaming on BroadwayHD since August 14, 2017. It is also currently available on Amazon.