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Musical Revue / Cabaret, Drama / 2w, 3m
by William Finn
This intimate and moving remembrance of departed friends is by the Tony award-winning composer of Falsettos and A New Brain .
Performed at Lincoln Center with a star-studded cast, this intimate and moving remembrance of departed friends is by the Tony award-winning composer of Falsettos and A New Brain. It pays tribute to a disparate group that includes impresario Joe Papp, actors Peggy Hewitt and Jack Eric Williams, a teacher, the Korean family who ran a deli frequented by Finn, relatives in New Jersey, friends, long-lost pets, and, in a moving sequence, Finn’s mother. A three-song conclusion offers a tribute to the victims of 9/11. Each number captures poignant, often funny glimpses of life and death that sparkle with the narrative sophistication always apparent in Finn’s work. This musical evening is easy to produce, requiring only five good vocalists and a piano.
Elegies was first presented at Lincoln Center’s Newhouse Theater in March of 2003. Directed by Graciela Daniele, the cast starred Christian Borle, Betty Buckley, Carolee Carmello, Keith Byron Kirk, and Michael Rupert. The production was recorded nearly complete and released on compact disc by Fynsworth Alley (distributed through Varèse Sarabande).
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Some real-life people mentioned in this show:
MARK THALEN – Male, attorney and gay-rights advocateBILL SHERWOOD – Male, director/editor/screenwriter of the film Parting GlancesJOSEPH PAPP – Male, producer and impresarioPEGGY HEWITT – Female, character actressMISTY DEL GIORNO – Female, chiropractorJACK ERIC WILLIAMS – Male, composer and performerRICKY IAN GORDON – Male, composerQUENTIN CRISP – Male, raconteur/actor/writerMONICA ANDRESS – Female, a friend of the composerBOLEK GRECZYNSKI – Male, art therapist, creator the Living Museum at CreedmoorBARBARA FINN – Female, William Finn’s mother
A neutral setting suggesting various locations.
“Pulses with the wonder and delight of being alive, even if that also means grappling with the sadness of mortality.” – The Globe and Mail
“The loquacious ghosts who hover through the nearly two dozen songs that make up William Finn’s moving and exuberant song suite, Elegies, aren’t the mournful twilit phantoms who haunt the typical popular song memorializing a loved one. These friends and colleagues of the composer’s who have died over the last two decades are resurrected in playful lyrics bursting with internal rhymes that remember them in all their quirky vitality.” – The New York Times
“Flinching from nothing, particularly not from death and grief... the work is breathtaking in the depth and breadth of its commentary on the rewards and woes of being part of a family, of a group of friends, and of a society in good times and bad.” – David Finle, TheaterMania
“William Finn celebrates lost lives in this collection of songs... Finn lightens the tone intermittently with overtly comic songs, and the best numbers are marked by a resistance to easy sentimentality; in looking back fondly, Finn doesn’t airbrush out the flaws and eccentricities.” – Variety
Brandon Uranowitz - "Mark's All Male Thanksgiving"
Brandon Uranowitz, Corey Mach, Nic Rouleau - "Joe Papp"
Mister Choi and Madame G Mark's All-Male Thanksgiving Only One Passover Infinite Joy Anytime (I Am There) My Dogs 14 Dwight Ave., Natick, Massachusetts When the Earth Stopped Turning Saying My Goodbyes
This title is orchestrated for Piano Only.
6 Piano-Vocal This title is orchestrated for Piano Only.
William Finn (1952-2025) was the writer and composer of Falsettos, for which he received two Tony Awards, Best Book of a Musical (with James Lapine) and Best Original Score. He also wrote and composed In Trousers, March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland (Outer Critics Circle ...
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