A New Brain – In Concert
Fridays, 7:30pm to 9pm Saturdays, 2pm to 3:30pm Friday 14 March to Saturday 15 March Saturday 15 March from 7:30pm to 9pm
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 spectre of this large green character and the unfinished work haunts him throughout his medical ordeal.
What was thought to be a tumour turns out to be something more operable, and Gordon recovers, grateful for a chance to compose the songs he yearns to produce.
Presented in concert version with a full band of 7 in the wonderful Mosman Art Gallery over three performances.
Music and lyrics by William Finn. Book by William Finn and James Lapine. A New Brain is presented by arrangement with ORiGiN™ Theatrical on behalf of Concord Theatricals. www.origintheatrical.com.au