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Elegies: A Song Cycle - Musical by William Finn, the Tony Award-winning Composer

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Friday December 4, 2020
7:30 PM

This intimate and moving remembrance of departed friends is by William Finn, 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.

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