ANNOUNCING YORICK ENSEMBLE'S 12TH PRODUCTION:

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A NEW BRAIN

Music and Lyrics by William Finn

Book by William Finn and James Lapine

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Directed by Jamie Cook

Music Direction by Elias Condakes

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March 5-14, 2027

Chelsea Theatre Works

189 Winnimisset St, Chelsea, MA 02150

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From Massachusetts native William Finn comes an energetic, sardonic, and deeply personal musical about a composer facing a sudden medical emergency. Born in Boston and raised in Natick, Finn draws directly on his own life-threatening brain surgery for this brilliantly witty score.

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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 specter of this large green character and the unfinished work haunts him throughout his medical ordeal. What was thought to be a tumor turns out to be something more operable, and Gordon recovers, grateful for a chance to compose the songs he yearns to produce.

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A NEW BRAIN is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals. www.concordtheatricals.com