A New Brain
Author | : William Finn |
Publisher | : Samuel French, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1999 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780573627132 |
ISBN-13 | : 0573627134 |
Rating | : 4/5 (32 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: "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."--Publisher.