FALSETTOS' William Finn Continues Lincoln Center Theater's Platform Series Tonight

Lincoln Center Theater's Platform Series, a forum for public discussion between Lincoln Center Theater artists and interested theatergoers, continues tonight, November 17, with William Finn, Composer and Lyricist of Falsettos, and Ira Weitzman, Lincoln Center Theater's Musical Theater Associate Producer.

LCT's critically acclaimed production of Falsettos, produced in association with Jujamcyn Theaters, is currently playing on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theater (219 West 48th Street).

Platform Series events take place in the early evening in the lobby of the Vivian Beaumont Theater (150 West 65th Street). Admission is free and open to all; however, seating in the lobby is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis only, beginning at a half hour before the talk. (Speakers and schedules are subject to change. Call 212-501-3100 to confirm on the day of the event.)

FALSETTOS is the story of the charming, neurotic Marvin, who struggles to find an unconventional and loving extended family after leaving his wife and son for his lover Whizzer.

William Finn's Elegies: A Song Cycle and A New Brian premiered at Lincoln Center Theater. He wrote and composed In Trousers (L.A. Drama Critics Award); America Kicks Up Its Heels (Playwrights Horizons); and Make Me A Song (New York Stages); as well as Romance in Hard Times, Love's Fire: Fresh Numbers by Seven American Playwrights, and scores for Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale and As You Like It, all for The Public Theater. He graduated from Williams College, where he was awarded the Hutchinson Fellowship in Musical Composition.

Ira Weitzman has served as Lincoln Center Theater's Musical Theater Associate Producer for the last twenty four years, overseeing dozens of productions including new musicals by the leading artists in the field as well as notable revivals of Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I, South Pacific, and Carousel. Weitzman previously held the same position at Playwrights Horizons where he was instrumental in the creation and original productions of William Finn's In Trousers and Finn and Lapine's March of the Falsettos and Falsettoland, as well as many other new musicals.

Lincoln Center Theater's Platform series was introduced in the summer of 1998. Transcripts of the previous talks are available online at www.lct.org.

Photo Credit: Walter McBride