Composer, lyricist, performer Billy Recce (Little Black Book) is here for an evening of Bill Finn and why he wrote a great musical about Heidi Fleiss.
Topics include: Tom Lehrer, Wanda Houston, Bill Finn’s vocal stylings, and three-dimensionalizing those whom society has two-dimensionalized.
Featured recordings: Infinite Joy: The Songs of William Finn - Live at Joe's Pub (2001) • The Perks of Being a Snowflake - Billy Recce (2018) • Little Black Book - World Premiere Recording (2021)
DO YOU LIKE MOVIE MUSICALS? DO YOU LIKE SONDHEIM? Then you will love our PATREON podcast The Original Cast at the Movies because 2021 is all about Sondheim Movie Musicals!! May’s episode is the only non-musical screenplay Sondheim has (so far) penned: The Last of Sheila (1973). It's a murder mystery that plays so fair, the title is a clue.