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...from abroad: Gianni Amelio's Italian drama Il Ladro di Bambini (Stolen Children) and Jean-Claude Lauzon's Leolo, from Quebec. Three are from Disney: Duwayne Dunham's Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey, Mikael Salomon's A Far Off Place and Stephen Sommers' The Adventures of Huck Finn...
Lapine recalled that William Finn, composer and lyricist for the Falsettos series, "tracked me down to direct March of the Falsettos. I [went on to] co-author and direct the third play in the Marvin trilogy, Falsettoland, and Falsettos, the Broadway production which combines the last two of the trilogy...
...seen a play that I had done and decided that I was his dream director. Bill Finn is a very determined fellow, and so he browbeat me into doing it. He once stood on Stephen Sondheim's doorstep until he came home and forced his way into his house to play his music for him. He went to Williams College and so did Sondheim. So I guess he felt that was all the introduction he needed...
Lapine spoke fondly, and candidly, of his collaboration with Finn, revealing what he assured us was something. "Bill would admit to in a minute...
...Finn is a wonderfully brilliant guy, but completely disorganized. He dosen't have a linear mind, but he did have certain characters. So I said, 'Let's give them a kid. And we have to have a plot here, Bill...why don't we have the wife hook up with the psychiatrist...