Ben Finn

Playwright/composer/lyricist

85-05 249th Street
Bellerose, NY 11426
Phone (718) 343-1052

Fax (718) 343-0924
bfinn68074@aol.com

Sole author of 5 full-length musicals (3 on Jewish themes) and 12 one-act children's musicals.
Co-author of 3 full-length musicals
Member: ASCAP, Dramatists Guild, AJT

Jewish Themed Musicals:

A GLIMPSE OF THE LIGHT

Based upon the events leading to the birth of Israel, as told through the tears and, yes, the laughter of a group of Holocaust survivors who are smuggled out of a displaced persons camp in Italy. Eight productions in New York and one in Canada (Toronto).
THE RABBI'S WIFE. Relates the efforts of a woman to use her story-telling skills upon a British naval officer who is preventing a shipload of Holocaust survivors from entering Palestine in 1947. The result is a story-within-a-story within still another story. Two New York productions.

A TALE OF ZABOKRETC

Adapted from my novel of the same name, which is based upon the Ukrainian pogroms of 1919-1921 as experienced by members of my own family. Extremely large cast requirement, including a number of children, has thus far discouraged producers from mounting a production. This musical could be most suitable, and profitable, for synagogues to produce

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