Composer’s hit musical spells success ‘B-E-E’
Naomi Pfefferman
May 25, 2007
William Finn, composer, lyricist and creator of the hit musical, \”The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,\” says his own surname is the result of a misspelling. \”When my great-uncle came from Russia, he kept saying he was looking for someone named Fein, so the genius at Ellis Island gave him the name Finn,\” he breezily explains from his Manhattan apartment.
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