A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE at EASTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

A Man of No Importance is a musical with music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and a book by Terrence McNally, based on the 1994 Albert Finney film, A Man of No Importance. It played in 2002 at Lincoln Center in New York City and won the 2003 Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Musical.

Alfie Byrne is a bus conductor in 1964 Dublin whose heart holds secrets that he can't share with anyone but his imagined confidante, Oscar Wilde. When he attempts to put on an amateur production of Wilde's Salome in the local church hall, he confronts the forces of bigotry and shame over a love "that dare not speak its name." But the redemptive power of theatre changes his life and brings his friends back to his side.

Authors

• Lynn Ahrens
• Stephen Flaherty
• Terrence McNally