Occasionally Mr. Flaherty writes with other collaborators. His “chamber-scale musical,” "Loving Repeating: A Musical of Gertrude Stein", written with his "Ragtime" director, Frank Galati, premiered in Chicago in February 2006, in a co-production between the About Face Theatre and the Museum of Contemporary Art.] The musical won Chicago's Joseph Jefferson Award as the “Best New Work” of the year. An earlier version of the show was initially titled "A Long Gay Book", and had its premiere at Northwestern University in May 2003.]