The authors of Hair had
a success with Two Gentlemen of Verona but
couldn’t repeat it with their next projects. While Gerome Ragni’s Dude collapsed in 16 performances, Galt
MacDermot’s Via Galactica lasted 7. Pixar’s
Wall-E has since taught us that an
intergalactic trash collector’s story can be interesting but the libretto of Via Galactica was dismissed as
incoherent. Eventually a plot synopsis that was inserted in the program.
Fun facts:
- Via Galactica was originally titled Up. Then the producers saw that the Marquee at the Uris Theater would read “Up Uris.”
- When Spiderman: Turn Off The Dark was having trouble in previews Jennifer George wrote a retrospective about her parents flop.
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