The run closed January 4, 1976
- Opened
- January 4, 1976
- Closed
- January 4, 1976
- Performances
- 1
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- Palace Theatre
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 550th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
This is a New York theatre. The address is Manhattan and the former names are Broadway names, but the record is filed as West End and its coordinates, architect and history were taken from the London theatre of the same name. Every one of these names exists on both streets. Reported to broadway-data as issue #97.
Who was in it18 named
John Aristides
Daniel Brown
Brian Destazio
Les Freed
Darel Glaser
P J Mann
Bill Nabel
Shev Rodgers
Cecile Santos
Suzanne Sponsler
Ian Sullivan
Christine Uchida
6 of these 18 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 12 are set from the identifier in the cast list, which is a slug of the name — so hyphens and full stops are lost and a few come out wrong. We hold nothing else about them. Nobody here is matched to a character: the cast list records who was in the company and not what they played.
Creative team
- Director
- Albert Marre
- Orchestrations
- by
A producer is one string on this record, however many people or companies it names. Directors and choreographers are held both as text and as identifiers; where an identifier exists the name links to a page.
Around this production
Home Sweet Homer is a 1976 musical with a book by Roland Kibbee and Albert Marre, lyrics by Charles Burr and Forman Brown, and music by Mitch Leigh. Loosely based on Homeric legend, the plot centers on Odysseus and Penelope, awaiting his return to Ithaca. It is one of the most notorious flops in Broadway theatre history, with only a single performance before closing.
After a disastrous out-of-town tryout fraught with lawsuits, screaming matches, and scathing reviews, the show opened and closed on Broadway at a single matinee, January 4, 1976. I M the Greatest Star Broadway S Top Musical Legends From 1900 To Today Robert V, p. 224
- Their fifth musical, Home Sweet Homer [1976], also thudded noisily on Broadway, while numbers four—Ha/lloween [1972]—and six—the Glynis Johns-headed April Song [1980]—threw in the soggy towel after stock tryouts. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 225
- Home Sweet Homer began it’s yearlong Odyssey to Broadway with wind in its sails but no one manning the rudder. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 461
- Home Sweet Homer marked a turning point; every bar of music seemed to sing that Mitch Leigh was not to be taken seriously. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 464
- Broadway's most recent musicals, going back almost two years, included such spectacularly depressing offerings as Home Sweet Homer, Pacific Overtures, Rockabye Hamlet, Rex, So Long, 174th Street, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Something's Afoot, and Music Is. More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 482
- Gene Wolsk (general manager of Leigh’s 1976 Yul Brynner debacle, Home Sweet Homer) More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 612
Passages naming this production, found by keyword across 178 books. Where it turns up in the literature, not curated notes about it.
What this page does not know
- No photograph of this staging. 48 of 13,459 productions hold one.
- No character names. We can say who was in the company and not who they played.
- No recording is held for Home Sweet Homer at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.