The run closed December 2, 1972
- Opened
- November 28, 1972
- Closed
- December 2, 1972
- Performances
- 7
- Previews
- —
- Theatre
- George Gershwin Theatre
Of the 589 productions we hold that opened in the 1970s and record a performance count, this is the 479th longest. That is a rank within what we hold, not within everything that was staged.
Who was in it32 named
Alex Ander
Robert Blankshine
Jacqueline Britt
Melanie Chartoff
Chuck Cissel
Lili Cockerille
Lorrie Davis
Richard de Russo
Sylvia Digiorgio
Jorge Diaz
Edloe
Damon Evans
Livia Genise
Marion Killinger
Toni Lund
Peter Nissen
Veronica Redd
James Rivers
Richard Ryder
Stan Shaw
Leon Spelman
Bob Spencer
Bill Starr
J H Washington
8 of these 32 names have a person record behind them and link to one. The other 24 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
- Peter Hall
- Choreographer
- George Faison
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
Hall conceived and directed Via, his first musical; he later staged the disastrous, but far more interesting, Jean Seberg at the National.
“Goldie Hawn for Via Galactica,”
Speaker not recorded. Not Since Carrie Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops Ken Mandelbaum, p. 28- The Uris opened on November 28, 1972, with Gait MacDermot's spectacular rock musical, Via Galactica, starring Raul Julia and Virginia Vestoff as space beings in the year 2972. At This Theatre 100 Years of Broadway Shows Stories and Botto Louis Viagas Rober, p. 339
- The Uris opened with a short-lived musical, Via Galactica, which had music by Galt MacDermot and lyrics by Christopher Gore. The show ran for only 7 performances. Broadway Its History People and Places An Encyclopedia Bloom Ken 1949 2nd Ed New, p. 215
- Via Galactica, written with Christopher Gore, had a combined run of twenty-three performances. Broadway Musicals the 101 Greatest Shows of All Time Bloom Ken 1949 Vlastnik Fra, p. 157
- MacDermot's rock musical scores include Hair (1968), Two Gentlemen of Verona (1971), Dude (1972), and Via Galactica (1972); the first two succeeded while the latter two failed. Historical Dictionary of the Broadway Musical Volume 22 William A Everett Paul R, p. 244
- he has still another show [Via Galactica] coming in this season More Opening Nights On Broadway A Critical Quotebook of Compiled By Steven Suski, p. 281
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 Via Galactica at all.
- Reviews, box office, running order, understudies and designers: none of it is held for any production.