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Home Sweet Homer

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Shows · Home Sweet Homer

Odysseus, the great Greek warrior, attempts to make his way home to Ithaca after the fall of Troy. Along the way he faces the temptations of the sorceress Circe, the dangers of the Cyclops, and the allure of Calypso, while his faithful wife Penelope fends off a palace full of boorish suitors who believe Odysseus is dead. The epic journey tests the hero's resolve and cunning as he fights to return to the woman he love…

Opened
1976
Performances
1
Type
Musical
Era
Revolution
Music: Mitch LeighLyrics: Charles Burr, Forman BrownBook: Roland Kibbee, Albert Marre

Productions1 on Broadway

1976 Palace Theatre Original. January 4, 1976 · Albert Marre 1 performances

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In the literature13 passages

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. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p225

Home Sweet Homer began it’s yearlong Odyssey to Broadway with wind in its sails but no one manning the rudder. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p461

Home Sweet Homer marked a turning point; every bar of music seemed to sing that Mitch Leigh was not to be taken seriously. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p464

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. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p482

Gene Wolsk (general manager of Leigh’s 1976 Yul Brynner debacle, Home Sweet Homer) book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p612

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. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-steven-suskin#p481

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