Productions1 on Broadway
| 1984 | Royale Original. April 5, 1984 · Wilford Leach | 13 performances |
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Licensing 2 entries
| US | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available |
| UK | Concord Theatricals Concord Theatricals | available |
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In the literature18 passages
His most recent work was 1984’s The Human Comedy, featuring a highly interesting score and bearing many similarities to a folk opera. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p157
composer MacDermot, he did return to Broadway in 1984—via the Shakespeare Festival—with a quick-flop musicalization of William Saroyan’s The Human Comedy, of all things. Thirteen performances and out. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p975
His subsequent Broadway adventures were unwieldy failures (DUDE! [October 9, 1972], VIA GALACTICA? [November 28, 1972], and the more intimate THE HUMAN COMEDY’ [April 5, 1984]); but the man can sure write a tune. book:show-tunes-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-broadway-s-suskin-steven-suskin-steven#p428
The Human Comedy was a risky prospect for Broadway. While rear projections establishing the story’s various locales were added for Broadway, the show was otherwise staged starkly, in semioratorio concert style. book:not-since-carrie-forty-years-of-broadway-musical-flops-ken-mandelbaum#p344
The original cast recorded the show, but the recording has never been commercially released, thus depriving those who might find The Human Comedy the ideal piece for their company of familiarity with it. book:not-since-carrie-forty-years-of-broadway-musical-flops-ken-mandelbaum#p345
Like The Human Comedy, The Golden Apple was through-sung and had no spoken dialogue. book:not-since-carrie-forty-years-of-broadway-musical-flops-ken-mandelbaum#p347
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