Forgotten Musicals: "Romance/Romance"

great music, average show

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moonlight passing through a window LOVE IT

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great show

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It does have some nice tunes here and there, but, please, it is certainly not a strong show, it's very weak in book and structure.

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I always wondered why Harrman never wrote more. How Did I End Up Here and It's Not Too Late are gems.

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frontrowcentre2---The 1992 Clairol on Broadway televised "Romance/Romance" from the Cherry County Playhouse in Michigan was released on VHS (there was no DVD back then).

I have it and ordered it directly from an ad that ran during the televised performance. It starred John Herrera and Susan Moniz, plus Deborah Graham and John De Luca.

It's a very solid production. The book doesn't suck by any means. It's just not the strongest show you'll ever see. But the music is terrific.

Does anyone know why we've not heard new material from Herman and Harmon? It was a very promising debut that seems to have led nowhere.

I particularly love "The Night It Had To End" (which is beautifully acted and sung by Susan Moniz in the TV version), "Yes, It's Love" and "How Did I End Up Here?" (which I always wanted Streisand to record... back then.

The leads from the TV version aren't as strong as Alison Fraser and Scott Bakula, but they're still very good. John had been Tony-nominated for The Mystery of Edwin Drood a few years before this.

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Barry Harman had previously wrote book and lyrics for OLYMPUS ON MY MIND, with composer Grant Sturiale.

Please don't judge this show by the lackluster TV version with John Herrera and Susan Moniz! I was so disappointed when I saw this after seeing the Broadway cast twice.

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Hello please, this is one of my fave scores! I did How did i end up here at one of my school auditions. Love it!
Good call to bring it up!

Wonder Boy - you are too cool for school, hope all goes well xx

I remember something about them working on a musical version of "Spiderman" (ages before the movie version came out).

I know that the guy who wrote the book has directed other shows since then. He directed a production in Philadelphia of the Alan Jay Lerner/Kurt Weill musical "Love Life" that starred Debbie Shapiro Gravitte, and wrote some new lyrics for it also.

And the guy who wrote the music also wrote the music to "Onward Victoria". Consult your copies of "Not Since Carrie" to read about that one.

It is a shame that they have yet to write another show...

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I have it taped off tv but thought it wasn't out on DVD--has this changed?

So anyone know the background of this score? What else have the creators done?

To say this show is now lost to the over produced lot of Wicked isn't really fair--after all didn't it open the same year as Starlight Express, among others? I think even back then it kinda slipped away...

It's a good show with a pretty great score but it's not a masterpiece--I prefer the part set in "modern day" which kinda feels like an attempt at a 1980s Company but... (actually this may be another reason it's kinda forgotten--anthology musicals are notorious to have really sustainable hits with) i admit until this thrad made me track down the video and the IBDB production credits I didn't even realize the first play was base don a Shnitzler play and the second on a Renard.

And as for that cast--Scot Bakula is great but what happened to Alison Fraser? After playign a strong Martha in Secret Garden

Hearing the one guy was involved with a revision of Love Life is pretty neat though and seems fitting to his strengths (man why hasn't that been recorded...)

"She was recently in High School Musical in Atlanta:
http://www.alisonfraser.com/High%20School%20Musical.html "

I think I'm gonna cry