Jack Viertel's LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL to open on Broadway for the 26-27 season
Posted: 9/18/25 at 10:02am
Huh
Posted: 9/18/25 at 10:04am
I would be surprised if this actually happens.
Posted: 9/18/25 at 10:07am
This literally is strictly for family and friends of the creative team. Audiences aren’t even paying money to see known titles and this original musical’s appeal is for some cool bar in the French Quarter.
Posted: 9/18/25 at 10:28am
Everyone also said Just in Time would never sell. Put the right the person/people in anything - eg Art - & it will sell.
Posted: 9/18/25 at 10:43am
inception said: "Everyone also said Just in Time would never sell. Put the right the person/people in anything - eg Art - & it will sell."
JUST IN TIME is headlined by Tony Award winner Jonathan Groff and it uses the music of Bobby Darin. These 2 ingredients were the focus selling points which obvious worked. Terrible choice of show to compare it to. What major performer is headlining LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL?
Posted: 9/18/25 at 10:46am
inception said: "Everyone also said Just in Time would never sell. Put the right the person/people in anything - eg Art - & it will sell."
agreed - this is going to be a really great show- I've listened to the Cast Album and it's going to be hard to beat.
curious if anyone here saw the show in Phoenix?
I would have loved to see it in the out-of-town tryout....
we need more southern musicals so this and Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil are gonna be the ringleaders
Posted: 9/18/25 at 10:49am
Kad said: "I would be surprised if this actually happens."
It'll happen.
The SONGS THE SONGS THE SONGS are incredible and the music of New Orleans is as unique as the birth of rock 'n roll so this is a VERY worthy undertaking.
Posted: 9/18/25 at 11:29am
Kad said: "I would be surprised if this actually happens."
On cue
Posted: 9/18/25 at 1:31pm
I saw the show in Phoenix. The cast was very good - the material, not so much. I guess if you like southern jazz music you might enjoy it (Phoenix was an odd choice for a world premiere), but this is not a Broadway show. It's not even a musical, really - it's a bunch of previously written songs loosely connected by a very vague plot with thinly drawn characters. Honestly, they should have disposed of the dialogue during the workshop phase and given up trying to make it a "story" of any kind. It just wasn't my cup of tea.
I assumed the production had New York aspirations, but this press release reads more like a plea for backers than a legitimate announcement. They should aim for a limited run Off-Broadway like they did with Americano! - that is much more realistic.
Posted: 9/18/25 at 3:09pm
I saw the show in Phoenix and can’t imagine why anyone thought this was ready for a stage, let alone a world premiere. The poor cast worked overtime trying to sell material that simply isn’t there.
This isn’t a musical — it’s a random playlist of old songs clumsily stitched together with laughably thin dialogue and characters that never rise above clichés. The “story” is so vague it barely exists, and what little plot there is feels like it was scribbled in during rehearsal breaks. Phoenix deserved better than to be the testing ground for something this half-baked. Broadway? Not a chance.
