Public's The Odyssey

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 5/11/15 at 2:36pm

Hopefully it will have a better fate than the previous attempt with Yul Brynner

1 performance - Palace Theater - Home Sweet Homer

I actually saw it & thankfully remember nothing of it other than Joan Deiner was in it.

[Fantod]

Posted: 5/11/15 at 2:38pm

There was also The Golden Apple, as well as Simon Armitage's fantastic play adaptation.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 5/11/15 at 2:40pm

Hard to believe Mitch Leigh who wrote Man Of La Mancha wrote the music for it. The curtain fell & the closing notice was posted. They obviously knew they had a real gobbler on their hands.

[Sally Durant Plummer]

Posted: 5/11/15 at 2:53pm

I'm very excited. Todd Almond's music is absolutely gorgeous on Laura Benanti's album, so I'll be scrambling for a ticket when they go on sale (as well as LaChiusa's new show, with Mary Testa!). Very, very exciting news.

[LarryD2]

Posted: 5/11/15 at 3:27pm

"Hard to believe Mitch Leigh who wrote Man Of La Mancha wrote the music for it. The curtain fell & the closing notice was posted. They obviously knew they had a real gobbler on their hands."

 Why is it hard to believe? Mitch Leigh didn't exactly have the most illustrious composing career, save for MAN OF LA MANCHA.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 5/11/15 at 3:32pm

True but MOLM is always thought of as a classic.

I agree he was not the most prolific of composers. I guess he had one good show in him. They probably felt they had a good calling card called Yu Brynner. He could not even save it. Some people have said the music was not to bad. We will never know

[BroadwayNYC2]

Posted: 5/11/15 at 3:35pm

Leigh spent his final years trying to build some strange Stepford-esque community in South Jersey. The commercials were priceless. 

Very excited for this production. Great creative team!