#76
Posted: 1/3/07 at 10:06am
>> Would Illya Darling fit into this category? Wasn't there a RUssian themed show that closed outa town which I believe both Loesser and Fosse were involved with in the 60s?
ILLYA DARLING... oh man, I'd forgotten about this. Never saw it, but again one of those things that had potential like crazy(based on "Never on Sunday", the Melina Mercouri film) and just bombed.
HERE'S WHERE I BELONG was, I think, McNally's first stab at a musical (He withdrew his name from the credits prior to opening, never a god sign), and it had to have been an education more than anything else for him. The composer did mostly incidental and background music (ROBBER BRIDEGROOM was his next (and, I think, last) Broadway score after this). The director wasnt allowed back on Broadway for almost fifteen years, which should tell you something right there. Ming Cho Lee did the designs, which should have been great were this some stylized work, but a story of 30s Oklahoma and the Dust Bowl? Ming doesnt come to mind... and again, considering his subsequent Broadway work, it was probably a good indication right there of what this must have looked like. It just all sounds terribly scary. :)
If memory serves, the Leosser/Fosse project sounds like a stab they took at ANNA KARENINA, which got nowhere fast, but I could be wrong on that one.
ILLYA DARLING... oh man, I'd forgotten about this. Never saw it, but again one of those things that had potential like crazy(based on "Never on Sunday", the Melina Mercouri film) and just bombed.
HERE'S WHERE I BELONG was, I think, McNally's first stab at a musical (He withdrew his name from the credits prior to opening, never a god sign), and it had to have been an education more than anything else for him. The composer did mostly incidental and background music (ROBBER BRIDEGROOM was his next (and, I think, last) Broadway score after this). The director wasnt allowed back on Broadway for almost fifteen years, which should tell you something right there. Ming Cho Lee did the designs, which should have been great were this some stylized work, but a story of 30s Oklahoma and the Dust Bowl? Ming doesnt come to mind... and again, considering his subsequent Broadway work, it was probably a good indication right there of what this must have looked like. It just all sounds terribly scary. :)
If memory serves, the Leosser/Fosse project sounds like a stab they took at ANNA KARENINA, which got nowhere fast, but I could be wrong on that one.
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