Shows · A Broadway Musical
The crass white producer Eddie Bell (Warren Berlinger) decides to turn a black drama into a Broadway musical called Sneakers but everything goes wrong, including the star being unable to go on, so the African American author has to go on for the lead on opening night.
- Opened
- 1978
- Performances
- 1
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Revolution
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1978 | Lunt-Fontanne Theatre Original. December 21, 1978 · Gower Champion | 1 performances |
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In the 1970s, Strouse and Adams went their separate ways, collaborating only twice in the next twenty-five years on the flops A Broadway Musical and Bring Back Birdie, a rare (and unfortunate) musical sequel. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p49
A Broadway Musical proved a bargain at a cool million—all five opening within a grisly twelve weeks. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p36
Kean lost his two stars (Julius LaRosa and Helen Gallagher) and—needless to say— canned his black director-choreographer. Gower Champion, at the nadir of his career, made a half hearted rehabilitory stab at the material, but the fate of 4 Broadway Musical was preordained. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p136
Gower did—on to seven, count ’em, really bad shows (including such horrors as the out-of-town flop Prettybelle (1971], Rockabye Hamlet [1976], and A Broadway Musical [1978]) before drawing his career, and life, to a close on a high point in 1980 with 42nd Street. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p435
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A poorly produced Broadway musical about a poorly produced Broadway musical, A BROAD- WAY MUSICAL played its out-of-town tryout uptown—in Harlem. book:show-tunes-the-songs-shows-and-careers-of-broadway-s-suskin-steven-suskin-steven#p327
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