Via Galactica
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Via Galactica is a rock musical with a book by Christopher Gore and Judith Ross, lyrics by Gore, and music by Galt MacDermot. Originally titled Up!, the futuristic plot follows social outcasts living on an asteroid in outer space in the year 2972.
- Opened
- 1972
- Performances
- 7
- Type
- Musical
- Era
- Revolution
Productions1 on Broadway
| 1972 | Uris Original. November 28, 1972 · Peter Hall | 7 performances |
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Recordings 1 album held
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31 passages naming Via Galactica, found by keyword across 178 books. It's where this show turns up in the literature, not curated trivia about it.
The Uris opened on November 28, 1972, with Gait MacDermot's spectacular rock musical, Via Galactica, starring Raul Julia and Virginia Vestoff as space beings in the year 2972. book:at-this-theatre-100-years-of-broadway-shows-stories-and-botto-louis-viagas-rober#p339
The Uris opened with a short-lived musical, Via Galactica, which had music by Galt MacDermot and lyrics by Christopher Gore. The show ran for only 7 performances. book:broadway-its-history-people-and-places-an-encyclopedia-bloom-ken-1949-2nd-ed-new#p215
Via Galactica, written with Christopher Gore, had a combined run of twenty-three performances. book:broadway-musicals-the-101-greatest-shows-of-all-time-bloom-ken-1949-vlastnik-fra#p157
MacDermot's rock musical scores include Hair (1968), Two Gentlemen of Verona (1971), Dude (1972), and Via Galactica (1972); the first two succeeded while the latter two failed. book:historical-dictionary-of-the-broadway-musical-volume-22-william-a-everett-paul-r#p244
he has still another show [Via Galactica] coming in this season book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p281
Bring back Via Galactica [1972]—at least they had trampolines. book:more-opening-nights-on-broadway-a-critical-quotebook-of-compiled-by-steven-suski#p615
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