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SHOW INFORMATION
Opened Jul 17, 2008
Closed Oct 12, 2008
1hr. 30min.
WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
[title of show] kicks off the new Broadway season. This original American musical about the making of an original musical is written by Jeff Bowen and Hunter Bell and directed by Michael Berresse. [title of show] on Broadway will star the musical's original cast -- Jeff Bowen, Hunter Bell, Susan Blackwell, Heidi Blickenstaff and musical director Larry Pressgrove.
[title of show] takes a thoroughly unique and comical look at the pleasures and perils of the artistic process as two struggling writers and two struggling actresses take on the seemingly impossible task of creating a new musical about creating a new musical. Now with Broadway as their destination, the quartet's saga continues anew as they face mounting pressures and deadlines, and are nearly thrown off-track by disagreements, day jobs and insecurities in this funny and unforgettable look at the birth of a musical as it finally comes to life on the Great White Way.
THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:
149 W 45th St
New York, NY 10036
Built in 1903 by Daniel Frohman, the Lyceum is the oldest Broadway theater in New York. The architect had an apartment over the stage where he could keep an eye on the action. The Great Depression forced Frohman into bankruptcy. He sold the theate [...] Read More
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They may be singing "You've Got to Have Heart" nightly over at City Center, but exactly ten blocks south at the Lyceum, there's a whole lot of heart in a little musical called
[title of show] that has miraculously made it from the living rooms of co-creators Hunter Bell and Jeff Bowen to the Great White Way.
In addition to Bell and Bowen's considerable talents as writers and performers -- as well as their dynamic leading ladies, Susan Blackwell and Heidi Blickenstaff -- the show also has a great deal of passion, tons of wit, and a handful of catchy tunes, all of which might be enough to turn this impossible dream into a long-running reality.
Conversely, to paraphrase the musical's final nu[...]