>> 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.
I may be wrong, but I think the Loesser/Fosse collaboration was on "Senor Indiscretion" which was based on a Bud Shulberg story.
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regarding merrily we roll along, I don't think anyone is arguing against the merits of the score or the strength of the source material in general. I think more I and others refer to it as a "train wreck" because the creative team never really figured out what to do with it. They could never really solve the problem of the book that came along with the source material. Staging the reversal of time is not easy.
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My grandfather was credited above the title in Here's Where I Belong.
He's an exceptionally talented man, but that wasn't where he belonged.
According to him, the entire production was fully aware of what an unsalvageable piece of dung they had on their hands, and would have closed out of town had they not been contractually obligated to open on Broadway. Had they had the choice, one of Broadway's most notorious flops would have never opened.
I've heard some of the music -- the rousing number about the head of lettuce is exactly as it is described.
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