Subscribe'Glory Days' ambushes Tonys' race for best musical
"Glory Days," a hit stage musical launched at the Signature Theatre in Arlington, Va., will transfer to Broadway so it can enter the Tonys race in the home stretch.
Playbill reports: "The show about four young men reuniting a year after high school will begin previews at Circle in the Square April 22, toward a May 6 opening."
" 'Glory Days' will be ineligible for 2007-08 Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Drama League awards since the April 22 first preview is after the respective organizations' nominating deadlines," the theater new site adds. "The show's May 6 opening night date meets the Tony Award eligibility requirement for this season." READ MORE.
"Glory Days" will be a long shot in the Tonys race for best musical, which tends to favor big, booming productions that can tour the provinces after winning, reaping equally big profits. But it might nab a nomination. It faces tough competition for one of those four category slots from "In the Heights," "Xanadu," "A Catered Affair," "Cry-Baby," "Passing Strange" and "Young Frankenstein."
"The transfer of a play from Washington to Broadway is an exceedingly rare occurrence," notes the Washington Post. "Arena Stage's award-winning 'The Great White Hope' moved to Broadway in 1968, and the Signature Theatre/Rep Stage production of 'Never the Sinner,' based on the Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb murder case, was produced off-Broadway in 1998 at the John Houseman Theater."
Arlington VA represent! Woooo! That is all.
Posted by: Marshall | March 28, 2008 at 12:52 AM