In an Op-Ed piece in The New York Times on Sunday, Jennifer George, the daughter of the producer George W. George, writes about the debacle that was her parents’ musical “Via Galactica,” one of Broadway’s most famed flops.
(Clive Barnes, in his 1972 review in The New York Times, wrote, “It is a difficult show to care for.” The show’s poster is on view at Joe Allen’s interactive Flop Wall.)
Mindful of the long hours of rehearsal, technical glitches, injuries and critical drubbing that the show took, Ms. George offers advice to the creators of the troubled Broadway musical “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark”:
“I can well imagine the pressure the creators of ‘Spider-Man’ have been under. Right before opening night, when you’re running out of time, you can find yourself so close to the canvas that you can’t see the big picture. But I’d like to urge them, take a moment, now if you can. Step back and look at what you have. Put the play’s human moments front and center. There’s still time.”
The entire Op-Ed piece is here.
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