It played here in San Francisco -- well, more like Belmont or San Carlos, actually -- about five or six years ago. Friends of mine played the Howells, and in spite of that, it remains one of the worst things I've ever seen. Witlessly written with tuneless numbers, it made the original seem like something Oscar Wilde had written.
The most amusing thing about it is the producers' idea that, if it made it to Broadway, it wouldn't close at intermission. --Dave Sikula On Monday, June 11, 2012 3:31:17 PM UTC-7, Mark Jeffries wrote: > > It does exist, with a book by creator Sherwood Schwartz--it's been making > the rounds of summer stock and dinner theater for years, but a Broadway > producer wants to take it to the big time: > > http://www.deadline.com/2012/06/next-up-for-broadway-gilligans-island/ > > Twenty-some years ago, the show was produced in Chicago with Schwartz as > one of the producers. It was awful and barely made it to two months. > -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
