Via Galactica

After fifteen previews, the Broadway production, directed by

Via Galactica, one of the first Broadway shows to lose more than $1 million, was MacDermot's second flop of the season. His Dude had closed after 16 performances five weeks earlier.

Songs

Act One

• "Via Galactica" (Storyteller)
• "We Are One" (Blue People)
• "Helen of Troy" (Gabriel Finn)
• "Oysters" (Hels and April)
• "The Other Side of the Sky" (Hels)
• "Children of the Sun" (Omaha)
• "Different" (April and Company)
• "Take Your Hat Off" (Omaha and Company)
• "Ilmar's Tomb" (Omaha)
• "Shall We Friend?" (Gabriel Finn)
• "The Lady Isn't Looking" (Omaha)
• "Hush" (Gabriel Finn)
• "Cross on Over" (Dr. Isaacs, Omaha and Company)
• "The Gospel of Gabriel Finn" (Gabriel Finn)

Act Two

• "Terre Haute High" (April)
• "Life Wins" (Omaha)
• "The Worm Germ" (Provo)
• "Isaacs' Equation" (Dr. Isaacs)
• "Dance the Dark Away!" (Storyteller and Company)
• "Four Hundred Girls Ago" (Gabriel Finn)
• "All My Good Mornings" (Omaha)
• "Isaacs' Equation (Reprise)" (Dr. Isaacs)
• "Children of the Sun (Reprise)" (Omaha and Gabriel Finn)
• "New Jerusalem" (Company)

References

• Broadway Musicals: A Hundred Year History by David H. Lewis, published by McFarland & Company (2002), pages 104-105 (
  ISBN 0-786-41269-0
  )
• Not Since Carrie: Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops by
  ISBN 0-312-08273-8
  )

External links

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• ​Via Galactica​ at the Internet Broadway Database
• ​Via Galactica​ at the Playbill Vault
• Jennifer George, "My Family's Flop", The New York Times, January 2, 2011.
• BroadwayEdition.org host Paul Leary's Exclusive interview about Via Galactica with Rick Gore: http://www.paulleary.org/web/Home/Entries/2011/1/7_Exclusive_interview_about_Via_Galactica.html