An Inglorious End to 'Glory Days?' Not So Fast.
Today's New York Times features a story about Nick Blaemire and James Gardiner, the young creators of Glory Days, which closed after its opening night on Broadway.
The four-man musical about growing up was a hit this year at Signature Theater in Arlington, VA, but closed on May 6 just one day after it opened on Broadway at the Circle in the Square Theatre. Glory Days, which played 17 previews and one official performance, received kind but dismissive reviews that seemed to try protect and encourage its 24-year-old librettist Gardiner and 23-year-old songwriter Blaemire. Most critics took the producers and director Eric Schaeffer to task for shepherding a show that was wet behind the ears.
But the 20-somethings are trying to find the silver lining. “James and I have learned more in the last three weeks,” Mr. Blaemire told the Times, “than we’ve learned in the last year... It’s all so ridiculous that we’re 23 years old and any of this happened at all. All of this has been icing.”
From the NY Times:
Theater people tend to embrace the wounded. The walls of Joe Allen restaurant, the Broadway haunt on West 46th Street, are covered in posters of flops; for the posters of successful shows you can go to tourist shops and hotel lobbies. In the course of three blocks Mr. Blaemire and Mr. Gardiner were approached more than once by actors who hugged them, squeezed their arms and gave them the kind of looks you usually see in hospital waiting rooms.
But neither Mr. Blaemire nor Mr. Gardiner seems to be rattled; both said they were not nearly as upset about the whole experience as their mothers were. They are, in fact, working on their next show.
Blaemire is currently performing on Broadway in Cry-Baby. Read the full New York Times story here.
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