Daytime Emmy Award winning writer recounts Broadway flop

[DramatistDreamer]

Victor Gialanella, who went on to write for daytime soaps, talks about his play that became a Broadway musical that would be included in a very exclusive club-of shows that closed on their opening night.

 

Oh how I love a good yarn about an expensive Broadway flop!

 

[Paul Raven]

Thanks  for posting. Very interesting as I enjoy BTS stuff.

Wouldn't it be great if there was similar stuff about what went wrong at short lived and cancelled soaps from those involved?

[DramatistDreamer]

 

It would probably be very juicy,

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Someone kinda tried with that podcast series years ago but it had too few perspectives. Also, the focus was too generalized, not enough specificity.

 

I always enjoy reading the oral history of a film, or any account where people actually go "on the record" about what happened BTS od a show.

And you're right, with cancelled soaps those who worked on the show would feel freer to be candid about what it was like. I'd love to hear from the writers in particular, as there are so few left from the Golden Ages of daytime soaps to talk about it. We have lost so many already. Why aren't we getting everyone else's narrative?

[titan1978]

When that OLTL oral history came out I was so excited there would be others.

 

I would kill for one about Y&R and GH.  Kay Alden has so much to share and by now she has to have zero f@cks to give.