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''Glory Days'' is a musical with music and lyrics by Nick Blaemire and a book by James Gardiner about four high school friends reuniting a year after graduation. The musical opened at the Signature Theatre in 2008 and was then produced on Broadway in 2008 but closed after one regular performance. ==Productions== The musical premiered at the Signature Theatre, a professional regional theatre in Arlington, Virginia, from January 15 through February 17, 2008, where it was directed by Eric D. Schaeffer, the Artistic Director of the theatre, with musical staging by assistant director Matthew Gardiner. Musical accompaniment consisted of a four-piece band.〔(Article ) playbill.com, January 22, 2008〕 The show earned generally good notices at the Signature Theatre, including a rave review from ''The Washington Post''.〔("Broadway Will Welcome 'Glory Days' Musical" ) playbill, March 26, 2008〕 ''Glory Days'' began previews on Broadway at the Circle in the Square Theatre on April 22, 2008, with an official opening on May 6, 2008. Schaeffer again directed, and the Broadway production featured the same actors who starred in the Signature Theatre production.〔("'Glory Days' Is Bound for Broadway" ) ''New York Times'', March 27, 2008〕 The Broadway engagement was produced by John O'Boyle, Ricky Stevens, Richard E. Leopold and Lizzie Leopold, and Max Productions in association with Signature Theatre. The production featured sets by James Kronzer, costumes by Sasha Ludwig-Siegel and lighting by Mark Lanks.〔 The musical closed on May 6, 2008, after only 17 previews and one official performance on Broadway.〔("New Broadway Musical Glory Days Has Closed After One Performance" ) playbill.com, May 7, 2008〕 The producers cited "low advance sales" in announcing the show's closing.〔Gerard, Jeremy.("Glory Days' Routed by Critics, Closes After One Performance" ) Bloomberg.com〕 In June 2010, licensing house Playscripts, Inc. published ''Glory Days'', providing a platform for professional and amateur theater groups to mount productions of the musical.〔() Playscripts, Inc.〕 ==Background== The summer after their freshmen year of college, actor-songwriter Blaemire (who recently appeared on Broadway in ''Cry-Baby'') approached his high school friend, Gardiner (both grew up near Washington, D.C.), also an actor, with an idea for an original new musical, who joined in the project after hearing Blaemire's song "Open Road". After working on the show for about two years, the two brought the show to Eric Schaeffer, the Artistic Director of the Signature Theatre, who agreed to produce the musical.〔(Signature Theatre notes )〕 Like several recent Broadway musicals, the show is performed in one act of 90 minutes. Peter Marks, in his ''Washington Post'' review of the Signature Theatre production, wrote that it is a "fresh and vivacious one-act musical... real and surprisingly moving.... The buoyant product of the talented young team..., ''Glory Days'' swiftly, tunefully and yes, authentically latches onto the rhythms of late adolescence and plays them back to us as the music of wrenching transitions."〔Marks, Peter. "Signature's ''Glory Days'' Gives Voice to Bittersweet Youth", ''Washington Post'', January 25, 2008, p. C1〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Glory Days (musical)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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