Via Galactica

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Via Galactica is a rock musical with a book by Christopher Gore and Judith Ross, lyrics by Gore, and music by Galt MacDermot.

Originally entitled Up!, it offers a futuristic story of social outcasts living on an asteroid in the year 2972. Among them is Gabriel Finn, a space sanitation man who collects trash in a clamshell-shaped garbage ship called the Helen of Troy.

The storyline was so incomprehensible that at the last moment producers decided to insert a plot synopsis in the Playbill, but audiences were still baffled by what they were witnessing unfold on stage. Pyrotechnic displays and other special effects did little to enhance the project.

After fifteen previews, the Broadway production, directed by Peter Hall and choreographed by George Faison, opened on November 28, 1972 at the Uris Theatre where, unable to withstand a universal assault by the critics, it ran for only seven performances. The cast included Raul Julia, Irene Cara, Keene Curtis, Ralph Carter, Melanie Chartoff, and Virginia Vestoff.

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

Act I

  • Via Galactica
  • We Are One
  • Helen of Troy
  • Oysters
  • The Other Side of the Sky
  • Children of the Sun
  • Different
  • Take Your Hat Off
  • Ilmar's Tomb
  • Shall We Friend?
  • The Lady Isn't Looking
  • Hush
  • Cross on Over
  • The Gospel of Gabriel Finn

Act II

  • Terre Haute High
  • Life Wins
  • The Worm Germ
  • Isaacs' Equation
  • Dance the Dark Away!
  • Four Hundred Girls Ago
  • All My Good Mornings
  • Isaacs' Equation (Reprise)
  • Children of the Sun (Reprise)
  • New Jerusalem

Internet Broadway Database link

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