Grover’s Corners (1987)

Broadway Bound: The Musicals That Never Came to Broadway · May 27, 2025 · 1h

In 1960, Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt created theater

history when their whimsical musical, The Fantasticks, the little show that

no one believed in, opened and would not close until forty years later.

Twenty-seven years later they would say “Smart New York money says we're not what's

happening at the moment. We are perceived as the past. The perspective of us

needs to be altered,” and so they plunged head first into musicalizing the play

that had inspired them to create theater in the first place, Thornton Wilder’s Our

Town. But why, almost forty years later, no one will ever get to hear it?…