Coming soon to Broadway (probably): The Honeymooners as a musical! It recently completed a try-out at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, NJ and it got pretty good reviews, including about a fairly positive one from The New York Times.
That's Michael McGrath playing Kramden and they have Michael Mastro as Norton, Leslie Kritzer as Alice and Laura Bell Bundy as Trixie. McGrath sure looks the part in this trailer, and I saw the guy in Little Me and he was pretty good there. (He won a Tony for his performance in Nice Work If You Can Get It but I didn't get to see that.) Still, I can't help but think what a shame it is that my ol' pal Joe Alaskey isn't around to play the role. He did a Gleason that outGleasoned the real guy.
At the moment, the show doesn't seem to be playing anywhere. It's one of a number of shows that are poised to rush in and set up on or around The Great White Way if and when a theater opens up. I hope it makes it because it looks promising. For now, we have to content ourselves with this array of snippets…