VIA GALACTICA



Composer: Galt MacDermot
Lyricist: Christopher Gore

Opened: November 28, 1972, Uris Theatre, NYC
Performances: 7

Live performance recordings of the Broadway production and the 2002 revised concert version are known to exist.


All My Good Mornings:

1. Commercial Demo, Chappell (S) C-103 (uncredited singer)
2. Billy Butler Plays Via Galactica, Kilmarnock (S) KIL-72009 (Billy Butler, guitar, and Galt MacDermot, piano, with orchestra conducted by Galt MacDermot) [reissued on CD/Kilmarnock Records (888295229968]


Children of the Sun (aka "I Believe In Butterflies"):

1. Commercial Demo, Chappell (S) C-103 (uncredited singer)
2. Billy Butler Plays Via Galactica, Kilmarnock (S) KIL-72009 (Billy Butler, guitar, and Galt MacDermot, piano, with orchestra conducted by Galt MacDermot) [reissued on CD/Kilmarnock Records (888295229968]


Dance the Dark Away!:

1. Commercial Demo, Chappell (S) C-103 (uncredited singer)
2. Billy Butler Plays Via Galactica, Kilmarnock (S) KIL-72009 (Billy Butler, guitar, and Galt MacDermot, piano, with orchestra conducted by Galt MacDermot) [reissued on CD/Kilmarnock Records (888295229968]


Four Hundred Girls Ago:

1. Billy Butler Plays Via Galactica, Kilmarnock (S) KIL-72009 (Billy Butler, guitar, and Galt MacDermot, piano, with orchestra conducted by Galt MacDermot) [reissued on CD/Kilmarnock Records (888295229968]


Helen of Troy:

1. Billy Butler Plays Via Galactica, Kilmarnock (S) KIL-72009 (Billy Butler, guitar, and Galt MacDermot, piano, with orchestra conducted by Galt MacDermot) [reissued on CD/Kilmarnock Records (888295229968]


Home (cut; reinstated in the 2002 concert version):

1. Commercial Demo, Chappell (S) C-103 (uncredited singer)
2. Billy Butler Plays Via Galactica, Kilmarnock (S) KIL-72009 (Billy Butler, guitar, and Galt MacDermot, piano, with orchestra conducted by Galt MacDermot) [reissued on CD/Kilmarnock Records (888295229968]


Hush:

1. Billy Butler Plays Via Galactica, Kilmarnock (S) KIL-72009 (Billy Butler, guitar, and Galt MacDermot, piano, with orchestra conducted by Galt MacDermot) [reissued on CD/Kilmarnock Records (888295229968]


Life Wins:

1. Billy Butler Plays Via Galactica, Kilmarnock (S) KIL-72009 (Billy Butler, guitar, and Galt MacDermot, piano, with orchestra conducted by Galt MacDermot) [reissued on CD/Kilmarnock Records (888295229968]


New Jerusalem:

1. Commercial Demo, Chappell (S) C-103 (uncredited singer)
2. Billy Butler Plays Via Galactica, Kilmarnock (S) KIL-72009 (Billy Butler, guitar, and Galt MacDermot, piano, with orchestra conducted by Galt MacDermot) [reissued on CD/Kilmarnock Records (888295229968]


The Other Side of the Sky:

1. Billy Butler Plays Via Galactica, Kilmarnock (S) KIL-72009 (Billy Butler, guitar, and Galt MacDermot, piano, with orchestra conducted by Galt MacDermot) [reissued on CD/Kilmarnock Records (888295229968]


Shall We Friend?:

1. Commercial Demo, Chappell (S) C-103 (uncredited singer)


Take Your Hat Off:

1. Commercial Demo, Chappell (S) C-103 (uncredited singer)


Up (cut; reinstated in the 2002 concert version):

1. Billy Butler Plays Via Galactica, Kilmarnock (S) KIL-72009 (Billy Butler, guitar, and Galt MacDermot, piano, with orchestra conducted by Galt MacDermot) [reissued on CD/Kilmarnock Records (888295229968]


Via Galactica:

1. Commercial Demo, Chappell (S) C-103 (uncredited singer)
2. Billy Butler Plays Via Galactica, Kilmarnock (S) KIL-72009 (Billy Butler, guitar, and Galt MacDermot, piano, with orchestra conducted by Galt MacDermot) [reissued on CD/Kilmarnock Records (888295229968]


Unrecorded Numbers:

Aldebaran (included in the 2002 concert version)
Away (added to the 2002 concert version)
Cross On Over
The Days Of The Dancing (included in the 2002 concert version)
Different
Finale Act I
The Gospel Of Gabriel Finn
The Great Forever Wagon (cut or added during the run?)
Here Be Dragons (included in the 2002 concert version)
Ilmar's Tomb
Isaacs' Equation
The Lady Isn't Looking
Last Night (included in the 2002 concert version)
Mad Jack Finn (included in the 2002 concert version)
Oysters
Terre Haute High
To Aldebaran (included in the 2002 concert version)
We Are One
The Worm Germ