BUGS BUNNY AT THE SYMPHONY II
Bugs Bunny on Broadway (also titled Bugs Bunny at the Symphony and Bugs Bunny at the Symphony II) is a concert musical featuring Looney Tunes characters such as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Elmer Fudd. The production was conceived by George Daugherty, incorporating scores by Carl Stalling and Milt Franklyn. The musical, and its 2010 sequel Bugs Bunny at the Symphony, combines classic Warner Bros. Looney Tunes projected on a large screen accompanied by a live orchestra performing the original score. This production has been touring the world continuously since 1990 and has played to a total international audience of almost two million people. (More from Wikipedia)
I figured that the Who would not be the only rock band to make it to Broadway; after all, even the Warner Bros. cartoons gang landed there in a show that I also saw when I was living in New York, Bugs Bunny on Broadway, with a limited run in October 1990. Turns out, under the name Bugs Bunny at the Symphony (including a 2010 sequel, Bugs Bunny at the Symphony II), the concert musical has been touring regularly ever since. In the performance that I saw, classic cartoons were projected on a large screen, sometimes accompanied by a full symphony orchestra. The first time I heard the Merrie Melodies theme song performed live at the opening of that show, I just about lost it.
(June 2017)
