The Life (1997)

Music by Cy Coleman
Lyrics by Ira Gasman
Directed by Michael Blakemore
Cast: Vernel Bagneris, Mark Bove, Chuck Cooper, Felicia Finley, Chris Ghelfi, Michael Gregory Gong, Katy Grenfell, Sam Harris

The Life is a musical with a book by David Newman, Ira Gasman and Cy Coleman, music by Coleman, and lyrics by Gasman. Based on an original idea by Gasman, the show explores the underbelly of Times Square's 42nd Street, inhabited by pimps and prostitutes, druggies and dealers, and runaways and street people in the era prior to its Disneyfication.

Theater

Ethel Barrymore Theatre · Broadway

Closed

June 7, 1998