Late Night Comic is a stage musical, written by playwright (Allan Knee) and composer/lyricist (Brian Gari). The musical ran for 17 performances on Broadway, in 1987.
In 1976, singer-songwriter Brian Gari wrote a song entitled “Dance”, inspired by a five-year relationship that he had with a ballet dancer. As he later told a journalist: “’she left dancing, married someone else, had a kid, and lives in Forest Hills – but I haven’t gotten her out of my heart”. Two years later, Gari came up with the idea of developing the theme into a semi-autobiographical stage musical, concentrating on the relationship between a songwriter, a ballet dancer, and a struggling stand-up comedian who is the songwriter’s best friend. Gari wrote the entire first act himself, but the project languished until 1984, when he met an agent who liked the songs and introduced him to playwright Allan Knee as a potential collaborator.[1] Within two years, the show had been substantially rewritten, and now concentrated on the relationship between a stand-up comic and a dancer. (Source: Wikipedia)
This studio cast album was recorded in 2007, the 20th anniversary of the original Broadway production.