Busker Alley

In the mid-1960s, Disney staff scriptwriter AJ Carothers rediscovered the motion picture St. Martin's Lane and approached the Sherman brothers with the idea of purchasing the rights to the film and making a stage musical out of it.

With a major Broadway star attached to the project, the show was finally launched with yet a new name: Busker Alley opened in April 1995 at the Macauley Theatre, Louisville, Kentucky as the start of a 16-city tour.

Artist LeRoy Neiman created a 40-foot mural for Busker Alley on the façade of the theater, and the cast performed a number from the show at the 1995 Tony Awards ceremony.

[2] Over the course of months-long out-of-town tryouts, with some severe reviews, the lukewarm reception prompted an August meeting for rewrites by Peter Stone, and a retooling by Mr.

On November 13, 2006 the York Theatre Company presented a one-night-only benefit concert performance of Busker Alley at the Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College.

Also in the cast were: Jessica Grové, George S. Irving, Simon Jones, Noah Racey, John Bolton, Robert Fitch, Anne Rogers, Michael Lane Trautman, Cristy Candler, Diane Wasnak and Bonzer the dog.

Jim Dale and Glenn Close in 2006 performing Busker Alley.