[2] The show earned generally good notices at the Signature Theatre, including a rave review from The Washington Post.

[3] Glory Days began previews on Broadway at the Circle in the Square Theatre on April 22, 2008, with an official opening on May 6, 2008.

The production featured sets by James Kronzer, costumes by Sasha Ludwig-Siegel and lighting by Mark Lanks.

Since 2008, the musical has been in Tokyo, London, Sydney, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia and several other cities across the United States.

The summer after their freshman year of college, actor-songwriter Nick Blaemire, who would go on to make his broadway debut in the same season Glory Days premiered, in Cry-Baby (musical), approached his high school friend, James Gardiner (both grew up near Washington, D.C.), also an actor, with an idea for an original new musical.

Peter Marks, in his Washington Post review of the Signature Theatre production, wrote that it is a "fresh and vivacious one-act musical... real and surprisingly moving....

The buoyant product of the talented young team..., Glory Days swiftly, tunefully and yes, authentically latches onto the rhythms of late adolescence and plays them back to us as the music of wrenching transitions.

"), Will begins to catch up with his friends and in the process gets caught up in a traditional match of male-bonding/one-upsmanship with Andy over their College sexual exploits ("We've Got Girls").

The argument grows more heated and more confusing as Skip leaps to Jack's defense and Will attempts to make peace between the four friends ("Forget About It").