the production opened, Phillips was taken out of the production and replaced by Doherty. Harlan Foss was hired to play Dr. Bomb. Critical reception The New York Times critic Clive Barnes reviewed the musical on its opening night. His write-up appeared the next day in the January 1975 edition of the newspaper. "For connoisseurs of the truly bad," he wrote, "Man On The Moon may be a small milestone." Barnes was particularly critical of Andy Warhol's involvement in the production ("Mr Warhol's artistic practice – if I have caught his drift aright - is to produce works of art so inept that their ineptitude becomes their value") but he also decried Philips story as "naive." Barnes' review was so scathing that the musical closed the next day. Newsday critic Allan Wallack said "Man on the Moon is the kind of show that ought to be reviewed on the obit page." Soundtrack In 2009, a CD entitled Andy Warhol Presents Man on the Moon and credited to John Phillips was released by Varèse Sarabande as part of the John Phillips Presents series of CDs. It contains 22 previously-unreleased recordings of song demos from the musical recorded by Phillips, along with 6 songs taken from a recording made by Andy Warhol himself at one of the dress rehearsals for Man on the Moon. A multimedia portion of the CD also includes an early script for Space, photos taken of the production and backstage as well as photos of the star-studded opening night party at NYC theatre hangout Sardi's and footage of two songs taken from a video of an early rehearsal of the show. References External links Man on the Moon CD official release announcement "Long Lost Footage of Musical Play by John Phillips, Produced by Andy Warhol (1975)" Reviews of the 2009 CD release [ All Music Guide] Blurt Online Dusted magazine Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange Foxy Digitalis 1975 musicals Broadway musicals Science fiction musicals Works about astronauts