of the show, the hero moves all the way from the Krazy Korn Klub to a tinseled stage in Las Vegas. The audience is asked to believe that in his rise to fame, he has sharpened his comedy act and earned his success. Although the jokes are just as dreadful in the end as in the beginning, when he becomes a success more people on stage laugh at him. This is a musical comedy about a stand-up comic in which the hero tells not a single funny joke. Recordings As the Broadway production ran for only 17 performances, an original cast album seemed unlikely to ever be recorded. However, Gari subsequently negotiated with record producer Bruce Yeko, whose label, Original Cast Records, specialized in preserving the scores of short-lived or otherwise little-known stage musicals. Gari proposed a studio cast recording in which, as he later stated in the sleeve notes, "I will try to present the songs as they were originally written and intended". The album was co-produced by Brian Gari and producer/arranger Lee Shapiro, a former member of Frankie Valli's Four Seasons. Shapiro also provided new orchestrations for the recording, in the absence of the show's original arranger, Larry Hochman. Intended as a studio recording rather than an original cast album, the songs were mostly performed by Gari himself, along with Julie Budd, Robin Kaiser, and Michael McAssey (who had been in the ensemble of the ill-fated Broadway production). The recording sessions took place in March 1988 in Lee Shapiro's Synclavier Studios in New York City. The LP was released later that year, and subsequently reissued on compact disc (on the same label) in 1989. In 1992, Brian Gari released a solo album, also on the Original Cast label, entitled Songs from Future Musicals, which included three songs that had been cut from the Broadway production of Late Nite Comic. In 2007, the 20th anniversary of the original Broadway production was marked by the release of a new studio recording performed by an all-star cast that included Tony Roberts, Rupert Holmes, Chip Zien, Karen Ziemba, Liz Callaway, and Jason Graae. This recording used Larry Hochman's original orchestrations, and included several cut songs among 23 total tracks. Legacy In 2006, the saga of Late Nite Comic and its tortuous route to Broadway, became the subject of a book written by Brian Gari, entitled We Bombed in New London. To mark