According to actress Paige O'Hara, Jerry Herman fans still have a chance of seeing the composer/lyricist's Miss Spectacular reach Las Vegas stages.
In a recent interview on "The Strip" Podcast, co-hosted by Steve Friess and Miles Smith, O'Hara revealed that Herman's lavish musical may yet be produced in Sin City. "Jerry still high hopes for having it done in Las Vegas...is working with other people to get it produced here, and he's hoping he's going to accomplish that...especially with the success of Phantom, I think he has a good chance at it, I think they're more open-minded to it then they were a few years ago." O'Hara, the musical theatre star currently performing in Menopause the Musical at the Las Vegas Hilton, is attached to star in the prospective project. She relates that Herman (Mame, Hello, Dolly!, La Cage aux Folles) was highly disappointed when original plans for Miss Spectacular fell through.In development for some years, Miss Spectacular was to have been staged in Vegas in 2004 in a production directed and choreographed by Tommy Tune. In the show, a highly imaginative young woman from Kansas heads to Vegas to pursue dreams of becoming a showgirl. Originally, Vegas hotel entrepreneur Steve Wynn was to have produced Miss Spectacular at the Mirage, but when the Mirage was bought out by the MGM Grand, the merger left no space in which Miss Spectacular could be presented.Videos