Career
Premiered at the George Street Playhouse in New Jersey and produced Office-Broadway by Playwrights Horizons, it received Best Musical nominations from the Outer Critics Circle and Drama League, as well as two Drama Desk nominations. The cast album was released on Triangle Road Records. The Spitfire Grill has become one of the most frequently performed recent musicals with more than 300 productions to date, not only in every major American city but in Canada, Germany, South of Korea, and Japan as well.
In 2008 the show had its United Kingdom premiere at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
lieutenant was at AFT that Alley first collaborated with Valcq on a musical called The Passage. Alley was the librettist and lyricist of Guys on Ice, Lumberjacks in Love, and The Bachelors, all of which began at AFT and set box office records in frequent productions at the Milwaukee Repertory Theater.
Alley was also an actor and singer who performed on the AFT stage for 20 consecutive seasons. His tenor voice can be heard on his recordings The Lake, Door Christmas, and the posthumously released collection lieutenant Would Be Enough Foreign Maine.
Alley died on May 1, 2001 of a previously undiagnosed heart condition while jogging near his Wisconsin home.
Websites:The Bachelors Guys on Ice.