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Screen To Stage Flops
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
Ham3
Understudy Joined: 2/10/13
#26Screen To Stage Flops
Posted: 4/19/13 at 10:21pmMaking investment back may be a producer's definition of flop. but it wouldn't be most people's.
blaxx
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/28/05
#27Screen To Stage Flops
Posted: 4/19/13 at 10:22pmMost people's is subjective, love. Only the business one is objective, it either did or didn't.
Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#28Screen To Stage Flops
Posted: 4/19/13 at 10:32pmNot making back it's investment is the OFFICIAL definition of Flop.
#29Screen To Stage Flops
Posted: 4/19/13 at 10:55pmHam a Broadway Show being flop or not IS NOT based on artistic merrit. It is based on return from an investment. It is called SHOW BUSINESS not SHOW THAT WAS PRETTY ARTFUL.
Those Blocked: SueStorm. N2N Nate. Good riddence to stupid! Rad-Z, shill begone!
#30Screen To Stage Flops
Posted: 4/19/13 at 11:08pmA TIME FOR SINGING (HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY)
Well-well-well-what-do-you-think-of-that-I-have-nothing-here-to-pay-my-train-fare-with-only-large-bills-fives-and-sevens....
#31Screen To Stage Flops
Posted: 4/19/13 at 11:09pmANYA (ANASTASIA)
Well-well-well-what-do-you-think-of-that-I-have-nothing-here-to-pay-my-train-fare-with-only-large-bills-fives-and-sevens....
#32Screen To Stage Flops
Posted: 4/19/13 at 11:11pmLOVELY LADIES, KIND GENTLEMEN (TEAHOUSE OF THE AUGUST MOON)
Well-well-well-what-do-you-think-of-that-I-have-nothing-here-to-pay-my-train-fare-with-only-large-bills-fives-and-sevens....
#33Screen To Stage Flops
Posted: 4/19/13 at 11:12pmLOST HORIZON (LOST HORIZON)
Well-well-well-what-do-you-think-of-that-I-have-nothing-here-to-pay-my-train-fare-with-only-large-bills-fives-and-sevens....
#34Screen To Stage Flops
Posted: 4/19/13 at 11:13pmZENDA (THE PRISONER OF ZENDA)
Well-well-well-what-do-you-think-of-that-I-have-nothing-here-to-pay-my-train-fare-with-only-large-bills-fives-and-sevens....
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
amoni2
Featured Actor Joined: 3/4/06
The Other One
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/1/08
evic
Broadway Star Joined: 3/5/04
#40Screen To Stage Flops
Posted: 4/20/13 at 8:20amREBECCA
"Pardon my prior Mcfee slip. I know how to spell her name. I just don't know how to type it." -Talulah
#41Screen To Stage Flops
Posted: 4/20/13 at 10:46amHOT SEPTEMBER (PICNIC)
Well-well-well-what-do-you-think-of-that-I-have-nothing-here-to-pay-my-train-fare-with-only-large-bills-fives-and-sevens....
#42Screen To Stage Flops
Posted: 4/20/13 at 10:50amSHERRY! (THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER)
Well-well-well-what-do-you-think-of-that-I-have-nothing-here-to-pay-my-train-fare-with-only-large-bills-fives-and-sevens....
#43Screen To Stage Flops
Posted: 4/20/13 at 10:56amI REMEMBER MAMA (I REMEMBER MAMA)
Well-well-well-what-do-you-think-of-that-I-have-nothing-here-to-pay-my-train-fare-with-only-large-bills-fives-and-sevens....
#44Screen To Stage Flops
Posted: 4/20/13 at 11:03amJust for fun- WINTER LIGHT-THE MUSICAL
Well-well-well-what-do-you-think-of-that-I-have-nothing-here-to-pay-my-train-fare-with-only-large-bills-fives-and-sevens....
#45Screen To Stage Flops
Posted: 4/20/13 at 11:35amMISS MOFFATT (THE CORN IS GREEN)
Well-well-well-what-do-you-think-of-that-I-have-nothing-here-to-pay-my-train-fare-with-only-large-bills-fives-and-sevens....
yankeefan7
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/14/12
#46Screen To Stage Flops
Posted: 4/20/13 at 12:12pm
Catch Me If You Can. BTW - Think "Singing In The Rain" is "success" on the West End. I believe it will close after almost a 2 yr run.
Updated On: 4/20/13 at 12:12 PM
#47Screen To Stage Flops
Posted: 4/20/13 at 12:42pm
Some definition of "flops" seem pretty narrow. E.g. 9 to 5 ran 5 months, that may not be a smash but not a flop either?
Once again the definition of a FLOP is a show that does not repay its costs.
9 to 5 die not pay off.
5 months is not long enough for a big Broadway musical to pay off. Even in the 1930s/40's shows needed to run at least a year to pay off.
There are rare exceptions: A few flop shows were also able to post a slight profit due to films rights sales. PETER PAN (1954) played 19 weeks so many assume it was a FLOP but because NBC had paid for the rights to do a TV broadcast the show was in fact out of the red before it even opened in Broadway with the run planned for just 19 weeks.
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com
The Other One
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/1/08
#48Screen To Stage Flops
Posted: 4/20/13 at 9:47pm
BIG
ILLYA DARLING (Never On Sunday)
Updated On: 4/22/13 at 09:47 PM
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#49Screen To Stage Flops
Posted: 4/20/13 at 10:02pm
"LOST HORIZON (LOST HORIZON)"
The Broadway version of Lost Horizon was a flop but it was called Shangri-La
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