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What Shows That Failed Do You Think Deserve A Second Chance?
#25re: What Shows That Failed Do You Think Deserve A Second Chance?
Posted: 10/8/04 at 7:19pmTaboo, Little Shop of Horrors, and Aida. Okay I guess Aida didn't really fail, I just don't understand why they closed it.
Sant
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/12/04
#26re: What Shows That Failed Do You Think Deserve A Second Chance?
Posted: 10/8/04 at 7:26pm
SIDE SHOW (great score)
CARRIE
RAGTIME
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#27re: What Shows That Failed Do You Think Deserve A Second Chance?
Posted: 10/8/04 at 7:31pm
The Wild Party (both of 'em)
The Golden Apple
"Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.”
~ Muhammad Ali
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#28re: What Shows That Failed Do You Think Deserve A Second Chance?
Posted: 10/8/04 at 7:32pmWHAT is this WILD PARTY everyone keeps referring to? Please help!
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
#29re: What Shows That Failed Do You Think Deserve A Second Chance?
Posted: 10/8/04 at 7:37pmThere are 2 version of THE WILD PARTY. The off-Broadway Lippa version, and the Broadway LaChiusa(sp?) version.
I have my books and my poetry to protect me...
Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#30re: What Shows That Failed Do You Think Deserve A Second Chance?
Posted: 10/8/04 at 7:39pmDouble post. Updated On: 10/8/04 at 07:39 PM
Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#31re: What Shows That Failed Do You Think Deserve A Second Chance?
Posted: 10/8/04 at 7:41pm
The Last Five Years
Zanna Don't
Both shows should have run for years.
They did not fail but they did not run long enough.
Both were wonderful and overlooked.
I loved the music in both.
The writer of Zanna is one of the sweetest men I have ever met.
And the cutest.
#32re: What Shows That Failed Do You Think Deserve A Second Chance?
Posted: 10/8/04 at 7:41pmI totally forgot about Zanna, Don't! This is one amazing show (especially with Jai as Zanna). It's too bad it didn't run for that long.
I have my books and my poetry to protect me...
Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#33re: What Shows That Failed Do You Think Deserve A Second Chance?
Posted: 10/8/04 at 7:42pm
Hopefully they will bring it back. 
I love Zanna.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#34re: What Shows That Failed Do You Think Deserve A Second Chance?
Posted: 10/8/04 at 8:22pm
Chess!
Spooky
Featured Actor Joined: 7/20/04
#35re: What Shows That Failed Do You Think Deserve A Second Chance?
Posted: 10/8/04 at 8:29pm
Thanks Margo, I didn't realize Urinetown was a success, financially.
I guess since it didn't win the Tony...well, I assumed. My bad.
Was ShowBoat considered successful (the one at the Gershwin a few years ago)?
I did see Steel Pier. I liked it.
Featured Actor Joined: 12/31/69
#36re: What Shows That Failed Do You Think Deserve A Second Chance?
Posted: 10/8/04 at 8:35pmI'd like to see a re-worked Anyone Can Whistle.
Featured Actor Joined: 12/31/69
#37re: What Shows That Failed Do You Think Deserve A Second Chance?
Posted: 10/8/04 at 8:39pmOh, I forgot- Hello Again. Why it didn't run longer or transfer is beyond me. What a great cast and it was very clever and well written.
#38re: What Shows That Failed Do You Think Deserve A Second Chance?
Posted: 10/8/04 at 9:11pmMartin Guerre. The 2nd version.
Ruth Sherwood
Leading Actor Joined: 10/4/04
#39re: What Shows That Failed Do You Think Deserve A Second Chance?
Posted: 10/8/04 at 9:13pmHollywood Arms
"Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one."
-Stella Adler
krolockskid
Understudy Joined: 5/13/03
#40re: What Shows That Failed Do You Think Deserve A Second Chance?
Posted: 10/8/04 at 9:29pmTaboo definately, I only got to see it twice!!
On a clear day I can see myself for miles
#41re: What Shows That Failed Do You Think Deserve A Second Chance?
Posted: 10/8/04 at 9:52pmGorey Stories.
" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."
laactress
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/7/04
#42re: What Shows That Failed Do You Think Deserve A Second Chance?
Posted: 10/8/04 at 9:56pmSide Show and Bare, I know Bare never quite made it but it definitly deserved a chance!
It started with a sipmle idea, collecting one paper clip for every life lost, the feelings that connect us...are greater than those that divide us!
Mary_Ethel
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/04
#43re: What Shows That Failed Do You Think Deserve A Second Chance?
Posted: 10/8/04 at 10:07pm
Spooky,
Yes, that production of SHOW BOAT was both a critical and financial success.
"I say YOU'RE the CUTEST one. No, I say YOU'RE the CUTEST One. And we go on like that from dawn to three."
#44re: What Shows That Failed Do You Think Deserve A Second Chance?
Posted: 10/8/04 at 10:15pm
"Gorey Stories"
Really? Thats awsome, I've never heard of it. What's it about what did they do? When the heck did it come out?
#45re: What Shows That Failed Do You Think Deserve A Second Chance?
Posted: 10/8/04 at 10:19pmdefinitely little shop...i think once the main original cast left...it started to fall down hill...they just couldnt bring it back...but it was such a good show...i saw it 3 times...and alway got a kick out of it...that cast was one of the sweetest ever!
"I looooove being on the road!!! I got to drive up here in a van with all the guyyys...i wake up at 1 in the afternoon...i played poker with them last niiight its so much fun! its when my dark side comes out...then i go home and im like "LETS HAVE BABIES!!!!"-idina menzel
<3 Samantha
CJR
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/14/03
#46re: What Shows That Failed Do You Think Deserve A Second Chance?
Posted: 10/8/04 at 10:19pm
Hollywood Arms
Bells Are Ringing (2001 revival)
The Dinner Party
"You're every gay man's wet dream!" ~ MA
If in Heaven you don't excel, you can always party down in hell...
#47re: What Shows That Failed Do You Think Deserve A Second Chance?
Posted: 10/8/04 at 10:21pm
From IMDB.
Gorey Stories
An Entertainment with Music
Booth Theatre, (10/30/1978 - 10/30/197
Preview: Oct 17, 1978 Total Previews: 16
Opening: Oct 30, 1978
Closing: Oct 30, 1978 Total Performances: 1
Category: Play, Play with music, Original, Broadway
Setting: Lady Celia's drawing room. The summer house.
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Opening Night Production Credits
Theatre Owned / Operated by The Shubert Organization (Gerald Schoenfeld: Chairman; Bernard B. Jacobs: President)
Produced by Terry Allen Kramer, Harry Rigby, Hale Matthews and John Wulp
Written by Edward Gorey; Book adapted by Stephen Currens; Music by David Aldrich; Lyrics by David Aldrich; Music orchestrated by David Aldrich; Musical Director: Martin Silvestri
Directed by Tony Tanner
Production Design by Edward Gorey; Lighting Design by Roger Morgan
General Manager: Jack Schlissel and Jay Kingwill; Company Manager: Alan Wasser
Production Stage Manager: Franklin Keysar; Assistant Stage Mgr: Beth Prevor
Assistant Conductor: Jeffrey Waxman
Scenery Supervised by Lynn Pecktal; Costumes Supervised by David Murin; General Press Representative: Henry Luhrman Associates; Press Representative: Anne Obert Weinberg; Photographer: Martha Swope; Advertising: Regis Albrecht and J. Walter Thompson; Furs by Ben Kahn Furs
Originally presented by the WPA Theatre (Howard Ashman, Artistic Director; Kyle Renick, Managing Director)
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Opening Night Cast
Gemze de Lappe Mona
a maid
Tobias Haller Little Henry
a child
Julie Kurnitz Lady Celia
the hostess
Susan Marchand Ortenzia Caviglia
a singer
Dennis McGovern Jasper Ankle
an opera freak
John Michalski Hamish
a beautiful young man
Leon Shaw C. F. Earbrass
an author
June Squibb Mary Rosemarsh
a spinster
Sel Vitella Harold
a butler
Understudies: Meg Bussert (Mona, Ortenzia Caviglia), C.A. Hutton (C. F. Earbrass, Hamish, Harold), Rose Roffman (Lady Celia, Mary Rosemarsh), Bill Stratton (Jasper Ankle, Little Henry).
© 2001-2004, The League of American Theatres and Producers, All Rights Reserved. (Copyright and Disclaimer)
I saw the one performance.
" ...the happiness in the tune convinces me that I'm not afraid."
Updated On: 10/8/04 at 10:21 PM
#48re: What Shows That Failed Do You Think Deserve A Second Chance?
Posted: 10/8/04 at 11:05pm
Taboo Taboo Taboo!
LindsayAnne, that's my name too! Only I spell Ann with no e. That's cool!
"The stage is where I live and come alive and act out all the things that go on in my life. It's not just what I do for a living, it's my shrink and my love affair. No one in my life has ever or ever will kiss me on the mouth like this lover called my relationship with my performance."
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#49re: What Shows That Failed Do You Think Deserve A Second Chance?
Posted: 10/8/04 at 11:34pmInner City
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