name a show no one knows
name a show no one knows
touchmeinthemorning
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/3/04
#0name a show no one knows
Posted: 11/2/05 at 10:47am
It is my opinion that if this board combined our collective knowledge, there wouldn't be a musical at least two people wouldn't know.
So, this is my challenge. Someone name a musical that no one else on this board will have seen. I'll start.
Anyone know a west coast musical named "Dixie Highway"?
"Fundamentalism means never having to say 'I'm wrong.'"
-- unknown
JakeB
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#1re: name a show no one knows
Posted: 11/2/05 at 10:51amNo-one will ever have heard of the musical Virus, starring Jack Wild (Artful Dodger in the film Oliver), which played at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham (England) about seven years ago. It closed before its two week run finished, lost lots of money and disappeared into obscurity. No recording or anything.. Lost forever!
Alex LaVelle
Understudy Joined: 8/16/05
#2re: name a show no one knows
Posted: 11/2/05 at 10:58amI don't know how obscure this one is, I accidentally stumbled across it the other day and have had a bit of a time finding out much about it: Nymph Errant. It was performed in 1933 in London and had a short run because of the depression, though Cole Porter thought it to be his best work.
#3re: name a show no one knows
Posted: 11/2/05 at 11:04amCafe' Puttanesca
"I'm an American, Damnit!!! And if it's three things I don't believe in, it's quitting and math."
#4re: name a show no one knows
Posted: 11/2/05 at 11:14amI've definitely heard of and seen Cafe Puttanesca. Pippin, any chance you are from Philly?
There's Only Us
There's Only This
Forget Regret
Or Life Is Yours To Miss
No Other Road
No Other Way
NO DAY BUT TODAY!
Once upon a time I was a shy young thing
Could barely walk and talk so much as dance and sing
But let me hit that stage I wanna take my bow
Cause Mama I'm a big girl now!
Once upon a time I was a shy young thing
Could barely walk and talk so much as dance and sing
But let me hit that stage I wanna take my bow
Cause Mama I'm a big girl now!
#5re: name a show no one knows
Posted: 11/2/05 at 11:14am
oooo oooo I know
pick me pick me
WICKED
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#6re: name a show no one knows
Posted: 11/2/05 at 11:17amHow hilarious you are. Such a joker.
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timote316
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/04
#7re: name a show no one knows
Posted: 11/2/05 at 11:19am
Drakula: the Rock Opera (by Don Linke)
...the worst show I have ever seen.
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#8re: name a show no one knows
Posted: 11/2/05 at 11:26am
Speaking of vampire musicals:
Bernard J. Taylor's Nosferatu.
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#9re: name a show no one knows
Posted: 11/2/05 at 11:28am
How 'bout POSSESSED?
Lastly,
a little-known H.S. musical touring the country - STRING.
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#10re: name a show no one knows
Posted: 11/2/05 at 11:36am
that I am, Stephygirl. That I am. 
"I'm an American, Damnit!!! And if it's three things I don't believe in, it's quitting and math."
#11re: name a show no one knows
Posted: 11/2/05 at 11:39amI haven't seen it but I've heard of it...called "Hannibal" based on Hannibal Lecter....creepy huh?
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touchmeinthemorning
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/3/04
#12re: name a show no one knows
Posted: 11/2/05 at 11:40ami believe there is a production of Hannibal being put up here in the city now.
"Fundamentalism means never having to say 'I'm wrong.'"
-- unknown
#13re: name a show no one knows
Posted: 11/2/05 at 12:00pm
The New Hopeville Comics, a really solid show about a comic book world turned upside down.
it was at the new york musical theatre festival 3 years ago and an LA production is now being mounted. You can also get a DVD of a performance when you donate $20 to american distractions. plus the cast recording is available too.
#14re: name a show no one knows
Posted: 11/2/05 at 12:07pm"Diamond Studs," anyone?
". . . POP . . ."
touchmeinthemorning
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/3/04
#16re: name a show no one knows
Posted: 11/2/05 at 12:19pmDiamond Studs...based on the life of Jesse James. Bizarre little show. It was in NYC in the mid-70s, if I recall...which is, of course, what makes it so weird. The 70s produced some of the weirdest shows ever. Are there any good shows that came out of the 70s that don't seem like they are from the 70s?
"Fundamentalism means never having to say 'I'm wrong.'"
-- unknown
broadwaystar2b
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/04
#19re: name a show no one knows
Posted: 11/2/05 at 12:27pmI knew someone would know Diamond Studs. It definitely is a strange piece (which I did in the 80's in NC). It was basically written an performed by the Red Clay Ramblers to promote themselves and was running in a saloon / bar in Chapel Hill, NC. NY producers caught the show and decided to bring it to NY, but the rights got caught up in a legal battle and it never made the transfer from off-Broadway to Broadway because of it. We even had issues with getting the rights to do it because of that battle.
". . . POP . . ."
joniray
Broadway Star Joined: 3/27/04
#21re: name a show no one knows
Posted: 11/2/05 at 12:30pm
I saw New Hopeville comics at the Fringe and have the recording, which features Megan Lewis (most recently of Forbidden Broadway fame).
Anyone else see or have the CD of Inappropriate which ran Off-Broadway a few years ago? Loved that show. Thought it deserved a much longer run. There were rumors that a film of it was being considered but I haven't heard anything else about it since it closed 
#22re: name a show no one knows
Posted: 11/2/05 at 12:30pm
'strike' ? (it was put on in winnipeg, canada)
or
'cannibal: the musical'(i know a few of you will know this one)
"talent is wanting something hard enough to work for it" - my drama teacher :)
Alex LaVelle
Understudy Joined: 8/16/05
#23re: name a show no one knows
Posted: 11/2/05 at 12:37pmI did lighting for a production of Homeroom at my middle school. Of a similar concept is a musical called Yearbook.
Sporti2005
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/13/04
#24re: name a show no one knows
Posted: 11/2/05 at 12:37pm
danny & sylvia
and
the voices project
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