Closed After One Performance?
Closed After One Performance?
#1Closed After One Performance?
Posted: 4/20/08 at 8:04pmDoes anyone know what Broadway shows closed after one regular performance besides Moose Murders? I was just really curious.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#2re: Closed After One Performance?
Posted: 4/20/08 at 8:05pm
Billy
Here's Where I Belong
Gantry
Closed in previews
Breakfast At Tiffanys
One Night Stand
Poster Emeritus
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
#2re: Closed After One Performance?
Posted: 4/20/08 at 8:06pm
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All with Ellen Burstyn
Bobbi Boland with Farrah Fawcett closed in previews.
#3re: Closed After One Performance?
Posted: 4/20/08 at 8:07pmand don't forget the brilliant HOME SWEET HOMER starring Yul Brunner and Joan Diener.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#5re: Closed After One Performance?
Posted: 4/20/08 at 8:09pm
How could I have forgotten Home Sweet Homer?
I saw it & have a signed Playbill with (allegedly) an autograph from Yul himself on the front.
Poster Emeritus
#6re: Closed After One Performance?
Posted: 4/20/08 at 8:09pmLittle Johnny Jones - starring Donny Osmond
#6re: Closed After One Performance?
Posted: 4/20/08 at 8:09pmfirst double post... ever. Updated On: 5/10/08 at 08:09 PM
commasplice
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/29/04
#8re: Closed After One Performance?
Posted: 4/20/08 at 8:10pm
Heathen!
Rainbow Jones (aka RJ)
(I originally had Hurry, Harry on the list, but that closed after two performances. Whoops.)
Updated On: 4/20/08 at 08:10 PM
Babyboomer
Chorus Member Joined: 4/8/06
#9re: Closed After One Performance?
Posted: 4/20/08 at 8:27pmWasn't La Strada with Bernadette Peters a 1 performance flop?
#10re: Closed After One Performance?
Posted: 4/20/08 at 8:38pm
I do believe La Strada was a 1 hit flop.
Speaking of flops, since someone else resurrected a discussion on Ken Mandelbaum, I hope he does a sequel or update to "Not Since Carrie". I love that book, and have re-read it a couple of times.
Maybe he could do British flops (since I enjoyed the "What a Carrie On" thread on the West End board). I especially was interested in all the shows that played decent to boffo box-offices here, and then flopped over there.
Xanadu! Can't cry on cue!
#11re: Closed After One Performance?
Posted: 4/20/08 at 8:50pm
Speaking of flops, since someone else resurrected a discussion on Ken Mandelbaum, ..... Maybe he could do British flops...
Yes, but do we really need another book on the musicals of Andrew Lloyd Webber?
There have been many shows that did well on Broadway and not so well in London. 1776. RENT. BRIGADOOON. FINIAN'S RAINBOW. SWEENEY TODD.
I think it's just the Brits appreciate theatrical specatacle and are not as interested in solid book musicals.
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
morosco
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
#13re: Closed After One Performance?
Posted: 4/20/08 at 9:12pmDance a Little Closer (aka: Close a Little Faster)
morosco
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
morosco
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
#15re: Closed After One Performance?
Posted: 4/20/08 at 9:20pm
Brothers (1983, directed by Carroll O'Connor)
Updated On: 4/20/08 at 09:20 PM
morosco
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
morosco
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
morosco
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
morosco
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
#19re: Closed After One Performance?
Posted: 4/20/08 at 9:37pm
The Utter Glory of Morrissey Hall (1979)
puppetman2
Leading Actor Joined: 3/2/08
#20re: Closed After One Performance?
Posted: 4/20/08 at 10:31pm
Saw HOME SWEET HOMER during the preBroadway tryouts in Toronto, Boston, Chicago and in NYC previews. It was good in Toronto but got worse with every tryout after that. It was amazing how they cut the fun things and tried to make it serious. Brynner was fun, but was in a disguise for most of the show. He refused to sign programs even when I saw him backstage while meeting with another cast member. Diener was an impossible DIVA and one of the real problems with the show, but as wife of the director she could do what she wanted.
In the NYC preview, two women were sitting behind me and could not tell Brynner in the make up and kept asking each other when he was going to come on stage.
It Sucks To Be Me
#21re: Closed After One Performance?
Posted: 4/20/08 at 10:40pm
LONE STAR LOVE closed out-of-town... Ah well.
I had front row seats at the Belasco this past December (Wednesday, the 7th @ 8:00pm to be exact!) I was going strictly for Cuccioli, a hero of mine (a-duh!)
#22re: Closed After One Performance?
Posted: 4/20/08 at 10:45pm
Don't forget Blood Red Roses and
Wild and Wonderful!
[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.
#23re: Closed After One Performance?
Posted: 4/20/08 at 10:46pm
Also: Cleavage
billed as "A new musical close to where the heart is"
I have the poster in my room!
[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.
CurtainPullDowner
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/4/04
#24re: Closed After One Performance?
Posted: 4/20/08 at 11:10pm
RACHEL LILY ROSENBLUM AND DON'T YOU EVER FORGET IT.
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