ALMOST COMPLETELY unknown musicals?- Page 2

Posted: 1/15/06 at 10:52pm

A musical about Tallulah Bankhead entitled TALLULAH that starred Helen Gallagher in the 1980's. I believe it was recorded. It ran Off-Broadway.

[bythesword84]

Posted: 1/15/06 at 10:55pm

Blood Brothers?! Sorry, I know it was already said but thats hardly an unknown musical...it also happens to be one of my favorites.

[iluvtheatertrash]

Posted: 1/15/06 at 10:58pm

No, wexy, but I do love the score.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 1/15/06 at 11:00pm

Metro
Don't Play Us Cheap
Reggae
Gotta Go Disco
My Name is Rachel Lily Rosenbloom & Don't You Ever Forget It

Posted: 1/15/06 at 11:09pm

One night flop entitled RAINBOW JONES that played The Music Box in the 1970's. Dreadful. Another 70's bomb - RIDE THE WINDS - I left after the first act. A musical about the birth of Hawaii called HEATHEN - Another one nighter. I was at the opening. The year was 1972.

[wexy]

Posted: 1/15/06 at 11:17pm

"Balancing Act"
'Closer Than Ever"
"The Rothchilds"

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 1/15/06 at 11:40pm

FRANKENSTEIN (Not the rumored Wildhorn verison)

[joniray]

Posted: 1/15/06 at 11:57pm

I LOOOOOOOOOOVED "Inappropriate." I saw it twice off-Broadway and still listen to the cast album occasionally. I wish it had gotten a wider audience.

I wonder what Diane Schwartz (I think that's her name) is up to? I thought she was supremely talented - a very emotional performer. I'd love to see more of her.

[Roninjoey]

Posted: 1/16/06 at 1:39am

How about that opera about that guy who wears a mask and is in love with that girl and not much happens? I heard about it once a long time ago but I don't remember what it was called.

((I'm totally j/k, I realize the joke isn't funny ;P Although is it funny to make fun of how unfunny something is?))

There's a musical based on the Evil Dead movies.

[hearts.pocky]

Posted: 1/16/06 at 1:48am

"Little By Little", "A New Brain", and "Zombie Prom" are all ones I've heard of, but don't know much about. We almost did "Zombie Prom" at my school a year or so back.

I'd say "The Last Five Years" or "Bat Boy", but it seems that the only people who haven't heard of those really are the kids at school and such. :p

[RentBoy86]

Posted: 1/16/06 at 2:35am

hearts.pocky - I would say those shows are "unknown" to the general public, hence why no one at your school knows about them. I feel your pain!

Anyways, has the musical "Preppies" been recorded and / or is there anyway to hear the show?

Also, can anyone make a list of the "unknown" musicals that have recordings? Its cool to know about them, but I'd love to listen to them as well. thanks.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 1/16/06 at 6:07am

I forgot Rainbow Jones. I saw that as well as the one with Joanne Worley I believe " The Prince of Central Park "

[Eastwickian]

Posted: 1/16/06 at 6:38am

Out of the Blue - a love story set against the backdrop of the Nagaski H-bombing. Closed after 17 performances in London...

[sidneybruhl]

Posted: 1/16/06 at 7:34am

"Little Mary Sunshine"

[children&art]

Posted: 1/16/06 at 9:57am

what about "Metropolis" (based on the silent movie) or "Marry Me a Little"

[best12bars]

Posted: 1/16/06 at 9:59am

Around BWW, there's no such thing... unless it never was produced.

Too many people "in the know" here.

[MusicAndPassion]

Posted: 1/16/06 at 10:01am

Boomers.

It's a new musical that made it's debut here in Nashua, NH a year or two ago, written by a man in NH. It's got a strong book that needs work on it. The score is good. It will be Broadway material in a few years.

It's takes place during the Vietnam War. It's quiet good.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 1/16/06 at 10:13am

Sometimes I feel like I'm the only person around here who remembers William Finn's Romance in Hard Times (aka America Kicks Up Its Heels), a beautiful show that featured Lillias White, Alix Korey, Peggy Hewett and Cleavant Derricks, among others. It also spawned two of Finn's most well-known songs, "All Fall Down" and "That's Enough for Me". Unfortunately, it was never recorded.

[Broadway Pixie]

Posted: 1/16/06 at 11:10am

Evie & The Birdman

[RENTingFAME]

Posted: 1/16/06 at 11:33am

Several of the shows I thought of seem to be a lot more popular than I realized, such as HONK! and Bat Boy.

I don't know if you can find it, but Convenience is a really great show.

[children&art]

Posted: 1/16/06 at 11:42am

"Stage Door Canteen" (the ONLY Charles Busch show I can stand)

"Pinafore" (the white party gay version of HMS Pinafore)

[Labashier]

Posted: 1/16/06 at 12:33pm

Weird Romance (Alan Menken at his best)
Spunk (3 Zora Neale Hurston tales, as adapted by George C. Wolfe)
Lucky Nurse (four short sung-through pieces by LaChiusa)

If you thrive on obscure shows and don't already have a Samuel French catalogue, you must get one. It's great to read through it just to hear about shows like "Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens" and "What's A Nice State Like You... Doing In A Country Like This?"

Posted: 1/16/06 at 12:47pm

Freudiana
Have I Got a Girl For You
Suds
Marilyn! The Musical with Stephanie Lawrence
Marilyn- an American Fable with Alyson Reed
Time- It ran a long time in London but no one knows it here

[Elphaba]

Posted: 1/16/06 at 12:52pm

Thomas and the King
Eleanor, An American Love Story
Lola Montez
Napoleon

[BroadwayBound24601]

Posted: 1/16/06 at 12:55pm

Im afraid im going to get laughed at for never hearing of this but

Working???
yeah theres a rumor going around its my school musical this year