Best Flop You Ever Saw- Page 3

[Outoftowner2]

Posted: 6/2/15 at 11:57pm

The Last Ship

[wonkit]

Posted: 6/2/15 at 11:57pm

LEAP OF FAITH. A good show buried under a mountain of inexplicable production choices.

[Far From Home]

Posted: 6/3/15 at 12:06am

Brigadoon (1980).  Loved this as a kid.

[jwsel]

Posted: 6/3/15 at 12:10am

"LEAP OF FAITH. A good show buried under a mountain of inexplicable production choices."

 Amen (pun intended).  The score is really good (I love Lost and Rise Up, in particular), and the cast was phenomenal.  But the book made no sense, the choreography was lousy, and the set was bare.  I saw the LA pre-Broadway run, which had a lot of flaws, but it still may have been better than the "fixed" version that made it Broadway.

Is Ragtime considered a flop, since it did not recoup?  If so, that is my top pick.  Otherwise, Caroline, or Change.

[temms]

Posted: 6/3/15 at 12:45am

The Life

Other flops I enjoyed more than I didn't: Passing Strange, The Capeman, Side Show (original), Passion, Dance Of The Vampires, Taboo, Thou Shalt Not, Steel Pier, LoveMusik, Urban Cowboy, In My Life, Triumph Of Love, Big, The Goodbye Girl, Sweet Smell of Success, Amour, A Class Act, Kat And The Kings

Flops I didn't enjoy much about: Marie Christine, The Wild Party, Parade, 13, The People In The Picture, Taller Than A Dwarf, By Jeeves, [title of show], Saturday Night Fever

Best show that never transferred: Radiant Baby

[nicnyc]

Posted: 6/3/15 at 2:42am

Unquestionbly, CHESS.  Though I was very moved by BIG FISH...

Updated On: 6/3/15 at 02:42 AM

[Junior Babcock]

Posted: 6/3/15 at 7:03am

A TIME FOR SINGING - Tessie O'Shea

HOW NOW, DOW JONES - "Anthony" Roberts and Bernda Vaccaro sing "Live a Little"

GOOD NEWS - wonderful score, despite changing he dexDe to the 30's

GREY GARDENS - listen to it regularly

PRETTYBELLE and DEAR WORLD - both for Angela Lansbury

[MVintheheartland]

Posted: 6/3/15 at 7:17am

Bombay Dreams! 

I saw it in London, where I guess it was a hit. I understand that when they re-tooled it for a "American" audience, it flopped. Loved the music. Shakalaka Baby!

 

[tazber]

Posted: 6/3/15 at 7:28am

"LEAP OF FAITH. A good show buried under a mountain of inexplicable production choices."

 

The Ahmanson try out was actually not a bad show. It needed some minor fixes and a little trimming. I even thought Brooke Shields was pretty good.

I don't know what went on in with the creatives between then and Bway, but what ended up on stage at the St. James was awful.

It's one of the most confounding re-writes I've ever seen.

And I'm a big fan of the score. I really wanted this to succeed.

 

ETA: Oops, I just saw jwsel just posted almost this exact same thing.

Great minds....

 

I also have a soft spot for The Life, Little Miss Sunshine, The Sweet Smell of Success

Updated On: 6/3/15 at 07:28 AM

[dramamama611]

Posted: 6/3/15 at 8:29am

Without a doubt:  The Scottsboro Boys.    

 

Loved it, loved it, loved it.   I don't ever remember being upset by an untimely closing as I was by this.   The people against had no idea what they were protesting.

 

It was brilliant; it was eye opening; it broke my heart.  (Then it closed)

[fashionguru_23]

Posted: 6/3/15 at 9:28am

I enjoyed Chaplin, and Tarzan!

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 6/3/15 at 9:37am

Agree with Chaplin

As far as Tarzan, I felt Cheetahed.

[wonkit]

Posted: 6/3/15 at 9:47am

I actually enjoyed the L.A. production of LEAP while understanding some of the shortcomings. But re-writes are supposed to fix problems, not compound them. And the fact that they dropped two of the best songs between LA and NY? That is, as Ken W. would say, "a puzzlement."

[RevolutionaryCostume]

Posted: 6/3/15 at 10:33am

Definitely Grey Gardens.

[cglaid]

Posted: 6/3/15 at 10:33am

Was IMPRESSIONISM a flop, with Jeremy Irons and Joan Allen? If so, that.

I loved every minute.

[ErinDillyFan]

Posted: 6/3/15 at 10:48am

Some of my favorite shows are flops:

Grey Gardens *(only one I saw on broadway)

Bonnie & Clyde

Catch Me If You Can

Shrek

 I really enjoyed: Big Fish, Rocky, Bullets over Broadway (but what was he thinking with that ending?), The Last Ship

 

Was "Passing Strange" a flop?

 

Updated On: 6/3/15 at 10:48 AM

[tazber]

Posted: 6/3/15 at 10:57am

I never thought of Grey Gardens as a flop, but I guess commercially it was.

So I have to add that to my list. It's one of my faves.

[pc1145N2]

Posted: 6/3/15 at 11:04am

I loved The Pirate Queen. I still listen to the OBC frequently.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 6/3/15 at 11:07am

With you there 

[skies]

Posted: 6/3/15 at 11:09am

Big Fish.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 6/3/15 at 11:13am

Ditto

[icecreambenjamin]

Posted: 6/3/15 at 9:44pm

Caroline, or Change

Bridges of Madison County

[JRybka]

Posted: 6/3/15 at 9:47pm

 

CHESS. 

But I also love 

Leader of the Pack, Saturday Night Fever (Orfeh was the BEST!) and I hate to admit it but I somewhat enjoyed "Thou Shalt Not" 

[Matt1]

Posted: 6/3/15 at 9:59pm

Big Fish and Leap of Faith

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 6/3/15 at 10:30pm

Taboo (brilliant)

Dance of the Vampires (so much silly fun)

Good Vibrations (jaw droppingly bad)

Carrie (saw it when I was 10 years old in Stratford)

Gone With the Wind (London, head scratchingly bad)

Bad Girls (London, loved it) 

Rent Remixed (London, so so bad)

American Idiot (brilliant)