Best Flop You Ever Saw- Page 4

[Jarethan]

Best Flop You Ever Saw#75

Posted: 6/3/15 at 11:16pm

"Big Fish and Leap of Faith"

 Just goes to show you...I thought these were probably the two worst musicals I saw in the last decade.  I so wanted to like them because I liked both movies and thought they were under appreciated.  

I also forgot one from a thousand years ago... Cyrano with Christopher Plummer.  Played 10 weeks of empty houses.  I think Plummer gave one of the four or five best musical performances by a male in 5o years of theatre going.

[Mr Roxy]

Best Flop You Ever Saw#76

Posted: 6/3/15 at 11:32pm

Disagree re Fish and Leap but agree on Cyrano

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[muscle23ftl]

Best Flop You Ever Saw#77

Posted: 6/4/15 at 12:29am

Bombay Dreams (it was a hit in London, but a flop in NYC despite a 9 month run), Wonderful Town, The Wedding Singer...

"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one". -Felicia Finley-

[Mr Roxy]

Best Flop You Ever Saw#78

Posted: 6/4/15 at 12:31am

The team that did the Cyrano score was never heard from again.

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[Sushisake]

Best Flop You Ever Saw#79

Posted: 6/4/15 at 7:10am

Honeymoon in Vegas and Legs Diamond

[songanddanceman2]

Best Flop You Ever Saw#80

Posted: 6/4/15 at 8:24am

Forgot about The Wedding Singer, a lot of fun, very underrated 

Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna

[Stupifer]

Best Flop You Ever Saw#81

Posted: 6/4/15 at 8:39am

Was lucky enough to catch The Story of My Life during it's one week run on Broadway in 2009 - Will Chase and Malcolm Gets were exceptional. Also loved Labute's Reasons to Be Pretty that season.

[g.d.e.l.g.i.]

Best Flop You Ever Saw#82

Posted: 6/4/15 at 8:40am

"The team that did the Cyrano score was never heard from again."

One was a composer of film scores, and the other was Anthony Burgess. We absolutely heard from them again, just not in the theater. Now, the people behind the 1993 Cyrano? We absolutely never heard from them again, at least in America.

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[Mr Roxy]

Best Flop You Ever Saw#83

Posted: 6/4/15 at 9:58am

I could be wrong but I think Burgess passed away awhile ago.

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[jemjeb2]

Best Flop You Ever Saw#84

Posted: 6/4/15 at 11:42am

The first show I saw was not on Broadway, but was in Boston, trying out. I LOVED "Hot September" the musical version of "Picnic". It closed and never went to NYC. I don't know if it was because it was my very first "Broadway" show or if my love was misplaced on a not very good  show, but I still remember how much I enjoyed the songs, dance numbers, performers etc. It  was definitely my favorite flop!

[Mr Roxy]

Best Flop You Ever Saw#85

Posted: 6/4/15 at 12:07pm

The composer of Cyrano was Michael J Lewis.

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[The Other One]

Best Flop You Ever Saw#86

Posted: 6/4/15 at 12:08pm

Gem of the Ocean

The Bridges of Madison County

[neonlightsxo]

Best Flop You Ever Saw#87

Posted: 6/4/15 at 4:51pm

So many: The Performers and Story of My Life are the biggest flops that I loved. I have a hard time considering shows that run a few months a "flop."

[Mr Roxy]

Best Flop You Ever Saw#88

Posted: 6/4/15 at 6:22pm

Follies has to be the most revived & performed flop in Broadway history.

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[JoeyEvans1206]

Best Flop You Ever Saw#89

Posted: 6/4/15 at 9:33pm

Both BULLETS OVER BROADWAY and NEVER GONNA DANCE were delightful.

[Someone in a Tree2]

Best Flop You Ever Saw#90

Posted: 6/4/15 at 10:22pm

Lovely to see a mention of LEGS DIAMOND a few posts up. I labored mightily on that show for half a year of my life back in '88. Never imagined it'd be named a best anything.

My picks from years back:

THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM

THE GRAND TOUR

THE RINK

RAGS

and for modern shows, it still pains me that BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY wasn't even up for a Best Musical Tony last year. 

Updated On: 6/4/15 at 10:22 PM

[Glittergrrl]

Best Flop You Ever Saw#91

Posted: 6/4/15 at 10:43pm

Was The Life considered a flop?  At the time, it seemed kind of looked down upon, but I really liked it.  I thought there were great performances.   I still play "my body" when I need a confidence boost.

[AHLiebross]

Best Flop You Ever Saw#92

Posted: 6/5/15 at 1:19am

This isn't technically a Broadway flop, because it never made it that far: "Phantom," the story of you-know-who, by Maury Yeston and Arthur Kopit. The producers, who included Geoffrey Holder, were raising money for a Broadway run, secure in the knowledge that they had an exclusive license from the Leroux estate to adapt the book. However, when a certain well-known British composer announced plans to open in London (where the copyright had apparently already expired) and then on Broadway when the book entered the public domain, funding for the other production dried up.

The show, which has the structure of a Broadway production (e.g., a key song before the intermission), has lovely music, a less cynical take on the Phantom, and a sweet love story between him and Christine. Carlotta is deliciously villainous. Y&K's "Phantom" plays just about yearly in regional theaters, and is worth seeing.

Audrey, the Phantom Phanatic, who nonetheless would rather be Jean Valjean, who knew how to make lemonade out of lemons.

[MarkBearSF]

Best Flop You Ever Saw#93

Posted: 6/5/15 at 3:35am

"I thought Catch Me If You Can was wonderful and deserved more recognition than it got."

Agreed. It may have even been the same season, but two recordings I listen to again and again are "Women on the Verge..." and "Catch Me..."

In both cases, while sitting in the audience and being totally entertained, my analytical brain kept saying "you know that this really isn't working" - but I enjoyed the songs and show so much it didn't matter.

Updated On: 6/5/15 at 03:35 AM