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Biggest Disappointments

Posted: 9/10/06 at 11:19am

Here are some shows which were thought to be blockbusters & wound up being A Bombs

Nick & Nora
Via Galactica
Annie 2
The Capeman
Lestat - still waiting for CD but not putting flyers up
Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public

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Updated On: 9/10/06 at 11:19 AM

re: Biggest Disappointments

Posted: 9/10/06 at 11:43am

Not before it happened, but ever since I got to know Chess I wonder how it couldn't have been a hit.

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re: Biggest Disappointments

Posted: 9/10/06 at 11:44am

Carrie is another

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re: Biggest Disappointments

Posted: 9/10/06 at 11:55am

Beauty and the Beast

re: Biggest Disappointments

Posted: 9/10/06 at 12:01pm

Wedding Singer's success.

re: Biggest Disappointments

Posted: 9/10/06 at 12:15pm

Curtains
Bounce

Not because they were or are the worst shows on the planet (not by a long shot), but because my expectations were so high.

Too high.

After that, I will also add:

Titanic
Raggedy Ann

Edwin Drood (...the second time I saw it. The first time it was fantastic!)

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re: Biggest Disappointments

Posted: 9/10/06 at 12:22pm

big

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re: Biggest Disappointments

Posted: 9/10/06 at 12:39pm

Doubt- in my opinion (especially after seeing Pillowman)

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re: Biggest Disappointments

Posted: 9/10/06 at 12:46pm

My recent biggest disappointment would have to be "Spamalot". I'm a big Python fan and I was so looking forward to seeing this show, after hearing so much about it and it winning the Best Musical Tony. Wow, what a let down. One of the most boring afternoons I've spent in the theatre in a long time.

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re: Biggest Disappointments

Posted: 9/10/06 at 12:50pm

Doubt - after seeing Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Let me clarify... I enjoyed Doubt, but I had heard such AMAZING things about so I was expecting something more.

Updated On: 9/10/06 at 12:50 PM

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re: Biggest Disappointments

Posted: 9/10/06 at 12:55pm

Wait Nick and Nora? That disappointed someone? I thought it did what it was meant to do? Someone actually expected more?

Wedding Singer is successful? They had to fire an actor and bring in a game show contestant.

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re: Biggest Disappointments

Posted: 9/10/06 at 1:08pm

I've seen every new musical on and off broadway this year (and many new regional productions), and Wedding Singer was by far the biggest dissapointment. What a waste.

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re: Biggest Disappointments

Posted: 9/10/06 at 1:14pm

I KNOW I'm going to get slaughtered for this, but I was dissapointed in The Drowsy Chaperone. *Dodges thown objects.* I just heard SO MANY good things about it from it's out-of-town tryout, like it was the second coming of Christ or something, and it was a letdown. The stranger thing is that there were so much was right about the show - The plot, the concept, the sets, the fact that I laughed my ass off at so many parts, etc. that it was so bizarre that I didn't enjoy it nearly as much as I thought I would have. There was just too much hype surrounding it, I guess.

Then again, I saw it during previews, so maybe things have changed since then...

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Updated On: 9/10/06 at 01:14 PM

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re: Biggest Disappointments

Posted: 9/10/06 at 2:07pm

Mr Roxy, do you mean shows that were personal disappointments for us, or shows that were expected to become blockbusters and then bombed at the box office?

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Updated On: 9/10/06 at 02:07 PM

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re: Biggest Disappointments

Posted: 9/10/06 at 3:05pm

The Wedding Singer is far from a success financially or artistically.

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re: Biggest Disappointments

Posted: 9/10/06 at 3:06pm

The revival of MAN OF LA MANCHA (That set! That staging! What were they thinking???).

URBAN COWBOY -- it could have been a hoot, and certainly the dancers were working their butts off, but what a complete and utter misfire.

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Posted: 9/10/06 at 3:07pm

Chicago.

mejusthavingfun: They didn't fire Matthew, he's working on a project for 8 weeks. He'll be back after that. I think.

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re: Biggest Disappointments

Posted: 9/11/06 at 8:14am

NICK & NORA was the worst show I have EVER seen on Broadway and I have been going to the NYC Theatre since 1954's PETER PAN. I had been looking forward to the show since I love the THIN MAN movie mysteries.Director Arthur Laurents wasn't hard enough on book writer Arthur Laurents!
I was disappointed in DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRALS. I found it boring and tuneless, save for the ballad sung by Pryce in the second act.

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re: Biggest Disappointments

Posted: 9/11/06 at 8:39am

While the recent revival of Follies was never expected to be a blockbuster, it was still a major disappointment for me. Also, I would agree with the comments about Spamalot and the recent revival of Man of LaMancha.

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re: Biggest Disappointments

Posted: 9/11/06 at 8:49am

"Social Security" from 1986. It was like seeing half of a play.

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re: Biggest Disappointments

Posted: 9/11/06 at 10:48am

Alan Cumming in Threepenny Opera. A total disappointment for me.

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Posted: 9/11/06 at 10:50am

Gypsy9 - I agree Nick and Nora is garbage.

#23

re: Biggest Disappointments

Posted: 9/11/06 at 11:30am

So many big disappointments over the last few seasons. Some more surprising than others.

A NAKED GIRL ON THE APPIAN WAY
BAREFOOT IN THE PARK
CHITA RIVERA: THE DANCER'S LIFE
THE COLOR PURPLE
LA CAGE AUX FOLLES
LENNON
LESTAT
THE ODD COUPLE
SOUVENIR
TARZAN
THE THREEPENNY OPERA
THE WOMAN IN WHITE
BROOKLYN
DRACULA
THE FROGS
THE GLASS MENAGERIE
LITTLE SHOP OF HORORS
'NIGHT MOTHER
SPAMALOT
STEEL MAGNOLIAS
NEVER GONNA DANCE
OLDEST LIVING CONFEDERATE WIDOW TELLS ALL
WICKED
ENCHANTED APRIL
FLOWER DRUM SONG
MAN OF LA MANCHA
45 SECONDS FROM BROADWAY
INTO THE WOODS (revival)
THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE

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#24

re: Biggest Disappointments

Posted: 9/11/06 at 2:09pm

It's too bad "Nick and Nora" had such a weak book. I have the cast album, and many of the songs and performances are very good.

#25

re: Biggest Disappointments

Posted: 9/11/06 at 3:37pm

I, too, must say THE DROWSY CHAPERONE.

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