Broadway Flops you enjoyed.- Page 2
Broadway Flops you enjoyed.
Boodle
Swing Joined: 12/15/05
#25re: Broadway Flops you enjoyed.
Posted: 6/26/06 at 1:56pm
Chitty
I Remember Mama
The Supporting Cast
#26re: Broadway Flops you enjoyed.
Posted: 6/26/06 at 1:57pmIf the revival of Sweet Charity is considered a flop, then I would include that as one I enjoyed. Especially when I saw it a 2nd time, I thought Christina Applegate was MUCH improved.
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
Christoph
Stand-by Joined: 4/20/06
#27re: Broadway Flops you enjoyed.
Posted: 6/26/06 at 1:58pm
Dance of the Vampires - Campy to the extreme and light years beyond silly, but the cast was terrifically exuberant and it was never, ever dull.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - See above.
bwaylvsong
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/28/05
#28re: Broadway Flops you enjoyed.
Posted: 6/26/06 at 3:04pm
I forgot these were flops:
Sweet Charity revival
Chitty
Little Women
NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#29re: Broadway Flops you enjoyed.
Posted: 6/26/06 at 5:19pm
I forgot:
A Class Act
"I'm tellin' you, the only times I really feel the presence of God are when I'm having sex and during a great Broadway musical." - Nathan Lane - Jeffrey
Mama Mo
Chorus Member Joined: 2/19/06
#30re: Broadway Flops you enjoyed.
Posted: 6/26/06 at 5:44pmOnly musicals are invited? My favorite 'flop' was David Hirson's "Wrong Mountain". (I liked "La Bete" too.)
thevolleyballer
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#31re: Broadway Flops you enjoyed.
Posted: 6/26/06 at 5:47pmI personally loved "Footloose." Even though it ran for roughly two years, people say it was a flop -- whether or not, I think it's fantastic.
LorelaiGilmore
Broadway Star Joined: 8/30/05
#32re: Broadway Flops you enjoyed.
Posted: 6/26/06 at 5:55pm
Sweet Charity revival
and while I didn't love it, I enjoyed Chitty, especially the second act.
oy with the poodles already!
JHartnow
Featured Actor Joined: 11/24/04
#35re: Broadway Flops you enjoyed.
Posted: 6/26/06 at 6:56pmLittle Shop revival
"You drank a charm to kill John Proctor's wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!" - Betty Parris to Abigail Williams in Arthur Miller's The Crucible
#36re: Broadway Flops you enjoyed.
Posted: 6/26/06 at 6:59pm
Taboo
The Woman in White
All Shook Up
Dracula
Lestat
Lennon
dude, Wicked isnt a flop
SweeneyPhanatic
Broadway Star Joined: 1/4/06
#37re: Broadway Flops you enjoyed.
Posted: 6/26/06 at 7:55pmCarrie (never had the chance to see it live, but I love the video I've seen).
-- SDG
Johnnytoc
Broadway Star Joined: 12/19/04
NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#40re: Broadway Flops you enjoyed.
Posted: 6/26/06 at 8:22pm
Little Shop revival wasn`t a flop was it?
And Wicked is NOT a flop JHartnow!
"I'm tellin' you, the only times I really feel the presence of God are when I'm having sex and during a great Broadway musical." - Nathan Lane - Jeffrey
#41re: Broadway Flops you enjoyed.
Posted: 6/26/06 at 8:24pmI liked Taboo. I put off seeing it for most of the run, but just before it closed, I managed to snag a deeply discounted ticket from someone on the boards here. Sure it was flawed, but I had a good time. The music was catchy, and there were some great performances. I went back and second acted it a couple times to hear Raul's "Petrified" again. He was pretty damn fierce.
But when did New Hampshire become--Such a backward wasteland of seatbelt hating crazies?...I mean, only 40 people actually live there. The others are just visitors who come for the tax-free liquor and three inches of novelty coastline. John Hodgeman on The Daily Show (1-30-07)
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#42re: Broadway Flops you enjoyed.
Posted: 6/26/06 at 8:29pm
All Shook Up
Sweet Charity
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
#43re: Broadway Flops you enjoyed.
Posted: 6/26/06 at 8:30pm
Lestat
Sunday in the Park with George (if i do recall it flopped as brilliant as it is)
Little Women
Footloose
<------ Me and my friends with patti Lupone at my friends afterparty for her concert with audra mcdonald during the summer of 2007.
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
#44re: Broadway Flops you enjoyed.
Posted: 6/26/06 at 8:40pm
RAGTIME
SWEENEY TODD (though it later recouped on tour)
SUNDAY IN THE PARK WITH GEORGE
CAROLINE, OR CHANGE
LA BOHEME (Baz Luhrmann's stunning physical production)
"I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear." ~ Freddie Mercury
#45re: Broadway Flops you enjoyed.
Posted: 6/26/06 at 8:45pm
Amour
CoC
Wild Party
Taboo
-INSERT SONDHEIM-
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
#46re: Broadway Flops you enjoyed.
Posted: 6/26/06 at 8:51pm
I wish I hadn't put of seeing Caroline, or Change. We were supposed to see it with Honors at The Public, so I didn't bother seeing it there (then, of course that didn't pan out). Then, I didn't get to see it on Broadway until its final weeks and I got a really ratty student ticket. It was way on the side and there was a freakishly tall guy in front of me. As a result, I couldn't see a DAMN thing. 
But, from what I did see, what an outrage that Tonya lost the Tony to Idina Menzel. It's just wrong.
But when did New Hampshire become--Such a backward wasteland of seatbelt hating crazies?...I mean, only 40 people actually live there. The others are just visitors who come for the tax-free liquor and three inches of novelty coastline. John Hodgeman on The Daily Show (1-30-07)
#47re: Broadway Flops you enjoyed.
Posted: 6/26/06 at 8:59pm
the Tonya loosing to idina thing is the CRIME OF THE TONYS!
i'm still in shock. Caroline is so brillaint I die every time i listen...
ok done with the love fest
"Picture "The View," with the wisecracking, sympathetic sweethearts of that ABC television show replaced by a panel of embittered, suffering or enraged Arab women" -the Times review of Black Eyed
#48re: Broadway Flops you enjoyed.
Posted: 6/26/06 at 11:24pm
Lennon- The SF production was really good and I liked the way everyone played Lennon...
Lestat- Again, SF prod. Died in the first half...but I liked it overall.
2008 European Tour
London: Les Mis, Lion King, Sound of Music, Joseph, Hairspray, Billy Elliot
France: Le Roi Lion, Cabaret
Germany: Der Konig der Lowen
Holland: Tarzan & Les Mis
London: Les Mis, Lion King, Sound of Music, Joseph, Hairspray, Billy Elliot
France: Le Roi Lion, Cabaret
Germany: Der Konig der Lowen
Holland: Tarzan & Les Mis
#49re: Broadway Flops you enjoyed.
Posted: 6/27/06 at 12:06am
My apologies to frontrowcentre2. Even though roughly 47 people replied to this, I should've apparently ressurected old posts.
Anyway, I really enjoyed:
Seussical, Footloose, Brooklyn!!, All Shook Up, The Sweet Chariy Revival
I REALLY WANTED to see (But Closed before I could)
IN MY LIFE! (I still look at the website), Lennon, Good Vibrations, Lestat (even though I would've fallen asleep),
I dunno, for some reason, I enjoy the flops that get negative reviews. They make me want to see them so bad and I end up really liking them!
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