Did anyone here see Susan Egan play Millie?- Page 2

[newintown]

Posted: 4/25/13 at 2:50pm

You probably saw Catherine Brunell, or Sue Haefner.

[blaxx]

Posted: 4/25/13 at 2:50pm

We saw it early on and Sutton was out sick. I don't remember who the understudy was but she was very good. Was it Suan or someone else?

Egan was the replacement right before the show clodsed a flop. It wasn't her.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 4/25/13 at 2:59pm

Whichever one I saw was very good.

But then I saw Sutton do "Gimme, Gimme" on Rosie and realized the difference. From that point on, I considered Sutton Foster a star.

[broadway guy]

Posted: 4/25/13 at 3:06pm

Flop?? The show won best musical....

[blaxx]

Posted: 4/25/13 at 3:07pm

It didn't make its investment back. It was a huge floperoo!

[Wynbish]

Posted: 4/25/13 at 3:08pm

Yeah, usually the term "flop" is steered more towards the financial status, and it didn't recoup.

[broadway guy]

Posted: 4/25/13 at 3:12pm

Oh i see.

[Wynbish]

Posted: 4/25/13 at 3:13pm

Here's an old thread with some good explanations, especially from MargoChanning

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.php?thread=213744&page=1

Rock Of Ages has been on Broadway for years, and I don't think it has recouped. So, if it closed tomorrow, it would still be a flop musical financially. Updated On: 4/25/13 at 03:13 PM

[broadway guy]

Posted: 4/25/13 at 3:20pm

Thanks this is really interesting.

[blaxx]

Posted: 4/25/13 at 3:25pm

In the last 12 years, only one Best Musical Tony winner has closed a flop.

Updated On: 4/25/13 at 03:25 PM

[broadway guy]

Posted: 4/25/13 at 3:31pm

"I just don't think you can use the word "FLOP" with a show that ran two years and won many Tony Awards. It also won many Drama Desk Awards.
A Flop- a show that ran for two weeks examples (Urban Cowboy, Prymate perhaps)
Millie might not have made money but it ran two years and was not a flop.
Don't call it a flop please. It was not a money maker but it was NOT A FLOP."

I agree with whoever said this 8 years ago.

Updated On: 4/25/13 at 03:31 PM

[blaxx]

Posted: 4/25/13 at 3:33pm

It doesn't matter what your opinion is. If you invest 10 dollars in a show and after several years of enthusiastic houses you only get 7 back, your business flopped.

It's really not THAT hard to understand.

[newintown]

Posted: 4/25/13 at 3:36pm

Exactly, blaxx - feelings don't matter. One may prefer to say the sky is green, but it's blue, and a show that loses money is called a flop.

If you don't like the word, you get used to the word; you don't get to change its definition.

Updated On: 4/25/13 at 03:36 PM

[broadway guy]

Posted: 4/25/13 at 4:10pm

calm down crazy. I just said i agreed with that person. Im not setting out on a quest to change the definition of the word "flop".

[newintown]

Posted: 4/25/13 at 4:20pm

Is that what you said? I'm sorry. For some reason, I thought what you said was "Don't call it a flop please. It was not a money maker but it was NOT A FLOP."

There must have been some interference, or static, or something...

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 4/25/13 at 4:24pm

Don't forget, Broadway Guy said his mommy called him a miracle.

[broadway guy]

Posted: 4/25/13 at 4:24pm

No i didn't say that. I just copied and pasted that quote that someone said 8 years ago on the "Millie is a flop thread" that wynbish gave me the link too. At the bottom i even wrote:

"I agree with whoever said this 8 years ago."

[PalJoey]

Posted: 4/25/13 at 4:29pm

Merriam-Webster defines flop as a "complete" failure. Perhaps we should differentiate something like this as a "fiscal flop."

flop noun
Definition of FLOP

1: an act or sound of flopping
2: a complete failure
3 slang : a place to sleep; especially : flophouse
4: dung (cow flop); also : a piece of dung
Merriam-Webster: Definition of FLOP

[broadway guy]

Posted: 4/25/13 at 4:31pm

Jordan are you still on that? Grow up dude lol I really didn't think it would be that easy to piss you off lol

[blaxx]

Posted: 4/25/13 at 4:32pm

We should use number 4, a piece of dung

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 4/25/13 at 4:33pm

You didn't piss me off.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 4/25/13 at 4:34pm

dude.

[blaxx]

Posted: 4/25/13 at 4:35pm

This thread is cow flop.

[broadway guy]

Posted: 4/25/13 at 4:36pm

hahahahhaha okay I'll take your word for it

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 4/25/13 at 4:38pm

Ok, kid. You take my word for it.