Side Show Steel Pier (mainly because of "I'm Everybody's Girl") Chess Carrie (LOVE "When There's No One") Pump Boys and Dinettes (well, 573 performances isn't a flop, but WHAT A FUN SHOW. It should have run 5730 performances!!!)
What exactly constitutes a flop? In Mandelbaum's book it's any show that ran less than 250 performances, but nowadays it's mostly designated by how much money a show loses. Like, isn't TMM considered a flop despite the fact that it ran for two years and swept the 2002 Tonys?
When someone blunders, we say that he makes a misstep. Is it then not clear that all the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill our history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill in dancing. - Moliere
Are you all going on OCR's, or did you actually see these shows? In the cases of both THE LIFE and STEEL PIER, I can tell you that they come off much better if you only hear them than if you had actually sat through the productions.
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
I have actually seen the productions I listed. While I certainly did not enjoy Steel Pier (and it didn't make my list), I truly enjoyed The Life. Don't know why, can't explain it, just enjoyed it.
And the other thing about the Phantom Lady was, Bert, she realized, in the city that never sleeps...
What did she realize, Kitten?
That all the songs she'd listened to, all the love songs, that they were only songs.
What's wrong with that?
Nothing, if you don't believe in them. But she did, you see. She believed in enchanted evenings, and she believed that a small cloud passed overhead and cried down on a flower bed, and she even believed there was breakfast to be had...
Where?
On Pluto. The mysterious, icy wastes of Pluto.
"You won't fight without layers of armor
Suit on up and come brace my sword
You look back when the pieces are missing
Hollowed out hope that no time can restore."