Failed Movie to Musicals- Page 2

[dramadude2]

Posted: 7/26/09 at 7:35pm

if grey gardens counts because it drew from the documentary, shouldn't Carrie count since it drew from the movie.

THIS IS RHETORICAL DONT ANSWER!!!

No but seriously, it's okay to answer.

[dramamama611]

Posted: 7/26/09 at 7:41pm

I agree with Blaxx...it's the only objective way to quantify a flop vs a success.

Everything else is just opinion.

If the producers didn't get their investment back: it's a flop.

[blaxx]

Posted: 7/26/09 at 7:59pm

Carrie could count, it's just not on my list because it opened before the mid 90's.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 7/26/09 at 8:00pm

Some are bigger flops as they do not even make it to broadway, close during previews or right after opening.

You could also list Lestat as its source material was the book & movie Interview With A Vampire

Ditto with Wildhorns Dracula

[morosco]

Posted: 7/26/09 at 8:26pm

[sondheimboy2]

Posted: 7/26/09 at 9:42pm

Didn't XANADU make back it's money not long before it closed?

[blaxx]

Posted: 7/26/09 at 9:49pm

Lol, no.

[inick122492]

Posted: 7/26/09 at 10:02pm

Legally Blonde is doing quite well on tour...
YF will prolly do so so on tour tho

[Hiram]

Posted: 7/27/09 at 10:51am

Doesn't fit but play to movie to flop musical: THE CORN IS GREEN Starring Miss Bette Davis.

[eatlasagna]

Posted: 7/27/09 at 1:14pm

question... going by the technical defintion of a flop with not getting back its investment... can a show be a flop on broadway but not on tour? it's different investors, right?

[blaxx]

Posted: 7/29/09 at 3:07pm

From 1995 to 2009 UPDATE

HITS
THE LION KING
THE FULL MONTY
THE PRODUCERS
HAIRSPRAY
SPAMALOT
MARY POPPINS

FLOPS
HIGH SOCIETY
BIG
FOOTLOOSE
SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS
SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER
URBAN COWBOY
DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES
THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE
DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS
CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG
THE WEDDING SINGER
TARZAN
GREY GARDENS
HIGH FIDELITY
LEGALLY BLONDE
XANADU
CRY-BABY
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
THE LITTLE MERMAID
9 to 5

Updated On: 8/10/09 at 03:07 PM

[wickedlover94]

Posted: 7/29/09 at 6:50pm

9 to 5 sadly =[

[wickedlover94]

Posted: 7/29/09 at 6:50pm

9 to 5 sadly =[

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 7/29/09 at 6:52pm

Sadly yes

[Pgenre]

Posted: 7/29/09 at 8:45pm

blaxx - don't forget to add DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES to the FLOP list. It's based on THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS, written, directed and co-starring Roman Polanski. While the German version that Polanski directed stuck closer to the film, the Broadway version had the same exact plot.

It's the biggest Broadway flop of all time, lest we forget!

I also think it may be the only movie to musical on your list in which the director was the same for both (though TANZ was a HUGE hit and DOTV, which Polanski was not involved in besides having written/directed the source material was not), in this case Roman Polanski. The whole reason DOTV was re-imagined and re-written as drastically as it was, based on the show which ran for over 5 years in Germany, was because Polanski could not bring his production to the US because of all that absurd drama w/ his legal situation. I guess he had to settle for winning an Oscar for THE PIANIST that year, instead.

A Good Nightmare Comes So Rarely,
I'll Show You Yours,
If You Show Me Mine,
P
Updated On: 7/29/09 at 08:45 PM

[iamchanging9]

Posted: 7/29/09 at 8:51pm

add beauty and the beast to the list of hits

[ActingIsLovee]

Posted: 7/29/09 at 9:50pm

I know we're talking about flops here but blaxx "Beauty and the Beast" should definitely be on the list of hits.

[blaxx]

Posted: 7/29/09 at 9:58pm

I added Dance of the Vampires, thanks Pgenre.

As the posts says, I made the list from 1995, Beauty and the Beast opened in 1994.

[Pgenre]

Posted: 7/29/09 at 10:03pm

Anytime, blaxx, and DOTV is, indeed, the only musical on that list to have had the film director and the stage version director one in the same at ANY point in development/production, although of course John Rando had credit for directing the Broadway DOTV (though it was more Crawford than anyone by opening).

Unless we count Mel Brook's uncredited direction of the book scenes in YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN...

P

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 7/29/09 at 11:09pm

Gone With The Wind x2 (though based on book and movie)

[SNAFU]

Posted: 7/29/09 at 11:31pm

Whistle Down the Wind would fit on the list.

[blaxx]

Posted: 10/21/09 at 9:08pm

BROADWAY ONLY from 1995 to 2009 UPDATE

HITS
THE LION KING
THE FULL MONTY
THE PRODUCERS
HAIRSPRAY
SPAMALOT
MARY POPPINS

FLOPS
HIGH SOCIETY
BIG
FOOTLOOSE
SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS
SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER
URBAN COWBOY
DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES
THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE
DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS
CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG
THE WEDDING SINGER
TARZAN
GREY GARDENS
HIGH FIDELITY
LEGALLY BLONDE
XANADU
CRY-BABY
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN
THE LITTLE MERMAID
9 to 5
SHREK

Updated On: 10/21/09 at 09:08 PM

[Kad]

Posted: 10/21/09 at 9:43pm

Less than a quarter of all musicals from the last 14 years based on movies have turned a profit on Broadway. Someone should nail that to every producer's door.

[AEA AGMA SM]

Posted: 10/21/09 at 9:56pm

But what is the ratio of original musicals that turned a profit vs. closing while still in the red?

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 10/21/09 at 10:02pm

So in spite of it running two years, Footloose wasn't able to recoup its investment? May I ask why?