Favorite Broadway Flop- Page 2
Favorite Broadway Flop
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AuditioningWaitress
Broadway Star Joined: 7/13/05
#26re: Favorite Broadway Flop
Posted: 4/15/06 at 12:13pmBEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE GOES PUBLIC...It was stupid and cheesy...But I loved it! I also treasure my T-shirt from it!
#28re: Favorite Broadway Flop
Posted: 4/15/06 at 12:18pmDouble post. Updated On: 4/15/06 at 12:18 PM
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#30re: Favorite Broadway Flop
Posted: 4/15/06 at 12:25pm
Dracula - musical
Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks - play
"All I ask of you is one thing: please don't be cynical. I hate cynicism -- it's my least favorite quality and it doesn't lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."
Conan O'Brien
TheaterBoy7777
Broadway Star Joined: 1/28/06
robyn525600
Broadway Star Joined: 9/26/03
#32re: Favorite Broadway Flop
Posted: 4/15/06 at 12:52pmTHE CIVIL WAR and TABOO
"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away."
#33re: Favorite Broadway Flop
Posted: 4/15/06 at 2:45pm
Please do not egg me for this but:
Sweeney Todd - Even though it was an artistic sucess, it did not recoup its investment on Broadway.
jsg03jd
Broadway Star Joined: 11/24/04
#34re: Favorite Broadway Flop
Posted: 4/15/06 at 5:38pm2002's FLOWER DRUM SONG. Also liked ALL SHOOK UP.
Fabrizio2
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/20/06
#35re: Favorite Broadway Flop
Posted: 4/15/06 at 6:43pm
The Woman in White: It didn't close because of marketing (even though I used to think that) It closed because people were too lazy to listen closely and then think at the same time (someone said that in another thread...I agree)
Maria Friedman is amazing too.
#36re: Favorite Broadway Flop
Posted: 4/15/06 at 6:50pmMILLIE or SUNSET.
"Winning a Tony this year is like winning Best Attendance in third grade: no one will care but the winner and their mom."
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
Updated On: 4/15/06 at 06:50 PM
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
BS
Understudy Joined: 6/2/05
broadwaybaby221
Featured Actor Joined: 12/26/05
WalkOn
Broadway Star Joined: 8/7/06
#39re: Favorite Broadway Flop
Posted: 8/7/06 at 9:59pmSMILE
Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart; and you'll never walk alone.
Funny Face
Broadway Star Joined: 7/6/06
musicaltheater1
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/05
#41re: Favorite Broadway Flop
Posted: 8/7/06 at 10:43pmThe revival of the Flower Drum Song!
"I love acting. It is so much more real than life." Oscar Wilde
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley
#42re: Favorite Broadway Flop
Posted: 8/7/06 at 11:05pm
SWEENEY TODD
The original production in 1979/80 did pay off through tours and post Broadway productions. ANd the current revival was classified as a hit in February.
And yes, MILLIE despite a 2 year run was a (financial) flop.
But we need to broaden the definition.
Financially shows are either hits or flops depending on whether they made money (or not.)
But many flops were successes (Hal Prince cites PACIFIC OVERTURES as one. It won awards, and continues to be revived to challange and fasciate audiences.) And these days a show can be a popular success and run 4 years and STILL not make it to the hit category.
I submit that a show that is a FAILURE is a production which does not achieve its goals, does not attract a significant audience (running 6 months or less) and does not have much of post-Broadway life through a tour, regional productions and community stagings.
Examples of recent FAILURES: IN MY LIFE (obviously), SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS, JANE EYRE...
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com
#43re: Favorite Broadway Flop
Posted: 8/7/06 at 11:50pmI would definitely not call Thoroughly Modern Millie a flop.
#44re: Favorite Broadway Flop
Posted: 8/7/06 at 11:55pmI was wondering the same thing....Millie wasn't a flop. I guess if Brooklyn is considered one, then its my favorite
LI Larry
Stand-by Joined: 7/25/06
#45re: Favorite Broadway Flop
Posted: 8/8/06 at 12:01amSeussical. I know a lot of people didn't like it but I had a great time. I also liked Side Show. I won't say Taboo but I loved the cast album
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#46re: Favorite Broadway Flop
Posted: 8/8/06 at 12:14am
As Frontrowcentre points out, "flop" is not an artistic assessment, it's a financial one. If a show did not recoup its initial investment, it's a "flop." Period. Even if it won awards and it ran for years, if it didn't pay back its original investment, then it' still a flop. Some of the greatest shows in the history of Broadway were flops, despite being artistic and critical successes.
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Updated On: 8/8/06 at 12:14 AM
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Maefae
Swing Joined: 5/25/06
#49re: Favorite Broadway Flop
Posted: 8/8/06 at 1:51amThe Wild Party
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