Favorite Broadway Flop- Page 2

[Unknown User]

re: Favorite Broadway Flop#25

Posted: 4/15/06 at 12:08pm

Thoroughly Modern Millie

[AuditioningWaitress]

re: Favorite Broadway Flop#26

Posted: 4/15/06 at 12:13pm

BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE GOES PUBLIC...It was stupid and cheesy...But I loved it! I also treasure my T-shirt from it!

[VonTussleGirl]

re: Favorite Broadway Flop#27

Posted: 4/15/06 at 12:18pm

Little Women.

[VonTussleGirl]

re: Favorite Broadway Flop#28

Posted: 4/15/06 at 12:18pm

Double post. Updated On: 4/15/06 at 12:18 PM

[Unknown User]

re: Favorite Broadway Flop#29

Posted: 4/15/06 at 12:18pm

Ankles Aweigh and Donneybrook!

[mominator]

re: Favorite Broadway Flop#30

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]

re: Favorite Broadway Flop#31

Posted: 4/15/06 at 12:25pm

I LOVE CARRIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[robyn525600]

re: Favorite Broadway Flop#32

Posted: 4/15/06 at 12:52pm

THE 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."

[Horton]

re: Favorite Broadway Flop#33

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]

re: Favorite Broadway Flop#34

Posted: 4/15/06 at 5:38pm

2002's FLOWER DRUM SONG. Also liked ALL SHOOK UP.

[Fabrizio2]

re: Favorite Broadway Flop#35

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.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

re: Favorite Broadway Flop#36

Posted: 4/15/06 at 6:50pm

MILLIE 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

[BS]

re: Favorite Broadway Flop#37

Posted: 4/15/06 at 6:55pm

Did we forget Side Show?

[broadwaybaby221]

re: Favorite Broadway Flop#38

Posted: 4/15/06 at 6:56pm

I was just going to say Side Show.

~Sara~

[WalkOn]

re: Favorite Broadway Flop#39

Posted: 8/7/06 at 9:59pm

SMILE

Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart; and you'll never walk alone.

[Funny Face]

re: Favorite Broadway Flop#40

Posted: 8/7/06 at 10:02pm

Millie was a flop?

[musicaltheater1]

re: Favorite Broadway Flop#41

Posted: 8/7/06 at 10:43pm

The 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

[frontrowcentre2]

re: Favorite Broadway Flop#42

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

[bigbigbill]

re: Favorite Broadway Flop#43

Posted: 8/7/06 at 11:50pm

I would definitely not call Thoroughly Modern Millie a flop.

[DRSisLove]

re: Favorite Broadway Flop#44

Posted: 8/7/06 at 11:55pm

I was wondering the same thing....Millie wasn't a flop. I guess if Brooklyn is considered one, then its my favorite

[LI Larry]

re: Favorite Broadway Flop#45

Posted: 8/8/06 at 12:01am

Seussical. 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]

re: Favorite Broadway Flop#46

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.

"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie [http://margochanning.broadwayworld.com/] "The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney

Updated On: 8/8/06 at 12:14 AM

[bwaylvsong]

re: Favorite Broadway Flop#47

Posted: 8/8/06 at 12:17am

WiW
Dance of the Vampires
Little Women

[Maefae]

re: Favorite Broadway Flop#48

Posted: 8/8/06 at 12:17am

Little Women.

[mallardo]

re: Favorite Broadway Flop#49

Posted: 8/8/06 at 1:51am

The Wild Party

Faced with these Loreleis, what man can moralize!