Favorite Broadway Flop- Page 3
Favorite Broadway Flop
COOOOLkid
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/15/05
#50re: Favorite Broadway Flop
Posted: 8/8/06 at 1:57amDid Ragtime recoup its initial investment?
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COOOOLkid
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/15/05
#51re: Favorite Broadway Flop
Posted: 8/8/06 at 1:57amOopsies... Sorry Double post!
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Updated On: 8/8/06 at 01:57 AM
#52re: Favorite Broadway Flop
Posted: 8/8/06 at 10:46amNo, partially thanks to Garth Drabinsky's creative book-keeping, RAGTIME never even had a chance at making money. It had a weekly break-even of just over $600K ..at a time when $450K was the norm! But, it was a "success" running more than two years, garnering critical acclaim and it still regularly revived by regional and community theatres.
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
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Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#54re: Favorite Broadway Flop
Posted: 8/8/06 at 11:00amLestat
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To Kill A Mockingbird
To Kill A Mockingbird
Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#55re: Favorite Broadway Flop
Posted: 8/8/06 at 11:07amBrooklyn, Seussical, and The Civil War.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 12/31/69
#56re: Favorite Broadway Flop
Posted: 8/8/06 at 11:17amMy favorite Broadway flop is JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR, from 2000 and 2001. The show played 6 months and generally got poor reviews for Gayle Edwards' offbeat production. I saw this show a number of times and loved it. The cast was great: Glenn Carter, Tony Vincent, Maya Days, Max Von Essen and many many talented people.
tabbynyc
Stand-by Joined: 4/3/06
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#59re: Favorite Broadway Flop
Posted: 8/8/06 at 12:45pm
Sunday In The Park with George
Pacific Overtures
Follies
Ragtime
Caroline or Change
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#60re: Favorite Broadway Flop
Posted: 8/8/06 at 1:44pm
I hate calling these shows flops too... they're all quite amazing:
Follies
Side Show
A Class Act
Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#61re: Favorite Broadway Flop
Posted: 8/8/06 at 2:22pmYeah, Caroline or Change for me too.
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#62re: Favorite Broadway Flop
Posted: 8/8/06 at 2:24pmi also was in tom sawyer i played muff potter. but my favorite is little women
#63re: Favorite Broadway Flop
Posted: 8/8/06 at 2:28pm
I LOVE MY FLOPS!
-Dance of the Vampires
-Side Show
-Carrie
-Taboo
-Dracula
-Mack and Mabel
-Baby
-Merrily We Roll Along
-The Wild Party (LaChiusa)
-Marie Christine
-Anyone Can Whistle
-Nick and Nora
-The Human Comedy
-It's A Bird, It's A Plane, It's Superman!
-Jane Eyre
-Zombie Prom
-The Grind
-Goodtime Charley
-A Dolls House (Musical)
-Do I Hear A Waltz?
-Floyd Collins
Oh how the list goes on...
#64re: Favorite Broadway Flop
Posted: 8/8/06 at 2:30pmTechnically Sunday in the Park with George and Sweeney Todd were both flops so those count! But flop flops id say Lestat.
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"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
#67re: Favorite Broadway Flop
Posted: 8/8/06 at 3:05pm
i've recently been falling for Taboo after i got Euan Mortan's cd. i mean, i always liked it but i'm kind of memorizing the songs now...
my favorites would definitely be Steel Pier and Carrie.
i wouldn't consider some of the others that received acclaim a "flop". my definition of flop would be those shows that sort of came & went quickly "undiscovered". Little Women was a flop.
#68re: Favorite Broadway Flop
Posted: 10/6/06 at 8:53pmTABOO
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"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
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Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#69re: Favorite Broadway Flop
Posted: 10/6/06 at 9:03pm
Superman
I also liked Baker Street, Jimmy , Lestat & Inner City. Rockabye Hamlet is also up there
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AudreyTwoTwo
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/06
#70re: Favorite Broadway Flop
Posted: 10/6/06 at 9:04pmmy ultimate favorite has to be Woman In White. But technically it closed because of illnesses didnt it?
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Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#71re: Favorite Broadway Flop
Posted: 10/6/06 at 9:11pmIt would not have made it no matter what
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NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#72re: Favorite Broadway Flop
Posted: 10/6/06 at 9:16pm
A Year With Frog and Toad
The Frogs
Assassins (the original)
You're A Good Man Charlie Brown Revival
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Stand-by Joined: 8/13/06
Julian2
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/10/06
#75re: Favorite Broadway Flop
Posted: 10/7/06 at 1:42pm
JANE EYRE
THE FROGS
DEAR WORLD
THE GRAND TOUR
MACK AND MABEL
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