Favorite Broadway Flop
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re: Favorite Broadway Flop#50
Posted: 8/8/06 at 1:57amDid Ragtime recoup its initial investment?
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/15/05
re: Favorite Broadway Flop#51
Posted: 8/8/06 at 1:57amOopsies... Sorry Double post!
re: Favorite Broadway Flop#52
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.
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Joined: 12/31/69
re: Favorite Broadway Flop#54
Posted: 8/8/06 at 11:00amLestat
To Kill A Mockingbird
re: Favorite Broadway Flop#55
Posted: 8/8/06 at 11:07amBrooklyn, Seussical, and The Civil War.
Joined: 12/31/69
re: Favorite Broadway Flop#56
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.
Stand-by Joined: 4/3/06
re: Favorite Broadway Flop#59
Posted: 8/8/06 at 12:45pm
Sunday In The Park with George
Pacific Overtures
Follies
Ragtime
Caroline or Change
re: Favorite Broadway Flop#60
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
re: Favorite Broadway Flop#61
Posted: 8/8/06 at 2:22pmYeah, Caroline or Change for me too.
re: Favorite Broadway Flop#62
Posted: 8/8/06 at 2:24pmi also was in tom sawyer i played muff potter. but my favorite is little women
re: Favorite Broadway Flop#63
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...
re: Favorite Broadway Flop#64
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.
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
re: Favorite Broadway Flop#67
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.
re: Favorite Broadway Flop#68
Posted: 10/6/06 at 8:53pmTABOO
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re: Favorite Broadway Flop#69
Posted: 10/6/06 at 9:03pm
Superman
I also liked Baker Street, Jimmy , Lestat & Inner City. Rockabye Hamlet is also up there
re: Favorite Broadway Flop#70
Posted: 10/6/06 at 9:04pmmy ultimate favorite has to be Woman In White. But technically it closed because of illnesses didnt it?
re: Favorite Broadway Flop#71
Posted: 10/6/06 at 9:11pmIt would not have made it no matter what
re: Favorite Broadway Flop#72
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
re: Favorite Broadway Flop#75
Posted: 10/7/06 at 1:42pm
JANE EYRE
THE FROGS
DEAR WORLD
THE GRAND TOUR
MACK AND MABEL
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