Favorite Broadway Flop- Page 4
Favorite Broadway Flop
re: Favorite Broadway Flop#75
Posted: 10/7/06 at 1:42pm
JANE EYRE
THE FROGS
DEAR WORLD
THE GRAND TOUR
MACK AND MABEL
re: Favorite Broadway Flop#76
Posted: 10/7/06 at 2:18pm
Caroline, or Change
Mack & Mabel
Sweeney Todd (if that has to count!)
Broadway Star Joined: 8/21/05
re: Favorite Broadway Flop#77
Posted: 10/7/06 at 2:22pm
Sweet Charity Revival WHY DID IT HAVE TO CLOSE 
re: Favorite Broadway Flop#78
Posted: 10/7/06 at 2:38pmside show or brooklyn...i would not call millie a flop
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/06
re: Favorite Broadway Flop#79
Posted: 10/7/06 at 3:46pmCATS was a flop??? Referring to jjoey's comment
re: Favorite Broadway Flop#81
Posted: 10/7/06 at 4:33pm
Caroline or Change
(Pennies done that...Pennies done that!)
re: Favorite Broadway Flop#82
Posted: 10/7/06 at 6:29pmi say flops are shows that did not get a cast cd made of them like good vibrations, in my life ring of fire and orhers.
re: Favorite Broadway Flop#83
Posted: 10/7/06 at 6:37pm
I'm afraid nobody mentioned the marvellous "Bring Back Birdie" yet. Neither "A Broadway Musical". Or "Dance a little closer". All of these have got fine scores by Charles Strouse (even though the rest was a mess) 
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
re: Favorite Broadway Flop#84
Posted: 10/7/06 at 7:29pmI love all the flops I have scene as I am always for the underdog
re: Favorite Broadway Flop#85
Posted: 10/8/06 at 11:29am
GOLDILOCKS (1958 with Elaine Stritch) It had a great score by Leroy Anderson and wonderful dances by Agnes DeMille.
BAJOUR (1964 with Chita Rivera) Michael Bennett was a chorus gypsy. Conducted by the always wonderful Lehman Engel.
THE GIRL WHO CAME TO SUPPER (1963 with Florence Henderson and Jose Ferrer) The radiant Florence Henderson had some wonderful numbers and was nothing like the sugary Brady Bunch mother. Tessie O'Shea brought down the house with her 15 minute collection of Cockney songs. I saw the complete show many times and 2nd acted the show some 6 times during my drinking days!
Understudy Joined: 6/11/06
re: Favorite Broadway Flop#88
Posted: 10/8/06 at 2:43pm
When I was 14 I saw The Red Shoes and Cyrano in the same week. That began a lifelong love of flops, the floppier the better. Unfortunately my financial situation throughout most of my adult life has meant that I have missed many flops that I couldn't get comps to or see for less than $30, and some where I was working out of town and missed their entire runs.
My favorites of the ones I've seen have to be (in order of preference):
The Red Shoes
Thou Shalt Not
In My Life
Side Show
re: Favorite Broadway Flop#89
Posted: 10/8/06 at 2:53pm
Margo's list is almost exactly what mine would be minus Pacific Overtures and Follies. I like them alot, listen to them often but they aren't my favorite.
Sunday In The Park with George
Ragtime
Caroline or Change
Sweeney Todd OBC
Swing Joined: 10/2/06
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/22/05
re: Favorite Broadway Flop#91
Posted: 10/8/06 at 5:02pm
Ring of Fire
Say what you want, but if it means anything, I had more fun at Ring of Fire than I did at Lestat and Tarzan.
re: Favorite Broadway Flop#92
Posted: 10/8/06 at 5:13pm
the ab.fab revival of LA CAGE aux FOLLES!!!!!
and if we must the harrowingly stunning revival of SWEENEY TODD
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/13/04
re: Favorite Broadway Flop#94
Posted: 10/8/06 at 8:32pm
WICKED
Oh, you meant *financial* flops.
ANYONE CAN WHISTLE
re: Favorite Broadway Flop#95
Posted: 10/8/06 at 10:39pmRagtime, Side Show, Floyd Collins, Jane Eyre, and... does Parade count? I don't know about it financially but I do know it didn't run for very long.
re: Favorite Broadway Flop#96
Posted: 10/9/06 at 11:48am
Sometimes you listen to a cast album and wonder hopw a show could have possibly flopped: DEAR WORLD is a perfect example. Then you see the show on stage and see instantly why it DID flop. Still, that doesn't detract from the luster of the album.
Here are some flops (Financial flops that ran less than a year...some less than a month) that I have never seen but dealy love the cast recordings:
PAINT YOUR WAGON
A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN
FLAHOOLEY
THE GOLDEN APPLE
SEVENTH HEAVEN
GOLDILOCKS
JUNO
SUBWAYS ARE FOR SLEEPING
THE HAPPIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD
ANYA
ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER (a production of this opens in Toronto this week!)
MACK AND MABEL (A prod will be done at Shaw festival next summer)
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
re: Favorite Broadway Flop#98
Posted: 10/9/06 at 1:52pmI don't know but does Kat and The Kings count as a flop?I saw it a couple of times,I don't remember, but I don't think it was on broadway for long
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
re: Favorite Broadway Flop#99
Posted: 10/9/06 at 2:05pm
LEGS DIAMOND. Tres Gay Peter Allen as a womanizing gangster.
A total mess but fun to listen to. The opening, "When I Get My Name in Lights" show promise but it's all downhill from there.
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