Favorite Broadway Musical Flops?

I know it sounds stupid, but I'm sure there are some musicals that people love that are flops. Which musicals do you guys think shouldn't have been flops?

I think all of the musical flops in the 2015-16 Broadway season (A.K.A. The Hamilton Season) shouldn't have been flops. The 7 musicals that flopped didn't get the chance to be in the spotlight because Hamilton took all of the spotlights that year (hence why I call it "The Hamilton Season".

Other musicals that I shouldn't have flopped are Amelie, In Transit, Parade, The Rocky Horror Show, Big Fish, and Honeymoon in Vegas.

I absolutely adore Tuck Everlasting. I know it has some problems but I personally find the show to be stunning. I'll never understand why it didn't connect like other family shows.

Roza was a wonderful show with a great performance by Georgia Brown.

Though this may be one of the more obvious choices, I wish that MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG had a longer run. The score is just gorgeous, and the recent documentary convinced me further that it deserves more love.

"Rags," Strouse's masterwork to my ears, with an ambitious but unfocused, too scattered book that can't be fixed. I played the overture again on the 4th of July. It alone is a kind of musical testament to Ellis Island. The whole score is just exquisite.

Even though there are countless of flops I did enjoy seeing, like CARRIE, the Faith Prince revival of BELLS ARE RINGING and a few others, I would say my favorite flop was 2003's TABOO. At the time I was living in South Florida and flew up at least every other month to see shows so I was excited to see this after all the hype it was getting during previews - good and bad.

I remember arriving into NYC on the show's Opening Night and passing the Plymouth Theatre (now the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre) and the red carpet being installed, etc. I was excited to read the reviews later and I planned on seeing the show the following day.

Back then I never bought tickets in advance but the morning of the performance and always getting my excellent seats that way. Though THE PRODUCERS had begun the Premium Seats back in 2001, the concept wasn't adopted by other shows until years later. I had totally forgotten about reading the Opening Night reviews for TABOO so I found it oddly weird that as I was walking up to the Plymouth Theatre, not a soul was in sight anywhere outside. I was actually expecting to see hords of people. It was just me and a cleaning lady in the lobby until the box office opened at 10am. Not one person arrived during the entire time I was there. I scored tickets in the front row orchestra center of course.

Well, judging by the crowds that night, seems the 8pm performance was sold-out. The energy in the audience was electric and I remember looking up to the mezzanine and balcony levels and seeing them full as was the orchestra level. I actually loved the show as did the audience - judging by the roars and applause throughout the show. The score and the performances were incredible and the show resonated enormously with me as it covers a time in my youth in the early 80s so I identified with everything the show was about.

Anyway, it did leave me a bit depressed so I dashed over to the Marquis Theatre during intermission and quickly bought a ticket to see THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE again. I needed a little sunshine to spring me back to a happy place and Sutton Foster never failed to do this which is why I saw that show way too many times during her run - each performance being fresh and brand-new. She exemplified the reality that an actor continues to grow in a role and make them brand-new continually.

I did eventually read the reviews for TABOO and completely agreed with each one. It definitely did NOT belong on Broadway. All the money Rosie O'Donnell put into the show was definitely seen on stage - the sets, the costumes (especially the elaborate Leigh Bowery fashion show), but it was not a show for Broadway. It would have succeeded perfectly in a small theatre Off-Broadway and in the environmental setting that the London incarnation used.

Legally Blonde
Xanadu

Though they may not have recouped their investments, I wouldn't consider these 2 as flops as they did have nice healthy runs and LEGALLY BLONDE not only generated a reality series but was filmed and aired on MTV.

Flops, to me at least, are shows that ran a few days or weeks before closing quickly. I wouldn't consider a show that ran over a year a flop.

I really enjoyed THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER when I took my kids to see it. It had a very appealing cast and the set design by Heidi Ettinger was beautiful. The chase through the caves at the end was quite brilliant. Very enjoyable show.

Awww, THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER with its month long run in 2001 at the Minskoff Theatre and the musical that brought us Kristen Bell as Becky Thatcher.

I remember going in blind to a Saturday matinee of Big Fish in December 2013, shortly before it would close. By "Daffodils," I was won over, and I pretty much openly sobbed through most of the second act. It was a beautiful production, with excellent performances from Norbert Leo Butz and Kate Baldwin. I wasn't excited going in, but it turned into one of my most treasured theater experiences.

Well I adored the last Broadway revival of On the Town even though I know it lost a lot of money.

SUPERMAN (not SPIDER MAN)

And, of course ANYONE CAN WHISTLE -- terrible but brilliant. But terrible. But brilliant, of course.

Passion, Bridges of Madison County, Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown, Parade, Caroline, or Change, and Grey Gardens.