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#26

Favorite Flops

Posted: 5/29/17 at 11:28am

For me, it's Title of Show. I feel fortunate to have seen it, and there will never be another production that captures the unique qualities of that show. The night I went, the audience was so enthusiastic you would have thought it was the biggest hit on Broadway.

#27

Favorite Flops

Posted: 5/29/17 at 11:55am

Tuck Everlasting, if only for the ballet number at the end.

#28

Favorite Flops

Posted: 5/29/17 at 12:17pm

Bright Star and Parade

My father (AIDS) My sister (AIDS) My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (AIDS, AIDS, AIDS) The gays and the straights And the white and the spades

#29

Favorite Flops

Posted: 5/29/17 at 12:20pm

Steel Pier was one of the cast albums I got in high school and totally fell in love with, while I was discovering the wonderful world of musical theater. Obviously, it's problematic on stage, but listening to the score is such a wonderful reminder of that time in my life.

Was bowled over by Bridges each of the three times I saw it too. Beautiful.

And CAROLINE. God, that score is great. I'm assuming it didn't recoup?

"...and in a bed."

#30

Favorite Flops

Posted: 5/29/17 at 12:33pm

American Psycho & Tuck Everlasting !

Updated On: 5/29/17 at 12:33 PM

#31

Favorite Flops

Posted: 5/29/17 at 3:33pm

Hands down, [title of show]. I made sure to see it multiple times in the 2 months between discovering it and its Broadway closing. Closing night is still one of the highlights of my theatregoing life. The energy and love in the Lyceum that evening was breathtaking.

#32

Favorite Flops

Posted: 5/29/17 at 3:40pm

1. Caroline, or Change

2. Scottsboro Boys

3. The Visit

4. Ghost (yes, Ghost)

#33

Favorite Flops

Posted: 5/29/17 at 4:23pm

Do revivals count? Because I loved the On the Town revival (2014) which flopped financially.

#34

Favorite Flops

Posted: 5/29/17 at 4:51pm

Taboo by far for me, but I was an 80s club kid so maybe I was part of a too-small target audience with which it really resonated here in the US.

I had forgotten about It Shoulda Been You until a previous poster mentioned it - I thought it was fun and that it would have done better.

#35

Favorite Flops

Posted: 5/29/17 at 6:15pm

(Oh all you youngsters and your resent sorta flops)

While I will always have a bit of a soft spot for my first flop--Marilyn an American Fable (and the Miss Bubbles number with Marilyn in a flying bathtub with chorus boy plumbers in pink overalls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM_vAbQsUoA at about the 8:30 mark)

My favorite has to be The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public. So glad it got a cd, still love to listen to the score. And no one who saw it will every forget the phone sex production number or the prostitutes heading to Washington DC in their Bob Mackie outfits or Siegfred and Roy being played by a single person or all that neon or the live horse or the not so now far fetched plot point of Miss Mona becoming president.

Updated On: 5/29/17 at 06:15 PM

#36

Favorite Flops

Posted: 5/29/17 at 6:35pm

Doctor Zhivago

Good Vibrations

Does Shuffle Along count?

(At the music, since I didn't see these) Heathers, Giant, The Bridges of Madison County

bowtie7 said: "(Oh all you youngsters and your resent sorta flops)"

I'd name older shows but I wasn't paying attention until the last few years so I don't have a great sense of what was a flop unless it's in Not Since Carrie.

#37

Favorite Flops

Posted: 5/29/17 at 9:40pm

One that I doubt anyone else on here saw: Moonshadow. It was a Cat Stevens/Yusuf jukebox musical that only played in Melbourne and while it definitely had some flaws, it was a fun, family-friendly show, with great music. I think even just adding a Mamma Mia-esque singalong at the end would have helped it tremendously.

Doctor Zhivago. I'm still annoyed we never got our Australian cast recording, the Broadway one just wasn't the same!

#38

Favorite Flops

Posted: 5/29/17 at 11:20pm

Jekyll and Hyde (1997)

#39

Favorite Flops

Posted: 5/30/17 at 5:11am

Doctor Zhivago

Honeymoon in Vegas

Bridges of Madison County

It Shoulda Been You

Allegiance

Elf

Gigi

#40

Favorite Flops

Posted: 5/30/17 at 7:57am

American Psycho

It Shoulda Been You

Love Never Dies

The Woman in White

(I haven't actually counted the mentions, but it seems like American Psycho is one of the most-missed flops.)

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#41

Favorite Flops

Posted: 5/30/17 at 10:56am

Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson

[title of show]

American Psycho (if only for the first act)

Side Show (OBC)

#42

Favorite Flops

Posted: 5/30/17 at 11:06am

bowtie7 said: "My favorite has to be The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public. So glad it got a cd, still love to listen to the score. And no one who saw it will every forget the phone sex production number or the prostitutes heading to Washington DC in their Bob Mackie outfits or Siegfred and Roy being played by a single person or all that neon or the live horse or the not so now far fetched plot point of Miss Mona becoming president."

#revivethis

Caroline, or Change is, of course, a masterpiece. I think a small-scale, limited run revival with some stars in supporting roles would actually do well now.

And I'll always maintain that The Wedding Singer had the best score of its year.

#43

Favorite Flops

Posted: 5/30/17 at 11:33am

StephieElise said: "One that I doubt anyone else on here saw: Moonshadow. It was a Cat Stevens/Yusuf jukebox musical that only played in Melbourne and while it definitely had some flaws, it was a fun, family-friendly show, with great music. I think even just adding a Mamma Mia-esque singalong at the end would have helped it tremendously.

Doctor Zhivago. I'm still annoyed we never got our Australian cast recording, the Broadway one just wasn't the same!

"

I am a fan of anything Warlow, so I would kill for that Australian recording. Dang it, wish they had done one.

#44

Favorite Flops

Posted: 5/30/17 at 1:36pm

Merrily We Roll Along-best score for a flop ever and more fav sondheim songs for me than any other score....

[[itle of Show]-incredibly clever with great songs=regionally productin this month in los altos and im going

Big Fish-this was a much better show than reviewed, some great songs, solid book, and of course Norbert

everyone should own Merrily and TItle recordings IMO

#45

Favorite Flops

Posted: 5/30/17 at 2:43pm

The Rink, The Rink, The Rink! Saw it 4 times back in '84 when I was still on an austerity budget and couldn't even afford TKTS prices, but had to go back again and again, just to see the miracle of those 2 stars in their prime and watch that gorgeous set rise into the flies on the final chords of that perfect score.

Other lost loves I feel so fortunate to have seen:

PACIFIC OVERTURES ('76)

GRIND

RAGS

GRAND HOTEL

RAGTIME (both productions)

NINE (revival with Banderas)

and always and forever on lists like this, THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY!

#46

Favorite Flops

Posted: 5/30/17 at 3:11pm

I just cant quite call Ragtime a flop, though it IS one of my favorite shows.

Im probably alone on this one but man oh man did I love Big Fish. Still listen to the soundtrack quite frequently.

As per Bright Star: incredible soundtrack, kind of blah production. Feel that way about most JRB shows too, tbh

#47

Favorite Flops

Posted: 5/30/17 at 3:13pm

Taboo is mine. I so enjoyed this show

#48

Favorite Flops

Posted: 5/30/17 at 3:26pm

CRY BABY

#49

Favorite Flops

Posted: 5/30/17 at 4:47pm

Honeymoon in Vegas, American Psycho and It Shoulda been you recently

Back further Seesaw. It wasn't perfect, but I loved it.

#50

Favorite Flops

Posted: 5/30/17 at 4:51pm

In Transit!! Still trying to find at least one other fan of this show

And Wonderland as a close second.

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