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.
Posted: 5/29/17 at 11:55am
Tuck Everlasting, if only for the ballet number at the end.
Posted: 5/29/17 at 12:17pm
Bright Star and Parade
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?
Posted: 5/29/17 at 12:33pm
American Psycho & Tuck Everlasting !
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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.
Posted: 5/29/17 at 3:40pm
1. Caroline, or Change
2. Scottsboro Boys
3. The Visit
4. Ghost (yes, Ghost)
Posted: 5/29/17 at 4:23pm
Do revivals count? Because I loved the On the Town revival (2014) which flopped financially.
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.
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.
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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.
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!
Posted: 5/30/17 at 5:11am
Doctor Zhivago
Honeymoon in Vegas
Bridges of Madison County
It Shoulda Been You
Allegiance
Elf
Gigi
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.)
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)
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.
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.
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
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!
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
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.
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.
