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Favorite Short Lived Musicals?
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#25Favorite Short Lived Musicals?
Posted: 7/23/19 at 11:39am
Amour. It has a wonderful score and the cast sounded great on it.
Scottsboro Boys is easily one of the best shows I've ever seen.
#26Favorite Short Lived Musicals?
Posted: 7/23/19 at 12:39pm
I'll add 2 more:
Sweet Smell of Success - great, smoky score and good story; John Lithgow and Bryan D'Arcy James were great, too
Catch Me If You Can - Yes, Aaron Tveit was bland and Norbert Leo Butz was over-the-top .... but the score was top notch and worked well with the story
mattyp4
Featured Actor Joined: 5/11/04
#27Favorite Short Lived Musicals?
Posted: 7/23/19 at 12:41pm
I still have a soft spot for Taboo. Wish I could see it again. I still listen to the cast album a lot.
#28Favorite Short Lived Musicals?
Posted: 7/23/19 at 12:46pm
I recently did a blog about this very topic!
https://jkstheatrescene.blogspot.com/2019/07/300-shows-favorite-flops.html
I'm glad (relieved?) to see that I am not alone on many of these!
yankeefan7
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/14/12
#29Favorite Short Lived Musicals?
Posted: 7/23/19 at 12:51pm
" Catch Me If You Can - Yes, Aaron Tveit was bland and Norbert Leo Butz was over-the-top .... but the score was top notch and worked well with the story "
My favorite was Kerry Butler singing "Fly Away".
Hairspray0901
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/29/08
#31Favorite Short Lived Musicals?
Posted: 7/23/19 at 1:18pm
Steel Pier
Groundhog Day
Catch Me If You Can
Jarethan
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/10/11
#32Favorite Short Lived Musicals?
Posted: 7/23/19 at 1:35pm
Not sure about The Scottsboro Boys (which was around that number), but the rest ran less than 100 performances:
— Drat! The Cat (8 perf)
— Darling of the Day (32 performance)
— The Scottsboro Boys
— The Grand Tour
— Maggie Flynn (60s)
— Cry For Us All / Who to Love (a week or so)
— Cyrano (Christopher Plummer)
— Shuffle Along
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#33Favorite Short Lived Musicals?
Posted: 7/23/19 at 1:41pm
How about Martin Guerre? I've been listening to the original cast album, not the later revised version, and the original is wonderful. I wish Cameron Mackintosh hadn't given up on reviving it. I'd like to see that one back some day.
#34Favorite Short Lived Musicals?
Posted: 7/23/19 at 1:55pm
SIDE SHOW and its revisal
KING OF HEARTS
WILD PARTY (LaChiusa version)
MACK and MABEL
THE BAKER'S WIFE
ANYONE CAN WHISTLE
#35Favorite Short Lived Musicals?
Posted: 7/23/19 at 1:55pm
Going back more than 50 years:
Dear World
Jarethan
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/10/11
#36Favorite Short Lived Musicals?
Posted: 7/23/19 at 2:07pm
CATSNYrevival said: "How about Martin Guerre? I've been listening to the original cast album, not the later revised version, and the original is wonderful. I wish Cameron Mackintosh hadn't given up on reviving it. I'd like to see that one back some day."
It doesn’t sound as if you saw it. I saw it in DC and can only say that it was one of the most boring shows I have seen in the past 20 years. You were so bored by what was happening on stage that you didn’t even notice if the ending was any good.
#37Favorite Short Lived Musicals?
Posted: 7/23/19 at 2:13pm
Jarethan said: "It doesn’t sound as if you saw it. I saw it in DC and can only say that it was one of the most boring shows I have seen in the past 20 years. You were so bored by what was happening on stage that you didn’t even notice if the ending was any good."
That was the revised version though. The second or third major rewrite as far as I know. The original London production was very different and the most recent staging at the Watermill Theatre in 2007 reverted back to a lot of the original material. Maybe I'm just a sucker for courtroom drama.
Pashacar
Broadway Star Joined: 11/2/18
#38Favorite Short Lived Musicals?
Posted: 7/23/19 at 2:16pm
Hot Pants said: "SpongeBob Squarepants. The show was such a wonderful surprise. What could’ve been a soulless cash grab had so much care and effort put into it. The direction, the cast, and the music were all absolutely excellent. Not to mention, it introduced the world to Ethan Slater."
So well said! Miss it dearly.
I'd also add Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson to the mix.
daredevil
Featured Actor Joined: 8/17/05
#39Favorite Short Lived Musicals?
Posted: 7/23/19 at 2:24pm
The Human Comedy--Music by Galt McDermott. Transferred from the public in April of 84. Really good score with great feeling.
#40Favorite Short Lived Musicals?
Posted: 7/23/19 at 2:29pm
1. Side Show, original and revival (I like the score in the revival better)
2. Great Comet
3. Carrie (the good, the bad, I love it all!)
Another day, another dollar is the reality of my mentality. Otherwise, don't even bother.- TLC
BWAY Baby2
Broadway Star Joined: 11/10/14
#41Favorite Short Lived Musicals?
Posted: 7/23/19 at 3:29pm
I loved Victor/Victoria with Julie Andrews- I know it got dissed- but I personally loved it. Going back a million years- loved Flora The Red Menace- Liza's first BWAY show- and a flop- boy I loved that as a kid. Also a musical no one ever mentions- Skyscraper- Julie Harris was one of the stars- I loved it. Long, long time ago, I know. I also loved Parade- a very serious and engrossing look at racism in Georgia. I love serious musicals.
#43Favorite Short Lived Musicals?
Posted: 7/23/19 at 3:44pm
I still can't listen to the cast recording of [title of show] without crying.
And no one grew into anything new, we just became the worst of what we were."
MemorableUserName
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/27/19
#44Favorite Short Lived Musicals?
Posted: 7/23/19 at 3:45pm
WOMEN ON THE VERGE... Saw it twice and almost went back for a third before it closed--wish that I had. It wasn't perfect, but it was far more fun and entertaining than the buzz around it said. Great score, great performances.
#45Favorite Short Lived Musicals?
Posted: 7/23/19 at 4:04pm
yankeefan7 said: "" Catch Me If You Can - Yes, Aaron Tveit was bland and Norbert Leo Butz was over-the-top .... but the score was top notch and worked well with the story "
My favorite was Kerry Butler singing "Goodbye"."
Lol, were you drunk? It was Tveit's character that sung "Goodbye". Kerry Butler sang "Fly, Fly Away".
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
Colin852
Understudy Joined: 7/5/19
#46Favorite Short Lived Musicals?
Posted: 7/23/19 at 4:10pm
2 words: AMERICAN PSYCHO! (That opening number!!!)
Jessryn
Swing Joined: 5/2/19
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#48Favorite Short Lived Musicals?
Posted: 7/23/19 at 4:43pm
I so loved Georgy, Sophie, Hot Spot, The Student Gypsy, Darling of the Day, The Happiest Girl in the World... these and so many others of cherished recollection.
Kitsune
Broadway Star Joined: 12/29/06
#49Favorite Short Lived Musicals?
Posted: 7/23/19 at 4:43pm
Off the top of my head:
1. Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812. I saw it two times total, both of which were during its final weekend. Since then my boyfriend and I have become big Dave Malloy fans, and were lucky enough to see both Ghost Quartet and Octet.
2. Head Over Heels. I saw it four times in San Francisco, and three in New York. I'm sad it never found an audience, because HOH was pure joy to me.
3. Groundhog Day. See icon. This show is incredibly near and dear to my heart, and I'm thrilled that regional productions are now popping up.
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