Favorite songs from failed shows

[emilyfaye48]

Favorite songs from failed shows#1

Posted: 5/4/13 at 12:15am

Just curious what songs you love from shows that perhaps didn't do so well overall.

Without bread we'd just be hungry but without theatre we'd be dead

[Musical Master]

Favorite songs from failed shows#2

Posted: 5/4/13 at 12:17am

Evening Prayers from the legendary 1988 Broadway flop: Carrie.

[Jordan Catalano]

Favorite songs from failed shows#2

Posted: 5/4/13 at 12:22am

Losing My Mimd from the legendary 1971 Broadway flop: Follies.

[givesmevoice]

Favorite songs from failed shows#3

Posted: 5/4/13 at 12:25am

I've been going through a Darling of the Day phase and LOVE I've Got a Rainbow Working For Me. Who knew Vincent Price could be so damn precious?

When I see the phrase "the ____ estate", I imagine a vast mansion in the country full of monocled men and high-collared women receiving letters about productions across the country and doing spit-takes at whatever they contain. -Kad

[Musical Master]

Favorite songs from failed shows#4

Posted: 5/4/13 at 12:30am

LOL Jordon, was Sally Durant Plummer doing the song in mime?

JK. I love Losing My Mind, it's one of my favorite Sondheim songs.



Updated On: 5/4/13 at 12:30 AM

[Jordan Catalano]

Favorite songs from failed shows#5

Posted: 5/4/13 at 12:32am

She was doing it without words because words weren't needed to convey her emotions. And at the end she farted just to let everyone know how through with it all she really was.

[Musical Master]

Favorite songs from failed shows#6

Posted: 5/4/13 at 12:37am

If you keep farting Jordon I think I'm gonna die! (Of laughter anyways.)

EDIT: Another song I love is Mr Cellophane from Chicago (The original 1975 production may not have been a flop but it sure didn't do well.)



Updated On: 5/4/13 at 12:37 AM

[CurtainPullDowner]

Favorite songs from failed shows#7

Posted: 5/4/13 at 1:02am

WHY DID I CHOOSE YOU from THE YEARLING.

[FindingNamo]

Favorite songs from failed shows#8

Posted: 5/4/13 at 1:15am

"Model Behavior" from Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.

"Beer" from "Is There Life After High School?".

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[CurtainPullDowner]

Favorite songs from failed shows#9

Posted: 5/4/13 at 1:32am

HE TOUCHED ME from DRAT THE CAT!.

[chewy5000]

Favorite songs from failed shows#10

Posted: 5/4/13 at 1:36am

Boom Chicka Boom, Nick and Nora

[DancingShadows]

Favorite songs from failed shows#11

Posted: 5/4/13 at 3:56am

I really love "I, to the World" from "Oh, Brother!" and "Model Behaviour" from "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown" :)

[Valastairekelly]

Favorite songs from failed shows#12

Posted: 5/4/13 at 5:07am

"Here's that rainy day" from "Carnival in Flanders" .... which closed after 6 performances.....

[After Eight]

Favorite songs from failed shows#13

Posted: 5/4/13 at 5:20am

"Each Tomorrow Morning" fom Dear World. It was beautiful on stage.

[TBFL]

Favorite songs from failed shows#14

Posted: 5/4/13 at 6:04am

Watch Me Begin - Bernadette
The Sun - Metropolis
World Without You - Children of Eden
Alone - Fields of Ambrosia (the song is so bad love it!)

[binau]

Favorite songs from failed shows#15

Posted: 5/4/13 at 6:14am

Follies? Chicago? Come on we all love those. I nominate I will prevail from WONDERLAND lol.

Give me claws and a hunch, just away from this bunch.

[chrisampm2]

Favorite songs from failed shows#16

Posted: 5/4/13 at 6:20am

After Eight, can you explain why "Each Tomorrow Morning" was beautiful on stage? I'm always grateful to hear about the staging of numbers that haven't been preserved on video or film.

[John Adams]

Favorite songs from failed shows#17

Posted: 5/4/13 at 6:44am

You, You, You from The Visit
It's Only Love/Bring On the Night from Metropolis
Eyes That Never Lie from Weird Romance
Someone Else Is Waiting also from Weird Romance

...and the score from Triumph of Love, which you might swear was a lost Sondheim score, but isn't. Updated On: 5/4/13 at 06:44 AM

[bearhorn]

Favorite songs from failed shows#18

Posted: 5/4/13 at 7:47am

Hmmm. I'd go with:

"And Eve Was Weak" from CARRIE
"Go Back Home" from THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS
"I Will Never Leave You" from SIDE SHOW
"Petrified" from TABOO
"Model Behavior" from WOMAN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN

[Kbradstein]

Favorite songs from failed shows#19

Posted: 5/4/13 at 8:10am

Dyin ain't so bad- Bonnie and Clyde

[hak5]

Favorite songs from failed shows#20

Posted: 5/4/13 at 8:12am

"Other Side Of Pain" from the New Orleans version of WHITE NOISE
and [maybe it was just the staging] "When Love Is Inside You" from DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES

[After Eight]

Favorite songs from failed shows#21

Posted: 5/4/13 at 8:22am

Chris,

I'm sorry I can't give you pinpoint specfics, but in general, in the old days, people knew how to make a production number "build," Gower Champion being a master of the craft. In the case of this song, it "built" wondrously. It was heaven on earth, or at least, on a stage. It started quietly with the Countess singing the song to Julien, followed by her whimsical musings, then little by little the chorus came in, the stage opened up to present a morning-fresh vision of Paris, radiant and enchanted, a charming dance ensued, and then, building to a crescendo, the chorus sang once again as bells tinkled in acompaniment to Jerry Herman's beautiful music and heartening lyrics.

The total effect of this number filled me with such elation- it coursed through my entire being. I was moved, enrapt, transported to a dear, wonderful world.

And now when I think back upon it, I can't suppress a tear.

Updated On: 5/4/13 at 08:22 AM

[John Adams]

Favorite songs from failed shows#22

Posted: 5/4/13 at 8:32am

>> "The total effect of this number filled me with such elation- it coursed through my entire being. I was moved, enrapt, transported to a dear, wonderful world.

And now when I think back upon it, I can't suppress a tear."

Can this beautifully evocative and warm description of sentiment be coming from the same cranky, "get off my lawn" son-of-a...[gun] that consistently ruffles so many feathers?

hmmmmmm... I may have to rethink my opinion of you.
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[Kad]

Favorite songs from failed shows#23

Posted: 5/4/13 at 8:47am

"Love Me for What I Am" from In Trousers

"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."

[After Eight]

Favorite songs from failed shows#24

Posted: 5/4/13 at 8:52am

Mr. Adams,

You're relatively new here, so I'll sum it up for you in a nutshell. The "get off my lawn " persona I've been saddled with here is a complete fiction invented by those who simply don't like my opinions.

Of course, they'll never admit that.

To cite another wonderful Jerry Herman song, "It's as Simple as That."