Favorite songs from failed shows- Page 3

[Nettik]

Posted: 5/4/13 at 7:29pm

"Children of Eden" and "Stranger to the Rain" from CHILDREN OF EDEN

"The Limpopo River" from JUST SO

"Fly, Fly Away" from CATCH ME IF YOU CAN

"No Voice," "Are You There," and "See Me/Warning" from BARE: A POP OPERA

"Angustias" from BERNARDA ALBA

"In L.A." from FAME

"On My Way" from VIOLET

Updated On: 5/4/13 at 07:29 PM

[After Eight]

Posted: 5/4/13 at 11:03pm

"Well, if Merrily counts as a failed show"

It ran 16 performances.

How could it be counted otherwise?

[After Eight]

Posted: 5/4/13 at 11:03pm

Updated On: 5/4/13 at 11:03 PM

[JohnyBroadway]

Posted: 5/4/13 at 11:20pm

Anything from Annie Warbucks

[After Eight]

Posted: 5/4/13 at 11:21pm

"I'm not counting shows that may be technical flops because they failed to recoup (RAGTIME, anything by Sondheim), but are well-known and often-revived and highly regarded classics.) "

Love how some people make up their own definitions and play fast and loose with the truth to suit their own agendas. How very post modern!

As if Anyone Can Whistle, Pacific Overtures, Merrily We Roll Along, The Frogs, Passion, Road Show, etc. are all "highly regarded classics."

[Kad]

Posted: 5/4/13 at 11:23pm

Shockingly, there is a musical theatre community outside of your Hospice window.

[jnb9872]

Posted: 5/4/13 at 11:24pm

Kind of surprised no one's mentioned HIGH FIDELITY here yet. "Laura, Laura" is a beautiful ballad to me, "The Last Real Record Store on Earth" one of my favorite scene-setting opening numbers and "Nine Percent Chance" just a fantastic rallying act break.

I'll also go to SMILE for a few songs. I personally love Robin's letter home during "There Goes the Girl/Finale," one of my favorite climactic reprises/emotional swells in a show few people know. And "Until Tomorrow Night" is a pretty dynamite anxiety-riddled button into intermission.

[Jungle Red]

Posted: 5/4/13 at 11:56pm

I personally loved Claudia's two songs from LESTAT.

[trentsketch]

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

The Wild Party (LaChiusa): Dry, Welcome to My Party, Moving Uptown

The Frogs: Ariadne, Fear No More

Greenwillow: Never Will I Marry

The Grass Harp: Yellow Drum, If There's Love Enough (I have a surprising number of contralto students right now and I love playing Carol Brice's songs from this show for them)

Young Frankenstein: Roll in the Hay, Transylvania Mania

The Addams Family: Grandma's Song (because Jackie Hoffman's video blogs were the only good thing to come out of that show)

[all that jazz]

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

'It ran 16 performances.

How could it be counted otherwise?"

That was my initial thought, but since the show is so highly regarded and to this day still continues to be a favorite among devoted theater fans, some will argue it's a classic.

[Green_Flash]

Posted: 5/5/13 at 2:03am

I loved "Screw Loose" from Crybaby.

[After Eight]

Posted: 5/5/13 at 9:04am

"That was my initial thought, but since the show is so highly regarded and to this day still continues to be a favorite among devoted theater fans,"

I know many devoted theatre fans, and I include myself among them. The show in question is certainly no favorite of theirs, or mine. And even if it were, it was still a flop, just like other flops that some theatregoers loved, eg, Side Show, Scottsboro Boys, Hands on a Hardbody, Follies, etc.

"some will argue it's a classic."

The only ones would would argue that --- and they don't argue, they decree-- are the Sondheim fanatics on Broadway World.

But now, to dispense with all this unpleasantness, and return to the subject of this thread, I'll add a few more gems from flops:

"Dear Friend" from Tenderloin. (Actually, the entire score of Tenderloin).
"When You're Far Away from New York Town" from Jennie. (Wonderfully staged)
"Where Shall I Find Find Him?" from Sail Away.
"The Nicest Thing" from Let It Ride!
"I've Been Invited to a Party" from The Girl Who Came to Supper.

[twinbelters]

Posted: 5/5/13 at 10:20am

Babylove's Miracle Show - The Grass Harp
Here I Am - Henry, Sweet Henry
I Wish It So - Juno
I Belong Here- The Grand Tour
Anything from Romance in Hard Times
Anything Susan Johnson ever sung

[Kad]

Posted: 5/5/13 at 10:29am

"A Sleepin' Bee" from House of Flowers

[JayG 2]

Posted: 5/5/13 at 5:55pm

HERE COMES MINE and NOTHING ONLY LOVE from KIng of Hearts

TIME HEALS EVERYTHING and WHEN MABEL WALK IN THE ROOM from Mack and Mabel

THE HAPPY TIME from The Happy Time

WAKING UP SUN from Here's Where I Belong

MARYANN from The Grand Tour

MAMA A RAINBOW from Minnie's Boys

STEAL WITH STYLE from The Robber Bridegroom

YES from 70 Girls 70

BROKEN PROMISE LAND OF FIFTEEN from Lolita My Love

TALL HOPE from Wildcat

[all that jazz]

Posted: 5/5/13 at 10:21pm

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Everybody Says Don't.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 5/6/13 at 12:20pm

I Had a Ball - I Had a Ball
Steady, Steady - Bravo Giovanni
Men - Whoop-Up!
Hey Look Me Over - Wildcat
Look For Small Pleasures - Ben Franklin in Paris
Once Upon a Time - All American
Too Close for Comfort - Mr. Wonderful
What Makes Me Love Him - The Apple Tree
Overture, Give the Little Lady, Save a Kiss, The Beast in You, Shall I Take My Heart and Go and I Never Know When - Goldilocks
Overture, Veronique, Never, I've Got It All and Sextet - On the Twentieth Century
Jet Set, Doctor's Orders, Fly Fly Away and Goodbye - Catch Me If You Can
I Know About Love and Make Someone Happy - Do Re Mi
Elevator Song - Top Banana
Chanson and Meadowlark - The Baker's Wife
Cocoa Bean Song and Nothing More to Look Forward To - Kwamina
It's Superman, You're the Woman For the Man and You've Got Possibilities - It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman!
My New Philosophy - You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
Eastwick Knows, Make Him Mine, I Love a Little Town, Dirty Laundry and I Wish I May - Witches of Eastwick
Trying Not to Notice, Lammastide, All For Laura and You Can Get Away With Anything - Woman in White
Look What Happened to Mabel and Wherever He Ain't - Mack and Mabel
Life Is, The Top of the Hill and The Butterfly - Zorba
Step to the Rear - How Now Dow Jones
Tire Tracks and Broken Hearts, No Matter What and A Kiss is a Terrible Thing to Waste - Whistle Down the Wind
Vampires - Closer to Heaven
God's Own Country and Our Kind of Love - The Beautiful Game
Once Upon a Dream, Bring on the Men, Girls of the Night and Sympathy Tenderness - Jekyll & Hyde
Int the Fire, When I Look at You, The Creation of Man, The Riddle, Only Love and Storybook - The Scarlet Pimpernel
You Love Who You Love and Dyin' Ain't So Bad - Bonnie and Clyde
It's All Happening and It Ain't No Thing - Bring It On

The entire scores of The Rothschilds, Rags, Caroline, or Change, Violet, High Fidelity, Legally Blonde and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

Updated On: 5/6/13 at 12:20 PM

[twinbelters]

Posted: 5/6/13 at 1:21pm

Shall I Speak of Loving You? - Music Is
The Day You Came Into My Life - Wind in the Willows

[twinbelters]

Posted: 5/6/13 at 1:24pm

Anything Beverly D'Angelo, Larry Marshal, and Lita Galloway sings in Rockabye Hamlet.

[jv92]

Posted: 5/6/13 at 2:32pm

If we're talking about real BOMBS that no one really knows or remembers, I'd like to mention "I'm All Smiles" from THE YEARLING.

[yankeefan7]

Posted: 5/6/13 at 3:32pm

"In His Eyes" from Jekyll & Hyde. While Jekyll & Hyde ran for over 1500 performances, it lost money.

Updated On: 5/6/13 at 03:32 PM

[all that jazz]

Posted: 5/6/13 at 3:34pm

Was Jekyll and Hyde really a flop?

[yankeefan7]

Posted: 5/6/13 at 3:37pm

All That Jazz - I did not think it was but was told by many others on this board it was in another thread. They said because it did not pay back it's investors it is a "flop". I believe it lost 1.5 million dollars.

[JayG 2]

Posted: 5/6/13 at 4:55pm

Twinbelters, I loved Rockabye Hamlet. Brilliantly stage.

Favorite songs from the show
That It Should Come To This
Didn't She Do It For Love
The Swordfight (Instrumental)
All By Yourself

[twinbelters]

Posted: 5/6/13 at 6:06pm

"How Does The Wine Taste?" from We Take The Town =)