Favorite songs from failed shows- Page 5

[bryan2]

Posted: 5/8/13 at 11:01am

Blame It On the Summer Nights-RAGS
Children of the Wind -RAGS
It's Only Love/Bring On the Night -Metropolis
I Remember how those boys could dance-BB version-CARRIE OBC
Everybodys Girl- STEEL PIER

[Ham3]

Posted: 5/8/13 at 12:06pm

September Song, from KNICKERBOCKER HOLIDAY.

[Wilmingtom]

Posted: 5/8/13 at 3:12pm

Chain of Love from The Grass Harp
Come Home from Allegro

[Charley Kringas Inc]

Posted: 5/8/13 at 4:20pm

There are a couple really wonderful songs in 70, Girls, 70 but "You And I, Love" knocks me out every time. It's just so sweetly melancholic. "Home" is fun, too. On the Kander and Ebb route, "Happy Birthday" from Zorba the Greek perfectly pays off the entire show, as slim as it is. It's entirely electrifying, how she slips into this telling fantasy that crashes over her and then dissipates, leaving her with nothing as she dies. It's crushing and sad and devastating and theatrically overwhelming.

Also, "Look What Happened To Mabel" from Mack & Mabel has one of the most joyful, mellifluous melodies ever written and the lyric tricks are superb.

And talk about lost numbers, "Honey", cut in previews from Merrily We Roll Along, is a great representation of confused young love and has a gorgeous little melody. If it had been kept in it may well have been the heart of the show.

[Wishing Only Wounds]

Posted: 5/8/13 at 5:20pm

" I Miss The Music" from Curtains
"Woman" from The Pirate Queen
"Dyin' Aint So Bad" from Bonnie & Clyde

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 5/8/13 at 5:28pm

After Eight, do you read your own posts?

There is a difference between thinking a show doesn't work (something I have said of MERRILY many times) and loving that same show's score (which is what I said above).

But, no, I don't believe you are a theater lover, no matter how often you attend. Your insistence that all shows conform to conventions established over a half-century ago is the very opposite of "love".

You "love" the theater like an abusive husband "loves" his wife.

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 5/8/13 at 5:33pm

Was She Loves Me a flop? If it was, then I pick every song in it.

By the narrow standard of whether the OBC recouped, yes. By the more interesting standard of its place in English-language culture, no, SHE LOVES ME is a classic that has been revived on Broadway and played the West End twice. It has toured most of the U.S. and to other countries.

(For those to whom money is the arbiter or everything, the same Prince investors who put money into SHE LOVES ME were also given a chance to invest in FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, so they probably did just fine, financially.)

To me, lumping FOLLIES in with HER FIRST ROMAN is pointless. Yes, both shows lost every penny of their original investments (at least by the time the first run closed), but that is no reflection of the respective historical importance of the two shows.

Updated On: 5/8/13 at 05:33 PM

[Someone in a Tree2]

Posted: 5/8/13 at 5:52pm

^Totally agree with Gaveston. I think that's why the OP changed the thread title to Favorite Songs from FAILED Shows.

I'd suggest Favorite Songs from Forgotten Shows. In either case, we wouldn't be caught talking again about which shows made it into the black and which didn't, which would obviate the need for After Eight's lectures and everyone else's clutching of pearls.

I too am more curious about hidden gems from Allegro than Anyone Can Whistle or She Loves Me.

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 5/8/13 at 6:35pm

^^^"The Gentleman is a Dope", maybe?

[Someone in a Tree2]

Posted: 5/8/13 at 6:52pm

^ Cute :)

[After Eight]

Posted: 5/8/13 at 7:29pm

Brick Wall,

Your understanding of what a theater lover is is as skewed as your judgment regarding success and failure. It comes as no surprise, though.

"To me, lumping FOLLIES in with HER FIRST ROMAN is pointless."

Absolutely. Her First Roman was far superior.

And here are two gems from Her First Roman that I always enjoy listening to:

Magic Carpet
Many Young Men From Now

Oh, why can't people today write scores like that of Her First Roman?

Updated On: 5/8/13 at 07:29 PM

[GavestonPS]

Posted: 5/8/13 at 7:33pm

After Eight, I don't know why you bother. NOBODY believes you actually prefer HER FIRST ROMAN to FOLLIES, at least not for any sane reason.

Please note I didn't start this argument. I said nothing to posters who responded to the thread topic by using the traditional recouped/failed to recoup definition of hit/flop.

I was quite straightforward as to the distinction *I* was making between shows that flop and disappear v. those that become eventual classics by surviving the test of time. In response, you called me a liar. It was to that unnecessary and scurrilous attack I objected.

I'm bored now, however, and will no longer play your game.




Updated On: 5/8/13 at 07:33 PM

[broadway guy]

Posted: 5/8/13 at 7:41pm

I Love Listening to the cast recording of MY FAVORITE YEAR. SEUSSICAL also has a great score.

[After Eight]

Posted: 5/9/13 at 8:24am

Charley,

Glad to see you're a fan of 70, Girls, 70, my favorite Kander and Ebb score (and show). I would also recommend my favorite song in the show, the ebullient "Hit It Lorraine." When Lorraine herself "hit it," and started tickling those ivories full speed ahead, a wave of euphoria flooded the theatre. I was just listening to it yesterday, and felt the same giddy joy that I did when I first heard it.