Flop Musicals, But Just Happens To Have A Excellent Score?
Flop Musicals, But Just Happens To Have A Excellent Score?
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#2Flop Musicals, But Just Happens To Have A Excellent Score?
Posted: 9/12/13 at 7:37pm
I feel like this is all we talk about, but, blah, I'll bite.
Caroline, or Change
Grey Gardens
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#3Flop Musicals, But Just Happens To Have A Excellent Score?
Posted: 9/12/13 at 7:46pmWomen on the Verge
#4Flop Musicals, But Just Happens To Have A Excellent Score?
Posted: 9/12/13 at 7:59pmTaboo.
"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008
#5Flop Musicals, But Just Happens To Have A Excellent Score?
Posted: 9/12/13 at 8:06pm
Merrily We Roll Along
Bonnie and Clyde
Updated On: 9/12/13 at 08:06 PM
Queen of the Night
Featured Actor Joined: 6/12/07
Featured Actor Joined: 12/31/69
#8Flop Musicals, But Just Happens To Have A Excellent Score?
Posted: 9/12/13 at 8:58pmBonnie and Clyde!!
#9Flop Musicals, But Just Happens To Have A Excellent Score?
Posted: 9/12/13 at 9:08pm
STREET SCENE
GOLDEN APPLE
most Sondheim musicals
Sorry, kids, but the scores to those flops put the others listed here to shame.
(ETA: for what it's worth, STREET SCENE and GOLDEN APPLE both opened before I was born. But they are available on CD in their entirety. So this post isn't me longing for the glory days of my youth.)
(ETA2: as two posters point out below, the GOLDEN APPLE CD is NOT complete, but uses narration to cover for the missing music. I appreciate the correction and I still highly recommend the CD.)
Updated On: 9/13/13 at 09:08 PM
eperkins
Broadway Star Joined: 5/21/07
#10Flop Musicals, But Just Happens To Have A Excellent Score?
Posted: 9/12/13 at 10:33pmMinnie's Boys
veronicamae
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/13/09
#11Flop Musicals, But Just Happens To Have A Excellent Score?
Posted: 9/12/13 at 10:34pm
Well, I really really dislike Jesus Christ Superstar on the stage but the score is my absolute favorite.
The musical itself didn't really flop though right? Except for maybe the recent revival - that didn't last very long.
#12Flop Musicals, But Just Happens To Have A Excellent Score?
Posted: 9/12/13 at 11:11pmRIVERWIND
Well-well-well-what-do-you-think-of-that-I-have-nothing-here-to-pay-my-train-fare-with-only-large-bills-fives-and-sevens....
Broadway Star Joined: 12/31/69
#13Flop Musicals That Just Happen To Have Excellent Scores?
Posted: 9/12/13 at 11:31pm
I don't believe GOLDEN APPLE is available on CD in its entirety.
To the list I'll add DEAR WORLD and ANYONE CAN WHISTLE.
#14Flop Musicals That Just Happen To Have Excellent Scores?
Posted: 9/12/13 at 11:41pm
Women on the Verge
Bonnie and Clyde
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Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#15Flop Musicals That Just Happen To Have Excellent Scores?
Posted: 9/13/13 at 12:45am70 Girls 70
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#16Flop Musicals That Just Happen To Have Excellent Scores?
Posted: 9/13/13 at 5:11am
I don't believe GOLDEN APPLE is available on CD in its entirety.
I believe you if you say so, but the version I have not only comes on 2 CDs, but adds narration so the listener can follow the story.
#17Flop Musicals That Just Happen To Have Excellent Scores?
Posted: 9/13/13 at 5:44am
Sweet Smell of Success
Mack & Mabel
Dance a Little Closer
....but the world goes 'round
#18Flop Musicals That Just Happen To Have Excellent Scores?
Posted: 9/13/13 at 2:00pmPARADE is pretty close to perfect... with the exception of "Letter to the Governor"
"I shall stay until the wind changes."
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#19Flop Musicals That Just Happen To Have Excellent Scores?
Posted: 9/13/13 at 2:25pm
>I don't believe GOLDEN APPLE is available on CD in its entirety.
I believe you if you say so, but the version I have not only comes on 2 CDs, but adds narration so the listener can follow the story.<
The Golden Apple, at least the commercial recording of the Broadway production, is a single disc. It was through-composed, so the cast recording is heavily abridged. The narration was added at the recording session to cover all of the missing material.
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
#20Flop Musicals That Just Happen To Have Excellent Scores?
Posted: 9/13/13 at 2:30pm
PARADE is pretty close to perfect... with the exception of "Letter to the Governor"
Letter to the Governor is actually one of my absolute favorite songs from that score.
I'll add Darling of the Day to this list.
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ErinDillyFan
Broadway Star Joined: 7/14/06
#21Flop Musicals That Just Happen To Have Excellent Scores?
Posted: 9/13/13 at 3:24pm
I will go along with all those that have been mentioned. I will have to go back and listened to "The Golden Apple" again. It is not among my often repeat recordings like the others listed...
I just happen to be listening to Taboo as I saw this post.
To add my two cents:
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Candide
#22Flop Musicals That Just Happen To Have Excellent Scores?
Posted: 9/13/13 at 4:01pmAspects of Love
#23Flop Musicals That Just Happen To Have Excellent Scores?
Posted: 9/13/13 at 4:08pm
I don't think Drood was a flop.
I also love Letter to the Governor!
And want to add a favorite: Sugar
....but the world goes 'round
#24Flop Musicals That Just Happen To Have Excellent Scores?
Posted: 9/13/13 at 4:43pm
Follies
Chess
Ragtime
Grey Gardens
3 of these shows won many Tonys between them. But, in terms of making money, they are all flops.
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