Flop Musicals, But Just Happens To Have A Excellent Score?

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Flop Musicals, But Just Happens To Have A Excellent Score?

Posted: 9/12/13 at 6:11pm

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Flop Musicals, But Just Happens To Have A Excellent Score?

Posted: 9/12/13 at 6:57pm

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Flop 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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Flop Musicals, But Just Happens To Have A Excellent Score?

Posted: 9/12/13 at 7:46pm

Women on the Verge

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Flop Musicals, But Just Happens To Have A Excellent Score?

Posted: 9/12/13 at 7:59pm

Taboo.

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Flop 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

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Flop Musicals, But Just Happens To Have A Excellent Score?

Posted: 9/12/13 at 8:34pm

Rags

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Flop Musicals, But Just Happens To Have A Excellent Score?

Posted: 9/12/13 at 8:35pm

Chess

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Flop Musicals, But Just Happens To Have A Excellent Score?

Posted: 9/12/13 at 8:58pm

Bonnie and Clyde!!

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Flop 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

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Flop Musicals, But Just Happens To Have A Excellent Score?

Posted: 9/12/13 at 10:33pm

Minnie's Boys

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Flop 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.

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Flop Musicals, But Just Happens To Have A Excellent Score?

Posted: 9/12/13 at 11:11pm

RIVERWIND

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Flop 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.

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Flop 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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Flop Musicals That Just Happen To Have Excellent Scores?

Posted: 9/13/13 at 12:45am

70 Girls 70

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Flop 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.

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Flop 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

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Flop Musicals That Just Happen To Have Excellent Scores?

Posted: 9/13/13 at 2:00pm

PARADE is pretty close to perfect... with the exception of "Letter to the Governor"

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Flop 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.

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Flop 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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Flop 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

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Flop Musicals That Just Happen To Have Excellent Scores?

Posted: 9/13/13 at 4:01pm

Aspects of Love

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Flop 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

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Flop 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.