Flops that Deserve a Second Chance- Page 3

[blaxx]

Posted: 7/19/09 at 8:38pm

Legally Blonde didn't even deserve a first chance!

[CSonBroadway]

Posted: 7/19/09 at 8:40pm

I'm afraid to say that 9 to 5 might be on my list soon.

[Iluvlizlemon]

Posted: 7/19/09 at 8:41pm

Merrily We Roll Along seems to be the most obvious answer if we're just going with all out turkeys. It really is a beautiful show that if put in the right hands CAN work, and work very well.

As someone said, in most cases, there's a reason a turkey was a turkey, so not many deserve second chances.

Carrie also belongs here.

If shows that flopped ONLY financially are included then the list clearly gets MUCH longer.

The top of the list I think has to go to Caroline or Change, probably the best new musical of the last decade, maybe quarter century.

[songanddanceman2]

Posted: 7/19/09 at 8:41pm

Oh please Legally Blonde was great fun...good old fashioned silly fun,very enjoyable

And the show (whilst loosing some mnoney on Broadway) ran almost 2 years, is cleaning up on Tour and is about to open in London, also the reviews were pretty good

[CSonBroadway]

Posted: 7/19/09 at 8:42pm

I'm a Legally Blonde fan, and the reviews were not good. They were mixed to negative.

[Rentaholic]

Posted: 7/19/09 at 8:51pm

A heavily reworked version of Chess would be fantastic.

I think Taboo had alot of potential but Rosie's name at the time absolutely killed it. Also, many of the changes made were so unncessary. I could go on for days about how to fix Taboo.

[AndAllThatJazz22]

Posted: 7/19/09 at 8:56pm

I really like Legally Blonde, it isn't my favorite...but I like it. I think this tour, however, has been it's 'second chance'. It has been selling extremely well and has had some good reviews on the road. The tour extended into the 2009-2010 season and will most probably extend for the 2010-2011 season. LB will pull a DRS on us, where it flops on Broadway but recoups its lost money on the road.

[CSonBroadway]

Posted: 7/19/09 at 8:58pm

I think Legally Blonde deserved to have a good life after the Broadway run. I actually think it is much better suited for touring.

[chenothegood]

Posted: 7/19/09 at 9:20pm

Side Show!

[RogerBartFan78]

Posted: 7/19/09 at 10:28pm

Sweet Smell of Success

[broadwaygirl99]

Posted: 7/19/09 at 10:37pm

Tarzan
Good Vibrations
A Tale of Two Cities
Cry Baby

[bwaylvsong]

Posted: 7/19/09 at 10:39pm

I loved The Woman in White!
And Dance of the Vampires

[Broadwayboy2631]

Posted: 7/19/09 at 10:40pm

All Shook Up

[Jon]

Posted: 7/20/09 at 10:15am

It doesn't deserve a second chance ON BROADWAY, but "All Shook Up" is being done at community theatres, colleges and high schools all over the country.

[madbrian]

Posted: 7/20/09 at 10:24am

"Kander and Ebb's THE RINK is one show that could be revived without any changes."

I'd love to see Patti LuPone and Leigh Ann Larkin in a revival of The Rink.

[DirectorGP]

Posted: 7/20/09 at 12:28pm

"All Shook Up"... It was a real surprise and full of so much energy...Great cast too! Also love "Mack and Mabel", "Baby" "Seussical" "Xanadu"(not really a flop), Sweet Smell of Success" and "The Life".

[Jon]

Posted: 7/20/09 at 12:42pm

The Rink was been "revised". McNally made some script changes around 10 years ago. Also, 2 songs are cut ("Angel's Rink & Social Center" and "Wallflower") and "All the Children in a Row" has completely new lyrics.

[Lumen2]

Posted: 7/20/09 at 12:49pm

Carrie, the Musical.

With better design, direction and a tongue placed firmly in cheek, I think it could work. Not to mention the cult following it has apparently gathered through the years.

[lesmis]

Posted: 7/20/09 at 1:30pm

Baby

[fgreene1938]

Posted: 7/20/09 at 1:49pm

"Jeckyll and Hyde" ran for3 1/2 years and LOST money. The original "Sweeney Todd" ran much longer than the revival but only the revival recouped (the original did so on the tour). Broadway economics have changed in the last 40 years and many long-running show lose money. Anyway...

"Caroline, or Change" was a beautiful but very complicated show that deserves rediscovery. I saw no flaws in that great show.

"A Catered Affair" is another great show that suffered from too much Harvey Fierstein. A rewrite with better production values would be great.

"Merrily We Roll Along" ....why couldn't the librettist get it right? A great score, and I saw a rewritten production that would have worked mightily if not for the clumsy, arch dialog.

The revisal of "Flower Drum Song". So much that was right but the book was overhauled to within an inch of its life. That show could work with only minor revisions to the original.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 7/20/09 at 2:00pm

Of all the worst shows in the past few years (Good Vibrations, BKLYN, LEGALLY BLONDE etc) the one that I think might still have a life if totally reworked is GLORY DAYS. In it's current state it's nothing much but I do think there's *something* there that if completely retooled would work. There are really no musicals for just men, especially of that age so for that reason I'd love to see them go back to the drawing board with it.

[kooky]

Posted: 7/20/09 at 2:12pm

L E N N O N

[abstract19]

Posted: 7/20/09 at 2:13pm

I would love to see a revival of A Catered Affair.

I loved the show. It was simple, not overly complex. A nice change from what's out there now.

[fgreene1938]

Posted: 7/20/09 at 3:42pm

^ Exactly what I loved about Catered Affair.

[americanboy99]

Posted: 7/20/09 at 3:45pm

A CATERED AFFAIR will be revived in the future, and it will be lauded as one of the undiscovered gems of the American theatre. I guarantee it.