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Flops that you would love to see get a revival...
#50re: Flops that you would love to see get a revival...
Posted: 9/16/08 at 10:58pm
Was The Light in the Piazza actually a flop? Well, either way, I'd love to see it revived.
#51re: Flops that you would love to see get a revival...
Posted: 9/17/08 at 8:26am
Bat Boy...
Please?
Hank
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
HollyDiver
Stand-by Joined: 9/2/08
#53re: Flops that you would love to see get a revival...
Posted: 9/17/08 at 10:45am
I agree with Cry Baby... I want Christopher J Hanke to still be in it though because he absolutely cracked me up. So hilarious!
Also Little Shop of Horrors!
#54re: Flops that you would love to see get a revival...
Posted: 9/17/08 at 3:03pmYes! Little Shop, please! I absolutely adore that show, and I was surprised it wasn't more successful on Broadway. I think it's probably Alan Menken's best, and I'm a tinge obsessed with Disney, so that's saying a lot...
Gigi5
Swing Joined: 9/13/08
#55re: Flops that you would love to see get a revival...
Posted: 9/17/08 at 3:14pm
Parade
"All the Wasted Time" always brings me to tears.
#56re: Flops that you would love to see get a revival...
Posted: 9/17/08 at 3:16pmGigi i have been singing Feel the Rain Fall all day! I wan to see Side Show, Parade, Ragtime and Wild Party Lippa.
"I am sorry but it is an unjust world and virtue is only triumphant in theatricle performances" The Mikado
#57re: Flops that you would love to see get a revival...
Posted: 9/18/08 at 3:18pm
Jekyll, minus the ginormous bump that was called the Broadway run (which I still thoroughly enjoyable), has really only gotten better too.
Really? Did you see the second pre-Broadway production (out of the the three)? That is where I felt the show peaked. After that, it went downhill. Yes, it improved after Broadway, but it still isn't anywhere near the show it once was. The second production only needed a few minor changes and it would have been magnificent. That show was a gigantic missed opportunity. And I love I Need to Know. It set up Jekyll's motivations from the beginning and provided the much-needed energy at the top of the show. Lost in the Darkness was a pretty song that really just dragged out what was roughly a couple of lines of dialogue in what was one of the dullest openings I've ever seen in a musical. It's not a good idea to put people to sleep at the top of the show. Afer seeing the mostly fabulous pre-Broadway productions (the third was starting to get iffy), I laughed my way through the Broadway production. It was virtually unrecognizable and unintentionally campy. I mean, those Good and Evil (a song originally sung by the innkeeper in the Alley Theatre production) devil boys! I don't think they had spandex in the 19th century.
Orangesaretuesdays
Stand-by Joined: 10/8/10
#58re: Flops that you would love to see get a revival...
Posted: 11/25/10 at 11:11amCry Baby had some (Like 4) great songs and an interesting concept and with a lot of tweaking I think it could be great!
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#59re: Flops that you would love to see get a revival...
Posted: 11/25/10 at 1:10pm
Every bloody one of them.
Plus
Superman
Rockabye Hamlet
Rachel Lily Rosenbloom
Warp
Dude
Via Galactica
Senator Joe
Into The Light
Here's Where I Belong
Gantry
What Makes Sammy Run
Bajour
Here's Love - For Christmas
#60re: Flops that you would love to see get a revival...
Posted: 11/25/10 at 1:58pm
I want Lolita, My Love to finally arrive on Broadway.
Rockabye Hamlet fer sher.
#61re: Flops that you would love to see get a revival...
Posted: 11/25/10 at 3:27pmSunset Boulevard & Merrily We Roll Along.
#62re: Flops that you would love to see get a revival...
Posted: 11/25/10 at 4:04pmI'd LOVE a revival of Goldilocks. Such a fun show and score.
chewy5000
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/09
#63re: Flops that you would love to see get a revival...
Posted: 11/26/10 at 1:20amGot tu Go Disco and all the other shows that faded into permanent obscurity.
#64re: Flops that you would love to see get a revival...
Posted: 11/26/10 at 12:38pm
Duh, The Little Mermaid. But only after Lion King closes because we can't have too many kid shows on Bway. I'd love to see an actual mermaid with no feet.
Also, Lestat would be a great to see on broadway. I heard some of the music and it's phenominal.
#65re: Flops that you would love to see get a revival...
Posted: 11/27/10 at 12:28am
Marie Christine
No Strings
Merrily We Roll Along
I would love love love love LOVE to see these shows!
The Other One
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/1/08
#66re: Flops that you would love to see get a revival...
Posted: 11/27/10 at 7:33amAllegro and Pipe Dream
#67re: Flops that you would love to see get a revival...
Posted: 11/27/10 at 12:02pm
I agree with the Smile suggestion, Jane and all. Such an under-appreciated show.
Also, Anyone Can Whistle with Raul, Donna, and Sutton really needs to be revived as a full production. The "concert" version was fabulous, though I found that mine was an unpopular opinion when talking with people at the stage door there...
"The wee folk and the grown folk Who wander to and fro Have ways known to their own folk We throne folk don’t know" -Camelot
"Just remembering that you had an "and" when you're back to "or" makes the "or" mean more than it did before" -Into the Woods
"Enjoy your party..." -Company
"The thing about explorers is, they discover things that are already there." -In Trousers
"How do you know what you want 'til you get what you want and you see if you like it?" -Into the Woods
"I feel so much spring within me, blow winds blow, spring has just begun. And something's taken wing within me. What was dark so long had felt like winter, finally there's sun." -A New Brain
#68re: Flops that you would love to see get a revival...
Posted: 11/27/10 at 9:03pmOh and Bernarda Alba!
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#69re: Flops that you would love to see get a revival...
Posted: 11/28/10 at 9:09am
"Shinbone Alley" - A.K.A. "archy and mehitabel"
NOT the big,overblown mess that flopped in 1957, but the revised, small cast version licensed by MTI.
jt1890
Swing Joined: 11/19/10
#70re: Flops that you would love to see get a revival...
Posted: 11/28/10 at 9:28am
The Wild Party -bway
Marie Christine
Woman in White - with some revisions and cuts there is a great show there
Caroline, or Change
romgitsean
Broadway Star Joined: 4/7/08
#71re: Flops that you would love to see get a revival...
Posted: 11/28/10 at 12:30pm
It's true - Woman is vastly under-rated. I think what needs to be done is simply take the original script and insert the songs into it.
Poparia, I happen to agree with you on Lestat...but it's an unpopular opinion we hold. I'm crazy about Lestat like philly03 is with Wonderland - we'll never win on this board with our opinions, but we'll defend it to the death.
Next On The List :: Clybourne Park, Once, Streetcar, BOM
musicalperson17
Understudy Joined: 9/2/10
#72re: Flops that you would love to see get a revival...
Posted: 11/28/10 at 9:53pmSpiderman: Turn Off the Dark
#73re: Flops that you would love to see get a revival...
Posted: 11/28/10 at 9:55pmDamn you beat me to it!
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#74re: Flops that you would love to see get a revival...
Posted: 11/28/10 at 11:51pm
I was just coming to ask if it were too soon to suggest Spidey as well.
(Great minds....)
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