"Flops" you were lucky enough to see- Page 2

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 8/26/07 at 12:06am

It's Marilyn...and it's PAINFUL!!!
Updated On: 8/26/07 at 12:06 AM

[theaterkid1015]

Posted: 8/26/07 at 12:08am

Well, you're my hero.

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 8/26/07 at 12:10am

Thanks. I'll watch THE RINK tomorrow.

[DRSisLove]

Posted: 8/26/07 at 12:11am

I actually really liked HIGH FIDELITY, and I'm glad I saw it.

[InfiniteTheaterFrenzy]

Posted: 8/26/07 at 12:16am

I was going to guess The Rink, In Trousers, or Marilyn!

WaT, I have a you- know- what of Marilyn too!! It's ridiculous. Wouldn't it be great to see it done by Opening Doors Thtr Co or the York? I kind of love the song, "You Are So Beyond". And I am not ashamed!

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 8/26/07 at 12:19am

This show needs to be done by Encores or Mufti and it needs a studio recording! The book is so awful...the show is a mess...I'm not surprised it lasted 17 performances.
Updated On: 8/26/07 at 12:19 AM

[InfiniteTheaterFrenzy]

Posted: 8/26/07 at 12:21am

I agree!!! Studio recording!

If anyone is reading this and has a recording of ANY of the songs from Marilyn, PM me pretty please

Chris J Hanke did a great rendition of You Are So Beyond at a Joe's Pub concert once!

[ILoveMyDictionary]

Posted: 8/26/07 at 12:24am

Most of these are finacial flops but I got to see...

All Shook Up
Barefoot in the Park
High Fidelity
Pirate Queen
Wedding Singer
Tarzan

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 8/26/07 at 12:25am

"You Are So Beyond" is in Act 2, right? I haven't gotten there yet...still up to Joe Dimaggio.

Alyson Reed is pretty good as Marilyn! Updated On: 8/26/07 at 12:25 AM

[Just_John]

Posted: 8/26/07 at 12:30am

Dracula, i really did not like. High Fidelity, didn't like but was entertained by. Lennon, I thought was decent. In My Life, I really loved. I do not know why.

[Elphaba3]

Posted: 8/26/07 at 12:37am

The 2003 revival of Gypsy was a financial flop, and I feel blessed to have seen it three times.

[Eris0303]

Posted: 8/26/07 at 12:40am

I really enjoyed Pirate Queen though I could understand why some people may not have. You don't come out of the theatre with the songs buzzing around in your head the way you do with more "poppy" musicals. I love the songs and listen to the CD all the time but once the songs are done they're pretty much done and don't stick with you. At least not in the first showing. Now that I've listened to the CD they're with me but you can't really hum them. And that has a lot to do with the commercial success of a show I think. If the tourists can't hum the songs the show probably won't last.

[NJgirl]

Posted: 8/26/07 at 12:46am

have we forgotten "times they are a changin'"?

My list would be:
Times
Good Vibrations
Pirate Queen
Coram Boy
High Fidelity (which I liked)

along with a bunch of other financial flops like All Shook Up

[ChecksintheMayo]

Posted: 8/26/07 at 12:47am

Pirate Queen, High Fidelity, Jane Eyre, Marie Christine, The Wild Party (both).

And then there was "Thou Shalt Not." "Lucky" probably isn't the word I would use to describe that experience.
Updated On: 8/26/07 at 12:47 AM

[nealb1]

Posted: 8/26/07 at 12:52am

I saw "The Prince of Central Park" with Jo Anne Worley in October of 1989.

[mattonstage]

Posted: 8/26/07 at 1:11am

Nick & Nora (I think I saw the 4 hour version, if memory serves)

I was also "lucky" enough to see The Blonde in the Thunderbird. There are no words, simply no words, to describe the experience. The finale, with her cart of products, from thigh masters to her best-selling books, made me realize I had just seen a 2 hour infomercial. Unbelievable!

[TLKfan]

Posted: 8/26/07 at 1:28am

Lestat and Lennon in SF (will Legally Blonde be on this list too?). Tours of financial flops I suppose like All Shook Up would count. Also Grey Gardens since people are counting that.

[Amneris]

Posted: 8/26/07 at 1:29am

omg! i forgot about all shat up and bad vibrator... damn im sorry.

[Liverpool]

Posted: 8/26/07 at 1:37am

In My Life (i know it was TERRIBLE but i loved the **** out of this show)
Great American Trailer Park Musical (twice in previews)

[D2]

Posted: 8/26/07 at 2:05am

Mack and Mabel, and I loved it.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 8/26/07 at 2:10am

I saw Lennon twice and Lestat three times. All in San Francisco. I liked one and not the other. Guess. And it has nothing to do with quantity.

[LI Larry]

Posted: 8/26/07 at 2:20am

There are many.
Seussical (which I loved!)
Metro
Nick and Nora
Tom Sawyer
Taboo

I'll add some as I think of them
Updated On: 8/26/07 at 02:20 AM

[bwayguy22089]

Posted: 8/26/07 at 2:23am

Dance of the Vampires
The Pirate Queen

Loved them both

[bythesword84]

Posted: 8/26/07 at 2:39am

Taboo
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (Ivanek's performance I loved)
The Blonde in the Thunderbird
The Pirate Queen
All Shook Up
Lennon (which I still say had excellent voices in it)
Good Vibrations
High Fidelity (which I definitely enjoyed)
In My Life
The Times They Are A-Changin'
Jane Eyre
Dracula
Hot Feet
Thou Shalt Not (Norbert Leo Butz was the only thing to get me through this thing)
Brooklyn
Lestat
Coram Boy (which, by the way, kills me to have to put on this list)
La Cage revival
The Scarlet Pimpernel, 1.0 and 2.0 (which I also hate having to put on this list)

...I'm not sure what the actual criteria is that you're using to mean flops, but I also saw: Festen, Souvenir, Journey's End, By Jeeves, Footloose, Putting it Together...and numerous others that I'm almost positive closed being financial flops. Some people mentioned 2003's Gypsy which I saw, as well as Grey Gardens. I believe Caroline, or Change was a financial flop, and I saw that. I'm sure there's more I'm not really thinking of as flops but that were.

[masterthes]

Posted: 8/26/07 at 3:33am

Jane Eyre and BKLYN (also, would Good Night, Gracie count, or was that a limited engagement?)