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Good Shows that floped

Posted: 6/9/07 at 1:31pm

What are some shows that are thought of as good, that didn't do well in their original run.
So far I can think of, Side Show, The Secret Garden, Ragtime, Merrily We Roll Along

re: Good Shows that floped

Posted: 6/9/07 at 1:40pm

not in it's original run but definitley Journey's End!

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re: Good Shows that floped

Posted: 6/9/07 at 1:54pm

I loved the BELLS ARE RINGING revival. JANE EYRE was a big one, too. PARADE should have last much longer as well.
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re: Good Shows that flopped

Posted: 6/9/07 at 1:58pm

Sunday in the Park with George
Sweeney Todd
Follies
Ragtime

And, not an original production, but wasn't the Oklahoma! revival a flop? If, so, I add it to my list.

I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.

re: Good Shows that flopped

Posted: 6/9/07 at 1:58pm

I dont you can call Secret garden a flop.

Sussical!!

re: Good Shows that flopped

Posted: 6/9/07 at 1:59pm

Secret Garden didn't flop. It ran almost 3 years.

SMILE!!!!!!

re: Good Shows that flopped

Posted: 6/9/07 at 2:00pm

THE WEDDING SINGER
THE PIRATE QUEEN
yeah
there are more...

My 2007/2008 Season: Grey Gardens (7/5) 110 in the Shade (7/6) Mary Poppins (7/7) Xanadu (7/7) Deuce (7/8) Spamalot (7/8) Jersey Boys (8/25) The Year of Magical Thinking (8/25) Mauritius (11/2) Young Frankenstein (11/3) Rock 'N' Roll (11/3) Pygmalion (11/4) Mauritius (11/10) Mauritius (11/21) Mauritius (11/21) Sunday in the Park with George (3/6) South Pacific (3/7) Gypsy (3/8) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (3/9)

re: Good Shows that flopped

Posted: 6/9/07 at 2:02pm

If Secret Garden did not make its money back, it was a flop, regardless of how long it ran.

I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.

#10

re: Good Shows that flopped

Posted: 6/9/07 at 2:14pm

I wholeheartedly agree with The Wedding Singer and The Pirate Queen.
I'd also like to add The Scarlet Pimpernel...one of my favorite cast recordings

#11

re: Good Shows that flopped

Posted: 6/9/07 at 2:32pm

Eh, Hello?!

MACK & MABLE!
Brilliant show! Pity about the 66 show run!

SEUSSICAL
Ran for 6 months, which isn't a complete flop. But still should have done better.

The rain we knew is a thing of the past -
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.

Derek Mahon

"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."

Arthur Miller

#12

re: Good Shows that flopped

Posted: 6/9/07 at 3:05pm

I don't cared what people say but I loved Sunset Blvd(it was my first show and hooked me on broadway) but it still flopped

#13

re: Good Shows that flopped

Posted: 6/9/07 at 3:27pm

I would hardly call Side Show a good show. Not terrible, but hardly in the same realm as Ragtime, and Merrily.

Personally, I think I have too much bloom.

#14

re: Good Shows that flopped

Posted: 6/9/07 at 3:29pm

Sunset Blvd. is a nice show. Not great, perhaps not even good. But I do like some of the music.

Now, Mack & Mable, that's a GREAT show.

#15

re: Good Shows that flopped

Posted: 6/9/07 at 3:31pm

CAROLINE, OR CHANGE.

#16

re: Good Shows that flopped

Posted: 6/9/07 at 3:33pm

re: Good Shows that flopped
Posted On: 6/9/07 at 02:00:31 PM

THE WEDDING SINGER
THE PIRATE QUEEN
yeah
there are more...

I would not put Pirate Queen on the list, it does fit the criteria for a flop but not the GOOD SHOW part.

I shave me Xanadu every morning!

#17

re: Good Shows that flopped

Posted: 6/9/07 at 3:44pm

Zzzzzz....

Another post full of:

How DARE YOU call X a flop??? It ran forever!!!

It wasn't a flop! It was so good! My grandma really enjoyed it!

X could not have been a flop! The time I saw it the audience clapped vey hard! Yeah!

Made investment back = HIT
Did not make it back = FLOOOOOOP

Listen, I don't take my clothes off for anyone, even if it is "artistic". - JANICE

#18

re: Good Shows that flopped

Posted: 6/9/07 at 3:46pm

TapTapTapioca, its a matter of opinion. :)

#19

re: Good Shows that flopped

Posted: 6/9/07 at 3:51pm

As was mentioned in a recent thread, Neil Simon's hilarious musical LITTLE ME(1962), starring the brilliant comic Sid Caesar, received rave reviews but ultimately flopped with 275 performances because it opened during a NYC newspaper strike and the good word didn't get out until it was too late to do any good.

"Madam Rose...and her daughter...Gypsy!"

#20

re: Good Shows that flopped

Posted: 6/9/07 at 3:57pm

THE GOSPEL AT COLONUS.

#21

re: Good Shows that flopped

Posted: 6/9/07 at 4:12pm

I think Secret Garden made a **** load of cash on the tour.

As for Merrily, it wasn't a "good" show on Broadway. Trust me.

What great ones do the less will prattle of

Updated On: 6/9/07 at 04:12 PM

#22

re: Good Shows that flopped

Posted: 6/9/07 at 4:19pm

Sunday in the Park with George and Ragtime.
mf07

#23

re: Good Shows that flopped

Posted: 6/9/07 at 6:13pm

BFB is right--Secret Garden recouped (and how!) on tour. This always comes up--are we discussing real disastrous flops or shows that merely failed to recoup (ie by Sondheim terms are we discussing Merrily We Roll Along or Whistle--or merely nearly any of his other shows? :P)

#24

re: Good Shows that flopped

Posted: 6/9/07 at 6:25pm

All Shook Up.

The Wedding Singer.
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels [if it counts.]

"Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we’re all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.” --- Patti LuPone.

#25

re: Good Shows that flopped

Posted: 6/9/07 at 6:46pm

TABOO

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