Good Songs From Flop Musicals

[My Fair Lady]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 9:29pm

I really like "Once Upon a Dream" from Jekyll and Hyde. It's so soft and pretty!

[Aigoo]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 9:33pm

Is Jekyll and Hyde really a flop? I thought that show did pretty well? Well, anyway. Lots of good songs come from that musical, I think.

Updated On: 5/30/05 at 09:33 PM

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 9:33pm

Best of All Possible Worlds- Candide

thats what first comes to mind

[Unknown User]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 9:34pm

The title song from SHOW ME WHERE THE GOOD TIMES ARE is a great old-style star-turn number from a show that never quite came together (a musicalized version of THE IMAGINARY INVALID.)

[Elizabeth_DeBris]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 9:36pm

Just about anything Stephen Sondheim's ever written...

[Yankeefan007]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 9:38pm

id have to say, i love anything melissa or kelli sang from dracula (not because of the song, but because they sang it)

[timote316]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 9:38pm

I could go on and on with songs from J&H, its one of my favs

Taboo had a tremendous score too

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 9:38pm

Tell Me~MARIE CHRISTINE
People Like Us~THE WILD PARTY
All the Wasted Time~PARADE
Lot's Wife~CAROLINE, OR CHANGE
Time Heals Everything~MACK AND MABEL
On the Farm~NEW GIRL IN TOWN
You've Got Possibilities~IT'S A BIRD...IT'S A PLANE...IT'S SUPERMAN
I've Never Said I Love You~DEAR WORLD
He Had Refinement~A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN
Somebody~AMOUR
Lazy Afternoon~THE GOLDEN APPLE
Lorelei~PARDON MY ENGLISH
Everybody Says Don't~ANYONE CAN WHISTLE
The Gentleman Is A Dope~ALLEGRO
Gentle Young Johnny~TENDERLOIN
Make Someone Happy~DO RE MI
Glitter and Be Gay~CANDIDE
The Money Tree~THE ACT
Loving You~PASSION
I Will Never Leave You~SIDE SHOW
Not A Day Goes By~MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG

Just to name a few...
Updated On: 5/30/05 at 09:38 PM

[Dollypop]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 9:38pm

Any of the songs from DEAR WORLD. What a marvelous score that was! What a dreadful show that was!

I especially like

"The Spring of This Year"

"Kiss Him Now"

"Tomorrow Morning"

"I've Never Said 'I Love You'"

"I don't Want To Know"

I even like the title song, even though it's wrong for the show.

[Elphaba]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 9:42pm

Total Eclipse of the Sun, from Tanz der Vampire which was NOT a flop in Europe.....

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 10:00pm

Lots Wife- CAROLINE, OR CHANGE

What a song. Just may be the greatest 11'O Clock number since Roses Turn. And Tonya's zinger of a vocal and emotional performance here made it all the more memorable and in all honesty, legendary.

[FosseBoi]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 10:18pm

Most of the stuff from LITTLE WOMEN(JUST from hearing the CD).

Most of the stuff from TABOO, Bway version NOT the London version!

[TheColorOfFlame]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 10:25pm

"And Eve Was Weak," CARRIE the Musical

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 10:30pm

pretty much all the songs in the civil war...

[justme2]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 11:14pm

"A Piece of the Pie" from the savagely beaten by critics and audiences, closed in shame, terrible idea for a musical...The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public.

A beautiful melody that Dee Hoty sings. Carol Hall wrote it, i believe.

[hyperchet]

Posted: 5/30/05 at 11:55pm

"Astonishing" - Little Women
"How I Am" - Little Women

[overthemoon419]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 12:17am

everything from Taboo
"Say a Prayer" - Dance of the Vampires
"For Sarah" - Dance of the Vampires
"Astonishing" - Little Women
"Once Upon a Time" - Brooklyn--i imagine it's a good song when the performer actually sings it instead of screaming it like Eden Espinosa
...and i liked Good Vibrations, especially their renditions of "Be True to Your School", "In My Room", and "God Only Knows"

[shira467]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 12:20am

I have to say "Applause" from "Applause" -- it sticks in my head!

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 12:22am

"He Touched Me" (Drat! The Cat!)
"50 Percent" (Ballroom)
"Deep In the Night" (Inner City)
"The Oldest Profession" (The Life)
"My Friend" (The Life)
"Time Heals Everything" (Mack and Mabel)
"I Don't Know Where She Got It" (Hallelujah Baby!)

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 12:24am

"Applause" was HUGE Tony-winning Best Musical hit. It's a lousy show, but it was FAR from a flop.

Updated On: 5/31/05 at 12:24 AM

[Unknown User]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 12:38am

"Applause" was HUGE Tony-winning Best Musical hit. - Margo

Makes you all 'tingly' for the upcoming awards, doesn't it?

[MargoChanning]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 12:42am

Fasten your seatbelts.

It's going to be a BUMPY night ........

[roquat]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 1:22am

Everything from "Henry Sweet Henry", a 1968 Bob Merrill musical about schoolgirls which was panned because it was a charming, tuneful, old-fashioned musical in the age of "Hair" and "Jesus Christ Superstar" concept shows. It has some lovely melodies and two fantastic bitch-diva showstoppers from the "evil" schoolgirl.

[ShuQ]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 1:29am

Children of the Wind from Rags.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 5/31/05 at 1:32am

THE LIFE wasn't a flop! It won 2 Tony Awards and got nominated for a bunch of others including Best Musical.