Good Songs From Flop Musicals
#0Good Songs From Flop Musicals
Posted: 5/30/05 at 9:29pmI really like "Once Upon a Dream" from Jekyll and Hyde. It's so soft and pretty!
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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.
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Posted: 5/30/05 at 9:33pm
Best of All Possible Worlds- Candide
thats what first comes to mind
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#3re: Good Songs From Flop Musicals
Posted: 5/30/05 at 9:34pmThe 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
Broadway Star Joined: 1/29/05
#4re: Good Songs From Flop Musicals
Posted: 5/30/05 at 9:36pmJust about anything Stephen Sondheim's ever written...
Yankeefan007
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/20/04
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Posted: 5/30/05 at 9:38pmid have to say, i love anything melissa or kelli sang from dracula (not because of the song, but because they sang it)
timote316
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/20/04
#6re: Good Songs From Flop Musicals
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
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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
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#8re: Good Songs From Flop Musicals
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.
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Posted: 5/30/05 at 9:42pmTotal Eclipse of the Sun, from Tanz der Vampire which was NOT a flop in Europe.....
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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
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/30/04
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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
Featured Actor Joined: 8/31/04
#12re: Good Songs From Flop Musicals
Posted: 5/30/05 at 10:25pm"And Eve Was Weak," CARRIE the Musical
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Posted: 5/30/05 at 10:30pm
pretty much all the songs in the civil war...
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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.
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Posted: 5/30/05 at 11:55pm
"Astonishing" - Little Women
"How I Am" - Little Women
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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"
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Posted: 5/31/05 at 12:20amI have to say "Applause" from "Applause" -- it sticks in my head!
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#18re: Good Songs From Flop Musicals
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#19re: Good Songs From Flop Musicals
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.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#20re: Good Songs From Flop Musicals
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#21re: Good Songs From Flop Musicals
Posted: 5/31/05 at 12:42am
Fasten your seatbelts.
It's going to be a BUMPY night ........
roquat
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/25/05
#22re: Good Songs From Flop Musicals
Posted: 5/31/05 at 1:22amEverything 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.
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Posted: 5/31/05 at 1:32amTHE LIFE wasn't a flop! It won 2 Tony Awards and got nominated for a bunch of others including Best Musical.
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
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