Great Flop Scores
Great Flop Scores
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#2Great Flop Scores
Posted: 12/1/10 at 6:48pm
Dear World
The Grand Tour
Mack and Mabel
Anyone Can Whistle
House of Flowers
Does "Fade Out Fade In" counts as a flop?
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#2Great Flop Scores
Posted: 12/1/10 at 7:02pm
Definitely Mack & Mabel
Fade Out Fade In even though Styne recycled some of the melodies into Hallelujah Baby.
J/H
Scarlet Pimpernel
Civil War
alterego
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/03
#4Great Flop Scores
Posted: 12/1/10 at 7:11pm
Seussical had some enjoyable songs.
I really enjoyed High Fidelity, but I don't know if that's a GREAT score. Same with The Wedding Singer.
A Class Act
Bounce
Smile
Reefer Madness
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#6Great Flop Scores
Posted: 12/1/10 at 7:40pmMerrily We Roll Along!
#7Great Flop Scores
Posted: 12/1/10 at 7:51pm
Cry for Us All
The Gay Life
Let Them Eat Cake
redmustang
Broadway Star Joined: 5/14/03
#8Great Flop Scores
Posted: 12/1/10 at 7:58pmTotally agree with Dear World. Does anyone else love "Garbage," "Kiss Her Now," and "The Tea Party"?
#9Great Flop Scores
Posted: 12/1/10 at 7:59pmI forget that Merrily We Roll Along was a flop sometimes. "Franklin Sheppard Inc." is one of my favorite Sondheim tunes. LOVE that score.
#10Great Flop Scores
Posted: 12/1/10 at 8:04pmParade
romgitsean
Broadway Star Joined: 4/7/08
#11Great Flop Scores
Posted: 12/1/10 at 8:08pm
Lolita. My. Love.
Next On The List :: Clybourne Park, Once, Streetcar, BOM
#12Great Flop Scores
Posted: 12/1/10 at 8:14pm
>> "Does anyone else love "Garbage," "Kiss Her Now," and "The Tea Party"?"
Brilliant, all of them. The whole show is so very, very close to being wonderful, but it just misses the mark. Giraudoux isnt easy to adapt by any stretch, but they got oh so very close. Herman keeps saying he wants to give it another shot, and I wish he would.
Ed_Mottershead
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
#13Great Flop Scores
Posted: 12/1/10 at 8:39pmI say this with great sadness, but Scottsboro Boys will go down as a great score in a show that was undone by public apathy. I place it right up there with Cabaret and Chicago and hope and pray future generations will have access to it.
#15Great Flop Scores
Posted: 12/1/10 at 8:50pm
my favorites:
Taboo
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Parade
Mack & Mable
Anyone Can Whistle
Steel Pier
Titanic
bwayfan7000
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/09
#16Great Flop Scores
Posted: 12/1/10 at 8:51pmI second A Class Act, Merrily and especially Anyone Can Whistle.
#17Great Flop Scores
Posted: 12/1/10 at 9:00pmSpiderman:turn off the dark....oh wait ,you said a GREAT score!
#18Great Flop Scores
Posted: 12/1/10 at 9:16pmI agree with Merrily, Anyone Can Whistle, and Parade, and I'll also throw in Side Show and Titanic.
Boq101
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/20/06
#19Great Flop Scores
Posted: 12/1/10 at 9:18pmI loved the score to Rags. Judy Kuhn's performance at the tony's that year was great! Specially since she also performed that night with Les Miz.
philly03
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/07
#20Great Flop Scores
Posted: 12/1/10 at 9:31pm
Jekyll & HYDE
Scarlet Pimpernel
Mack & Mabel
A Tale of Two Cities
Jane Eyre
#22Great Flop Scores
Posted: 12/1/10 at 9:44pm
Lolita, My Love, big time.
Moby Dick
Rags (any other great FLOP Strouse scores?)
Georgy
Romance in Hard Times
Music Is
The Baker's Wife
Robber Bridegroom
The Golden Apple
Out of this World
Saratoga
Subways are for Sleeping
Whoop-Up
Rockabye Hamlet, yep.
Do I Hear A Waltz
Kean
Baby
The Grand Tour (I love M&M but this is my favorite Herman score)
Grind
A Doll's Life
Nefertiti
Annnnnd, my favorite:
House of Flowers
#23Great Flop Scores
Posted: 12/1/10 at 10:33pmHas there ever been a recording of ROCKABYE HAMLET? I saw it way back in the Dark Ages and dont remember much about it, save for the rather odd final duel.
#24Great Flop Scores
Posted: 12/2/10 at 9:05am
Aah, I totally forgot about Rags! Love that score.
And yes, CockeyedOptimist2, Ragtime did flop...that's another one of my favorite theater scores.
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