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Great Flop Scores
romgitsean
Broadway Star Joined: 4/7/08
#25Great Flop Scores
Posted: 12/2/10 at 3:17pm[title of show]
Recent Broadway and Off-Broadway:: Carrie, Merrily, Ionescopade
Next On The List :: Clybourne Park, Once, Streetcar, BOM
Next On The List :: Clybourne Park, Once, Streetcar, BOM
winston89
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/18/06
#26Great Flop Scores
Posted: 12/2/10 at 3:22pmI would have to add Curtains to the list as well. Great show and sad that it flopped.
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bwayfan7000
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/28/09
#27Great Flop Scores
Posted: 12/2/10 at 3:23pmI always forget that Ragtime flopped twice...definitely a great score there too.
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winston89
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/18/06
#28Great Flop Scores
Posted: 12/2/10 at 3:34pmCorrect me if I'm wrong. But, for some reason I always thought that Ragtime was one of those shows that was close to recouping. Yet, it didn't do so during its Broadway run but did during its tour.
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Tom Stoppard's Rock N Roll
#29Great Flop Scores
Posted: 12/2/10 at 3:46pm
Goldilocks
Flora, the Red Menace
The Rink
It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman!
The Rothschilds
Tenderloin
Caroline, or Change
The Human Comedy
Rags
Ragtime
The Secret Garden
Carrie
Legally Blonde
High Fidelity
Jane Eyre
Seussical
Jekyll and Hyde
Scarlet Pimpernel
Moby Dick
Metropolis
Eating Raoul
She Loves Me
The Apple Tree
Do Re Mi
How Now Dow Jones
The Baker's Wife
Destry Rides Again
Baby
The Grand Tour
Mack and Mabel
Aspects of Love
Merrily We Roll Along
Passion
Romance/Romance
Take Me Along
All American
Anyone Can Whistle
Zorba
Follies
70, Girls, 70
Blood Brothers
Candide
Pacific Overtures
On the Twentieth Century
Sunday in the Park With George
Mystery of Edwin Drood
Into the Woods
Chess
Legs Diamond
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Sunset Boulevard
Big
Titanic
Parade
Marie Christine
The Wild Party (LaChiusa)
Bombay Dreams
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
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Mattbrain
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/23/05
#31Great Flop Scores
Posted: 12/2/10 at 4:16pm
Oh so many great scores.
I'm gonna toss Dance of the Vampires in there.
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ErinDillyFan
Broadway Star Joined: 7/14/06
#32Great Flop Scores
Posted: 12/2/10 at 4:20pm
No need to repeat what many others have listed...
Jennie
3hree (Does it count it never made it to broadway? Someone put Nefertiti)
St Louis Woman
Little Me
High Spirits
Baker Street
On A Clear Day You Can See Forever
Purlie
The Rothschilds
Seesaw
By Jeeves
Thoroughly Modern Millie
Grey Gardens
Updated On: 12/2/10 at 04:20 PM
#33Great Flop Scores
Posted: 12/2/10 at 4:51pm
No one said Broadway, just flop, so go crazy.
I love Jennie, and can't believe I forgot The Human Comedy! Amazing score.
Goldilocks is pretty amazing.
Destry, Drood and Take Me Along didn't make back their moneys? I thought they were all pretty successful, but admit I have not looked too hard to confirm that.
Metropolis! Duh!
Another great London flop score is Two Cities.
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#34Great Flop Scores
Posted: 12/2/10 at 5:30pmI don't think I've listened to Two Cities. Need to check that one out.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#35Great Flop Scores
Posted: 12/2/10 at 6:49pm
Mr Matt, get a life, then get a research book. Many of the shows on your list were big hits, such as "Destry Rides Again" which ran a season and a half, and Take Me Along, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn...
Don't you understand that back then, anything over 250 performances was considered a hit?
Destry - 472 perf
Do Re Mi - 400 perf
Take Me Along - 448 perf
In their time, these were all decent runs.
Even by today's standards, Drood and On tHe Twentieth Century had very respectable runs.
And they all had great scores.
My nomination is "Bravo Giovanni." Great score BIG bflop.
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=972787#3631451
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=963561#3533883
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=955158#3440952
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=954269#3427915
http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=955012#3441622
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#37Great Flop Scores
Posted: 12/3/10 at 1:42pm
According to Suskin, Tree, Do Re Mi, and Destry closed in the red. Take, however, closed in the black.
Heathen! is a great obscure Broadway flop score.
Let's not forget Blitzstein's Regina and Juno.
With Irma you gotta do something!
#38Great Flop Scores
Posted: 12/3/10 at 1:49pmI've always been extremely fond of Amour.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#39Great Flop Scores
Posted: 12/3/10 at 2:02pm
Two that I listen to alot:
Prettybelle
Canterbury Tales
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#40Great Flop Scores
Posted: 12/3/10 at 2:24pm
Mr Matt, get a life, then get a research book.
I was posting in response to the thread title and the technical definition of a "flop", which is a musical which failed to recoup its investment. There is a thread listing financial flops based on the earnings listed in Variety. Maybe if you didn't have such a crappy attitude, you would have noticed this subject has been discussed ad infinitum on these boards and would have realized how I determined my list. If you don't personally agree with that definition of "flop", that has nothing to do with either my life or my research. It does however suggest your lack of perspective or objectivity which appears mostly to be clouded by your ego.
I could be wrong about Take Me Along. For some reason, I thought it was in Mandelbaum's Not Since Carrie, but I don't have a copy available in the office now for verification. There is also the issue that it really isn't a big deal and doesn't matter enough to warrant an immature personal attack.
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#41Great Flop Scores
Posted: 12/3/10 at 3:02pm
Agreed. Take Me Along is not in Not Since... fyi.
Just thought of Magdalena. Beautiful score. We're so lucky to have the CBS recording.
Greenwillow also came up in the Suskin readings. =)
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#42Great Flop Scores
Posted: 12/3/10 at 4:05pmI Had a Ball.
Do you know what happens when you let Veal Prince Orloff sit in an oven too long?
#43Great Flop Scores
Posted: 12/3/10 at 4:07pmAnother we should be glad was recorded: THE GRASS HARP
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minicko88
Featured Actor Joined: 7/12/07
#44Great Flop Scores
Posted: 12/3/10 at 8:37pmHonestly, my two favorite scores were flops. Parade and Ragtime... You can't get much better than that!
#45Great Flop Scores
Posted: 12/3/10 at 8:38pm
I was JUST going to add The Grass Harp. Is it worth it to get the Varese reissue if one already has the Painted Smiles reissue?
Along these lines are two great early 1970s Broadway flop scores:
Angel
Shelter
There are some odd ones like those that mingled theater sounds with country, rock, or other popular sounds. One of my favorite things.
I wish both of these would find their way to legitimate issues!! I'm talking to you Kritzerland (Angel, maybe?) and Masterworks Broadway (Shelter).
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#46Great Flop Scores
Posted: 12/3/10 at 10:13pm
Curtains
Ragtime
Seussical
13 and Tarzan (I know I'm in the minority, but I enjoyed some of the songs.)
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minicko88
Featured Actor Joined: 7/12/07
#48Great Flop Scores
Posted: 12/3/10 at 11:44pm
>> "Is it worth it to get the Varese reissue if one already has the Painted Smiles reissue?"
I really dont know. I have the original LP, which I transferred to CD a few years back.
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AEA AGMA SM
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/13/09
#49Great Flop Scores
Posted: 12/4/10 at 12:10amI don't know if it qualifies as a flop, since it was originally produced at the Vineyard (i.e. non-profit), but I find Goblin Market to be quite lovely. The score is haunting and perfect for the subject matter.
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