Great Flop Scores — Page 3

Wildcat

I concur with all previous posters who already cited:
70 Girls 70
Anyone Can Whistle
Chess
Cry For Us All
Dear World
Do I Hear a Waltz?
Do Re Mi
Flora, the Red Menace
Goldilocks
I Had a Ball
It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman
Jane Eyre (saw it)
Merrily We Roll Along (saw it)
Passion (saw it)
Prettybelle (I was shocked by how much I loved it)
Rags
Seesaw (attended opening night)
Side Show
Smile (saw it several times)
Taboo
Tenderloin
The Apple Tree
The Grass Harp
The Secret Garden (that wasn't a hit?)
The Wild Party (both)
Zorba
as you can see, I only saw a few of those, but wish I had seen all...

and for me the best of those fine scores are:
Candide
House of Flowers
Mack & Mabel
Parade

and I'd like to add:
A New Brain – highly recommended!!!
Celebration
Grind
Kwamina
Runaways (saw it – talk about a mess!)
The Nervous Set

Isabel's A Jezebel, Galt MacDermot's next score after Hair.

House of Flowers cannot be restated enough.

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I was lucky enough to see Carmelina in previews. Basically the same plot as Mamma Mia! (based on 'Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell'). Was not thoroughly impressed (I think I don't like most musicals that take place in villages -- or what I call "the Joesph Stein musical" of which this was, methinks. Remember thinking Georgia Brown was quite good, and lots of lovely music at times. I didn't think it would close so quickly.

CARRIE.

Some of the songs were truly dreadful but some were absolutely amazing!

I've never considered Ragtime a flop, given its prominence in musical theater circles, but it had an absolutely amazing score.

My personal fav flop (discounting Ragtime) is Chess. It's not perfect, but I saw a production of it at Signature Theater in Arlington, Virginia and I was floored. With the right adjustments, it could rock Broadway - songs like Nobody's Side, Anthem, and Pity the Child have become showcase favorites, so it has the built-in fanbase.