Great Performances in Shows that Flopped or Got Panned

[jbdc]

Great Performances in Shows that Flopped or Got Panned#1

Posted: 4/23/07 at 10:46pm

With the OCC noms coming out today, and all of the opinions, agreements, disagreements, and claims of nomination robbery--I thought, in the spirit of non-malice, I'd give a thread to those performers who have done fantastic work in shows that didn't fare too well on Broadway.

I'll start with two of my favorites from this season:


Thom Sesma, The Times They are a'Changing

Jenn Collela, High Fidelity

[CastAlbumFan]

re: Great Performances in Shows that Flopped or Got Panned#2

Posted: 4/23/07 at 10:50pm

Well, probably the best example would be Delores Gray, who won a Best Actress Tony for the musical CARNIVAL IN FLANDERS. Total run of the show: Six performances.

Praying Decca Broadway will put "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" on CD!

Updated On: 4/23/07 at 10:50 PM

[AnnaK<3LMIP]

re: Great Performances in Shows that Flopped or Got Panned#2

Posted: 4/23/07 at 10:55pm

Seriously? That's amazing!


I don't know of many myself, but I do know (as does everyone) about Kristin Chenoweth and Roger Bart, who both won Tonys for their work in YAGMCB, which flopped.

I mean, Denzel Washington? Gun to my head..of course.

Updated On: 4/23/07 at 10:55 PM

[LizzieCurry]

re: Great Performances in Shows that Flopped or Got Panned#3

Posted: 4/23/07 at 10:56pm

Will Chase in Lennon.

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[MungoGypsy8232]

re: Great Performances in Shows that Flopped or Got Panned#4

Posted: 4/23/07 at 10:57pm

Chita Rivera got nominated for the flop Merlin and Carolee Carmello got nominated for Lestat. Didn't Dee Hoty get nominated for a flop, The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public?

[CastAlbumFan]

re: Great Performances in Shows that Flopped or Got Panned#5

Posted: 4/23/07 at 11:10pm

Dee Hoty, like Chita gets nominted for practially EVERY show she does. Heck, she even got a Tony nomination out of FOOTLOOSE!

Another example: Christopher Plummer in CYRANO.

Praying Decca Broadway will put "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" on CD!

[songanddanceman2]

re: Great Performances in Shows that Flopped or Got Panned#6

Posted: 4/23/07 at 11:16pm

Betty Buckley and Linzi Hately in Carrie(even though Hately did win one award for her performance.

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[AC126748]

re: Great Performances in Shows that Flopped or Got Panned#7

Posted: 4/23/07 at 11:19pm

Cyndi Lauper in last season's Threepenny.

"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

[CurtainPullDowner]

re: Great Performances in Shows that Flopped or Got Panned#8

Posted: 4/23/07 at 11:28pm

Michael Arden in THE TIMES.....

and all the dancers.

[MargoChanning]

re: Great Performances in Shows that Flopped or Got Panned#9

Posted: 4/23/07 at 11:28pm

Well, it should be noted that Grey, Rivera, Angela Lansbury, Bernadette Peters, Helen Gallagher (and many others) all starred in FAR more flops than hits.

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[neddyfrank2]

re: Great Performances in Shows that Flopped or Got Panned#10

Posted: 4/23/07 at 11:43pm

While I wouldn't call her performance GREAT, Stephanie J. Block in The Pirate Queen.

[adrian55]

re: Great Performances in Shows that Flopped or Got Panned#11

Posted: 4/23/07 at 11:47pm

Norbert Leo Butz in Thou Shalt Not. The show was thrashed by the critics, but he got a Tony nom.

[Elphie3]

re: Great Performances in Shows that Flopped or Got Panned#12

Posted: 4/23/07 at 11:49pm

According to Seth Rudesky there were several AMAZING performances in the ill fated "Carrie". Betty Buckley?

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[StickToPriest]

re: Great Performances in Shows that Flopped or Got Panned#13

Posted: 4/24/07 at 12:32am

Margo, don't forget the incomparable Dorothy Loudon.

"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."

The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.

[WordedGrace]

re: Great Performances in Shows that Flopped or Got Panned#14

Posted: 4/24/07 at 12:39am

Celine Dion in The Pirate Queen... oh wait, SJB.. Haha.

I'm not gonna hate you in the magazines, (I'm better than that) I'm not gonna compromise my Christianity, (I'm better than that) You know I'm not gonna diss you on the Internet Cause my momma taught me better than that.

[bythesword84]

re: Great Performances in Shows that Flopped or Got Panned#15

Posted: 4/24/07 at 2:05am

adrian beat me to it...Norbert Leo Butz was the single redeeming factor of Thou Shalt Not. He was absolutely fantastic in that show.

And hang on, when did you win the discus?

[jbdc]

re: Great Performances in Shows that Flopped or Got Panned#16

Posted: 4/24/07 at 8:10am

OMG, yes. If only we could all go back and see Dorothy Loudon in Ballroom!

[D2]

re: Great Performances in Shows that Flopped or Got Panned#17

Posted: 4/24/07 at 8:19am

Robert Preston and Bernadette Peters in MACK AND MABEL.

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[philcrosby]

re: Great Performances in Shows that Flopped or Got Panned#18

Posted: 4/24/07 at 8:25am

Patricia Routledge in 1600 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE

Georgia Brown in CARMELINA

[Gypsy9]

re: Great Performances in Shows that Flopped or Got Panned#19

Posted: 4/24/07 at 8:37am

Elaine Stritch in 1958's GOLDILOCKS
Pat Stanley and Russell Nype received Tony awards for their work in GOLDILOCKS, a musical that received mixed reviews but only ran for 161 performances.
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Updated On: 4/24/07 at 08:37 AM

[LittleFish8386]

re: Great Performances in Shows that Flopped or Got Panned#20

Posted: 4/24/07 at 8:40am

Debra Monk in Steel Pier.

[Mamie]

re: Great Performances in Shows that Flopped or Got Panned#21

Posted: 4/24/07 at 8:51am

Daniel Davis in "Wrong Mountain". The critics all hated the show but praised his performance. (Most theatre-goers felt the same way).

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[onceadancer2]

re: Great Performances in Shows that Flopped or Got Panned#22

Posted: 4/24/07 at 12:08pm

Gertrude Niessen in the 1940s war camp musical of all time, FOLLOW THE GIRLS. The reviews were awful, calling it tacky, stupid, imbecilic, vapid, degrading, vile, an insult to one's intelligence, etc. It didn't matter. The audiences came. Part of the fun of FOLLOW THE GIRLS were the regulars who came and would call out the dialogue from their seats.

Every movement has a meaning--but what the hell does it mean!

[loverly90]

re: Great Performances in Shows that Flopped or Got Panned#23

Posted: 4/24/07 at 12:12pm

Alice Ripley & Emily Skinner in Side Show

[doodlenyc]

re: Great Performances in Shows that Flopped or Got Panned#24

Posted: 4/24/07 at 12:13pm

Lansbury in Prettybelle and Dear World

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