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#76

re: Great songs in flops

Posted: 3/24/07 at 11:53am

there was a breakfast at tiffany's musical!?
does anyone have a recording of it..?
Yes, Mary Tyler Moore played Holly. It closed four nights after it's first preview. There's a studio recording with Faith Prince as Holly.

I enjoy most songs from Mack and Mabel and The Rink.

There wouldn't be lights bright enough!

#77

re: Great songs in flops

Posted: 5/8/07 at 8:08pm

Someone in April from Carmelina

What great ones do the less will prattle of

#78

re: Great songs in flops

Posted: 5/8/07 at 8:16pm

Right in front of your eyes - Wedding singer... don't know if that song has been mentioned but it's my favorite song ever, my most played on Ipod and everything (even though i love the wedding singer, it was unfortunately a flop)
and the whole score of bare, if that's considereed a flop since it never made it to broadway or what not, it's still amazing, but i do not consider this show a flop i dont think many people do.

#79

re: Great songs in flops

Posted: 5/8/07 at 9:02pm

SHE GOES from High Fidelity.

#80

re: Great songs in flops

Posted: 5/9/07 at 4:27am

Disneyland from Smile is a fave of mine

#81

re: Great songs in flops

Posted: 5/9/07 at 12:38pm

Rag Dolly, The Light, Shooting Star, What Did I Lose?, and Blue...all from Raggedy Ann.

#82

re: Great songs in flops

Posted: 5/9/07 at 1:47pm

I am copying this entire thread! You all - especially you Josh - are needed by the student section. There is an unending search for the great - but, not too popular - song to audition with. I think that you have produced a mini directory of new possibilities. Great job!

#83

re: Great songs in flops

Posted: 5/9/07 at 2:17pm

I agree with many of the previously listed and include:

Ben Franklin in Paris - Look For Small Pleasures
Goldilocks - I Never Know When to Say When, Beast in You, Lady in Waiting
Martin Guerre - How Many Tears?, Why?, Bethlehem
Canterbury Tales - Love Will Conquer All, What Do Women Want?
Whistle Down the Wind - A Kiss is a Terrible Thing to Waste, Vaults of Heaven
Allegro - So Far
Pipe Dream - All at Once You Love Her
Rex - Away From You
Scarlet Pimpernel - Into the Fire, When I Look at You, Storybook, The Riddle, Believe, It's Only Love, She Was There
Big - I Want to Go Home
Metropolis - Hold Back the Night, It's Only Love/Bring on the Night
Parade - Old Red Hills of Home, How Can I Call This Home?, It Don't Make Sense, Big News, This Is Not Over Yet, Come Up to My Office, Pretty Music
Marie Christine - Miracles and Mysteries, I Will Give, Cincinnatti, Way Back to Paradise, Innocence Dies
The Wild Party (LaChiusa) - Dry, Uptown, People Like Us, Love Ain't Nothin', This is What It is
Passion - I Read, I Wish I Could Forget You, Loving You, No One Has Ever Loved Me
Subways Are For Sleeping - Ride Through the Night
Flora, The Red Menace - A Quiet Thing, Unafraid, All I Need is One Good Break, It's Not Every Day of the Week, Dear Love
The Rothschilds - Rothschild and Sons, Pleasure and Priveledge, He Tossed a Coin, I'm in Love, Sons
Tenderloin - Little Old New York
Annie Warbucks - It Would Have Been Wonderful
Irma la Douce - Irma la Douce
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Love is the Reason, I'll Buy You a Star, He Had Refinement
Louisiana Purchase - What Chance Have I With Love?

**Am I mistaken, or is "Boom Chicka Boom" from Nick and Nora actually a ripoff of Norman Henderson's "Cuban Pete"? It's sounds nearly identical, but I don't have the song or lyrics nearby for comparison.**

"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian

Updated On: 5/9/07 at 02:17 PM

#84

re: Great songs in flops

Posted: 5/9/07 at 2:51pm

I wouldn't consider Bare a flop. It sold out it's whole time at ATA.

#85

re: Great songs in flops

Posted: 5/9/07 at 4:38pm

Lestat--Sail Me Away, Right Before My Eyes, After All This Time and Welcome To The New World

Brooklyn--Once Upon A Time

Metropolis--You Are The Light

Butters, go buy World of Warcraft, install it on your computer, and join the online sensation before we all murder you. --Cartman: South Park ATTENTION FANS: I will be played by James Barbour in the upcoming musical, "BroadwayWorld: The Musical."

#86

re: Great songs in flops

Posted: 5/9/07 at 4:55pm

OH CAPTAIN: "Love Gives A Man a Reason"
THE GIRL WHO CAME TO SUPPER: "Here and Now", "The London Medley", "The Coronation Chorale"
GOLDILOCKS: "Shall I Take My Heart and Go?", "The Pusseyfoot"
WILDCAT: The entire score

"Madam Rose...and her daughter...Gypsy!"

#87

re: Great songs in flops

Posted: 5/9/07 at 4:56pm

I've got Tom Sawyer on the brain so I'm gonna say "To Hear You Say My Name".

#88

re: Great songs in flops

Posted: 5/9/07 at 7:09pm

Once Upon a Time from All American

What great ones do the less will prattle of

#89

re: Great songs in flops

Posted: 5/9/07 at 10:24pm

Mister Matt you just said everything I was thinking in my head.

Gypsy 9 while Shall I from Goldilocks has a great chorus the verse is horrific and unnecessary. It doesn't set the song up well and detracts from the loveliness of the question at hand.

What about Make the Man Love Me from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn or Slightly Perfect from Are You With It, Dr. Freud from I Had a Ball or All Things to One Man from The Grind.

#90

re: Great songs in flops

Posted: 5/10/07 at 1:43am

"Saturday"-LOLITA, MY LOVE
"Same Old Song"-LOLITA, MY LOVE
"Going, Going, Gone"-LOLITA, MY LOVE
"I Can"-BAJOUR
"A Terrific Band and a Real Nice Crowd"-BALLROOM
"When There's No One"-CARRIE
"You Still Have a Long Way to Go"-GOODTIME CHARLEY
"One Little Year"-GOODTIME CHARLEY

"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"

#91

re: Great songs in flops

Posted: 5/10/07 at 3:48pm

I don't know what the song is called (I'm guessing it's the reprise of "Heaven"), but that song during the prom scene in "Carrie" when all the principal characters are singing (including an eerie Margaret offstage) is awesome! That whole scene (until the lackluster destruction, which was probably better in the theatre than on tape) is great!

-- SDG

#92

re: Great songs in flops

Posted: 5/10/07 at 5:59pm

Lawyers from A Broadway Musical

Poster Emeritus

#93

re: Great songs in flops

Posted: 5/10/07 at 6:01pm

"Maybe, Maybe Not" from A BROADWAY MUSICAL. It sounds exactly like "If He Walked Into My Life" but Debbie Gravitte can sell a number like no other.

#94

re: Great songs in flops

Posted: 5/10/07 at 6:27pm

But You Go On from Annie Warbucks

That is a seriously "actable" song.

What great ones do the less will prattle of

#95

re: Great songs in flops

Posted: 5/10/07 at 6:43pm

You know what, I don't think anyone's mentioned "Baby"! For a show with such a flawed book, the score is absolutely delightful.

I Want It All
The Story Goes On
Two People In Love
Patterns
An What If We Had Loved Like That?

Good stuff.

"...and in a bed."

#96

re: Great songs in flops

Posted: 5/10/07 at 6:49pm

I do sort of like the score of the Wedding Singer. I'm not crazy about it as a serious musical, but some of the songs like: "If I Told You" are fairly enjoyable.

I also happen to like "Once Upon A Dream," "In His Eyes" and especially "Dangerous Game" from Jekyll and Hyde. No, Jekyll and Hyde wasn't a financial flop, but it definitely was an artistic flop with an altogether awful score, so that's why I feel those songs belong on the list.

Cosette: Roses are red. Marius: Violets are blue. Eponine: You're so in love! Marius: And so not with you.

#97

re: Great songs in flops

Posted: 5/10/07 at 6:51pm

I also enjoy I Chose Right from Baby.

#98

re: Great songs in flops

Posted: 5/10/07 at 8:58pm

In My Own Lifetime - The Rotschilds

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#99

re: Great songs in flops

Posted: 5/11/07 at 11:42am

BROOKLYN - "Raven"

#100

re: Great songs in flops

Posted: 5/11/07 at 12:33pm

I really liked "Going, Going, Gone" and "In the Broken Promise Land of Fifteen" from "Lolita, My Love". In fact, I believe that whole show featured a fantastic score and libretto; it was the source material that turned out to be troublesome.

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