Interesting Musicals That Never Made It To Broadway- Page 3

[perfectliar]

Posted: 2/4/08 at 9:07pm

But I'm a Cheerleader played the NYMF in 2005.

[DickonDefysGravity]

Posted: 2/4/08 at 9:13pm

uhhhh... Last 5 Years
Children of Eden
Lippa's Wild Party
BATBOY
the Notre Dame musical

[jv92]

Posted: 2/4/08 at 9:15pm

I would have loved to see what would have happened to Prettybelle. Would Angela Lansbury have five Tonys?

[lightmycandleNYC]

Posted: 2/4/08 at 11:52pm

I second (or third, whatever) Reefer Madness!!!! It would be great on Broadway.

Also:
The Last 5 Years
A New Brain
I Love You Because
I Sing!

[TheatreFreak05]

Posted: 2/5/08 at 12:42am

I second the Last Five Years!

[Mattbrain]

Posted: 2/5/08 at 8:31am

For everyone who said Bare, I agree wholeheartedly.

But what about Floyd Collins?

[Timmer]

Posted: 2/5/08 at 10:59am

I think "Honk" never went to Broadway because the creators wanted it that way. They were afraid that they'd have to change it too much and make it more of a spectacular than they intended, in order to get noticed by the Broadway audience.
Updated On: 2/5/08 at 10:59 AM

[Timmer]

Posted: 2/5/08 at 11:00am

"Harmony"

[commasplice]

Posted: 2/5/08 at 11:19am

Dangerous Music
1491
Miss Moffatt
The Prince of Grand Street
The Rhythm Club
The Gorey Details (I don't think this ever had any Broadway aspirations, though)

[OnTheAisle]

Posted: 2/5/08 at 1:04pm

Lizzie Borden

[sondheimboy2]

Posted: 2/5/08 at 1:05pm

"Romance in Hard Times" is a case of a show that didn't work twice. It was workshopped several years earlier as "America Kicks Up It's Heels". That time around, the characters in the show were white and I believe that Patti LuPone was involved with it. Though, in both versions Alix Korey stopped the show with "All Fall Down".

[kyleorlando]

Posted: 2/5/08 at 1:12pm

Dave Clark's Time
Metropolis
Moby Dick

[Timmer]

Posted: 2/13/08 at 3:51pm

The Good Old Bad Old Days

[Jonny boy]

Posted: 2/13/08 at 4:02pm

The Last Session

[folkyboy]

Posted: 2/13/08 at 4:41pm

there was a musical in Philly a couple of years ago that a good friend's cousin was working on that was slated to come to Broadway and never did. i don't remember the name of it but i distinctly remember it being a girl's name of some sort. i wanna say something like "Saving Emily" or "Regarding Rebecca" or somesuch?

anyone know what i'm talking about?

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 2/13/08 at 6:08pm

folkyboy-
Do you mean "Saving Aimee" with Carolee?

What about the Debbie Gibson/Robert Westenberg (I think that's who it was) verison of "Funny Girl"?

And I agree, even though it would be booed out, "Prettybelle" is really entertaining.

[NDR]

Posted: 2/13/08 at 6:40pm

Martin Guerre - the London 1996 reworked version not the scaled and toned down depressing and boring version that toured the US in 1999 (birthed from the Leeds version - also too small and boring). When I saw this show in London in January 1997 it was fantastic - fun, funny, moving, entertaining, emotional, epic, etc.

I know B&S weren't happy and kept working at it thus resulting in the Leeds and US versions but they took the fun out of it. The original step dancing was so much fun to watch and exhilarating, the old bitties were hilarious, Benoit was comic relief and human interest, Bertrande was youthful and naive, Martin Guerre was bitter and rebellious, etc.

I only wish that the US has been able to see what was a fabulous and fun show.

[FranklinShepard-Inc.]

Posted: 2/14/08 at 3:04pm

Oh yeah, someone mentioned Bricusse&Newley's "The good old bad old Days", I love that score a lot.

Strouse's shows that never made it to Broadway (yet): Marty, You never know, An American Tragedy, The Night they raided Minsky's, Bojangles, North and South, A New Road to Freedom, Real Men

Coleman shows that never made it to Broadway (yet): Grace (a beautiful score), The Great Ostrovsky, Pamela's first Musical, Josephine, Like Jazz, Eleanore, 13 Days to Broadway, Nothing but the Truth,

Chaplin (with a Anthony Newley score, early eighties), Say Hello to Harvey (sometimes charming score by Leslie Bricusse, early eighties as well, it must have had a book that dreaded the audience out of the theatre)

[tazber]

Posted: 2/14/08 at 3:14pm

Definitely "Romance In Hard Times".

[folkyboy]

Posted: 2/14/08 at 3:43pm

yes! "Saving Aimee" was it! thanks! whatever happened to that?

[musicaltheater1]

Posted: 2/14/08 at 7:41pm

I agree with Der Glocker Von Notre Dame (Hunchback of Notre Dame). I hope it will have a Broadway bow in the near future including the ones below:

Zelda
The Wiz
Most Wanted

Updated On: 2/14/08 at 07:41 PM

[commasplice]

Posted: 2/14/08 at 8:15pm

Folky,

Saving Aimee played last spring (with Carolee, Florence Lacey, and Ed Dixon) at the Signature Theatre :) What's next, I have no idea.

[oohshizz146]

Posted: 2/14/08 at 9:28pm

BARE!!!

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 2/14/08 at 9:54pm

Faust

[stagescreen]

Posted: 2/14/08 at 11:47pm

Strouse & Adams' ALBERT & I, about Queen Victoria. It has a lovely score, it's just not quite a potboiler of a show.