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Jule Styne--most flops of any major composer?
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#25re: Jule Styne--most flops of any major composer?
Posted: 4/14/07 at 2:34pm
Darling Of The Day was an unjustly maligned show
Price was great in it along with Routledge .He gamely tried to sing ala Rex Harrison. He knew he was not a singer but he gaved it his best. Spoke to him backstage afterward & was a delight to speak to
#26re: Jule Styne--most flops of any major composer?
Posted: 4/14/07 at 3:40pm
I love Darling of the Days score.
I love Prettybelles score.
One Night Stand - Why Charles Kimbrough didn't actually kill himself after doing that show is some sort of miracle.
#27re: Jule Styne--most flops of any major composer?
Posted: 6/14/07 at 5:52pm
I had this revelation today-
Sarah Jessica Parker in Fade Out- Fade In!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not on Broadway, of course. Does anyone else think this is a good idea for Encores?
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#28re: Jule Styne--most flops of any major composer?
Posted: 6/14/07 at 5:54pm
He did Look To The Lillies which was not that bad
A ton of songs were written for it
broadwaygal3
Chorus Member Joined: 11/17/04
#29re: Jule Styne--most flops of any major composer?
Posted: 6/16/07 at 5:28amI don't think anyone mentioned SUGAR - which didn't have a great score, but I loved it nonetheless, loved it enough that I saw it 39 times! I was madly in love with Robert Morse then.
#30re: Jule Styne--most flops of any major composer?
Posted: 6/16/07 at 11:37am
The very first Broadway show I ever saw was ONE NIGHT STAND, starring Jack Weston and Charles Kimbrough (and in the chorus, everybody's favorite gypsy, John Mineo, who also appeared in OVER HERE, which coincidentally is on the victrola right now as I type).
ONE NIGHT STAND never officially opened. It played 8 previews in October of 1980. As far as I was concerned, it was a wonderful show. At age 23, for the first time in my life I was sitting in a real host-to-goodness Broadway theatre, seeing a real Broadway show written by a real Broadway legend, and I was in heaven. I still have the OBC record around here somewhere.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#31re: Jule Styne--most flops of any major composer?
Posted: 6/16/07 at 11:40am
Doyle could never do a Styne show as there are simply too many musicians used - epecially in the horn section
Doyle even attempting one would be like colorizing Citizen Kane or Casablanca
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