Long Forgotton Flops

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 10/24/08 at 5:50pm

Music Is

[KathyGriffinLovesYou]

Posted: 10/24/08 at 5:52pm

The Rink

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 10/24/08 at 5:53pm

The more obscure the better

Comedy

[morosco]

Posted: 10/24/08 at 5:59pm

Tricks

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 10/24/08 at 6:08pm

I am shocked someone remember Tricks

I saw it & liked it . Naturally the critics did not deem it worth of Broadway & it folded quickly. The composers never did another show. It covered the same ground as The Glorious Ones

Another show Senator Joe

Updated On: 10/24/08 at 06:08 PM

[morosco]

Posted: 10/24/08 at 6:26pm

I saw it and liked it too!

[Lynnespock2]

Posted: 10/24/08 at 7:51pm

Yes, The Rink and some other show I have forgotten....

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 10/24/08 at 7:54pm

Ari

[monestere]

Posted: 10/24/08 at 9:18pm

Prettybelle

With music by Jule Styne, book & lyrics by Bob Merrill, direction by Gower Champion and the star power of Angela Lansbury, this show seemed surefire but never made it past its Boston tryout where the audience hissed or walked out and the critics were brutal.

[alterego]

Posted: 10/24/08 at 9:18pm

Doctor Jazz.

[bwayfan9]

Posted: 10/24/08 at 9:20pm

Mail the Musical

[BNN]

Posted: 10/24/08 at 9:21pm

How could anyone forget this?

[morosco]

Posted: 10/24/08 at 10:23pm

Truckload

[explorer]

Posted: 10/24/08 at 10:30pm

A few that come to mind...
Minnie's Boys
Jimmy
Georgy
Gantry
Got Tu Go Disco
Molly
Platinum
Cry For Us All





Updated On: 10/27/08 at 10:30 PM

[morosco]

Posted: 10/24/08 at 10:42pm

Buck White (Broadway musical that starred Muhammad Ali)

[alterego]

Posted: 10/24/08 at 10:48pm

A musical starring Mohammad Ali?!? How could that not of been a hit?!? LOL

HOME AGAIN, HOME AGAIN.

[Bwayidiot]

Posted: 10/24/08 at 11:05pm

Home Sweet Homer with Yul Brynner

[WishingOnlyWounds2]

Posted: 10/24/08 at 11:12pm

Not so long ago at all, but...
Bombay Dreams

[TimesSquareRegular]

Posted: 10/24/08 at 11:45pm

ROCKABYE HAMLET
KING OF HEARTS
VIA GALACTICA
THE LIEUTENANT (The My Lai Massacre Musical!)

[Paul W. Thompson]

Posted: 10/24/08 at 11:57pm

"To Live Another Summer, To Pass Another Winter"

and of course,

"Andre Heller's Wonderhouse"
Updated On: 10/24/08 at 11:57 PM

[BudFrump23]

Posted: 10/24/08 at 11:59pm

My personal favorite - Kelly.

[sondheimboy2]

Posted: 10/25/08 at 12:01am

I recently become enamoured, intrigued, whatever by a flop from the 1950's called "The Nervous Set" with music by Thomas Wolf and lyrics by Fran Landesman. It was about a group of "beatniks".

It's most famous for the song "The Ballad of Sad, Young Men" (though I believe that the song "Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most" was cut from it) and that it featured Larry Hagman in the cast (who was best known at the time as Mary Martin's son).

I'd like to know more about it, but the only thing I can find out about it is in Stephen Suskin's "Opening Nights on Broadway". Ken Mandelbaum doesn't mention it in "Not Since Carrie" and neither does Ethan Mordden in his book on fifties musicals.

If you go to www.bluegobo.com you can see a number from "Buck White" that appeared on the Ed Sullivan show.

The horror, the horror...

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 10/25/08 at 12:02am

I'm Solomon
The Selling of the President
Winner Take All

[Nicole3293]

Posted: 10/25/08 at 12:28am

Anyone Can Whistle

[TheaterBoy7777]

Posted: 10/25/08 at 10:05am

Hot September