Long Forgotton Flops
Long Forgotton Flops
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
Mr Roxy
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#2re: Long Forgotton Flops
Posted: 10/24/08 at 5:53pm
The more obscure the better
Comedy
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morosco
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Mr Roxy
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#4re: Long Forgotton Flops
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
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Updated On: 10/24/08 at 06:08 PM
morosco
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Lynnespock2
Broadway Star Joined: 5/14/04
#6re: Long Forgotton Flops
Posted: 10/24/08 at 7:51pmYes, The Rink and some other show I have forgotten....
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Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#8re: Long Forgotton Flops
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.
My Avatar is the amazing young singer, James Anest
alterego
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/03
bwayfan9
Broadway Star Joined: 9/14/08
BNN
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morosco
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
#13re: Long Forgotton Flops
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
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
#14re: Long Forgotton Flops
Posted: 10/24/08 at 10:42pmBuck White (Broadway musical that starred Muhammad Ali)
alterego
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/03
#15re: Long Forgotton Flops
Posted: 10/24/08 at 10:48pm
A musical starring Mohammad Ali?!? How could that not of been a hit?!? LOL
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Understudy Joined: 10/5/08
WishingOnlyWounds2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/25/08
#17re: Long Forgotton Flops
Posted: 10/24/08 at 11:12pm
Not so long ago at all, but...
Bombay Dreams
2008: Feb. 18- Rent, Feb. 19- Curtains, April 18- Xanadu, April 22- Wicked, April 26- Legally Blonde, May 31- Wicked, June 13- The Little Mermaid, June 28- Wicked and Young Frankenstein, July 2- The Little Mermaid, July 6- A Chorus Line and Legally Blonde, August 16- Xanadu, September 13- Legally Blonde and 13, September 28- Xanadu and Spring Awakening, Oct. 12-GYPSY and [title of show], Oct. 19- Hairspray & Legally Blonde, Nov. 9- Wicked and 13, Dec. 14-13, Dec. 26- Billy Elliot, 2009: Jan 1- Shrek, Jan 2- 13 and Wicked, Jan 4- 13, Feb 17- In The Heights, Feb 19- Billy Elliot, Feb 22- Sweeney Todd (tour), March 28- Mary Poppins, April 4- Mamma Mia!, April 15- Jersey Boys (on tour), April 25- next to normal & 9 to 5
May 1- Billy Elliot, May 3- Spelling Bee (tour), May 8- Chicago, May 21- Wicked, June 6- Everyday Rapture, June 23- The Wiz, June 25- Hair July 15- Shrek, August 9- Wicked, September 7- Rock of Ages, October 11- Next To Normal, October 23- The Marvelous Wonderettes, November 7- Ragtime November 29- Dreamgirls, December 25- Billy Elliot, December 30- Finian's Rainbow, 2010: January 9- Bye Bye Birdie, January 16- Memphis February 17- The Phantom of The Opera, February 18- God of Carnage, March 7- Billy Elliot, March 31- American Idiot
#18re: Long Forgotton Flops
Posted: 10/24/08 at 11:45pm
ROCKABYE HAMLET
KING OF HEARTS
VIA GALACTICA
THE LIEUTENANT (The My Lai Massacre Musical!)
2016 These Paper Bullets (1/02) Our Mother's Brief Affair (1/06), Dragon Boat Racing (1/08), Howard - reading (1/28), Shear Madness (2/10), Fun Home (2/17), Women Without Men (2/18), Trip Of Love (2/21), The First Gentleman -reading (2/22), Southern Comfort (2/23), The Robber Bridegroom (2/24), She Loves Me (3/11), Shuffle Along (4/12), Shear Madness (4/14), Dear Evan Hansen (4/16), American Psycho (4/23), Tuck Everlasting (5/10), Indian Summer (5/15), Peer Gynt (5/18), Broadway's Rising Stars (7/11), Trip of Love (7/27), CATS (7/31), The Layover (8/17), An Act Of God (8/31), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (8/24), Heisenberg (10/12), Fiddler On The Roof (11/02), Othello (11/23), Dear Evan Hansen (11/26), Les Liaisons Dangereuses (12/21) 2017 In Transit (2/01), Groundhog Day (4/04), Ring Twice For Miranda (4/07), Church And State (4/10), The Lucky One (4/19), Ernest Shackleton Loves Me (5/16), Building The Wall (5/19), Indecent (6/01), Six Degrees of Separation (6/09), Marvin's Room (6/28), A Doll's House Pt 2 (7/25) Curvy Widow (8/01)
#19re: Long Forgotton Flops
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
Broadway Star Joined: 5/20/03
#20re: Long Forgotton Flops
Posted: 10/24/08 at 11:59pmMy personal favorite - Kelly.
I'm as jumpy as a virgin at a prison rodeo!
#21re: Long Forgotton Flops
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...
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#22re: Long Forgotton Flops
Posted: 10/25/08 at 12:02am
I'm Solomon
The Selling of the President
Winner Take All
#23re: Long Forgotton Flops
Posted: 10/25/08 at 12:28amAnyone Can Whistle
Shows Seen This Year: 13, A Chorus Line, Avenue Q, Chicago, Curtains,Gypsy,In The Heights,Legally Blonde,Mamma Mia,Spamalot,Spring Awakening, and The Little Mermaid
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