Long Forgotton Flops
Long Forgotton Flops
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#1Long Forgotton Flops
Posted: 9/14/09 at 6:26pm
I remember one that took place in Vietnam & had Fred Gwynne in its cast
It was Off Broadway & was called "More Than You Deserve". Joe Papp put it on. The score might have been by Jim Steinham but I am not definite on that one
Anyone else remember any really obscure ones?
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#2re: Long Forgotton Flops
Posted: 9/14/09 at 6:27pmI'm just being a wise guy, but..........how could we remember it if it were long forgotten???
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#2re: Long Forgotton Flops
Posted: 9/14/09 at 6:32pm
Yes it was MORE THAN YOU DESERVE and yes it was by Jim (DOTV) Steinman.
The magnificent (and hilarious!) title song introducing an unknown new gospel singer named Meat Loaf is surely reason enough to mention this show.
It has some great material in it, at least musically, and actually tiny bits and pieces of it ending up in DOTV in a vastly different form.
But, AY!, the plot...
... the whole idea of a nymphomaniac female reporter who lets loose on an army base in Vietnam is a little too much for modern sensibilities, methinks.
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#4re: Long Forgotton Flops
Posted: 9/14/09 at 7:05pmWell, there was "Heartaches of a Pussycat" in 1980, in which all the actors wore masks. This was a real bizarre one. It ran all of 5 performances, and I can fully understand why.
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#5re: Long Forgotten Flops
Posted: 9/14/09 at 7:23pmForgotton? Maybe that's why.
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Mr Roxy
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#6re: Long Forgotten Flops
Posted: 9/14/09 at 7:33pmOne of the songs was a real toe tapper " Go Go Go Guerillas"
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#7re: Long Forgotten Flops
Posted: 9/14/09 at 7:38pm
Yes. A portion of the music for "Go, Go, Go Guerrillas" made it into DOTV as a matter of fact.
Go, go, go, go figure.
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#9re: Long Forgotten Flops
Posted: 9/14/09 at 8:12pmYou remember, Roxy. It was related to the hilarious sponge scene in DOTV you couldn't stop talking about for months. ("The sponge is a hoot!" you wrote, again and again.)
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#10re: Long Forgotten Flops
Posted: 9/14/09 at 8:38pm
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#11re: Long Forgotten Flops
Posted: 9/14/09 at 10:15pm
A few forgotton flop musicals:
AIN'T SUPPOSED TO DIE A NATURAL DEATH
THE LIEUTENANT
MERLIN
BIG DEAL
GRIND
QUILTERS
The kicker is that they all opened during dreary seasons, and each of these was nominated for the Best Musical Tony award!
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#12re: Long Forgotten Flops
Posted: 9/14/09 at 10:43pmBombay Dreams
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#13re: Long Forgotten Flops
Posted: 9/15/09 at 11:19am
QUILTERS is a show that never belonged on Broadway. It is quite popular in regional theatres across the country. Our theatre has done it twice - once 20 years ag and again five years ago.
We must get at least half a dozen phone calls or emails a year from theatre companies or schools doing the show asking if we have a video or audio tape of the show (there was no cast album)or asking if they can rent the quilts (16 small quilts and one gigantic "Legacy Quilt")that are so integral to the show.
Sorry folks - a local quilting club worked for over six months on those quilts, with the creators keeping the small quilts after the show was over, and the theatee raffling off the Legacy Quilt (earning a few thousand dollars).
And no, we don't have a tape.
#14re: Long Forgotten Flops
Posted: 9/15/09 at 11:31amWhich parts of More THan You Deserve made it into DOTV?
#15re: Long Forgotten Flops
Posted: 9/15/09 at 11:33am
I saw both of these in previews:
A Broadway Musical (closed on opening night)
Ain't Broadway Grand (ran three weeks)
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#16re: Long Forgotten Flops
Posted: 9/15/09 at 11:48amA DOLL'S LIFE -- the sequel to A DOLL'S HOUSE. Sad sad sad.
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#17re: Long Forgotten Flops
Posted: 9/15/09 at 11:54am
ROYAL FLUSH, starring Kaye Ballard as a queen living in an underground bathroom (do you really need to know any more than that?)
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#19re: Long Forgotten Flops
Posted: 9/15/09 at 1:01pm
A Change In The Heir
Chu-Chem
Prince Of Central Park
Metro
Roza
Honkytonk Nights
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#22re: Long Forgotten Flops
Posted: 9/15/09 at 8:39pm
> Bombay Dreams
sorry ... this does not qualify for the category.
though there is a clear consensus, the opinions on this side of the pond are too varied ... the opinions in London are decidedly in opposition to the nomination ... and (like it or not) the production's vintage is far too recent for it to be "long-forgotten".
but, thanks for playing!
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#24re: Long Forgotten Flops
Posted: 9/15/09 at 9:31pmDarling of the Day - one of my favorite cast albums! A sublime performance from Patricia Routledge.
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