Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time
Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time#1
Posted: 6/22/08 at 12:42pm
Legs Diamond
Lestat
DOTV
re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time#2
Posted: 6/22/08 at 12:43pmTHE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN'
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/13/04
re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time#2
Posted: 6/22/08 at 12:44pmIn some ways, BKLYN.
re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time#3
Posted: 6/22/08 at 12:44pmOne really big one was the musical version of Breakfast at Tiffany's -= Holly Golightly with Mary Tyler Moore. Didn't even officially open.
re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time#4
Posted: 6/22/08 at 12:47pm
Personally, I had SUCH high hopes for 'The Pirate Queen'. WHOOPS. ^_^
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time#5
Posted: 6/22/08 at 12:49pm
STEEL PIER - before it opened, it was considered the odds-on Tony favorite - the show to beat. It got the most noms - 11 - and won zero.
Besides the fact that it wasn't very good, it suffered from comparison to the revival of CHICAGO that opened a few months earlier. It was as if the entire world was being reminded that Kander & Ebb were no longer as good as they had been 25 years earlier.
And if there hadn't been a Chicago revival, Karen Ziemba would DEFINITELY have won the Tony, despite being in a mediocre show.
re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time#6
Posted: 6/22/08 at 12:49pmGONE WITH THE WIND
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time#8
Posted: 6/22/08 at 1:04pmMartin Guerre
re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time#9
Posted: 6/22/08 at 1:07pmi actually was excited for Cry Baby, and now it will close before i have a chance to see it
re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time#10
Posted: 6/22/08 at 1:15pm
Shocked I'm the first to say it:
Annie 2: Miss Hannigan's Revenge.
re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time#11
Posted: 6/22/08 at 1:19pm
Why shocked? Half of BWW's members weren't out of diapers when that opened. 
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time#12
Posted: 6/22/08 at 1:21pm
1491
Pleasures & Palaces
Mata Hari
re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time#13
Posted: 6/22/08 at 1:22pmI actually saw that trainwreck...and am proud of it! Two others that opened out of town in DC and were a hot mess - Shogun and Whistle Down The Wind.
re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time#14
Posted: 6/22/08 at 1:28pmCan we include The Princess Bride? It never even made it to the stage, and so many were looking forward to it (including myself!)
re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time#15
Posted: 6/22/08 at 2:02pm
A Catered Affair from this past season.
Tarzan is another from a few years back.
Merrily We Roll Along certainly brought an end to the string of Sondheim-Prince celebrations.
Broadway Star Joined: 1/23/06
re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time#17
Posted: 6/22/08 at 2:16pm
Chitty, Chitty, Bang, Bang.
People figured it would run for years. Instead, it become the costliest flop in Broadway history.
re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time#18
Posted: 6/22/08 at 2:25pmHa, when Chitty Chitty came out my friend went to see it. It wasn't bad, just extremely forgetable. I wasn't sure whether to list Carrie or not, because apparantly lot of people had a precognition that it would flop. Maybe it was anticipated until Terry Hands and Debbie Allen signed on. Here's some: Kwamina, Kelly, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Thou Shalt Not, Prettybelle, Dear World, Goldilocks. I love flop musicals....
re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time#19
Posted: 6/22/08 at 2:26pmTarzan and the Little Mermaid were both very hyped.
re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time#20
Posted: 6/22/08 at 2:44pmWell Little Mermaid didn't crash and burn.
re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time#21
Posted: 6/22/08 at 2:47pmMermaid will run at least as long as Aida did.
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/07
re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time#22
Posted: 6/22/08 at 2:49pm
"Andrew Lloyd Webber's big return to Broadway": THE WOMAN IN WHITE (Broadway version!)
The Scarlet Pimpernel - SP3
re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time#23
Posted: 6/22/08 at 2:52pm
"Half of BWW's members weren't out of diapers when that opened. "
Neither was he. lol
For me personally I'd say Lestat and The Pirate Queen
--http://www.benjaminadgate.com/
re: Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time#24
Posted: 6/22/08 at 3:05pm
Young Frankenstein (Well it will...)
Glory Days
A Class Act (Financially, anyway...)
Tarzan
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