Much Anticipated Musicals That Crashed & Burned - Big Time

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 12:42pm

Legs Diamond
Lestat
DOTV

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 12:43pm

THE TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN'

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 12:44pm

In some ways, BKLYN.

[puppetman2]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 12:44pm

One really big one was the musical version of Breakfast at Tiffany's -= Holly Golightly with Mary Tyler Moore. Didn't even officially open.

[Weez]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 12:47pm

Personally, I had SUCH high hopes for 'The Pirate Queen'. WHOOPS. ^_^

[Jon]

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.

[Wanna Be A Foster]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 12:49pm

GONE WITH THE WIND

[folkyboy]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 1:00pm

IRENE

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 1:04pm

Martin Guerre

[into_the_woods2]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 1:07pm

i actually was excited for Cry Baby, and now it will close before i have a chance to see it

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 1:15pm

Shocked I'm the first to say it:
Annie 2: Miss Hannigan's Revenge.

[LizzieCurry]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 1:19pm

Why shocked? Half of BWW's members weren't out of diapers when that opened.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 1:21pm

1491
Pleasures & Palaces
Mata Hari

[matty159]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 1:22pm

I 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.

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 1:28pm

Can we include The Princess Bride? It never even made it to the stage, and so many were looking forward to it (including myself!)

[cfmiller]

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.

[lotiloti]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 2:14pm

Carrie

[adamgreer]

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.

[myshikobit]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 2:25pm

Ha, 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....

[LittleEDIEfan595]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 2:26pm

Tarzan and the Little Mermaid were both very hyped.

[defyingravity07]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 2:44pm

Well Little Mermaid didn't crash and burn.

[adamgreer]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 2:47pm

Mermaid will run at least as long as Aida did.

[philly03]

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

[B3TA07]

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

Updated On: 6/22/08 at 02:52 PM

[jagfkb]

Posted: 6/22/08 at 3:05pm

Young Frankenstein (Well it will...)
Glory Days
A Class Act (Financially, anyway...)
Tarzan