Musicals that should've had a longer run...

[AKarp2013]

Musicals that should've had a longer run...#1

Posted: 5/19/13 at 6:05pm

I'm not sure if this topic has been posted or not but anyway... what are some musicals you feel should've gotten a longer run and closed way too quickly?

For me, the top one is without a doubt Caroline, or Change.

[gstrus2]

Musicals that should've had a longer run...#2

Posted: 5/19/13 at 6:12pm

Bonnie & Clyde. I love that score.

[bwayphreak234]

Musicals that should've had a longer run...#2

Posted: 5/19/13 at 6:14pm

Bonnie and Clyde
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Jekyll & Hyde (revival)

"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "

[songanddanceman2]

Musicals that should've had a longer run...#3

Posted: 5/19/13 at 6:20pm

Bonnie and Clyde

Good Vibrations (with a whole new book, less songs and better sets

Namo i love u but we get it already....you don't like Madonna

[Kelly2]

Musicals that should've had a longer run...#4

Posted: 5/19/13 at 6:25pm

The Mystery of Edwin Drood. I would've loved to see it run through at least May or June so they could pick up the awards and get the performance on the Tonys they deserved.

"Get mad, then get over it." - Colin Powell

[undercoveractor]

Musicals that should've had a longer run...#5

Posted: 5/19/13 at 6:37pm

The Scottsboro Boys

[IdinaBellFoster]

Musicals that should've had a longer run...#6

Posted: 5/19/13 at 6:45pm

Off the top of my head?

GREY GARDENS
BONNIE & CLYDE
BLOODY BLOODY ANDREW JACKSON
RAGTIME (Revival)
SIDE SHOW
PARADE

But this is all subjective.

oh and obviously BOMBSHELL.

"Oh look at the time, three more intelligent plays just closed and THE ADDAMS FAMILY made another million dollars" -Jackie Hoffman, Broadway.com Audience Awards

[ACL2006]

Musicals that should've had a longer run...#7

Posted: 5/19/13 at 6:45pm

Scottsboro Boys
Ragtime(revival & original)
The Full Monty
A Chorus Line(revival)
Chicago(original)
Movin' Out
Xanadu
Company(original & '06 revival)
Anything Goes(revival)
Thoroughly Modern Millie

A Chorus Line revival played its final Broadway performance on August 17, 2008. The tour played its final performance on August 21, 2011. A new non-equity tour started in October 2012 played its final performance on March 23, 2013. Another non-equity tour launched on January 20, 2018. The tour ended its US run in Kansas City and then toured throughout Japan August & September 2018.

[Wishing Only Wounds]

Musicals that should've had a longer run...#8

Posted: 5/19/13 at 6:52pm

Curtains
Bonnie & Clyde
Scottsboro Boys (I am still bitter I missed this one)
Ragtime (revival)
Sunday in the Park with George (revival)


Also, Mary Poppins and Beauty and the Beast (by no means a short run for either, but both closed pre-maturely)

Formerly: WishingOnlyWounds2 - Broadway Legend - Joined: 9/25/08

[theatredk]

Musicals that should've had a longer run...#9

Posted: 5/19/13 at 6:56pm

Ragtime [Original]
Side Show
Gypsy [LuPone]
Drowsy Chaperone

[best12bars]

Musicals that should've had a longer run...#10

Posted: 5/19/13 at 7:02pm

Ragtime (original)
Grey Gardens
Drowsy Chaperone
Smile

"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."

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[Thparkaly]

Musicals that should've had a longer run...#11

Posted: 5/19/13 at 7:05pm

Drowsy Chaperone
Closer Than Ever (Revival)
Priscilla Queen of The Desert

[LuminousBeing]

Musicals that should've had a longer run...#12

Posted: 5/19/13 at 7:16pm

I'll add [title of show] to the list. (Not least because it closed the weekend before my trip to NYC so I missed it by only six days!)

[Theatrical Landladies]

Musicals that should've had a longer run...#13

Posted: 5/19/13 at 7:19pm

City of Angels immediately springs to mind.

"Your eyes..... they shine like the pants on my blue serge suit"

[KathyNYC2]

Musicals that should've had a longer run...#14

Posted: 5/19/13 at 7:21pm

Ragtime...original only.

[bwayphreak234]

Musicals that should've had a longer run...#15

Posted: 5/19/13 at 7:36pm

Oh and the FOLLIES revival... I am still bitter that it started previews the day after I left the city.

"There’s nothing quite like the power and the passion of Broadway music. "

[Jersey Girl2]

Musicals that should've had a longer run...#16

Posted: 5/19/13 at 7:48pm

Jekyll & Hyde
I would have liked to see Bonnie & Clyde again too.

"Forget regret or life is yours to miss."

[BroadwayBound115]

Musicals that should've had a longer run...#17

Posted: 5/19/13 at 7:50pm

Curtains
Bonnie & Clyde
Grey Gardens
The Scottsboro Boys

[madlibrarian]

Musicals that should've had a longer run...#18

Posted: 5/19/13 at 7:51pm

Triumph of Love.

[ARTc]

Musicals that should've had a longer run...#19

Posted: 5/19/13 at 7:55pm

Big Deal
Chess (original Broadway)
Is There Life After High School

and those that have already been listed.

[jnb9872]

Musicals that should've had a longer run...#20

Posted: 5/19/13 at 8:04pm

I'll speak to a production that deserved a longer run outside of pure personal reasons or artistic merit but straight-up practical business matters: URINETOWN, which was essentially evicted from Broadway when Henry Miller's Theatre was demolished for the Bank of America Tower.

Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.

[jennaisjamazing]

Musicals that should've had a longer run...#21

Posted: 5/19/13 at 8:35pm

bonnie and clyde!! I would love a national tour. But only with Laura and Jeremy...

[PlainMushroomWit']

Musicals that should've had a longer run...#22

Posted: 5/19/13 at 8:56pm

CATS

Seriously, CITY OF ANGELS
URINETOWN
RAGTIME
and for me personally, the revival of 1776. I was living in LA at the time and had booked a flight to NY for the last week of June, but the show ended up closing mid-June. I was sure it would have lasted until Independence Day week.

Huge musical fan ever since seeing SHENANDOAH at age 8 on B'way, followed by the '76 the revival of FIDDLER with Zero Mostel. Working on my own Musical Comedy.

[Mr Roxy]

Musicals that should've had a longer run...#23

Posted: 5/19/13 at 9:00pm

Bonnie & Clyde
Civil War
Sideshow
The Scottsboro Boys
Women On The Verge
Inner City

Poster Emeritus

[BroadwayStar4]

Musicals that should've had a longer run...#24

Posted: 5/19/13 at 9:01pm

Did no one here like Catch Me If You Can?

Chaplin looks interesting, but it ended too soon. I wonder why it didn't do well. Rob McClure is great.

Updated On: 5/19/13 at 09:01 PM