Musicals that should've had a longer run...- Page 2
Musicals that should've had a longer run...
SamIAm2
Featured Actor Joined: 3/10/09
AEA AGMA SM
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/13/09
#26Musicals that should've had a longer run...
Posted: 5/19/13 at 10:56pmIt's interesting to wonder how much longer the original production of Ragtime would have run if not for Garth Drabinsky and his creative book keeping.
TheGingerBreadMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/7/12
#27Musicals that should've had a longer run...
Posted: 5/19/13 at 11:06pm
AVENUE Q
LEGALLY BLONDE
MEMPHIS
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#28Musicals that should've had a longer run...
Posted: 5/19/13 at 11:18pm
Both Ave Q. & Memphis had respectable runs.
Add CMIYC to the list.
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hanabana
Leading Actor Joined: 5/12/12
#29Musicals that should've had a longer run...
Posted: 5/20/13 at 1:39amCatch Me If You Can and Bonnie and Clyde. Those two shows were fantastic in my opinion. They both had great scores and extremely talented original casts too. I was surprised when they closed, should have run much longer.
grandpianoalex
Stand-by Joined: 2/15/10
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#31Musicals that should've had a longer run...
Posted: 5/20/13 at 6:56amLa Strada, Georgy, The Student Gypsy, Sophie, Hot Spot, 70, Girls, 70, Donnybrook!, The Happiest Girl in the World, Greenwillow, Darling of the Day, .... so many others.
TheGingerBreadMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/7/12
#32Musicals that should've had a longer run...
Posted: 5/20/13 at 7:08am
Both Ave Q. & Memphis had respectable runs.
I know this, but I feel that there was something special about these shows that deserved to run longer.
gchris11
Broadway Star Joined: 5/7/13
#33Musicals that should've had a longer run...
Posted: 5/20/13 at 7:14am
Next 2 Normal.
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson.
Updated On: 5/20/13 at 07:14 AM
#34Musicals that should've had a longer run...
Posted: 5/20/13 at 7:51amI would have to go with Hands on a Hard Body too. If only because they closed with one fewer performance than Scandalous. I saw the 2nd preview and it was a little rough, but That is really a show where things clearly got fixed in previews and in the end it was a lovely little show. I just wish it had run at least 2 more performances
gchris11
Broadway Star Joined: 5/7/13
#35Musicals that should've had a longer run...
Posted: 5/20/13 at 7:55amAve Q is still running at New World Stages. And it is fantastic.
#36Musicals that should've had a longer run...
Posted: 5/20/13 at 7:57amYeah, Avenue Q is going on 10 years of almost continuous run in New York (original Off Broadway + Broadway + NWS)...I can't imagine how anyone could say it hasn't had a long-enough run.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#37Musicals that should've had a longer run...
Posted: 5/20/13 at 8:55am
Chess
Catch Me If You Can
Hands On A Hardbody
A Catered Affair
The Pirate Queen
Finan's Rainbow
Gypsy (Patti Lupone)
Sugar78
Swing Joined: 2/9/12
Ed_Mottershead
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
#39Musicals that should've had a longer run...
Posted: 5/20/13 at 9:52am
Chess
Little Me
House of Flowers
BroadwayEd
Brian07663NJ
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/21/06
#40Musicals that should've had a longer run...
Posted: 5/20/13 at 10:00am
Side Show (saw it once and LOVED it - still love the CD)
very eager to see the revival!
Bonnie and Clyde (saw it twice and loved it - still love the CD)
#41Musicals that should've had a longer run...
Posted: 5/20/13 at 10:09am
Urinetown
Caroline, or Change
Full Monty
Jane Eyre
Xanadu
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Hands on a Hardbody
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian
#42Musicals that should've had a longer run...
Posted: 5/20/13 at 10:16am
Original Ragtime
The Drowsy Chaperone
The Performers (not saying it was good, but come on...)
"Through The Sacrifice You Made, We Can't Believe The Price You Paid..For Love!"
#43Musicals that should've had a longer run...
Posted: 5/20/13 at 11:31amCatch Me If You Can and The Drowsy Chaperone
gchris11
Broadway Star Joined: 5/7/13
#44Musicals that should've had a longer run...
Posted: 5/20/13 at 11:34am
I forgot
The Performers. Shame Sandy killed it. That was a funny freaking 90 minutes.
#45Musicals that should've had a longer run...
Posted: 5/20/13 at 11:57am
Ragtime Revival
Passion
Drowsy Chaperone
#46Musicals that should've had a longer run...
Posted: 5/20/13 at 1:07pm
LA CAGE aux FOLLES [2nd revival]
TABOO
LA BOHEME
#48Musicals that should've had a longer run...
Posted: 5/20/13 at 1:16pm
So is this basically "flops I like"?
Add Amour to the list for me.
JRybka1611
Understudy Joined: 11/14/11
#49Musicals that should've had a longer run...
Posted: 5/20/13 at 1:32pm
Ragtime -- the original was magical and amazing!
RAGS saw it in Boston and loved it. It just didn't seem to catch
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