Musicals that should've had a longer run... — Page 2
#27
Posted: 5/19/13 at 10:56pm
It'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.
#28
Posted: 5/19/13 at 11:06pm
AVENUE Q
LEGALLY BLONDE
MEMPHIS
LEGALLY BLONDE
MEMPHIS
#29
Posted: 5/19/13 at 11:18pm
Both Ave Q. & Memphis had respectable runs.
Add CMIYC to the list.
Add CMIYC to the list.
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#30
Posted: 5/20/13 at 1:39am
Catch 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.
#32
Posted: 5/20/13 at 6:56am
La 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.
#33
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.
I know this, but I feel that there was something special about these shows that deserved to run longer.
#34
Posted: 5/20/13 at 7:14am
Next 2 Normal.
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson.
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson.
Updated On: 5/20/13 at 07:14 AM
#35
Posted: 5/20/13 at 7:51am
I 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
#36
Posted: 5/20/13 at 7:55am
Ave Q is still running at New World Stages. And it is fantastic.
#37
Posted: 5/20/13 at 7:57am
Yeah, 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
#38
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)
Catch Me If You Can
Hands On A Hardbody
A Catered Affair
The Pirate Queen
Finan's Rainbow
Gypsy (Patti Lupone)
#40
Posted: 5/20/13 at 9:52am
Chess
Little Me
House of Flowers
Little Me
House of Flowers
BroadwayEd
#41
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)
very eager to see the revival!
Bonnie and Clyde (saw it twice and loved it - still love the CD)
#42
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
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
#43
Posted: 5/20/13 at 10:16am
Original Ragtime
The Drowsy Chaperone
The Performers (not saying it was good, but come on...)
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!"
#44
Posted: 5/20/13 at 11:31am
Catch Me If You Can and The Drowsy Chaperone
#45
Posted: 5/20/13 at 11:34am
I forgot
The Performers. Shame Sandy killed it. That was a funny freaking 90 minutes.
The Performers. Shame Sandy killed it. That was a funny freaking 90 minutes.
#46
Posted: 5/20/13 at 11:57am
Ragtime Revival
Passion
Drowsy Chaperone
Passion
Drowsy Chaperone
#47
Posted: 5/20/13 at 1:07pm
LA CAGE aux FOLLES [2nd revival]
TABOO
LA BOHEME
TABOO
LA BOHEME
#48
Posted: 5/20/13 at 1:12pm
and
SWEENEY TODD [revival]
SWEENEY TODD [revival]
#49
Posted: 5/20/13 at 1:16pm
So is this basically "flops I like"?
Add Amour to the list for me.
Add Amour to the list for me.
#50
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
RAGS saw it in Boston and loved it. It just didn't seem to catch
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