The same thing happened to the Chicago tryouts of Harmony and Masada.
Harmony first premiered in 1997 at La Jolla. It later received productions in Atlanta and Los Angeles, but as with the musical Band in Berlin, based on the same subject, has failed to gain much interest.
Masada released a fancy 2-CD concept recording in 1997 that's not bad. The show was poorly re-conceived for the Chicago tryout and was given a new concept recording in 2006, but unsurprisingly, the Chicago tryout of the new production, now gloomily set in a WWII Jewish ghetto in Warsaw, was scrapped. Two years later, it was re-titled Imagine This and had a tryout in Plymouth, England and transferred to the West End. The West End production was filmed and released on DVD, but it flopped in the West End, closing after just 6 weeks.
"What can you expect from a bunch of seitan worshippers?" - Reginald Tresilian