One Show Wonders- Page 2

[ashbash1990]

Posted: 3/24/07 at 3:19pm

I hope its not true, but I have a feeling that Duncan Sheik will join this club...

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/24/07 at 5:06pm

I doubt Mr Sheik will have that problem

[tazber]

Posted: 3/24/07 at 6:07pm

Michael Rupert. He wrote "Three Guy Naked..." and then flopped with "Mail".

[Julian2]

Posted: 3/24/07 at 6:18pm

From Wikipedia's page on Duncan Sheik;

Musicals
Nero (Another Golden Rome) - 2006
Spring Awakening - 2006, 2007—
The Nightingale - 2006

I can't wait to see what he does next. In all the interveiws I've read, he dosen't seem to find much worth in traditional form, so I'm wondering what he does next, and what format it will be in.

[Piercemn]

Posted: 3/25/07 at 10:32am

Walter Marks wrote the score for Bajour, which ran as long as it did because it starred Chita Rivera, but was a flop, which Ken Mandelbaum addresses in Not Since Carrie. He also wrote the score for Golden Rainbow. That wasn't necessarily a success, but ran because it starred Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme. In William Goldman's book, The Season he writes about it in a chapter titled "Washing Garbage." He states that the reason What Makes Sammy Run? played as long as it did is because Lawrence was the star, although he tended to miss performances.

The music from Golden Rainbow isn't that bad. It's got some nice songs and I've Got to Be Me was, of course, a big pop hit.

Not sure about Bajour. I passed on buying the record on sale, and it's never been available again.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/25/07 at 10:35am

Bajour is a good score not great. The show was a lot of fun

Marks also did something called, I believe , A Broadway Vaudeville (not sure of the title) before he gave up