Rare and Flop musicals that have good scores.- Page 2
Rare and Flop musicals that have good scores.
The Other One
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/1/08
#26Rare and Flop musicals that have good scores.
Posted: 7/15/14 at 6:06pm
Aspects of Love
Chess
Merrily We Roll Along
Carrie
Sunset Boulevard
Catch Me If You Can
Bonnie and Clyde
Tarzan
Follies
Sister Act
Wilmingtom
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/11
#27Rare and Flop musicals that have good scores.
Posted: 7/15/14 at 6:46pm
The Grass Harp, period. And why so many Tony/Pulitzer winners and nominess on this list of flops?
Updated On: 7/15/14 at 06:46 PM
Jarethan
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/10/11
#28Rare and Flop musicals that have good scores.
Posted: 7/15/14 at 9:12pm
When i think of flops, I think underappreciated, period. Most Sondheim musicals have been financial flops but are certainly not underappreciated. Here are mine:
DRAT! THE CAT had a wonderful score, including 'He Touched Me.' I saw it in previews and was so disappointed that it only ran a week. Loved it and still remember it quite well.
DARLING OF THE DAY only ran 32 performances and had a terrific Jules Styne score with lyrics by E. Y. Harburg. Saw this on opening night -- home for freshman year break -- and was sure it'd be a hit. But it was out of style in those days. Got some very good reviews from some very tough critics, including I believe Walter Kerr.
The obvious:
MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG -- I seem to think it was 28 performances
CHESS -- ran 10 weeks or so...for my $$, the best score of the past 30 years
Finally:
DEAR WORLD -- with the exception of the title song, which was very tuneful but soooo stupid and did not belong in the show
THE GRAND TOUR -- Loved this...don't think it made it to 100
CYRANO (Christopher Plummer one) -- had some beautiful songs...the CD is wonderful
Those 7 shows did not run a year in total and every one of them has a score that has given me many hours of entertainment.
#29Rare and Flop musicals that have good scores.
Posted: 7/15/14 at 9:13pm
I remember when every tenor/baritone under 30 sang "Floozies" for their auditions! (A song introduced by Russ Thacker in GRASS HARP.) It was definitely a song to avoid--but that was back in 1975.
It may be ready for a comeback.
(But it's definitely a song for a juvenile. You could do as well with "Love I Hear" from FORUM. If you are a baritone in the Bruce Yarnell/Richard Kiley tradition, you probably want something else.
Updated On: 7/15/14 at 09:13 PM
#30Rare and Flop musicals that have good scores.
Posted: 7/15/14 at 9:19pmTaboo! "Petrified" is one of my favorite songs from any musical.
Ed_Mottershead
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/20/05
#31Rare and Flop musicals that have good scores.
Posted: 7/15/14 at 10:18pm
Mack and Mabel
Candide
House of Flowers
Little Me
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
The Gay Life
Side Show
Flahooley
BroadwayEd
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#32Rare and Flop musicals that have good scores.
Posted: 7/15/14 at 10:43pmAnother one was Inner City plus many of those listed above.
Poster Emeritus
#33Rare and Flop musicals that have good scores.
Posted: 7/16/14 at 4:30amWhat about "Till I Hear You Sing," from "Love Never Dies?" That's a beautiful song, similar in feel to "Music of the Night" (for obvious reasons), and I don't think it's in a bad range for a baritone. One of Billy Bigelow's songs from "Carousel" might be good, as well, although "Carousel" sure wasn't a flop. A Lancelot song from "Camelot" would work for a baritone.
Audrey, the Phantom Phanatic, who nonetheless would rather be Jean Valjean, who knew how to make lemonade out of lemons.
#34Rare and Flop musicals that have good scores.
Posted: 7/16/14 at 12:46pm
HALLELUJAH, BABY!!
Jule Styne wrote several amazingly powerful and tuneful scores, but this one is actually my favorite. And dayum Leslie Uggams is jaw-droppingly good in the OBCR.
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