Really Obscure Musicals

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Really Obscure Musicals

Posted: 3/6/07 at 9:25pm

Here are some musicals that are really obscure & deserve more discussion from anyone who saw them

Elizabeth & Essex
Buzzsaw Berkley

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re: Really Obscure Musicals

Posted: 3/6/07 at 9:54pm

Sobriquet-
It got negative reviews for a reason...*Shudder*

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re: Really Obscure Musicals

Posted: 3/6/07 at 9:56pm

My signature is a nod to an obscure musical; "The Name is Rachael Lily Rosenbloom, and Don't You Forget It!"


It closed in previews.

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re: Really Obscure Musicals

Posted: 3/6/07 at 10:35pm

This book has a ton of obscure musicals listed...and is quite the interesting read at that.

http://www.amazon.com/Not-Since-Carrie-Broadway-Musical/dp/0312082738/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-4434010-7327929?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1173238427&sr=8-1

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re: Really Obscure Musicals

Posted: 3/6/07 at 10:36pm

Grand Hotel- the musical

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re: Really Obscure Musicals

Posted: 3/6/07 at 10:36pm

Grand Hotel- the musical

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re: Really Obscure Musicals

Posted: 3/6/07 at 10:37pm

I saw Rachel & it was an experience on a par with Rockabye Hamlet

You cannot imagine what the critics would have said about it. This one was the GWTW of bad musicals

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re: Really Obscure Musicals

Posted: 3/6/07 at 10:41pm

Rockabye Hamlet?!

Wow.
Call me. <3

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Updated On: 3/6/07 at 10:41 PM

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re: Really Obscure Musicals

Posted: 3/6/07 at 10:44pm

Home Sweet Homer.

You have no idea.

#10

re: Really Obscure Musicals

Posted: 3/6/07 at 10:46pm

I was just reading the review with Richard H. Blake on Playbill.com, and he was talking about doing The Prince of Central Park... anyone see it? It ran four performances.

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re: Really Obscure Musicals

Posted: 3/6/07 at 10:48pm

This is getting scary

I have seen Rockabye, Rachel, Home & Prince.

Oh my god this is trainwreck city we are talking about

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re: Really Obscure Musicals

Posted: 3/6/07 at 10:55pm

I'm kinda partial to the awfulness that was "Hot September"...really "Picnic" as a MUSICAL????

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re: Really Obscure Musicals

Posted: 3/6/07 at 10:59pm

W C

Musical about W C Fields by Al Carmines It starred Mickey Rooney & Bernadette Peters

A CD was made of the score but may still be available on Original Cast Records website

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re: Really Obscure Musicals

Posted: 3/6/07 at 11:03pm

I think we can take Grand Hotel off the list.

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re: Really Obscure Musicals

Posted: 3/6/07 at 11:07pm

Roxy, you saw Prince of Central Park AND Rockabye Hamlet?? I demand details!

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re: Really Obscure Musicals

Posted: 3/6/07 at 11:12pm

Bear in mind this was years ago

Prince was much like rainbow Jones - much ado about nothing. Rockabye was like the 20 th Century Limited . It was rocking. To see Meat Loaf when he was an unknown

Rockabye was NASTY

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re: Really Obscure Musicals

Posted: 3/6/07 at 11:25pm

I think it was a musical but it's been several years since I read about it. But Hagar the Horrible: The Musical

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re: Really Obscure Musicals

Posted: 3/7/07 at 12:45am

There's one obscure musical from the '50's that I read about in Ethan Mordden's "Better Foot Forward" that I would love to hear more about called "Sandhog" It's about the immigrants who dug the New York Subway tunnels. One of the reviews said it was one of the best musicals since "Carousel."

Anyone with a recordings, P.M. me.

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re: Really Obscure Musicals

Posted: 3/7/07 at 12:49am

How about Flahooley? Has anyone heard of it? I just got the CD, but I haven't listened to it yet.

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re: Really Obscure Musicals

Posted: 3/7/07 at 1:44am

"The Crooked Mile."

Priceless British musical unlike anything attempted in the early 60's.

That's "The Crooked Mile."

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re: Really Obscure Musicals

Posted: 3/7/07 at 2:32am

Hey Roxy, is it true one of the characters strangled themselves with a microphone cord in "Rock-A-Bye"? Hahaha!

But it was the great Gower Champion's decline, that and "Broadway" which is the other one I think he did.

Also, I think there is a CD? Don't know if Meat's on it but I have the Roxy Cast Album of "Rocky Horror Show" where Meat is both Eddie and Dr. Scott

Also, "Home Sweet Homer". Hahaha, wow! I've never been able to find any info on it except that it toured as "Ulysses" before the Broadway show.

Yul Brynner NEVER AGAIN did another new musical, returning to "The King & I" for the rest of his life.

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#22

re: Really Obscure Musicals

Posted: 3/7/07 at 8:35am

Angel
A Change In The Heir
Honkytonk Nights
Arthur-The Musical (yes, the Dudley Moore Arthur)
Roza
The Yearling
Paper Moon


Too many to name!

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#23

re: Really Obscure Musicals

Posted: 3/7/07 at 8:45am

Rockfenris=
According to castalbumdb.com, there is an OOP LP recording of "Rockyabye Hamlet" but I don't think Meat Loaf is on it. Either way, AVOID IT...talk about making your ears bleed.

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re: Really Obscure Musicals

Posted: 3/7/07 at 11:32am

I saw Prince of Central Park and it was laughable! Joanne Worley did her best. There was a hideous number where the mannequins at Bloomingdales come to "life". I am so glad I saw it but don't remember much. If I recall Joanne came in to replace someone sort of last minute- who?

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re: Really Obscure Musicals

Posted: 3/7/07 at 11:38am

Your Own Thing - A hip and happenin' re-working of The Bard's 12th Night. It played the Orpheum in the East Village and the show was recorded by RCA. It did make it to CD but now that's even out of print.