Shows that deserved a shorter run.
Shows that deserved a shorter run.
bronxboundexpress
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/15/04
#1re: Shows that deserved a shorter run.
Posted: 7/23/04 at 6:33pmBeauty and the Beast....Sondheim never deserves a short run.
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#2re: Shows that deserved a shorter run.
Posted: 7/23/04 at 6:37pm
Wow, bronxbound. It's becoming increasingly clear we're never going to agree on anything. :)
A Little Night Music is a Sondheim masterpiece, one of his finest scores.
And...I think it would have been best all around if Laughing Room Only had never opened.
#3re: Shows that deserved a shorter run.
Posted: 7/23/04 at 6:38pmStarlight Express
Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson
#4re: Shows that deserved a shorter run.
Posted: 7/23/04 at 6:39pmCats
'The Devil be hitting me!'--Whitney Houston
bronxboundexpress
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/15/04
#5re: Shows that deserved a shorter run.
Posted: 7/23/04 at 6:39pmThis board would be boring if we agreed, plum! lol What about OH, CALCUTTA? Is that a good show?
bronxboundexpress
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/15/04
#6re: Shows that deserved a shorter run.
Posted: 7/23/04 at 6:40pmCATS, mayby. STARLIGHT EXPRESS I think deserved every moment of its 18 year run!! Honestly!! PRAISE STARLIGHT!!!
Plum
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/4/04
#7re: Shows that deserved a shorter run.
Posted: 7/23/04 at 6:42pmI haven't had the opportunity (or is that misfortune?) or listening to Oh, Calcutta, so I couldn't say.
bronxboundexpress
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/15/04
#8re: Shows that deserved a shorter run.
Posted: 7/23/04 at 6:43pmWhy did CALUCTTA play so long? I dont even know what it is other than a naked show.
lvpblues
Broadway Star Joined: 2/18/04
#9re: Shows that deserved a shorter run.
Posted: 7/23/04 at 6:47pm
Have to agree on "Cats".
Totally disagree on "Night Music".
Updated On: 7/23/04 at 06:47 PM
ponine24601
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/03
#10re: Shows that deserved a shorter run.
Posted: 7/23/04 at 6:48pm
cats definitely
"People asking questions, lost in confusion. Well I tell them there's no problems, only solutions."
~The one and only John Lennon
#11re: Shows that deserved a shorter run.
Posted: 7/23/04 at 6:51pmI'd say Phantom of the Opera even though its still playing. It does deserve a shorter run.
"Chicago is it's own incredible theater town right there smack down in the middle of the heartland. What a great city! I can see why Oprah likes to live there!" - Dee Hoty :-D
bronxboundexpress
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/15/04
#12re: Shows that deserved a shorter run.
Posted: 7/23/04 at 6:54pmI like the idea of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. It's right under PHANTOM. Is it THAT good?
jonartdesigns
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/04
#13re: Shows that deserved a shorter run.
Posted: 7/23/04 at 6:57pm
Cats
Beauty and the Beast (tho deep down i want it to run just long enough for me to play gaston)
"Grease," the fourth revival of the season, is the worst show in the history of theater and represents an unparalleled assault on Western civilization and its values. - Michael Reidel
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#14re: Shows that deserved a shorter run.
Posted: 7/23/04 at 6:59pmOH CALCUTTA! was a truly lame revue of sex-themed sketches and musical numbers which were created by the such esteemed figures as Sam Shepard, John Lennon, Jules Feiffer, Kenneth Tynan and others that owed its incredible longevity (6000+ performances) mainly to countless foreign tourists over the years who came to New York from countries where on stage nudity was forbidden (the show offered headsets with simultaneous translation in over a dozen languages).
"What a story........ everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." -- Birdie
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"The Devil Be Hittin' Me" -- Whitney
jayem1968
Stand-by Joined: 6/9/04
#16re: Shows that deserved a shorter run.
Posted: 7/23/04 at 7:19pmThe Lion King....enough already!
Everybody goes down well with beer.
#17re: Shows that deserved a shorter run.
Posted: 7/23/04 at 7:33pmI don't think Rent should still be running but I think Im the only person who feels that way.
And hang on, when did you win the discus?
#18re: Shows that deserved a shorter run.
Posted: 7/23/04 at 7:41pmLuckily I never paid money to see Oh Calcutta!, friends rented the video years ago and boy was it stupid...even the nudity was disappointing. Most of them should've kept their clothes on !!! Margo is correct,the only reason it ran for so long was because it became an attraction in NYC..like the Statue of Liberty (which is more exciting).
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
millie_dillmount
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/22/04
#19re: Shows that deserved a shorter run.
Posted: 7/23/04 at 7:45pmCats.
"We like to snark around here. Sometimes we actually talk about theater...but we try not to let that get in our way." - dramamama611
#20re: Shows that deserved a shorter run.
Posted: 7/23/04 at 7:52pmAlmost any ALW show, especially CATS and POTO.
#21re: Shows that deserved a shorter run.
Posted: 7/23/04 at 7:53pm
'Grease' did not deserve to run for 3,388 performances.
And 'Night Music' only ran for, I think, 601 performances, if anything it deserved a much *longer* run.
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#22Shows that should have never run on a stage!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted: 7/23/04 at 7:56pm
Birdy's Bachlorette Party- Dreadful!
Jackie Mason's musical
Prymate
Adult Entertainment
Boobs The Musical
Updated On: 7/24/04 at 07:56 PM
#23re: Shows that deserved a shorter run.
Posted: 7/23/04 at 7:58pm
LaChuisa's 'Wild Party' deserved a shorter run
Lippa's deserved a longer run and a move to B'way
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
#24re: Shows that deserved a shorter run.
Posted: 7/23/04 at 8:00pmI think Fiddler just becase well I cannot stand that show!
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