Shows with successful sequels?
Shows with successful sequels?
#1Shows with successful sequels?
Posted: 5/10/08 at 11:20pmDoes anyone know of any shows that had sequels that were equally as successful?
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#2re: Shows with successful sequels?
Posted: 5/10/08 at 11:38pm
No Broadway musical sequel has ever been successful.
Off-Broadway, there have been several NUNSENSE sequels that are very popular.
Non-musical sequels that were hits include Neil Simon's Biloxi Blues and Broadway Bound (sequels to Brighton Beach Memoirs). O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten is a sequel of sorts to A Long Day's Journey into Night. Lilian Hellman's Another Part of the Forerst is a "pre-quel" to The Little Foxes.
meredithchandler73
Stand-by Joined: 11/18/06
#2re: Shows with successful sequels?
Posted: 5/10/08 at 11:44pm
Yeah, can't think of a successful Broadway musical sequel. Only plays come to mind.
Does ANGELS IN AMERICA: PERESTROIKA count as a sequel or just the 2nd part of the full play?
I believe FIFTH OF JULY and TALLEY'S FOLLY were both successful. There was a third play in that cycle - TALLEY AND SON (previously titled A TALE TOLD) but I don't know how well received it was.
#3re: Shows with successful sequels?
Posted: 5/10/08 at 11:46pmLuPwned, Again!
"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"
lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical
TooDarnHot
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/08
#4re: Shows with successful sequels?
Posted: 5/11/08 at 12:20am
no one was LUPWNED...
there has never been a successful sequel musical. ever.
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#5re: Shows with successful sequels?
Posted: 5/11/08 at 12:23amI wonder... could you count all the Forbidden Broadways as sequels? They're successful.
TooDarnHot
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/08
#6re: Shows with successful sequels?
Posted: 5/11/08 at 12:24am
no. that's a series... not seperate shows.
when you say musical "sequels", we're talking shows like BIRDIE'S BACK! and ANNIE WARBUCKS
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#7re: Shows with successful sequels?
Posted: 5/11/08 at 12:25amThat's Bring Back Birdie.
TooDarnHot
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/08
#8re: Shows with successful sequels?
Posted: 5/11/08 at 12:27am
there was another one, Smaxie, titled Birdie's Back!
not sure if you will find anything on Google but I've seen both sequels. Birdie's Back! was written by an entirely different team.
LePetiteFromage
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#10re: Shows with successful sequels?
Posted: 5/11/08 at 12:27amYes, I do understand what a sequel is. I was half-kidding. I think it's the closest you'd get.
#11re: Shows with successful sequels?
Posted: 5/11/08 at 12:34am
Kill me now if there is going to be a "Rent 2"
and it would only be successful because of all the crazy Rentheads.
LePetiteFromage
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
TooDarnHot
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/08
#13re: Shows with successful sequels?
Posted: 5/11/08 at 12:36am
there have only been 5 sequels that have made it to New York OR into full development... none of them have been successful. some middle schools do Annie Warbucks but that's about it.
Show (Sequel to)
Let 'Em Eat Cake (Of Thee I Sing)
Bring Back Birdie (Bye Bye Birdie)
Annie Warbucks (Annie)
Divorce Me, Darling (The Boyfriend)
The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public (The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas)
#14re: Shows with successful sequels?
Posted: 5/11/08 at 12:50am
a moon for the misbegotten?
Well it didn't do nearly as well as ALDJIN but it did pretty well compared to most sequels, yes?
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#15re: Shows with successful sequels?
Posted: 5/11/08 at 3:39amMarch of the Falsettos and Falsettoland were both successful sequels.
DidYouReallyHearMe
Featured Actor Joined: 11/29/04
#16re: Shows with successful sequels?
Posted: 5/11/08 at 4:42am
Did no one see The Simpsons episode with Rent 2 starring Homer at the Landlord?
Come one, I would pay to see it.
LePetiteFromage
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
#18re: Shows with successful sequels?
Posted: 5/11/08 at 9:49am
WHERE IS THE RENT?
I MUST HAVE THE RENT!
DOLLARS, DIMES AND NICKELS,
I NEED THEM ALL RIGHT NOW...
There was also that episode where Lisa was class president that was one big homage to Evita, and that "My Fair Laddie" thing.
#19re: Shows with successful sequels?
Posted: 5/11/08 at 12:33pmplus of course The Music Man one (with the monorail)and the Pinafore(?)one as they career towards the rapids..
#20re: Shows with successful sequels?
Posted: 5/11/08 at 1:12pmTooDarnHot, It was a joke. I was trying to make the insinuation that there was a musical called LuPwned, and its sequel, Lupwned had a very healthy Broadway run.
"Leave Walt Disney Theatricals new sparkling production of The Little Mermaid on Broadway alone!!!"
lakezurich will be played by Paul Groves in the BWW musical
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#21re: Shows with successful sequels?
Posted: 5/11/08 at 1:51pm
MARCH OF THE FALSETTOS and FALSETTOLAND were Off-Broadway.
TooDarnHot
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/7/08
#22re: Shows with successful sequels?
Posted: 5/11/08 at 2:58pm
correct.
we're talking about BROADWAY, Whizzer.
and I wouldn't exactly consider the Falsettos a "sequel"... more like a series. but let's just not get into this - it's so open for interpretation.
the OP was referring to Broadway musicals anyway.
LePetiteFromage
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/19/08
DidYouReallyHearMe
Featured Actor Joined: 11/29/04
#24re: Shows with successful sequels?
Posted: 5/11/08 at 4:21pmthis thread made my day. YAY for Simpsons musical spoofs.
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