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#26

re: So is The Little Mermaid considered a flop?

Posted: 7/30/09 at 1:37pm

SNAP! I forgot that happened. What ever happened to him? hope he's recovered.

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#27

re: So is The Little Mermaid considered a flop?

Posted: 7/30/09 at 3:20pm

Check back a few GYPSY ROBE ceremonies for Adrian Bailey, he was there on a cane.

#28

re: So is The Little Mermaid considered a flop?

Posted: 8/21/15 at 6:47am

why didn't it recoup

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#29

re: So is The Little Mermaid considered a flop?

Posted: 8/21/15 at 6:53am

because they spent too much money redoing inflatable costumes that didnt work. Philly, by the end of the run, half of the set was not working. It was a $hit show.

Updated On: 8/21/15 at 06:53 AM

#30

re: So is The Little Mermaid considered a flop?

Posted: 8/21/15 at 7:50am

I knew it had to be only one person who would bring back a 6 year old thread.

"I hope your Fanny is bigger than my Peter." Mary Martin to Ezio Pinza opening night of Fanny.

#31

re: So is The Little Mermaid considered a flop?

Posted: 8/21/15 at 11:50am

Phillypinto said: "why didn't it recoup"

The same reason any show doesn't recoup. Not enough people buy enough tickets to pay back the initial investment.

#32

re: So is The Little Mermaid considered a flop?

Posted: 8/21/15 at 12:30pm

a major flop.

#33

re: So is The Little Mermaid considered a flop?

Posted: 8/21/15 at 1:07pm

Philly, why do you keep necroposting?

#34

Necroposting

Posted: 8/21/15 at 7:13pm

HAH! "necroposting" - wonderful term!
... and I'm still glad that I started using the block function. For only one name.

Updated On: 8/21/15 at 07:13 PM

#35

Necroposting

Posted: 8/21/15 at 8:31pm

Wow that must have been some expensive show !

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#36

Necroposting

Posted: 8/22/15 at 11:21am

Phillypinto said: "why didn't it recoup"

Little Mermaid flopped for the same reasons ALL Broadway flops flop: because Phillypinto told us it would be a hit. Even before it opened, he told us it would be a huge hit. He also told us what theatre it was going into, though it ended up going into a different theatre than the theatre he knew it was going into, but that must be because they changed their minds, because he definitely had heard it was going into the other theatre. And when word of mouth from previews was bad, he told us everyone he knew was saying it was great, and it was just a few people who didn't like some parts of it, but that those parts would get fixed in previews, because all shows get fixed in previews. And when the reviews were bad, he told us it was going to be a hit anyway, and was going to win lots of Tony awards - just wait and see. And when it didn't win lots of Tony awards, and it was losing money, he told us the producers, who were friends of his, had told him they were going to stick it out, and wouldn't close until it recouped. And when it didn't recoupe, and Disney closed the show, Philly never mentioned it again and didn't recall making any of those earlier statements.

#37

Necroposting

Posted: 8/22/15 at 12:16pm

EchoParker, that is one of the best Philly-related posts I've ever seen.

"Contentment, it seems, simply happens. It appears accompanied by no bravos and no tears."

#38

Necroposting

Posted: 8/22/15 at 1:36pm

Phillypinto said: "why didn't it recoup"

Because it used Heelys.

"Was uns befreit, das muss stärker sein als wir es sind." -Tanz der Vampire

#39

Necroposting

Posted: 8/22/15 at 2:35pm

EchoParker. That sounds exactly like what he had to say about Honeymoon in Vegas. :) For some reason all the people I had on Ignore are showing up again. A setting must have gotten messed up.

"I hope your Fanny is bigger than my Peter." Mary Martin to Ezio Pinza opening night of Fanny.

#40

Necroposting

Posted: 8/22/15 at 3:09pm

Remember when that Pinto thing said that LIVING ON LOVE was going to be a gigantic hit and then it folded like 3 weeks after opening? Why not revive that thread, Pinto thing?

"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"

#41

Necroposting

Posted: 8/22/15 at 3:23pm

That was so on the money Echo.

I'm literally loling.

....but the world goes 'round

#42

Necroposting

Posted: 8/22/15 at 3:59pm

As far as I know, the show hasn't even unflopped on regionals and amateur licensing because they keep pulling the rights to tinker with the materials again and again.

#43

Necroposting

Posted: 8/22/15 at 4:47pm

That was really mean

EchoParker said: "Phillypinto said: "why didn't it recoup"

#44

Necroposting

Posted: 8/22/15 at 11:24pm

No Howard Shore, it wasn't mean. That is what he does time and time again. He is a lying troll.

#45

repeating the insult

Posted: 8/23/15 at 12:55am

...and by repeating the entire post, it could be said that you're adding to the insult.

(Although I thought it was spot on and I have no sympathy for Mr. Pinto)

#46

repeating the insult

Posted: 8/23/15 at 6:34am

Mean? You have no idea what you're talking about.

If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it? These are DISCUSSION boards, not mutual admiration boards. Discussion only occurs when we are willing to hear what others are thinking, regardless of whether it is alignment to our own thoughts.

#47

repeating the insult

Posted: 8/23/15 at 12:46pm

Saying the Little Mermaid was a good idea, is like saying Hillary is a qualified candidate.

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