So is The Little Mermaid considered a flop?- Page 2

[BwayBoundJoe]

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

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

[CurtainPullDowner]

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

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

[Phillypinto]

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

why didn't it recoup

[brdway411]

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

[Huss417]

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.

[AEA AGMA SM]

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.

[Howard Shore]

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

a major flop.

[jimmycurry01]

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

Philly, why do you keep necroposting?

[MarkBearSF]

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

[Phillypinto]

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

Wow that must have been some expensive show !

[EchoParker]

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.

 

[gypsy101]

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

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

[Elfuhbuh]

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

Phillypinto said: "why didn't it recoup"

Because it used Heelys.

[Huss417]

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. 

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

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?

[tazber]

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

That was so on the money Echo.

 

I'm literally loling.

[darquegk]

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.

[Howard Shore]

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

That was really mean

 

EchoParker said: "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.

 

 

 

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[jimmycurry01]

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.

[MarkBearSF]

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)

[dramamama611]

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

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

[MikeHuckabae]

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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