The Apple Tree?- Page 2

[tpdc]

Posted: 6/17/04 at 1:36pm

The fabulous Barabra Harris was also in PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED as Kathleen Turner's mother and in GROSSE POINT BLANK as John Cusack's mother.

I love all the Bock/Harnick shows and I wish SHE LOVES ME was as popular as FIDDLER.

[magruder]

Posted: 6/17/04 at 1:47pm

Regrettably, SHE LOVES ME holds the distinction of being the only show I know that has flopped twice on Broadway, and twice in the West End.

And it hasn't been mentioned yet, but the Bock-Harnick score for THE ROTHSCHILDS also has a number of lovely things in it. Plus, those Don Walker orchestrations just can't be beat.

[~FloweryFriend~]

Posted: 6/17/04 at 2:00pm

THAT'S BARBARA HARRIS?!?!
In "Peggy Sue Got Married"?
Oh gosh!
She was in "Freaky Friday"!
You know, the OLD one.
(Not the Shelley Long or Jamie Lee Curtis one. The OTHER one.)
That is some crazy

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 6/17/04 at 2:24pm

For those of you who haven't noticed yet, that's Bock in my icon with me. He has written numerous musicals for the Houston Children's Theatre Festival. I was in the 2001 offering entitled Danny and the Dragon. He is one of the sweetest guys in the biz. He told me I reminded him of Motel.

I took it as a compliment.

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 6/17/04 at 3:28pm

Whoa - wait a darned minute - was the last revival of She Loves Me considered to be a flop? I thought it was a success. I loved it and the recording is wonderful, as was the cast.

[magruder]

Posted: 6/17/04 at 3:38pm

It's been a financial failure every time - not talking flop in artistic terms (although I thought some of the staging in the Broadway revival was a little broad and coarse). And actually, factoring out the production's non-profit run at the Roundabout, the Broadway transfer of She Loves Me had a shorter run than the original production.

[CastAlbumFan]

Posted: 6/17/04 at 5:19pm

SHE LOVES ME may have flopped twice, but CANDIDE has been on Broadway THREE times and has NEVER made money!

[magruder]

Posted: 6/17/04 at 5:43pm

Did the 1974 revival lose money?

[CastAlbumFan]

Posted: 6/17/04 at 5:49pm

It did. While a critical success, it lost money because the environmental staging limited the number of seats for the audience. Also, the musician's contract called for more musicians than needed, so paid WALKERS (Musicians who came in, did nothing and left) had to be used. No profit could be made that way.

[rclocalz]

Posted: 6/17/04 at 11:55pm

I also thought that last revival of "She Loves Me" was a success. Maybe that is just what the CD booklet says, but the recording is absolutley wonderful. I have never heard the Apple Tree songs so I guess I must check out the recording according to you guys.

[gherbert]

Posted: 6/19/04 at 1:39pm

Auggie27: Ms. Harris was indeed an item with Warren Beatty at the time. Stuart Ostrow tells the story in his book, but if I can remember it correctly, Mr. Beatty did dump Ms. Harris right before the Tonys. Ms. Harris then wouldn't come out of her dressing room - refusing to go to the Tonys. What eventually happened was Warren Beatty showed up to take Ms. Harris to the Tonys so she couldbe there for her win. Another interesting tidbit: Mr. Ostrow describes the original set of "The Diary of Adam and Eve," the first act of the show as being some strange plastic monstrosity that looked like "Star Wars" in the Garden on Eden. Tony Walton himself hated it, but Mike Noichols wanted it, saying you have to suffer for great art or something like that. The first dress rehearsal in Boston the set is put up. "Okay Barbara, Alan, come onstage." "We are onstage." Oops! The entire set was thrown out and replaced with a much more approriately simple set.

[logan30]

Posted: 6/19/04 at 3:44pm

Rent the movie "WHO IS HARRY KELLERMAN AND WHY IS HE SAYING THESE TERRIBLE THINGS ABOUT ME?" Dustin Hoffman stars in this strange comedy but Barbara Harris has a one-scene cameo and steals the entire film from Hoffman. She was nominated for an Oscar for her performance. And, if you thought Jamie Lee Curtis was good in the remake of FREAKY FRIDAY then Ms. Harris is brilliant in the original.

[gherbert]

Posted: 6/19/04 at 4:18pm

Coincidentally enough, Dustin Hoffman was almost Adam/Captain Sanjar/Flip before Alan Alda came in and sang "If Only I Had a Brain" and got the part.

[wickedfan]

Posted: 6/20/04 at 12:45am

actually the thing about SHE LOVES ME's revival was that it wasn't a hit, nor a flop. it was produced by Roundabout and was originally going to be a limited engagement. After selling out their limited engagement they decided to open it up on Broadway, which only worked out for about a little less than a year. Then they closed.

[Chip1012]

Posted: 6/20/04 at 3:36am

Anyone know where I can get the CD of "Promises, Promises?" It looks like its out of print on Amazon, and I can't find it on Footlight.

[magruder]

Posted: 6/20/04 at 7:39am

Love the show, but the SHE LOVES ME revival was a financial failure on Broadway. After the limited engagement at the Criterion, the production moved to the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, where it played for about nine months, and lost money. It wasn't a "close in one week turkey" kind of flop, but a flop nonetheless, just like the original production.