The best show you've EVER seen... that flopped.- Page 2
The best show you've EVER seen... that flopped.
aegeusrocks
Featured Actor Joined: 3/20/05
#25re: The best show you've EVER seen... that flopped.
Posted: 9/13/05 at 6:35pmWell, I'm glad Angels broke even eventually. It deserved to.
Hank
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#26re: The best show you've EVER seen... that flopped.
Posted: 9/13/05 at 6:48pm
NEVER GONNA DANCE. Sometimes I feel like I'm the only one, but I really loved that show.
LITTLE WOMEN. I admit, I saw it just because Sutton was in it, and I liked her so much in Millie, but I actually enjoyed this show very much as well.
TABOO. I never got to see it, but I got the OBCR, and now I could kick myself.
btw. Most shows lose money, and I would define a flop as as show that only ran a few months or less and lost just about all of its investments.
#27re: The best show you've EVER seen... that flopped.
Posted: 9/13/05 at 6:49pmI didn't know the 2003 revival of Gypsy didn't recoup its investment so definitely that's the best show I've ever seen that flopped. And although I never really saw Ragtime, from the cast recording, reviews, and analysis of the show I've read I can tell it is a masterpiece.
"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"
YankeesFan175
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/8/05
#28re: The best show you've EVER seen... that flopped.
Posted: 9/13/05 at 6:50pmsorry to go slightly off topic, but has piazza rocouped its investment?
Bob: "there is a chance, albeit a microscopic one, that our baby at some point in his or her formative years will get lodged in a tree"
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MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#29re: The best show you've EVER seen... that flopped.
Posted: 9/13/05 at 6:54pm
Piazza is produced by the not-for-profit Lincoln Center Theatre, so there is no "recouping" or considerations of "hit" or "flop" -- that's only for "for-profit" commercial shows. One would assume, though given the many extensions, that LCT is quite pleased with how well Piazza has done at the box office.
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Updated On: 9/13/05 at 06:54 PM
YankeesFan175
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/8/05
#30re: The best show you've EVER seen... that flopped.
Posted: 9/13/05 at 6:55pmoh, ok, thanks margo!
Bob: "there is a chance, albeit a microscopic one, that our baby at some point in his or her formative years will get lodged in a tree"
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#31re: The best show you've EVER seen... that flopped.
Posted: 9/13/05 at 6:55pm
I'll second NEVER GONNA DANCE.
Plus FLOWER DRUM SONG (2002 Revisal)
A CLASS ACT
AMOUR
PACIFIC OVERTURES (1984 Promenade)
'Our whole family shouts. It comes from us livin' so close to the railroad tracks'
#32re: The best show you've EVER seen... that flopped.
Posted: 9/13/05 at 6:57pmMack & Mabel, Side Show, and Carrie
Slotted spoons don't hold much soup
#33re: The best show you've EVER seen... that flopped.
Posted: 9/13/05 at 6:59pm
bernadette's gypsy revival
dance of the vampires
dracula
(i'm afraid that i'll be adding all shook up and lennon to this list soon...boo.)
mominthecty
Stand-by Joined: 9/4/04
Stand-by Joined: 12/31/69
#35re: The best show you've EVER seen... that flopped.
Posted: 9/13/05 at 7:07pm
Side Show
Chess in its many incarnations!
#36re: The best show you've EVER seen... that flopped.
Posted: 9/13/05 at 7:09pmi'm shocked that no one has mentioned Lennon or All Shook Up yet
Slotted spoons don't hold much soup
aegeusrocks
Featured Actor Joined: 3/20/05
#37re: The best show you've EVER seen... that flopped.
Posted: 9/13/05 at 7:10pmPhan, did you miss cathy's post?
#38re: The best show you've EVER seen... that flopped.
Posted: 9/13/05 at 7:12pm
I'm sure I'll be mocked mercilessly but I'm not ashamed to admit:
BROOKLYN
Yes it was cheese a la mode, but the performances by Cleavant, Ramona, and Eden were knockout. I know the thread is supposed to showcase the musical over the performers, but they can't be left totally out of the equation.
There are two ways of spreading light - to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Updated On: 9/13/05 at 07:12 PM
#39re: The best show you've EVER seen... that flopped.
Posted: 9/13/05 at 7:19pm
oops, my bad.
Cathy beat me to it
Slotted spoons don't hold much soup
brdlwyr
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
#40re: The best show you've EVER seen... that flopped.
Posted: 9/13/05 at 7:25pmI should read the entire title! Updated On: 9/13/05 at 07:25 PM
Born2cthelightsofbway
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/04
#41re: The best show you've EVER seen... that flopped.
Posted: 9/13/05 at 7:28pmDracula
"You alone can make my song take flight, it's over now, the Music of the Night!!!!!"
#42re: The best show you've EVER seen... that flopped.
Posted: 9/13/05 at 7:35pm
Margo, I understand and agree with the definition of 'flop', but that word carries such a bad stigma.
Can we please not refer to anything written by Sondheim as a 'flop'? I think 'disappointment' sounds better.
Slotted spoons don't hold much soup
Updated On: 9/13/05 at 07:35 PM
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#43re: The best show you've EVER seen... that flopped.
Posted: 9/13/05 at 7:35pm
MACK AND MABEL
DEAR WORLD
BIG (I think I ws the only person who liked that one!)
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
ashley0139
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/3/05
#44re: The best show you've EVER seen... that flopped.
Posted: 9/13/05 at 7:36pmWell the only show on Broadway I've seen that was a flop was Little Women, so I'll say... that one. Sutton was amazing.
"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife
#45re: The best show you've EVER seen... that flopped.
Posted: 9/13/05 at 7:44pmI'll third Never Gonna Dance. And for those in the LA area, take note - Musical Theater West is doing it this season with a top notch cast.
Faced with these Loreleis, what man can moralize!
Jayar
Chorus Member Joined: 5/6/05
#46re: The best show you've EVER seen... that flopped.
Posted: 9/13/05 at 7:51pm
Ziegfeld (London Palladium)
Marilyn! (West End Adelphi Theatre)
Pageant (West End)
Chorus Member Joined: 12/31/69
#47re: The best show you've EVER seen... that flopped.
Posted: 9/13/05 at 7:59pmI'll go with a tie - ANGELS IN AMERICA and CAROLINE, OR CHANGE. ANGELS I can somewhat understand, for reasons of length if nothing else. CAROLINE is still a mystery to me. Having seen the show here in LA, where it was absolutely adored, I can't imagine what didn't click in NYC.
BSoBW2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/8/04
theaterlover45
Broadway Star Joined: 8/21/05
#49re: The best show you've EVER seen... that flopped.
Posted: 9/13/05 at 8:10pmI really like You're A Good Man Charlie Brown
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