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#26

re: Tony Worthy Actors That Always End Up In Flops

Posted: 4/10/08 at 11:33pm

One or two flops are nothing.
Look up your ITDB, there are performers from the "day" who were in like 20 "flops"
Chase, Henke and even Kuhn hardly qualify.
And leave my girl Colella out of this, she will get her show and her TONY someday.

Updated On: 4/10/08 at 11:33 PM

#27

re: Tony Worthy Actors That Always End Up In Flops

Posted: 4/10/08 at 11:37pm

Irra Petina!

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#28

re: Tony Worthy Actors That Always End Up In Flops

Posted: 4/10/08 at 11:39pm

Linda Balgord:

PASSION (also Donna Murphy's standby)
Broadway revival of LA CAGE AUX FOLLES
THE PIRATE QUEEN

Claim to fame: first (and youngest: at 36) non-star actress to headline the original production of SUNSET BLVD, alas the 1st US Nat'l Tour. The final Grizabella in CATS when the show closed on Broadway in October 2000.

#29

re: Tony Worthy Actors That Always End Up In Flops

Posted: 4/10/08 at 11:42pm

A 36 year old Norma Desmond?

That's something to be proud of?

She must have looked like a fool.

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#30

re: Tony Worthy Actors That Always End Up In Flops

Posted: 4/10/08 at 11:42pm

esparza, Chase and Colella are both your "tops"?
You must have a hell of a sexlife.

#31

re: Tony Worthy Actors That Always End Up In Flops

Posted: 4/10/08 at 11:44pm

Brian D'Arcy James is a pretty good example and I feel so bad... I think he's one of the most talented men on the Broadway stage.

BLOOD BROTHERS
NEXT TO NORMAL
TITANIC
SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS

was Lippa's WILD PARTY a flop? I'm a big fan of the musical but I don't think it was received very well.

#32

re: Tony Worthy Actors That Always End Up In Flops

Posted: 4/10/08 at 11:45pm

NEXT TO NORMAL was produced by a non-profit.

It couldn't have been a flop.

#33

re: Tony Worthy Actors That Always End Up In Flops

Posted: 4/10/08 at 11:46pm

my apologies, darling. I wasn't really thinking about the $$ even though that defines a "flop"

NTN got a decent amount of hype and then turned out to be a pile of crap. if it wasn't produced by a non-profit, it would cry 'flop' to me!

#34

re: Tony Worthy Actors That Always End Up In Flops

Posted: 4/10/08 at 11:48pm

Well, I'll agree that NEXT TO NORMAL was a piece of crap, but that doesn't make it a flop.

A flop is a show that loses money.

#35

re: Tony Worthy Actors That Always End Up In Flops

Posted: 4/11/08 at 12:03am

#36

re: Tony Worthy Actors That Always End Up In Flops

Posted: 4/11/08 at 12:15am

Alfred Drake. I can't count the number of "heading for Broadways" that poor guy was in. He seemed to be the favorite lead of Edwin Lester and his various attempts to mount shows with music by famous composers and lyrics by Wright and Forrest.

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#37

re: Tony Worthy Actors That Always End Up In Flops

Posted: 4/11/08 at 12:21am

Now we are talking.
Nanette Fabray and Helen Gallagher were also in plenty and it took Gallagher like a thousand years, God Bless Her, to finally win for NO NO Nanette.
(I think that was her first win)

#38

re: Tony Worthy Actors That Always End Up In Flops

Posted: 4/11/08 at 12:29am

My Top 3:

03. Hunter Foster
02. Robert Cuccioli
01. Jeff McCarthy

#39

re: Tony Worthy Actors That Always End Up In Flops

Posted: 4/11/08 at 12:32am

Hunter and Jeff originated in URINETOWN, which was a big hit.

Hunter also originated in the GREASE revival, which was a hit.

#40

re: Tony Worthy Actors That Always End Up In Flops

Posted: 4/11/08 at 12:41am

Yes, I know that, Foster. LoL ... I was referring to the underlying fact that neither (and Cuccioli included) have yet to garner an actual TONY Award for such wonderful work put forth before us in years past.

#41

re: Tony Worthy Actors That Always End Up In Flops

Posted: 4/11/08 at 12:43am

Did Titanic flop? It ran for 800+ performances... unless it's just another case of bad producing.

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#42

re: Tony Worthy Actors That Always End Up In Flops

Posted: 4/11/08 at 12:50am

I'm pretty sure TITANIC closed on red.
I would say Christopher J. Hanke, though it's only two really.

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#43

re: Tony Worthy Actors That Always End Up In Flops

Posted: 4/11/08 at 1:31am

Although highly prone to flops, Helen Gallagher actually won two Tonys, for No No Nanette, and the 1952 revival of Pal Joey.

Nanette Fabray won a Tony for Lovelife, but I think every other show she was in (and perhaps Lovelife itself) was a flop.

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#44

re: Tony Worthy Actors That Always End Up In Flops

Posted: 4/11/08 at 3:45am

Titanic was a flop.

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#45

re: Tony Worthy Actors That Always End Up In Flops

Posted: 4/11/08 at 5:50am

Hasn't Betty Buckly been in quite a few

Carrie
Drood
Sunset (financial flop)

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#46

re: Tony Worthy Actors That Always End Up In Flops

Posted: 4/11/08 at 8:45am

I thought Drood closed in the black.

And, I think it's going to be either Chita Rivera for the win with 7.(8 if you count A Dancer's Life)
1491
Jerry's Girls
The Rink
Merlin
Bring Back Birdie
Shinbone Alley
Seventh Heaven

Potentially tied with Hearn who has 7
Putting it Together
Sunset Boulevard
Meet Me in St. Louis
Ghetto
A Doll's Life
I Remember Mama
A Time For Singing

With Judy Kuhn who has 5.
Metropolis
Rags
Chess
Don't Step on My Olive Branch
Sunset Boulevard

Most of Nanette's shows ran a year or so, and that was in the days where it was easy to re-coup...best I can tell she has 2-4 flops. Gallagher looks like she has more, but if you notice, in 1958 she has a string of 3 really short runs in revivals, which makes me wonder if they were flops or limited engagements.

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#47

re: Tony Worthy Actors That Always End Up In Flops

Posted: 4/11/08 at 9:40am

"[Block] only flopped in PIRATE QUEEN."

The show flopped; IMO, the cast (all of it) was stellar.

#48

re: Tony Worthy Actors That Always End Up In Flops

Posted: 4/11/08 at 10:24am

Of course, the entire subject is meaningless. Alfred Drake was in a lot of financial flops because he was always employed, and working regularly in the theater is a blessing. If actors only worked in successful shows, they wouldn't be working much!

ETA - and yes, my "name" in fact refers to one of my favorite Drake flops.

Updated On: 4/11/08 at 10:24 AM

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