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Train Wrecks You Wish You'd Seen
#75re: Train Wrecks You Wish You'd Seen
Posted: 1/3/07 at 10:06am
>> Would Illya Darling fit into this category? Wasn't there a RUssian themed show that closed outa town which I believe both Loesser and Fosse were involved with in the 60s?
ILLYA DARLING... oh man, I'd forgotten about this. Never saw it, but again one of those things that had potential like crazy(based on "Never on Sunday", the Melina Mercouri film) and just bombed.
HERE'S WHERE I BELONG was, I think, McNally's first stab at a musical (He withdrew his name from the credits prior to opening, never a god sign), and it had to have been an education more than anything else for him. The composer did mostly incidental and background music (ROBBER BRIDEGROOM was his next (and, I think, last) Broadway score after this). The director wasnt allowed back on Broadway for almost fifteen years, which should tell you something right there. Ming Cho Lee did the designs, which should have been great were this some stylized work, but a story of 30s Oklahoma and the Dust Bowl? Ming doesnt come to mind... and again, considering his subsequent Broadway work, it was probably a good indication right there of what this must have looked like. It just all sounds terribly scary. :)
If memory serves, the Leosser/Fosse project sounds like a stab they took at ANNA KARENINA, which got nowhere fast, but I could be wrong on that one.
#76re: Train Wrecks You Wish You'd Seen
Posted: 1/3/07 at 10:09amI may be wrong, but I think the Loesser/Fosse collaboration was on "Senor Indiscretion" which was based on a Bud Shulberg story.
#77re: Train Wrecks You Wish You'd Seen
Posted: 1/3/07 at 10:14am
The Red Shoes
Dance of the Vampires
#78re: Train Wrecks You Wish You'd Seen
Posted: 1/3/07 at 10:22am
Jule Styne/Herb Gardner's "One Night Stand" with jack Weston, charles kimbrough and catherine cox.
Which only made it to 8 preview performances
It's actually a wonderful score.. some of the songs have clunky lyrics, but the others a really good. The book did this show in.
Then again - how popular or cheery is a musical comedy that centers around the main character comitting suicide
#79re: Train Wrecks You Wish You'd Seen
Posted: 1/3/07 at 10:24amregarding merrily we roll along, I don't think anyone is arguing against the merits of the score or the strength of the source material in general. I think more I and others refer to it as a "train wreck" because the creative team never really figured out what to do with it. They could never really solve the problem of the book that came along with the source material. Staging the reversal of time is not easy.
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#80re: Train Wrecks You Wish You'd Seen
Posted: 1/3/07 at 10:57am
My grandfather was credited above the title in Here's Where I Belong.
He's an exceptionally talented man, but that wasn't where he belonged.
According to him, the entire production was fully aware of what an unsalvageable piece of dung they had on their hands, and would have closed out of town had they not been contractually obligated to open on Broadway. Had they had the choice, one of Broadway's most notorious flops would have never opened.
I've heard some of the music -- the rousing number about the head of lettuce is exactly as it is described.
#81re: Train Wrecks You Wish You'd Seen
Posted: 1/3/07 at 1:32pm
Carrie
In My Life
Goldilocks
Dracula
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Dude
The Human Comedy
Via Galactica
Oh, Brother!
Sleepy Hollow
Frankenstein
Baker Street
Dance of the Vampires
Shogun
Legs Diamond
Bravo, Giovanni!
I Had a Ball
The Kentucky Cycle
Home, Sweet Homer
#82re: Train Wrecks You Wish You'd Seen
Posted: 1/3/07 at 1:51pm
CARRIE
and
DANCE of the Vampires
one i wish I had not seen?
COPACABANA!
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#85re: Train Wrecks You Wish You'd Seen
Posted: 1/3/07 at 3:14pm
In My Life
Hot Feet
Lestat
Breakfast at Tiffany's (come to think of it, I wish I'd been alive at that time)
Shogun
um, Mister Matt, The Kentucky Cycle won the Pulitzer Prize. How is it a trainwreck?
#86re: Train Wrecks You Wish You'd Seen
Posted: 1/3/07 at 3:40pmso many of my friends saw In My Life and raved about how awesomely awful it was - I am sad I missed out.
#87re: Train Wrecks You Wish You'd Seen
Posted: 1/3/07 at 3:45pm
Platinum-with Alexis Smith
Got Tu Go Disco-with Irene Cara
Metro
#89re: Train Wrecks You Wish You'd Seen
Posted: 1/3/07 at 6:13pm
CARRIE
KELLY
Any show starring "Flopperetta Queen" Irra Petina
PORTOFINO
HAIRPIN HARMONY
SHOGUN; THE MUSICAL
BRING BACK BIRDIE
THE YEARLING
That musical about the Shroud of Turin (I Forget the name...)
IN MY LIFE
WHOOP-UP
BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S
DUDE
VIA GALACTICA
ROCKABYE HAMLET
THE BEST LITTLE WHOREHOUSE GOES PUBLIC
NOWHERE TO GO BUT UP
SO LONG 174th STREET
DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES
CHU CHEM
LEGS DIAMOND (A.K.A. The show that ruined the Mark Hellinger Theatre!)
GRIND
RAGS
FLORA, THE RED MENACE
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Broadway Legend Joined: 10/19/06
#90re: Train Wrecks You Wish You'd Seen
Posted: 1/3/07 at 6:17pm
dance if the vampires again
dracula again
lesat
carrie
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#91re: Train Wrecks You Wish You'd Seen
Posted: 1/3/07 at 6:25pm
Moose Murders
Carrie
Taller Than A Dwarf (Matthew Broderick & Parker Posey)
My Thing of Love (Laurie Metcalf)
#93re: Train Wrecks You Wish You'd Seen
Posted: 1/3/07 at 7:32pm
Carrie
Marilyn: An American Fable
Goldilocks
Gone With the Wind: The Musical (yeah, it closed out of town, but I WISH I'd seen it!)
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#94re: Train Wrecks You Wish You'd Seen
Posted: 1/3/07 at 7:40pmLestat
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda
#96re: Train Wrecks You Wish You'd Seen
Posted: 1/3/07 at 10:33pm
I adored Brooklyn.
In My Life for me, as well.
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Broadway Legend Joined: 1/23/05
#97re: Train Wrecks You Wish You'd Seen
Posted: 1/3/07 at 10:35pmi hear "in my life" mentioned frequently.. what is it about?
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Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#98re: Train Wrecks You Wish You'd Seen
Posted: 1/3/07 at 10:55pm
A guy with Tourettes syndrome
Mr & Mrs R enjoyed it especially Winston & The Dancing Skeleton
We liked Lestat too
#99re: Train Wrecks You Wish You'd Seen
Posted: 1/3/07 at 11:05pmwould Wedding Singer be considered a train wreck? If so I wished I saw it.
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