What "Flop" would you like to see given a 2nd Chance?- Page 4

[MTVMANN]

Posted: 6/11/05 at 12:30pm

Taboo

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 6/11/05 at 5:38pm

MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG - someone was saying it has been revised a lot but the major revisions were done for the 1985 LaJolla production. All the subsequent changes have been more like tweaks. The revised version does work very well, though I would add the opening and closing gradutaion scenes to "bookend" the piece. It has a wonderful score, coupled with interesting (flawed) chracters that I don't get why other far less interesting shows run years and years while MERRILY lives on as a such a flop. (I would apply the same comment to BOUNCE though it is still a work in progress.)

THE RINK - maybe it needs a smaller theatre, a more intimate production but it does NOT need any major re-writing.

STEEL PIER does need some rewriting but like both of the above has too fine a score to dismiss.

THE HAPPIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD - I never saw this but from the cast album and the larrely positive reviews it got in 1961, it should have been a big hit.

A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN - perhaps too old fashioned for modern audiences but a fine score and a really solid book.

There are other flop shows with wonderful scores preserved on cast albums, but you can see why they failed: DEAR WORLD (the score and the book do not belong together); ANYA (intresting use of Rachmaninov's music ... but a really bad book); SUBWASY ARE FOR SLEEPING (speaking of really abd books!) and BAKER STREET (just plain dull.)

[SuddenlyTrey]

Posted: 6/11/05 at 5:50pm

Carrie!

[CastAlbumFan]

Posted: 6/11/05 at 5:54pm

1) THE GOLDEN APPLE (Surprised that more people aren't mentioning this one!)

2) MACK AND MABEL

3) BABY

4) THE HUMAN COMEDY

5) THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM

Updated On: 6/12/05 at 05:54 PM

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 6/11/05 at 5:56pm

"The Robber Bridegroom" is definitely due for a new staging. I think Marc Kudisch and Alice Ripley would be perfect for it.

[SuddenlyTrey]

Posted: 6/11/05 at 6:05pm

OH YES!!! Mack and Mabel!! I read that the Goodspeed Opera reworked the problem areas last year!
Also Taboo...

[Broadwaygirl22]

Posted: 6/11/05 at 6:15pm

1. Little Women

2. You're a Good Man Charlie Brown

3. Seussical

4. Tommy(wasn't a flop, but hasn't been on Broadway in years)

5. Parade

[CJR]

Posted: 6/11/05 at 6:26pm

Hollywood Arms

[Hairspraydoll]

Posted: 6/11/05 at 6:46pm

Tom Sawyer, just cuz a friend was in it.

[GirlforTartaglia]

Posted: 6/11/05 at 7:01pm

T to the A to the B to the O to the O
ahem?

TABOO!!!!

[lvpblues]

Posted: 6/11/05 at 7:22pm

A Time For Singing
Amour
Parade
The Girl Who Came to Supper/Sail Away (I enjoy both scores)
The Grass Harp (it's charming)

runners up include

Donnybrook!
Mack & Mabel
Street Scene
Mack & Mabel
Juno

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 6/11/05 at 7:56pm

CJR, I totally agree with you about "Hollywood Arms". Such a beautiful, moving play. Michele Pawk would have to reprise her Tony-winning role, of course.

[CJR]

Posted: 6/11/05 at 8:17pm

Of course. It would have to be Michele Pawk, Linda Lavin, Donna Lynne Champlin, Frank Wood...... I cant believe it was never taped.

[melissa errico fan]

Posted: 6/11/05 at 9:01pm

After seeing them all three times in that wonderful play, I honestly cannot imagine others doing it better.

[MUPPETinMA]

Posted: 6/11/05 at 9:38pm

Starlight Express should be shot down and killed. Given the right place, and enough special effects, it can pass as decent amusement, but I would never call it theater. It is an embarrassment to anybody who considers themself a patron of the arts

[EganFan2]

Posted: 6/11/05 at 10:10pm

The Scarlet Pimpernel.

[BertCCRI2]

Posted: 6/11/05 at 11:01pm

Having discovered this subject on the board recently, several shows I would have named have already been cited, including Side Show, Triumph of Love, Smile, and The Robber Bridegroom. I would like to add the following 9having directed productions of two, and musical directed another:
-- Baby
-- Working (with updates)
-- King of Hearts
-- Summer of '42

[gavrochegirl]

Posted: 6/11/05 at 11:03pm

Seussical

[hyperchet]

Posted: 6/11/05 at 11:24pm

Sorry guys, but I HAVE to say "Little Women". The music is just so beautiful!

[BwayBaby18]

Posted: 6/12/05 at 12:03am

SideShow

The Wild Party (LaChuisa)


both where amazing musicals that i love

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 6/16/05 at 1:04pm

Musicals that I think can work given the right ingredients that did not work or never found an audience when originally concieved:

Carrie
Runaways
Sideshow
Working
Robber Bridegroom
Mack and Mabel
Taboo
Merrily...
Caroline or Change

That said, some shows never will be hits. Even if they are brilliant...Sondheim never had a hit.

[erniesgirl96]

Posted: 6/16/05 at 1:10pm

Oh wow, I can't believe anyone else remembers Marilyn, I loved that show. I would love to see that and DOTV brought back.

[umgeoboy]

Posted: 6/16/05 at 1:14pm

1. Taboo of course!
2. Civil War
3. Parade
4. Caroline or Change
5. Little Shop with a proper director/cast!

[exedore]

Posted: 6/16/05 at 1:39pm

1. StEx
2. DotV (as said, revised to be back in line with the German productions)
3. Barbarella

[broadwayalto01]

Posted: 6/16/05 at 2:29pm

Side Show
You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown
The Wild Party