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What Show Do You Love That Was Not A Giant Hit?
#50re: What Show Do You Love That Was Not A Giant Hit?
Posted: 7/23/06 at 6:47pm
Sorry Eponine. ITW or almost every Sondheim show (except original Forum and the current Sweeney) lost it's investment.
They all feel like hits to me too, though...
"Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana." GMarx
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#51re: What Show Do You Love That Was Not A Giant Hit?
Posted: 7/23/06 at 6:47pm
Any Wildhorn Show
ASU
Lestat
SporkGoddess
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/05
#52re: What Show Do You Love That Was Not A Giant Hit?
Posted: 7/23/06 at 9:09pm
CostumeMistress: I recommend the ENTIRE Scarlet Pimpernel series. Just really enjoyable reading.
Anyway...
Parade
Side Show
My Life With Albertine
The Last Five Years
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Jekyll and Hyde
Ragtime (if it counts?)
alicia_11212
Understudy Joined: 2/11/06
#53re: What Show Do You Love That Was Not A Giant Hit?
Posted: 7/23/06 at 9:32pm
L5Y
Bare
Merrily
Assassins
...
And probably a lot of other ones mentioned that I haven't really heard yet.
Just goes to show you... the general public wouldn't know good shows/ music if it jumped up and bit them on the derriere. Pardon my french.
Seriously...
ThankstoPhantom
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/05
#54re: What Show Do You Love That Was Not A Giant Hit?
Posted: 7/23/06 at 9:36pm
FOTR Revival
Jekyll & Hyde
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#55re: What Show Do You Love That Was Not A Giant Hit?
Posted: 7/23/06 at 9:36pm
Taboo
Bare
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
#56re: What Show Do You Love That Was Not A Giant Hit?
Posted: 7/23/06 at 9:41pm
Floyd Collins
A New Brain
TenThousandThings
Understudy Joined: 7/19/06
#57re: What Show Do You Love That Was Not A Giant Hit?
Posted: 7/24/06 at 12:07am
La Chiusa's Wild Party
L5Y
SFANW
Parade
Pal Joey
#58re: What Show Do You Love That Was Not A Giant Hit?
Posted: 7/24/06 at 12:14am
Bare
Dessa Rose
Jekyll and Hyde
Last 5 Years
#59re: What Show Do You Love That Was Not A Giant Hit?
Posted: 7/24/06 at 3:06pm
Lennon!
Brooklyn
All Shook Up
Jane Eyre (I wish I had seen this, but I know I would have loved it!)
thevolleyballer
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/29/04
#60re: What Show Do You Love That Was Not A Giant Hit?
Posted: 7/24/06 at 3:07pmI don't think Footloose got rave reviews, but I loved it. It's one of the most fun shows to watch and to perform, in my opinion.
philcrosby
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/17/04
#61re: What Show Do You Love That Was Not A Giant Hit?
Posted: 7/24/06 at 3:59pm
She Loves Me
110 in the Shade
#62re: What Show Do You Love That Was Not A Giant Hit?
Posted: 7/24/06 at 7:29pm"Passion" and "The Secret Garden."
#64re: What Show Do You Love That Was Not A Giant Hit?
Posted: 7/24/06 at 8:45pm
- Dear World
- Every other show that's already been mentioned here.
~Hughie, Eugene O'Neill
Broadwayguy62
Understudy Joined: 7/13/04
#65re: What Show Do You Love That Was Not A Giant Hit?
Posted: 7/24/06 at 8:45pm
Good Vibrations
All Shook Up
Little Shop of Horrors (Revial)
SweeneyPhanatic
Broadway Star Joined: 1/4/06
#66re: What Show Do You Love That Was Not A Giant Hit?
Posted: 7/24/06 at 8:48pmCarrie (not that I've seen the whole show, but what I have seen and the music I've heard is great).
BroadwayBrat
Stand-by Joined: 11/29/04
#67re: What Show Do You Love That Was Not A Giant Hit?
Posted: 7/24/06 at 9:14pm
Sunset Boulevard
The Threepenny Opera
Into the Woods (revival)
The Last 5 Years
Hello Dawley
Understudy Joined: 5/2/06
#68re: What Show Do You Love That Was Not A Giant Hit?
Posted: 7/24/06 at 9:20pm
Tick, Tick...Boom!
Reefer Madness
Bat Boy the Musical
Hank
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/16/03
#69re: What Show Do You Love That Was Not A Giant Hit?
Posted: 7/24/06 at 9:27pm
Never Gonna Dance
Sideshow
Wonderful Town (revival)
and I loved Bombay Dreams too!
FoscasBohemianDream
Broadway Star Joined: 1/20/06
#70re: What Show Do You Love That Was Not A Giant Hit?
Posted: 7/24/06 at 9:36pm
Passion
Wonderful Town revival
Follies
Gypsy revival with Bernadette Peters
#71re: What Show Do You Love That Was Not A Giant Hit?
Posted: 7/24/06 at 9:41pmChitty Chitty Bang Bang
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#72re: What Show Do You Love That Was Not A Giant Hit?
Posted: 7/24/06 at 9:43pm
Actually, contary to popular belief, several of Sondheim's shows turned a profit:
Forum (OBC & Lane revival)
Company (OBC)
A Little Night Music (OBC)
Side By Side By Sondheim
Into the Woods (OBC)
Sweeney Todd (revival)
Also, Hal Prince said last year that the original production of Sweeney FINALLY recouped to its investors (presumably due to licensing fees, CD and DVD sales).
Assassins (Roundabout) and The Frogs (LCT) were not-for-profit productions (as were the revivals of Company, Follies, and Pacific Overtures from Roundabout) and, as such, none can be classified as being either a "hit" or a "flop."
The same is true of several shows mentioned in this thread: Dessa Rose, A New Brain, Floyd Collins, My Life with Albertine, Violet, A Man of No Importance, Lippa's Wild Party, and the recent Threepenny revival were all not-for-profit productions that played out their scheduled limited engagements -- and some even extended. Several even received cast recordings. The definition of success in the not-for-profit realm is completely different than the commercial model, so it doesn't make any sense to include such shows on these sorts of lists.
ponine24601
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/03
#73re: What Show Do You Love That Was Not A Giant Hit?
Posted: 7/25/06 at 1:09pm
The Woman in White
All Shook Up
Bare
Taboo
Lennon
raulfan
Featured Actor Joined: 6/23/06
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