What Shows Do You Think Closed Before It's Prime — Page 3

I agree with the Last Five Years, I really wish it could have lasted longer.

I never saw the show, but it's a shame Bat Boy had to close when it did. I heard such great things and just as it gained momentum, it closed.

I wish the recent revival of Big River would have lasted longer. Strictly as a show, it has its faults and some of the music isn't the best, but the revival was absolutely beautiful in its staging, Michael McElroy and Tyrone Giordano were both phenomenal.

Once on this Island
Secret Garden
Elaine Stritch at Liberty
The Full Monty
Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Having seen DOTV, Urban Cowboy AND Amour, I can hardly believe that there are people out there that thought their runs were too short as opposed to too long. I would not have sat through any of them again, nor recommended them to anyone else.

Tick, Tick... Boom is much more enjoyable as a CD than it was (in my opinion) as a show...

70 Girls, 70

Over Here!

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In L5Y, I found Sherie to be quite involving as Cathy, though given all I've seen and heard of Lauren Kennedy (between her stint in Les Miz and my favorite solo album of all time) I'd rather have seen Lauren in the part. But the Philadelphia production had so much more theatricality, and the way it wove the projected images and the stunning, stark set together was asounding. So much of the set in the Off-Broadway production seemed unnecessary, whereas I will always look back on the Philadelphia production as a masterpiece in abstract theatre.

I was pretty certain, though, that the original production closed because it just wasn't selling well. I know there were alterations made to the score from Chicago to settle the whole lawsuit issue; if it had been forced to close, I don't think the performance rights would have been available at all. Same with the recording rights.

-Wayne

Im definately going to agree with Parade ... it seems the shows that are so unknown and whatnot become the all time favorites of us theatre-loving folk.

My thought right now isnt of closing early, but making it to broadway - this could be its own subject, but I think that Andrew Lippa's the wild party was MUCH MUCH better than the broadway version ... not sure where that thought came from.

Ragtime closed because it was too expensive to run. It deserved the Tony over "Lion King" & had it won I think it would have run at least another year. Ragtime was a better musical (perhaps the last great american musical) than Lion King & needed the Tony more than Lion King needed it.

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I don't know the average age of people posting on this site, however, one of the shows that should not have closed was a show called the "Moony Shapiro Songbook," starring Judy Kaye, Annie McGreevey, Jeff Goldbum, Gary Beach and Judy and Timothy Jerome, directed by George Faison. It opened around the same time as Day in Hollywood, Night...(1981) and got lost in the negative critical reaction to revues. I loved the show and the performers were absolutely brilliant. All these years later, I can still remember things the cast did, especially the sublime Judy Kaye singing the 11:00 o'clock number, "Don't Play That Love Song Anymore Sam." I have been in love with her ever since. I judge everyone by the talent of this incredible lady and let me tell you, not many measure up.

Aida closed way before it should have.

What beautiful costumes, thrilling dialogue, striking music and a legendary performance by Adam Pasqual.

If only it could have run longer......geeeeee.

Corine, get a grip will you?

Roxy wrote: "For bashing The Civil War, critics should be placed in front of military firing squad - composed of cast members of TCW."

I know a cast member from The Civil War and he said the show was crap. (Pssssst... and s/he wasn't the only one up on that stage who felt that way!)

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Actually, most people were surprised that Civil War ever made it to Broadway.

I hated Civil War almost as much as I hated Cats.

Updated On: 10/24/03 at 10:34 PM

i'd agree with:

Reefer Madness
Zanna Don't
Full Monty
because those are shows i saw and liked.

i'd in theory agree with:

Parade
Last Five Years
Floyd Collins
because i find them interesting and somewhat inexpensive to keep running.

But the one that i can't get out of my head was:

Imaginary Friends (no one on this board seems to have seen it)

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