What Shows That Failed Do You Think Deserve A Second Chance?- Page 2

[NoDayButToday2]

Posted: 10/8/04 at 7:19pm

Taboo, Little Shop of Horrors, and Aida. Okay I guess Aida didn't really fail, I just don't understand why they closed it.

[Sant]

Posted: 10/8/04 at 7:26pm

SIDE SHOW (great score)
CARRIE
RAGTIME

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 10/8/04 at 7:31pm

The Wild Party (both of 'em)
The Golden Apple

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 10/8/04 at 7:32pm

WHAT is this WILD PARTY everyone keeps referring to? Please help!

[BroadwayDiva]

Posted: 10/8/04 at 7:37pm

There are 2 version of THE WILD PARTY. The off-Broadway Lippa version, and the Broadway LaChiusa(sp?) version.

[Corine2]

Posted: 10/8/04 at 7:39pm

Double post. Updated On: 10/8/04 at 07:39 PM

[Corine2]

Posted: 10/8/04 at 7:41pm

The Last Five Years
Zanna Don't
Both shows should have run for years.
They did not fail but they did not run long enough.
Both were wonderful and overlooked.
I loved the music in both.
The writer of Zanna is one of the sweetest men I have ever met.
And the cutest.

[BroadwayDiva]

Posted: 10/8/04 at 7:41pm

I totally forgot about Zanna, Don't! This is one amazing show (especially with Jai as Zanna). It's too bad it didn't run for that long.

[Corine2]

Posted: 10/8/04 at 7:42pm

Hopefully they will bring it back.

I love Zanna.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 10/8/04 at 8:22pm

Chess!

[Spooky]

Posted: 10/8/04 at 8:29pm

Thanks Margo, I didn't realize Urinetown was a success, financially.
I guess since it didn't win the Tony...well, I assumed. My bad.
Was ShowBoat considered successful (the one at the Gershwin a few years ago)?
I did see Steel Pier. I liked it.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 10/8/04 at 8:35pm

I'd like to see a re-worked Anyone Can Whistle.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 10/8/04 at 8:39pm

Oh, I forgot- Hello Again. Why it didn't run longer or transfer is beyond me. What a great cast and it was very clever and well written.

[EponineThenardier]

Posted: 10/8/04 at 9:11pm

Martin Guerre. The 2nd version.

[Ruth Sherwood]

Posted: 10/8/04 at 9:13pm

Hollywood Arms

[krolockskid]

Posted: 10/8/04 at 9:29pm

Taboo definately, I only got to see it twice!!

[Glebb]

Posted: 10/8/04 at 9:52pm

Gorey Stories.

[laactress]

Posted: 10/8/04 at 9:56pm

Side Show and Bare, I know Bare never quite made it but it definitly deserved a chance!

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 10/8/04 at 10:07pm

Spooky,

Yes, that production of SHOW BOAT was both a critical and financial success.

[EponineThenardier]

Posted: 10/8/04 at 10:15pm

"Gorey Stories"

Really? Thats awsome, I've never heard of it. What's it about what did they do? When the heck did it come out?

[Idina_obsession]

Posted: 10/8/04 at 10:19pm

definitely little shop...i think once the main original cast left...it started to fall down hill...they just couldnt bring it back...but it was such a good show...i saw it 3 times...and alway got a kick out of it...that cast was one of the sweetest ever!

[CJR]

Posted: 10/8/04 at 10:19pm

Hollywood Arms
Bells Are Ringing (2001 revival)
The Dinner Party

[Glebb]

Posted: 10/8/04 at 10:21pm

From IMDB.

Gorey Stories

An Entertainment with Music
Booth Theatre, (10/30/1978 - 10/30/197
Preview: Oct 17, 1978 Total Previews: 16
Opening: Oct 30, 1978
Closing: Oct 30, 1978 Total Performances: 1




Category: Play, Play with music, Original, Broadway
Setting: Lady Celia's drawing room. The summer house.

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Opening Night Production Credits


Theatre Owned / Operated by The Shubert Organization (Gerald Schoenfeld: Chairman; Bernard B. Jacobs: President)


Produced by Terry Allen Kramer, Harry Rigby, Hale Matthews and John Wulp


Written by Edward Gorey; Book adapted by Stephen Currens; Music by David Aldrich; Lyrics by David Aldrich; Music orchestrated by David Aldrich; Musical Director: Martin Silvestri


Directed by Tony Tanner


Production Design by Edward Gorey; Lighting Design by Roger Morgan


General Manager: Jack Schlissel and Jay Kingwill; Company Manager: Alan Wasser


Production Stage Manager: Franklin Keysar; Assistant Stage Mgr: Beth Prevor


Assistant Conductor: Jeffrey Waxman


Scenery Supervised by Lynn Pecktal; Costumes Supervised by David Murin; General Press Representative: Henry Luhrman Associates; Press Representative: Anne Obert Weinberg; Photographer: Martha Swope; Advertising: Regis Albrecht and J. Walter Thompson; Furs by Ben Kahn Furs


Originally presented by the WPA Theatre (Howard Ashman, Artistic Director; Kyle Renick, Managing Director)


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Opening Night Cast


Gemze de Lappe Mona
a maid
Tobias Haller Little Henry
a child
Julie Kurnitz Lady Celia
the hostess
Susan Marchand Ortenzia Caviglia
a singer
Dennis McGovern Jasper Ankle
an opera freak
John Michalski Hamish
a beautiful young man
Leon Shaw C. F. Earbrass
an author
June Squibb Mary Rosemarsh
a spinster
Sel Vitella Harold
a butler



Understudies: Meg Bussert (Mona, Ortenzia Caviglia), C.A. Hutton (C. F. Earbrass, Hamish, Harold), Rose Roffman (Lady Celia, Mary Rosemarsh), Bill Stratton (Jasper Ankle, Little Henry).



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I saw the one performance.

Updated On: 10/8/04 at 10:21 PM

[MyNameInLights]

Posted: 10/8/04 at 11:05pm

Taboo Taboo Taboo!

LindsayAnne, that's my name too! Only I spell Ann with no e. That's cool!

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 10/8/04 at 11:34pm

Inner City