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Which Theater Had The Most Flops
#25re: Which Theater Had The Most Flops
Posted: 9/10/06 at 8:13pmMeet Me In St. Louis was great too!
#27re: Which Theater Had The Most Flops
Posted: 9/10/06 at 8:53pm
"Sunset Boulevard did respectful business at the Minskoff with 977 performances."
Despite running for a while, the show remains one of the biggest monetary flops of all time.
To Kill A Mockingbird
#28re: Which Theater Had The Most Flops
Posted: 9/10/06 at 8:55pm
not the revival.
the original production DID close in the red.
what about the Cort? Belasco?
#29re: Which Theater Had The Most Flops
Posted: 9/10/06 at 9:33pm
the plymouth (now the jacobs) has a few recent flops:
chita rivera: a dancers life
the caine muntiny
match
brooklyn
taboo
#30re: Which Theater Had The Most Flops
Posted: 9/10/06 at 9:41pm
don't forget thou shalt not at the plymouth/ jacobs
the music box has housed quite a few intimate musicals, all of them flops
the nederlander has had tons of flop musicals, and never a hit until Rent
#31re: Which Theater Had The Most Flops
Posted: 9/10/06 at 9:52pm
most musicals don't recoup their investment so can, therefore, be called flops.
they outnumber the hits, I would think
#32re: Which Theater Had The Most Flops
Posted: 9/10/06 at 10:08pmProducers2 the Marriot isn't that awful and did have a respectable hit in the revival of Damn Yankees, which I believe did make its money back.
#33re: Which Theater Had The Most Flops
Posted: 9/10/06 at 11:34pmWasn't Marilyn: An American Fable at the Minskoff as well?
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#34re: Which Theater Had The Most Flops
Posted: 9/10/06 at 11:38pmThe theatre formally called the Plymouth is not the Jacobs now, it's the Gerald Schoenfeld. The Jacobs used to be called the Royale.
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#35re: Which Theater Had The Most Flops
Posted: 9/11/06 at 12:09am
The Damn Yankees revival lost money.
And the Nederlander had its share of hits prior to Rent, including the musical Call Me Mister, the original productions of Inherit the Wind and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, the acclaimed Tammy Grimes revival of Private Lives, the legendary RSC Midsummer Night's Dream, the original production of Whose Life is it Anyway? with Tom Conti, and surprise hit Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music. It did, however, have a major flop period of 14 years between the closing of Lena Horne in 1982 and the opening of Rent in 1996.
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#36re: Which Theater Had The Most Flops
Posted: 9/11/06 at 8:44amThe Longacre. It hasn't had a long-running hit since "Children of a Lesser God" in 1980.
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#37re: Which Theater Had The Most Flops
Posted: 9/11/06 at 8:48amBesides Marilyn! An American Musical, it also had the Polish bomb Metro- did ANYONE see that? I missed it!
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#38re: Which Theater Had The Most Flops
Posted: 9/11/06 at 9:03amThe Longacre did house the hit limited engagement of the Diana Rigg Medea (around 1994?), and at least with Virginia Woolf and Well has recently housed some worthy, critically acclaimed productions, though both lost money.
#39re: Which Theater Had The Most Flops
Posted: 9/11/06 at 2:14pm
"Sweeney Todd was definitely not a flop! Don't call Sweeney Todd a flop!!!"
Don't get your panties in a twist. I'm not saying the show is bad, (though i'm not a fan), I'm saying that i'm pretty sure the original production, which played the Gershwin, lost money.
#40re: Which Theater Had The Most Flops
Posted: 9/11/06 at 2:19pm
"Sweeney Todd was definitely not a flop! Don't call Sweeney Todd a flop!!! "
The original production wasn't actually a flop. Yes it closed in the red, but with the dvd sales and such, it eventaully recouped.
The revival, however, recouped very quickly.
To Kill A Mockingbird
swifty
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#41re: Which Theater Had The Most Flops
Posted: 9/11/06 at 7:03pmThe Martin Beck has not had a hit since guys & dolls
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#42re: Which Theater Had The Most Flops
Posted: 9/11/06 at 7:15pm
I saw Metro. Believe me, you did not miss a thing
It was so bad even bryan would not want a CD of it
#43re: Which Theater Had The Most Flops
Posted: 9/11/06 at 7:26pm
Mr Roxy, you KNOW that is not true.
in fact that statement was so outrageous that now i'm way more curious to hear Metro
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#44re: Which Theater Had The Most Flops
Posted: 9/11/06 at 7:27pm
Do not say I did not warn you
Lucky you as the album was never recorded
Smaxie
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/26/05
#45re: Which Theater Had The Most Flops
Posted: 9/11/06 at 7:43pm
>The Martin Beck has not had a hit since guys & dolls<
Kiss Me Kate turned a profit, according to Steven Suskin's Broadway Yearbook 2001-2002.
jjoey076
Stand-by Joined: 8/13/06
#46re: Which Theater Had The Most Flops
Posted: 9/11/06 at 8:05pmDid Ragtime at the Ford Center Turn a profit?
Mr Roxy
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Smaxie
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#48re: Which Theater Had The Most Flops
Posted: 9/11/06 at 8:07pmNo, the Ford Center/Hilton has yet to house a genuine financial success.
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