Your Favorite Broadway Flops?

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Your Favorite Broadway Flops?

Posted: 2/6/05 at 10:11pm

Mine:

"Amour"
"Ballroom"
"It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman"
"Merrily We Roll Along"
"Anyone Can Whistle"
"Steel Pier"

#2

re: Your Favorite Broadway Flops?

Posted: 2/6/05 at 10:11pm

Dance of the Vampires

#3

re: Your Favorite Broadway Flops?

Posted: 2/6/05 at 10:15pm

Anna Karenina.... remember that was on Broadway for like and hour and a half??? LOL

#4

re: Your Favorite Broadway Flops?

Posted: 2/6/05 at 10:15pm

Can't say I agree with you there, but to each their own.

More: "Nick and Nora", "Mack and Mabel"

#5

re: Your Favorite Broadway Flops?

Posted: 2/6/05 at 10:15pm

Seussical

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--Aristotle

#6

re: Your Favorite Broadway Flops?

Posted: 2/6/05 at 10:15pm

Taboo
Dance of the Vampires
Steel Pier
Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks
The Wild Party (Bway)
Amour
The Life

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#7

re: Your Favorite Broadway Flops?

Posted: 2/6/05 at 10:16pm

In no particular order:
Sunday in the Park
Merrily We Roll Along
Side Show (I guess this one counts)
Dracula
Taboo

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#8

re: Your Favorite Broadway Flops?

Posted: 2/6/05 at 10:16pm

You liked "Six Dance Lessons", Munk?

#9

re: Your Favorite Broadway Flops?

Posted: 2/6/05 at 10:16pm

Taboo!

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#10

re: Your Favorite Broadway Flops?

Posted: 2/6/05 at 10:17pm

Taboo, as well!

#11

re: Your Favorite Broadway Flops?

Posted: 2/6/05 at 10:18pm

Being that it's the only flop I have seen...and I kinda liked it...Dracula. (ducks and covers)

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#12

re: Your Favorite Broadway Flops?

Posted: 2/6/05 at 10:19pm

I'm not sure that I would call "Sunday in the Park with George" a flop.

#13

re: Your Favorite Broadway Flops?

Posted: 2/6/05 at 10:20pm

I did like SIX DANCE LESSONS. Very much - I thought it was really really sweet, and actually got tears in my eyes in the end. By no means is it great show - or even a good one, but something about it resonated with me and deeply touched me. I'll never be able to hear "God Only Knows" by the Beach Boys again without thinking of a dying Polly Bergen dancing with Mark Hammill. I just really liked it. Who knows...

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#14

re: Your Favorite Broadway Flops?

Posted: 2/6/05 at 10:23pm

I would have liked to see Uta Hagen be able to have brought that show to Broadway, but we all know how that one turned out. RIP Uta.

Ditto "The Wild Party".

More: "Marie Christine", "James Joyce's The Dead", "Hollywood Arms"

#15

re: Your Favorite Broadway Flops?

Posted: 2/6/05 at 10:24pm

Taboo!

#16

re: Your Favorite Broadway Flops?

Posted: 2/6/05 at 10:26pm

Yeah, we've had the debate over Sunday in the Park being a flop or not. I added it because I don't think it got the recognition it deserves.

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#17

re: Your Favorite Broadway Flops?

Posted: 2/6/05 at 10:26pm

That's true.

#18

re: Your Favorite Broadway Flops?

Posted: 2/6/05 at 10:27pm

taboo, merrily.

#19

re: Your Favorite Broadway Flops?

Posted: 2/6/05 at 10:27pm

Swing!

Did anyone else have the pleasure to see this?

And URBAN COWBOY. I liked it more than some things still running on Broadway.

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#20

re: Your Favorite Broadway Flops?

Posted: 2/6/05 at 10:27pm

taboo, the wild party, "seducical" the musical hahaha

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#21

re: Your Favorite Broadway Flops?

Posted: 2/6/05 at 10:30pm

La Chiusia's THE WILD PARTY is one of my favorite shows EVER.

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#22

re: Your Favorite Broadway Flops?

Posted: 2/6/05 at 10:39pm

OH. MY. GOD.
Is this my question or what?

Merrily We Roll Along
Baby
Mack and Mabel
Carrie
It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman
Anyone Can Whistle
Big (!!!)
Taboo
Rags
Smile
Side Show
Seussical
The Life
Bring Back Birdie (I don't like it, but I like the awful- ness of it)
Is There Life After High School? (!!!)
(does) Caroline or Change (count?)
A Class Act
The Wild Party
Marie Christine (poor LaChiusa)
Sweet Smell of Success
The Baker's Wife
My Favorite Year
Thou Shalt Not (only the parts with Norbert)
Parade (i'm thinking this counts...)
Starmites
Triumph of Love
Steel Pier
Civil War
The Goodbye Girl
Working

Wow.

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#23

re: Your Favorite Broadway Flops?

Posted: 2/6/05 at 10:40pm

OMG. And Urban Cowboy! Which I saw twice.

Oh, those Jason Robert Brown songs.

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#24

re: Your Favorite Broadway Flops?

Posted: 2/6/05 at 10:40pm

the wild party hands down

#25

re: Your Favorite Broadway Flops?

Posted: 2/6/05 at 10:40pm

Definitely adding WORKING and A CLASS ACT to mine. PARADE and CAROLINE, if they count as well.

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"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy." -Charlie Manson