Your Favorite Broadway Flops?- Page 2

[Delphine]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 10:42pm

I'll add Caroline, or Change to my (short) list.

[Derek]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 10:46pm

Dance Of The Vampires
Seussical
Never Gonna Dance

[muscle23ftl]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 10:47pm

dracula....and bombay dreams...eventhough it wasnt really a flop....because it lasted a whole year and it was a big hit in london

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 10:48pm

Bombay didn't last a year - It opened April 29 and closed January 1...well, almost a year I guess.

[InfiniteTheaterFrenzy]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 10:49pm

I would consider it a flop because it lost tons of money.

[Derek]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 10:50pm

It began previews earlier, sometime in March. I thought it was great! I know its doing really well in London.

[Corine2]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 10:50pm

In my opinion these shows were wonderful and should have run for years:
The Last Five Years
Listen To My Heart- The Songs of David Friedman
Caroline Or Change

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 10:52pm

Derek: BOMBAY DREAMS closed in London while the NY production was still running.

[InfiniteTheaterFrenzy]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 11:01pm

If we're talking off- broadway, I can think of piles and piles of shows that deserved far better fates.

[Razz77]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 11:30pm

Taboo definitely -- above and beyond.

Also, as cornpone as it was, I enjoyed "Never Gonna Dance" at least enjoyed it enough for it to run longer than a few months.

[CattleCall]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 11:34pm

Seussical
Taboo
Jane Eyre

[morosco]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 11:34pm

[munkustrap178]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 11:40pm

I forgot about JANE EYRE - definitely definitely.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 11:41pm

Dracula--and I don't think I would count 'Jane Eyre' as a flop either. It ran for a respectable length of time, and probably would have run longer had 9/11 not happened. It was critically loved and did well Tony-nomination wise.

Did they release the recording for "The Goodbye Girl"? I was in the little merchandise shop next to the Mariott Marquis the other day and they had the sheet music to it. I've been trying to hear the songs for awhile, but I never found a CD.

[musicgal04]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 11:41pm

The Baker's Wife, Mack and Mable, and Smile.

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 11:53pm

Working - I would like to see a revival.

[thespian geek]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 11:55pm

The Last 5 Years

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 2/6/05 at 11:58pm

Yes, there is a recording of GOODBYE GIRL. I enjoyed that, perhaps only because it brought together Martin Short and Bernadette Peters. I also loved SIDE SHOW.

[noahrp3]

Posted: 2/7/05 at 12:18am

Footloose awesome show!!!!
Last Five Years
Songs for a New World

[WildhornFanatic]

Posted: 2/7/05 at 12:23am

"Footloose," "Last Five Years,"
"Dracula" and "Scarlet Pimpernel."

Although I liked the music and most of the lyrics to "Civil War," the book (or whatever that was) was not good in my opinion.

- Michael

[InfiniteTheaterFrenzy]

Posted: 2/7/05 at 12:39am

Great picture, morosco!

Okay, I guess we ARE doing off broadway flops. So then:

Last 5 Years
Songs for a New World
Bat Boy

SO many more

[La Vie Boheme]

Posted: 2/7/05 at 12:52am

Yeah there are many off broadway shows that I wish coulld have gotten to Broadway

Tick, tick...BOOM! being one of them.

Also YAGMCB the revival. It was an all-star cast i would say and should have ran for longer then it did.

[sefina]

Posted: 2/7/05 at 1:04am

Starlight Express....

I was a fan of this show before I saw it and it took four years for me to see it. When I went there, I was sitting in the balcony on the right side of the theater awestruck. I went to the stage door to meet the cast....then went again the next night because one of the actors was nice enough to take backstage photos for me....and then one of the other actors comped another set of tickets for me, this time in the 8th Row Center.

[FOAnatic]

Posted: 2/7/05 at 1:11am

Add "Side Show" to my list.

[Maxie2003]

Posted: 2/7/05 at 1:12am

The Last 5 Years, Seussical, Tick, Tick...Boom!, Songs For A New World, Scarlet Pimpernel