Your Favorite Broadway Flops?- Page 2
Your Favorite Broadway Flops?
#25re: Your Favorite Broadway Flops?
Posted: 2/6/05 at 10:42pmI'll add Caroline, or Change to my (short) list.
Derek
Broadway Star Joined: 9/14/03
#26re: Your Favorite Broadway Flops?
Posted: 2/6/05 at 10:46pm
Dance Of The Vampires
Seussical
Never Gonna Dance
#27re: Your Favorite Broadway Flops?
Posted: 2/6/05 at 10:47pmdracula....and bombay dreams...eventhough it wasnt really a flop....because it lasted a whole year and it was a big hit in london
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#28re: Your Favorite Broadway Flops?
Posted: 2/6/05 at 10:48pmBombay didn't last a year - It opened April 29 and closed January 1...well, almost a year I guess.
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#29re: Your Favorite Broadway Flops?
Posted: 2/6/05 at 10:49pmI would consider it a flop because it lost tons of money.
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Derek
Broadway Star Joined: 9/14/03
#30re: Your Favorite Broadway Flops?
Posted: 2/6/05 at 10:50pmIt began previews earlier, sometime in March. I thought it was great! I know its doing really well in London.
Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#31re: Your Favorite Broadway Flops?
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
#32re: Your Favorite Broadway Flops?
Posted: 2/6/05 at 10:52pmDerek: BOMBAY DREAMS closed in London while the NY production was still running.
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
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#33re: Your Favorite Broadway Flops?
Posted: 2/6/05 at 11:01pmIf we're talking off- broadway, I can think of piles and piles of shows that deserved far better fates.
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Razz77
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#34re: Your Favorite Broadway Flops?
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.
#35re: Your Favorite Broadway Flops?
Posted: 2/6/05 at 11:34pm
Seussical
Taboo
Jane Eyre
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morosco
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#37re: Your Favorite Broadway Flops?
Posted: 2/6/05 at 11:40pmI forgot about JANE EYRE - definitely definitely.
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#38re: Your Favorite Broadway Flops?
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.
#39re: Your Favorite Broadway Flops?
Posted: 2/6/05 at 11:41pmThe Baker's Wife, Mack and Mable, and Smile.
brdlwyr
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/14/05
#40re: Your Favorite Broadway Flops?
Posted: 2/6/05 at 11:53pmWorking - I would like to see a revival.
#42re: Your Favorite Broadway Flops?
Posted: 2/6/05 at 11:58pmYes, 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.
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noahrp3
Broadway Star Joined: 2/7/05
#43re: Your Favorite Broadway Flops?
Posted: 2/7/05 at 12:18am
Footloose awesome show!!!!
Last Five Years
Songs for a New World
WildhornFanatic
Broadway Star Joined: 2/5/05
#44re: Your Favorite Broadway Flops?
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
#45re: Your Favorite Broadway Flops?
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
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La Vie Boheme
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#46re: Your Favorite Broadway Flops?
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.
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#47re: Your Favorite Broadway Flops?
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.
#48re: Your Favorite Broadway Flops?
Posted: 2/7/05 at 1:11amAdd "Side Show" to my list.
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#49re: Your Favorite Broadway Flops?
Posted: 2/7/05 at 1:12am
The Last 5 Years, Seussical, Tick, Tick...Boom!, Songs For A New World, Scarlet Pimpernel
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