Parade was not a flop. it was a limited engegement that never moved to an actual Broadway house. Just because it never moved does not make it a flop.
A flop is actually a show that never makes even half of what they put into it before closing.
Taboo was a flop.
Carrie was a flop.
State Fair was a flop.
Steel Pier was a flop.
Caroline or Change was not a flop - especially since it moved from Off-Broadway to a Broadway house.
Busker Alley was a flop.
Annie Two was a flop.
Dracula - flop.
The Life was not a flop. It ran approx. two years.
"Do you know what pledge time is, Andrew"? said the PBS Executive.
"Yes", Lloyd Webber replied. "My 50th birthday special must be one program that gets done a lot."
"No", mused the man from PBS heedlessy. "Not so much. Our Stephen Sondheim Carnegie Hall concert. That's a big one."
Spoons, forks and knives seemed suddenly to suspend their motion in horror, all around the table.