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Your favorate flop?
#25re: Your favorate flop?
Posted: 12/18/06 at 2:17pm
A show is considered a flop if it closed at a loss. It's merely a financial term. Despite winning several Tonys and running for a few years, THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE was a flop.
Favorite that I never saw: MACK & MABLE
That I did see: TABOO
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#26re: Your favorate flop?
Posted: 12/18/06 at 2:21pm
Seussical was indeed a flop. ITW wasn't I guess but I wasn't sure.
And No, Jay Johnson was not meant to be experimental. It was planning to run at least a year or two.
"I'm tellin' you, the only times I really feel the presence of God are when I'm having sex and during a great Broadway musical." - Nathan Lane - Jeffrey
CompletlyNakedStatue
Stand-by Joined: 5/14/06
#29re: Your favorate flop?
Posted: 12/18/06 at 2:43pm
1. The Golden Apple
2. Carrie
3. Henry Sweet Henry
#30re: Your favorate flop?
Posted: 12/18/06 at 2:43pm
Those who keep saying CARRIE, do you know the show?
It is and was horrible!
"If you are going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy."
-Charlie Manson
#31re: Your favorate flop?
Posted: 12/18/06 at 3:10pm
The Woman In White
followed by:
Carrie!
...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...
#32re: Your favorate flop?
Posted: 12/18/06 at 3:20pm
Anyone Can Whistle 
"I seem to have wandered into the BRAIN load-out thread... "
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"Sorry I am a Theatre major not a English Major"
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"Sorry I am a Theatre major not a English Major"
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ThankstoPhantom
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/13/05
#33re: Your favorate flop?
Posted: 12/18/06 at 3:30pm
The Woman in White...for sure.
All_for_Laura and I should start a club. :)
How to properly use its/it's:
Its is the possessive. It's is the contraction for it is...
#34re: Your favorate flop?
Posted: 12/18/06 at 3:34pm
Mack and Mabel
Aspects of Love (yeah, yeah, I know...)
Cheyenne Jackson tickled me. AFTER ordering SoMMS a drink but NOT tickling him, and hanging out with Girly in his dressing room (where he DIDN'T tickle her) but BEFORE we got married. To others. And then he tweeted Boobs. He also tweeted he's good friends with some chick on "The Voice" who just happens to be good friends with Tink's ex. And I'm still married. Oh, and this just in: "Pettiness, spite, malice ....Such ugly emotions... So sad." - After Eight, talking about MEEEEEEEE!!! I'm so honored! :-)
#37re: Your favorate flop?
Posted: 12/18/06 at 3:51pmI looooove Henry Sweet Henry and The Human Comedy and Mack and Mabel and Baby and Oh, Brother! and The Rink and Smile and so many more...
[title of show] on Broadway. it's time. believe.
BrodyFosse123
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/27/06
#38re: Your favorate flop?
Posted: 12/18/06 at 4:02pm
I was fortunate to have seen CARRIE in May 1988, so yes...I know how the show is and was. It was simply sensational and horrible at the same time and the audience LOVED it -- for all the good and bad reasons. Just by the way they had the entire auditorium painted pitch black, you knew this was going to be a fun ride. And it was.
The Carrie/Margaret White moments stood out as sheer gems in this mess, but the rest was just a lot of campy fun -- like "Do Me a Favor" and of course, Charlotte (d'Amboises)'s masterpiece: "Out for Blood" which was hard to watch with your mouth closed. It was one of those classic "what the fu*k?!" moments in life.
The show was doing SRO during previews, so it WAS selling tickets (Betty Buckley even confirmed this). Due to the horrid reviews, the novice German producers panicked and decided to close the show quickly. They could have run for a few more months just by the advance in ticket sales alone.
Too late and too bad.
NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#40re: Your favorate flop?
Posted: 12/18/06 at 9:03pm
Add Sweet Smell of Success.
Was The Full Monty a flop?
"I'm tellin' you, the only times I really feel the presence of God are when I'm having sex and during a great Broadway musical." - Nathan Lane - Jeffrey
#41re: Your favorate flop?
Posted: 12/18/06 at 9:07pmLennon and Chess!
"Cages or wings, which do you prefer?"-- Tick, Tick...BOOM!
ChecksintheMayo
Stand-by Joined: 10/26/06
keen on kean
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/1/06
#43re: Your favorate flop?
Posted: 12/18/06 at 9:47pm
Sweeney revival recouped in record time so it is not a flop by that standard.
Was Pimpernel a flop? It lasted long enough for me to see it twice so it must have played for a while.
Yero
Broadway Legend Joined: 1/29/06
#45re: Your favorate flop?
Posted: 12/18/06 at 10:06pmThe Woman in White and.. I hate to say it, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (I don't believe it ever recouped)
"I have this mental image of Patti barreling down the street and pushing tourists out of her way." -colleen_lee
#46re: Your favorate flop?
Posted: 12/18/06 at 10:10pmThankstophantom, we are totally co-presidents!
...What happened next, was stranger still, a woman breathless and afraid, appeared out of the night, completely dressed in white. She had a secret she would tell, of one who had mistreated her. Her face and frightened gaze, my mind cannot erase...But then she ran from view. She looked so much like you...
#47re: Your favorate flop?
Posted: 12/18/06 at 10:19pmSunday in the Park with George
I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.
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