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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
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.
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!
#31re: Your favorate flop?
Posted: 12/18/06 at 3:10pm
The Woman In White
followed by:
Carrie!
#32re: Your favorate flop?
Posted: 12/18/06 at 3:20pm
Anyone Can Whistle 
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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. :)
#34re: Your favorate flop?
Posted: 12/18/06 at 3:34pm
Mack and Mabel
Aspects of Love (yeah, yeah, I know...)
#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...
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?
#41re: Your favorate flop?
Posted: 12/18/06 at 9:07pmLennon and Chess!
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)
#46re: Your favorate flop?
Posted: 12/18/06 at 10:10pmThankstophantom, we are totally co-presidents!
#47re: Your favorate flop?
Posted: 12/18/06 at 10:19pmSunday in the Park with George
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