Your favorate flop?- Page 4

[LcoB]

Posted: 12/21/06 at 10:19am

times they are a changin

and good vibrations

[BrodyFosse123]

Posted: 12/21/06 at 11:11am

CAROLINE, OR CHANGE did not tour.

The Ahmanson run was just that -- a run at the Ahmanson after it's Broadway run, with most of it's original cast.

The show never had a National Tour, unfortunately.

[BroadwayBaby6]

Posted: 12/21/06 at 3:18pm

The Ahmanson "run"? also went to San francisco.

[kooky]

Posted: 12/21/06 at 7:28pm

L E N N O N

[firescape]

Posted: 1/17/07 at 9:29am

I don't think I would categorize LOTR as a flop. It may have had mixed reviews and not had been AS successful in Toronto as the producers would have liked but do you really know of a collective group of people taking a 30 Million dollar flop from one city and transplanting that same flop to a completely different continent just to flop again? I think that if it was as unsuccessful as people think it is the producers would have closed up shop in Canada. Also, a big name like laura michelle kelley taking on a role that is sure to be flop after the lead in a HUGE show in London. not to mention some of the others that are signed on. Come on.......It isn't as bad as many of you make it out to be. I saw it and can say first hand.

[B3TA07]

Posted: 1/17/07 at 9:42am

San Fran was pre-Broadway, BroadwayBaby6.


I think.


I didn't follow musicals then.

[Zeitoujo]

Posted: 1/17/07 at 10:02am

the recent revival of la cage aux folles and brooklyn

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 1/17/07 at 10:10am

Favorite flop ever: Bring Back Birdie

Favorite flop i've actually seen: Ragtime (it was a financial flop)

Flop I listened to on the subway this morning: The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public

[Mooo]

Posted: 1/17/07 at 11:39am

Broadway: Chess
Off-Broadway: Eating Raoul

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 1/17/07 at 11:55am

Favorite that I've seen:

Caroline, or Change
Jane Eyre
The Scarlet Pimpernel

[Lorelai]

Posted: 1/17/07 at 12:23pm

THE LAST 5 YEARS

[biggest CHENO fan]

Posted: 1/17/07 at 10:58pm

Wedding Singer!! And by the way, I consider this a flop because of how much they hyped it up, it was on open run, etc...

[wheredidhegogeorge2]

Posted: 1/18/07 at 1:34am

Im not sure it was a flop but Im going to assume since it had such a undeservingly short run but Parade. Its sheer brilliance. Also, in the spirit of JRB Im gonna have to say Last 5 Years as well.

[jeniferrenepatricia]

Posted: 1/18/07 at 3:20am

Carrie, Taboo, and The Look of LOve....

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 1/18/07 at 4:06am

do you really know of a collective group of people taking a 30 Million dollar flop
Exactly. 30 million dollars lost. That makes its initial production a flop. Just because you have some weird allegiance to the show doesn't change the facts.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Not because of the show, because of the memories.

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 1/28/07 at 1:06pm

A new favorite:

[Scarywarhol]

Posted: 1/28/07 at 1:10pm

High Fidelity

It's A Bird, It's A Plane, It's Superman

[nealb1]

Posted: 1/28/07 at 3:48pm

This is a very interesting topic..........what really makes a show a flop? Does that mean a show that only ran for practically no performances, or does it mean when a show didn't recoup it's investment?

The recent revival of "42nd Street" that played for 4 & 1/2 years on Broadway, was a financial flop........it didn't make back it's cost.

"Dear World" with the amazing Angela L, who won her 2nd Tony Award, was labeled a flop, too.

If I'm not mistaken, the original "Sweeney Todd" constitues as a flop as it didn't make back it's money, either.

The list goes on and on.

[TWSFan4Ever]

Posted: 1/28/07 at 3:51pm

If it counts, "The Wedding Singer"

[purpleprince101]

Posted: 1/28/07 at 3:52pm

CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG

[pemberlee]

Posted: 1/28/07 at 3:55pm

Chess and Ragtime

[GYPSY1527]

Posted: 1/28/07 at 4:11pm

Gypsy 2003 Revival
Caroline or Change
Ragtime
Into the Woods
...actually my favorite shows happen to be flops except for the recent exception of Sweeney Todd.

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 1/28/07 at 4:39pm

nealb1: I think that the original Sweeney closed in the red, but through the national tour, and cast recording and DVD sales, the show made back its money.

Can someone confirm this? Margo? B12B?

[actor]

Posted: 1/28/07 at 5:15pm

Chess

[sing_dance_love]

Posted: 1/28/07 at 5:24pm

Side Show, Sweet Smell of Success, The Scarlet Pimpernel

and especially Steel Pier

Because (in my opinion) they all have just fantastic scores, and i really think they could succeed in a revival with some tweaking and with different marketing and advertising which i think is really important