Your favorate flop?- Page 5

[&OneForMahler]

Posted: 1/28/07 at 6:07pm

Lennon.
Chess.
Seussical.

[purpleprince101]

Posted: 1/28/07 at 6:11pm

i loved steel pier

[keen on kean]

Posted: 1/28/07 at 8:00pm

Before most of you were born - Alfred Drake in KEAN. Hence my title...

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 1/28/07 at 8:32pm

Some of mine are:

1. Bajour
2. Baker Street
3. Steel Pier
4. Inner City
5. Superman
6. Rockabye Hamlet
7. Lestat
8. Gantry

[stagegrrrl]

Posted: 1/28/07 at 8:50pm

i heard that lestat was unintentionally HILARIOUS

[purpleprince101]

Posted: 1/28/07 at 9:04pm

steel pier was amazing

[WalkOn]

Posted: 1/28/07 at 11:25pm

SMILE

This one I think could find an audience now. Perhaps not on Broadway..but like CHICAGO, we've lived though what the show was pointing out and now we "get it."

[sing_dance_love]

Posted: 1/29/07 at 5:55am

YAY. purpleprince 101, mr roxy!

Its nice to see some Steel Pier love out there, its one of my very favorite shows, i just want to direct and star in it so much, i know i'd do it right. lol.

[One Song Glory]

Posted: 1/29/07 at 6:04am

Chess.

[LuPonatic]

Posted: 1/29/07 at 8:16am

Seussical
The Woman in White
Triumph of Love
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

I thought, if you aren't considering financially, a show is a success if it runs for 500 performances or more?

how funny that my last trip to NYC contained two of my four flops!

[D2]

Posted: 1/29/07 at 8:55am

Yeah, 500 performances used to be the standard because in the "golden days" that was usually the length of time it took a show to earn back its production costs and show a healthy profit.

Now it seems that 5,000 is the standard...

Updated On: 1/29/07 at 08:55 AM

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 1/29/07 at 8:57am

Honestly, I think 500 performances should still be the drawing line for flops, and screw the financial thing. In today's society the notion of most productions making back the money is almost laughable, and you would have to constitute some shows that really were not flops, as such.

[FosseForever3]

Posted: 1/29/07 at 10:22am

I loved The Times They are a Changin!!!

I must have been the only one... :)

[uwho]

Posted: 1/29/07 at 2:26pm

I LOVED "The Times They Are a Changin". It was pure genius, pure entertainment. Thankyou Twyla.

[tazber]

Posted: 1/29/07 at 2:34pm

I enjoyed the following:

Mail
Smile
Honky Tonk Nights

And of course Carrie!!

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 1/29/07 at 2:48pm

In today's society the notion of most productions making back the money is almost laughable, and you would have to constitute some shows that really were not flops, as such.
If the shows didn't make back their money, they really were flops. And it is possible for shows to break even these days and some manage to do it in less than 500 shows.

[D2]

Posted: 1/29/07 at 5:17pm

Of course there are productions that make back their money relatively quickly - DROWSY, the recent SWEENEY revival, the current CHORUS LINE, for example, all recouped in less than a year. But then you have shows like THE LION KING which took nearly 5 years to make its money back, and other shows that run for 2 years or more and still close in the red, like THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE. So it really begs the question - how are these shows financed and where does the money actually go? Maybe you really can make more money with a flop!

[dramaqueen2]

Posted: 1/29/07 at 5:36pm

did anyone say, in my life?

because i feel like i am so out of the loop on that show, and i searched different places including IBDB.com and it didn't give me any synopsis on what it was about?! not fair!

anyone?

please & thank you! =)

[WithoutATrace]

Posted: 2/4/07 at 1:44am

"Christopher Marlowe
Of all I've met
Night and day, in every way, he's the strongest yet.
Straight boys and gay boys
They only mind he's the sting of a bee, boys
Christopher
When all is lost, he'll find a way, boys
Christopher's the one!

Oh, he may be a blighter
That's Christopher!
But he doesn't give up, he's a hell of a fighter
Christopher
Red necks and hard heads
Stop in their tracks to hear what the bar says
Christopher
King of the theater, number one fighter
Chsitopher, Christopher.
He's a 16th century man, with a 20th century mind
Ain't it the same, but his mother's to blame, he was born before his time!"

-Lisa Mordente in MARLOWE, 1981

[BobbyErikValjean]

Posted: 2/6/07 at 8:48pm

Lestat, mostly for the incredibly talented cast.

[JemimaPearl]

Posted: 2/6/07 at 8:50pm

Starlight Express and Lestat

Updated On: 2/6/07 at 08:50 PM

[pants2]

Posted: 2/6/07 at 8:51pm

the woman in white

[Danielm]

Posted: 2/7/07 at 3:24pm

She Loves Me.